Getting a website to look right across multiple browsers seems to often be a pain. If the site design will allow for it, I suggest beginning with a template you know will work well across multiple browsers, thus alleviating the need to trouble shoot once you have already built the site.

There are a few sites out there that will help you generate a basic, standards compliant blank structure/layout to build from. This is one that I have used with great success:

http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/pie-maker/pagemaker_form.php

And here is another I have found.

http://www.fu2k.org/alex/css/layouts/3Col_OrderedAbsolute.mhtml

But here at The Site Smiths, we have to give a hand to the hard working developers over at Yahoo! for their ingenious system known as YUI Grids. The learning curve is not too steep, and once you understand the particulars, forming site structures are a breeze! We currently use YUI Grids in many client projects for it’s cross browser compatibility.

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