Navigation renders poorly in Navigator

I'm a designer, not a developer, and I should know how this works, and I'm
embarassed for not knowing, but my page displays correctly in IE6, but not
Netscape 4.8, Netscape 7, or Mozilla. It does render well in Konqueror for
Linux, however. I don't have a Mac so I don't know how it renders there.

How do I do an image that expands to fill in as much width as possible so
the table expands to fill the whole width, and renders cross platform well?
if I use a style="background: url('xyz.gif')" in the TD tag, it renders
poorly in both Netscape and Mozilla. If I do a background="xyz.gif" in the
TD tag, it renders poorly in IE.

My page is http://www.altiare.com. I validated the HTML (4.01 strict) and
it appears to have very few errors, except perhaps a missing alt tag in one
spot.

Please don't tell me I need to use more style sheets instead of tables
because I tried that and Netscape barfs even worse.

Any comments would be appreciated.

"brucie" <brucie@loser.brucies.com> wrote in message
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> Bryce said...
>
> > My page is http://www.altiare.com. I validated the HTML (4.01 strict)
and
> > it appears to have very few errors, except perhaps a missing alt tag in
one
> > spot.
> >
> > Please don't tell me I need to use more style sheets instead of tables
>
> but you do
>
> > because I tried that and Netscape barfs even worse.
>
> only NS4.x which you can hide the css it doesn't like or all of it so
> NS4.x just gets a plain text version.

NS4.x was so nice in it's day...thanks for the tip.