If it's your site, be "I"...not "We". You're only "We" if someone else is working with you.
Hint: tableless layouts. They are your friend. Tabled layouts are the dinosaur. They may be "easier" (and after doing enough tableless layouts, the opposite holds true), but the code is messy, it's semantically incorrect, and once you get good with tableless layouts, you'll realize how inflexible a tabled layout is. If you get good enough with a tableless layout, you can organize it pretty much any way you want...you can't do that with a tabled layout.
The only other thing I'm going to comment on is "best viewed in Firefox or Chrome". I looked in IE just because of that...you tell me not to do something, screw you, I'm going to do it. And you're right. It's borked in IE. That doesn't mean it's IE's fault, though...IE quite often gets blamed when a coder doesn't know what (s)he is doing, and this is a classic case. Why? Your doctype declaration threw it into Quirks Mode, along with the tables.
This should explain the differences and get you to the more appropriate doctype (yes, of all things Wikipedia is most useful for this):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirks_...document_types
Others will probably come along and comment on the aesthetic aspects. I don't do that because that's subjective and what one person thinks is ugly may turn out to be successful and vice versa.