When I click on a link it moves to the top of the page

I am new to this forum and fairly new to dreamweaver so I hope this isn't a silly question. I am designing a large number of web pages which will only be viewed on the C:\ drive and not posted on a server.
I have inserted hyperlinks on the index page linking to other pages in the same folder. I am using a css sheet to define each of the links.
Now to the problem. When I preview the index page in internet explorer and I click on a link the link works but the actual link itself moves to the top left corner of the index page.
An example of the html code is:
<a href="channel.html" title="Channel" id="Channel"
     Channel
     </a>
The relevant css code is:
#Channel:link {
     position: absolute
     left:372px;
     top::235px;
     width:100px;
     margin-bottom:0px;
     color:#FFFFFF
     font-weight:normal;
     font-size:12px;
     font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
#Channel:hover {
     color:0000ee;
     font-weight:normal
     text-decoration:none;
#Channel:visited {
     color:#551a8b;
     font-weight:normal;
#Channel:active {
     color:0000ee;
     font-weight:normal;
     text-decoration:none;
If anyone could explain what I am doing wrong I would be most grateful.

Your whole presentational approach on that page is flawed.
<body>
<div id="BlueBorder"> </div>
<div id="Div1"><img src="http://www.pjpdecorations.co.uk/images/WhiteBackground.png" width="864" height="647" /></div>
<div id="Div2"><img src="http://www.pjpdecorations.co.uk/images/NavBar.png" width="828" height="72" /></div>
<div id="Div8"><img src="http://www.pjpdecorations.co.uk/images/MainTextBox.png" width="430" height="340" /></div>
<div id="Div4"><img src="http://www.pjpdecorations.co.uk/images/Indeximage1.png" width="150" height="150" /></div>
<div id="Div5"><img src="http://www.pjpdecorations.co.uk/images/IndexImage2.png" width="150" height="150" /></div>
<div id="Div6"><img src="http://www.pjpdecorations.co.uk/images/IndexImage3.png" width="150" height="150" /></div>
<div id="Div10"><img src="http://www.pjpdecorations.co.uk/images/IndexImage4.png" width="340" height="70" /></div>
<div id="Div11"><img src="http://www.pjpdecorations.co.uk/images/IndexImage5.png" width="230" height="70" /></div>
<div id="Div9"><img src="http://www.pjpdecorations.co.uk/images/CreatePresBut.png" width="145" height="40" /></div>
<a href="#" title="Home" id="HomeLink"> Home </a> <a href="#matthew_clark_intro.html" title="Matthew Clark" id="MatthewClark"> Matthew Clark </a> <a href="#" title="Channel" id="Channel"> Channel </a> <a href="#" id="Product"> Product </a> <a href="#" id="AddedValue"> Added Value </a> <a href="#" id="Templates"> Templates </a> <a href="#" id="Reference"> Reference </a>
You have the body tag, followed by oodles of absolutely positioned elements, followed by naked links with a spurious </p> tag at the end.  Not only are you not allowed to have naked links on the page (they must be contained in something like a <p>, or a <td>, or a <li>, etc.) but since the content above the links is entirely composed of absolutely positioned elements (which are removed from the normal flow), the links are exactly where they should be - at the top of the page.  There is nothing in your layout that would place them anywhere else.

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