Help: Iweb is distorted when viewed by PC users

I'm sure this must be addressed somewhere, but I don't know where. On my iweb blog, I put pictures with text underneath & everything looks fine on my mac. However if I (and others) look at the same pages using my PC, it's not aligned, words and images have shifted, etc.
What's going on here?
http://web.mac.com/alyciawright1/iWeb/The%20Power%20of%20One/Welcome.html
Any help would be great!
Alycia in Virginia

Hello,
It is possible to do rollovers and dropdowns, but unfortunately if you go beyond the beautiful but basic templates, you will have to use html. I have been visiting www.iwebfaq.org and http://web.mac.com/catucker/InsideOutside/iWeb.html quite a bit lately. These sites have walkthroughs and tips on using and going beyond the boundaries of iweb.
I have my own fairly basic website made with iweb if you have some spare time. mymusetellslies.com
It doesn't have any rollovers yet, but I'm not on a tight schedule. As for the problems in explorer or safari, there are some issues that are bugs in those problems and can't be worked around, but I found that many issues were resolved by keeping your boxes neat. For example, if you let a text box flow into another, that seems more likely to cause problems. The fix is simple: resize the boxes so they do not touch and that eliminates many problems.
As for the site map problem and google, that is a pain and problems stem from the navigation bar being java and not just regular links. I would recommend that you recreate the nav bar with text links to solve that problem. The two sites mentioned above go into details about that, and free or cheap programs that will help you build the site.
I personally wish Apple would buy up one of the smaller software companies like sandvox and make iweb pro, like the bought emagic to make logic pro. The ilife and iwork programs are fantastic, but it is a shame that some of the best computers for image work are not supported by the company that makes them in the web design arena, but adobe does have a **** tight lock on a lot of that world.

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