Removing extra blank space after Header in IE

Question

This is my first webpage in Dreamweaver (actually it's my
first webpage!) I'm still super new and can use A LOT of help.
First off, I'm using the two column elastic left sidebar
header/footer template from DW. When I preview my page in IE I get
an extra gap between the header and the sidebar/maincontent portion
of the screen. I've tried zeroing all of my margins and padding and
that seems to have no effect. I read some of the other posts and
found some code that sounds like it should fix the problem, so is
this all I have to add to my code?
Attach Code:
<!--[if IE 5]>
<style type="text/css">
/* place css box model fixes for IE 5* in this conditional
comment */
.twoColFixLtHdr #sidebar1 { width: 230px; }
</style>
<![endif]--><!--[if IE]>
<style type="text/css">
/* place css fixes for all versions of IE in this conditional
comment */
.twoColFixLtHdr #sidebar1 { padding-top: 30px; }
.twoColFixLtHdr #mainContent { zoom: 1; }
/* the above proprietary zoom property gives IE the hasLayout
it needs to avoid several bugs */
</style>
<![endif]-->
Also, I am trying to add an image placeholder to my header,
but everytime I try, the placeholder becomes part of the <h1>
tag. I don't want it to be part of the <h1> tag (I don't
think). I would like to be able to just place it in the header so
that I can float it left and have it not effect my <h1> tag
at all. Is there a fix for that? I would assume that there would
be, but seeing as I'm still at Newb status, I have no idea what
that code would be.
Thank you!

Answer 1

Ewww - made the page in Word, did you?
span.style81 {mso-style-name:style81;
mso-ansi-font-size:17.5pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:17.5pt;
font-family:Arial;
mso-ascii-font-family:Arial;
mso-hansi-font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:black;
font-weight:bold;}
Try changing this -
<table width="795" border="0" bordercolor="#000000"
bgcolor="#000000"
style="border-color: #333333;">
to this -
<table width="795" border="0" bgcolor="#000000"
style="border-color:
#333333;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
Be aware that without specifying a border-style, and
border-width, your
border-color style will have no effect.
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"moon64" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I am getting a small space on some of my pages in-between
the header and
>the
> first table. The problem only shows itself in IE, not
through Firefox. I
> have
> encountered the same problem on some other things I have
been working on.
> Here
> is a portion of the file if anyone could kindly see what
is casuing the
> problem. Thanks in advance. This board must have
answered 100 questions
> for me
> so far.
>
>
http://www.1candlemarketing.com/fund/headertest.html
>