Evie, that would be because your likely using 800 x 600 resolution, being an older resolution. Your buttons at the top are likely fallen too two rows. The design is built for higher resolutions, being not many use 800 x 600 resolution anymore.

Veiled, IE7 changed because of firefox, being firefox had developed all these new features that IE have now copied into their IE7. So yes, firefox have just gone further. What you don't see with firefox, is that firefox allows you to add things into the browsers functionality, being "add-ons", thousands of little scripts which make using the browser more functional depending on whay you do upon the internet. You can find those scripts and links at the firefox site. Thousands of develpers around the world write add-ons for firefox increasing its performance, little tidbits basically, that people want to do, so they write an add-on script to do it, then make it public.

For example, back in the first post I wrote about one I use, which replaces the google toolbar that many may have installed, and instead places things like pagerank, alexa ranks, etc, down in the bottom right of the browser, thus not taking up any actual readable screen space and instead incorporating aspects into the already present brower frame, using browser real estate as such more effectively if you like, so you don't have toolbars taking up your reading space.

Thanks Anthony, that was why I guess, because when I switched to 1024 x 768 briefly the links all worked again. Unfortunately anything above 800 x 600 is really hard on my eyes, I have pretty bad eyesight generally. Hope the new computer I'm getting next week still has the 800 x 600 resolution option. Otherwise I'm going to need a magnifying glass. :p

HOLY I just have to add... all the problems I was having in the chatroom, freezing constantly and getting booted out, etc... all GONE!!! It must have been all IE. Woo I'm really glad I tried Firefox!

Its the behind the scenes of firefox that make it so good, not just whats up front. Firefox was the first standards compliant web browser, which means instead of IE allowing basic coding faults to go through, or to just accept things as good enough, Firefox does not. Everything you see here, is designed by me for firefox, not for IE, which means this forum is designed to a higher standard, including all its attached areas. IE sucks, creates far too many issues for browsing, and are only trying to catchup to what firefox started. IE suck... the only reason it is more popular, is because it comes standard with Windows operating system. Firefox has around a 12% market share six months ago, they now have around a 25% market share of browser market... as you can see, their browser will eventually rule IE out of the game, even though it does come with the computer OS, people will by a new computer, download firefox, then start surfing the web.