Critique request for personal travel site

[kevindosi]

I’m (hopefully) finishing up my first custom theme for RapidWeaver that I plan to use for my future move to France. Your feedback would be really appreciated. I don’t exactly have an artistic eye, so I just want to get some input. I’m aware of two pesky problems in IE: 1) The links in the navbar float up to the top instead of being vertically aligned. Not sure why. 2) I’m using css to make semi-translucent white backgrounds for certain sections, such as blog posts, and they don’t show in IE or Camino (or probably some other browsers). I’ll work on both of those problems. Until then, if you have any ideas on anything… color scheme, layout, features, bugs, etc then please let me know.
The temporary URL is http://www.kevindosi.com/untilreallife
Thanks in advance!

 

[Cabbit]

To start fixing the issues with your site i would go about making it valid xhtml. You have 116 errors and some of them will be causing layout issues and browsers gremlins.
validation results.

Simple things such as your using the <br> tag which is valid html but not valid xhtml you would use <br /> instead.