I mainly use the div as a habitual thing in most cases but in this case it actually has a background that is to the sides of the site so changing the width of the body through CSS would cause that to err

As for both of your suggestions they only fix the centering of the site, which is displaying properly my real problem is that the banner for ads and such is not in its proper location.

Hello, I have a site i'm working on in xoops that will use the banners at the top for various different things, upon modifying the theme i placed a div tag around the entire site so that I may center it and shorten the width, In all browsers other than internet explorer the theme displays properly, but in IE the banner is around 250px to the left yet each time i try to fix it through the ie8.css file nothing happens, any suggestions?