I have created a page using a table but the center cell won't close to the specific height of 505px.

It looks perfect in all browsers but IE - you see white space above and below.

here is the site
http://darnumbers.com/

here is the table

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="layout">
<tr><td rowspan="2" class="area1">&nbsp;</td><td colspan="2" class="area2">&nbsp;</td></tr>
<tr><td class="content"><img src="images/home.jpg" width="758" height="505" border="0" usemap="#navigator" /></td>
<td rowspan="2" class="area3">&nbsp;</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="area4">&nbsp;</td></tr>
</table>

and here is the css

html,body { margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; }
.layout { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; }
.content { margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 758px; height: 505px; }
.area1 { border-right: solid 5px #669900; background-color: #cccc33; }
.area2 { border-bottom: solid 5px #669900; background-color: #cc9900; }
.area3 { border-left: solid 5px #669900; background-color: #cc6600; }
.area4 { border-top: solid 5px #669900; background-color: #cccc66; }

You DO realize don't you that there is little hope that your site will ever turn up in search engines, right ?? Why ? Because your entire site is nothing but IMAGES ! Spiders can't read images, and anyone using assistive technology will also 'see' nothing on your site.

There is nothing there that can't be done with real text and without tables for layout, and inaccessible image maps.

It is the nature of tables to stretch with their content. Make sure you have zeroed out the default margins and padding on everything, and that you have set the table to border-collapse: collapse.

thanks i will check the border-collapse

my brother does not want his site searchable - he wants it kept for those he sends the link to thus the jpegs - also he wanted the text to circle in the bubbles and i did not know how to do it in a table - any suggestions

he wanted the text to circle in the bubbles and i did not know how to do it in a table

I would never do it in a table and doing it with CSS and NO TABLES would make it a lot easier to work with the circle.

If his site is on the web - it will be found by search engines, so at some point it will turn up.