Joomla! templates looking strange in MSIE8
Some Joomla! templates looks nice in all browsers except Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8). One easy solution is to add the following line to the <head> section of the index.php for the template in question: <head>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7"/>
Be careful to check that your site works as expected after applying this solution.