hippie lettuce

thanks for the help.

i have made previous pages using html in the past, and i have got a decent understanding of the coding, but whie working on a new project the simple task of aligning an image does not work. i was wondering why, here is the code im using:<a href = "about.html"><img src ="IMG_1296.jpg"align="center"> </a>when opening this up in ie the picture is a link, but does not align. any help would be appreciated.