I am noticing that in IE, when a person goes to an https part of the website, there are windows that pop up with security messages stating that there is a mix of these items.

If anyone else is having this problem...just make your paths from the root of your folder rather than the whole URL...

You will need to fix your HTML code to prevent this from happening. For instance, your header has this - - and it should be this - You should note that if the browser asks you if you want to display the non-secure stuff and you click NO, that these images are not shown. You are referencing them absolutely.

Here's an old FAQ on the subject.
http://kb.monstercommerce.com/support/acti...66&catId=12
And here's a newer FAQ on the same subject.
http://customersupport.networksolutions.co...icle.php?id=767

EDIT: And here's a spot on the forums where it was mentioned previously. It's actually a pretty common call we get in technical support.
http://forums.networksolutions.com/coding-...tems-t1902.html

I hope this helps.

The only additional consideration you might make is having your images relative but links to pages absolute. If your pages have relative URLs and Google somehow indexes an https page, it will be able to crawl your entire site in https, thus creating duplicate content issues when both the http and https versions of your pages get into the index. It is not a good idea for SEO to have relative links to your pages.

Wouldn't that still cause the warning message to pop up, considering we have non-secure images in our header, but in checkout, there would be a mix...?