Adding Author’s Name to Archive Page

Here is the issue. I have an archive.php that I was handed, it has the different else if PHP statements to determine what gets displayed in the header and when. I have it working so when you are looking at an archive of an author’s posts it will acknowledge that we are in the author section. However I am having issues printing the name. I found the following in this section but it doesn’t make sense to me.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/181510

Thanks in advance, also here is what I have on my page.

<?php get_header(); ?>

 <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="915">
    <tr>
      <td width="590" valign="top">
      <div class="archive">
	  	<?php  if (is_category()) { ?>
		<div class="archive_title"><div class=archive_title_for>TAG FOR </div> “<?php echo single_cat_title(); ?>”</div>
		<?php } elseif (is_month()) { ?>
		<div class="archive_title" style="color:#FFFFFF"><div class=archive_title_for>TAG FOR </div> <?php the_time('F, Y'); ?></div>
		<?php /* If this is a yearly archive */ } elseif (is_year()) { ?>
		<div class="archive_title" style="color:#FFFFFF"><div class=archive_title_for>TAG FOR </div> <?php the_time('Y'); ?></div>
		<?php /* If this is a author */ } elseif (is_author()) { ?>
		<div class="archive_title"><div class=archive_title_for>VIEW POSTS BY </div> “<?php the_author(); ?>”</div>
		<?php /* If this is a search */ } elseif (is_search()) { ?>
		<div class="archive_title">Search Results</div>
		<?php } ?>
	</div>
    <img src="##" width="590" height="25" border="0" />
	<div class="blog">
	  <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
          <div class="title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></div>
          <img src="http://www.cartoonbrew.com/dev/wp-content/themes/CartoonBrew/images/by_<?php the_author(); ?>.gif" alt="by <?php the_author(); ?>" height="34" border="0" class="floatleft" />
          <div class="verdana floatright"><?php the_time('F j, Y g:i a') ?></div>
          <br />
          <br />
         <?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>
          <div class="post_footer">
            <p><span class="floatleft verdana"><?php comments_popup_link('no comments', '1 comment', '% comments'); ?></span><span class="floatright verdana">&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>">permalink</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;posted in <?php the_category(',') ?></span></p>
          </div>
		<?php endwhile; ?>
			<div class="hr"></div>
		<p style="padding-bottom: 30px;">
			<span class="floatleft"><?php next_posts_link('Previous Entries') ?></span>
			<span class="floatright"><?php previous_posts_link('Next Entries') ?></span>
		</p>
	<?php else : ?>
		<div class="title">Not Found</div>
		<p>Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p>
	<?php endif; ?>
        </div></td>

<?php get_footer(); ?>