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Geek Culture / Comments wanted for new look on my site

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Tom J
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Posted: 4th Mar 2007 20:49 Edited at: 4th Mar 2007 20:51
Hey all, recently I've wanted to change the look of my site due to several reasons, one being the fact that I didn't want to link back to other sites and another relating to the "evil deed" of using tables for display purposes.

Anyway I have been exploring the possibilities with CSS and have come up with this site layout: http://www.freewebs.com/gamingcolosseum/index2.html, it looks pretty cool in my opinion but I want your opinion too

What I want to know is:

1. FIrstly does it work properly on your computer / browser? the other day I had to sort out a problem with Firefox which was a bit annoying I want to try and find bugs.

2. Your opinion

3. Any improvements?

Please note that some of the links on the navigation bar work.
Dared1111
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Posted: 4th Mar 2007 21:07
it works well, looks good and it feels emptier than other websites

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Silvester
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Posted: 4th Mar 2007 21:09
Uhm,when i press anything it goes to a different layout.

LD52
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Posted: 5th Mar 2007 00:56
Yea i have mozilla firefox and it looks okay but the top navigation bar is abit messed and like prince of darkness said it takes me to a diferent layout.
alex 1337
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Posted: 5th Mar 2007 01:32
dont use a .bmp for ur header image. It takes forever to load. Use a jpeg.
Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 5th Mar 2007 10:34
Looks good - i like it. Very clean and simple (I hate over-complicated designs). Thoughts (I tested using FF2):
1) Seems you've absolutely positioned the header and navigation blocks, but relatively centred the main content block - this causes the main content to go out of alignment with the top blocks.
2) It looks too tall - is it fixed height? Try getting the footer to float below the two columns. Have a read through of http://www.alistapart.com/articles/multicolumnlayouts. Its a really good article on multi-column layouts. Could help you out.
3) I've attached the header image as a PNG (PNG8 I think). Its compressed it down to 9kb from 234kb. Not bad

Nice design though! I like it. If you use FF2, try out the Firebug addon. It allows real-time HTML and CSS editing and loads of cool tools.

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Steve J
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Posted: 5th Mar 2007 16:32
Like the grey with light red look. Looks nice.

But I personally enjoy a blue scheme, if possible=P.

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Tom J
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Posted: 5th Mar 2007 19:29
Thanks for the comments :

Nicholas, I'll try improving on all of those things and also thanks for providing me with that PNG .

Prince of Darkness & LD52, only the main page is using the new layout at the moment, while some of the links didn't work some just led you to pages with the old layout.

I'll try and sort out the site this week, please keep the comments coming
Silvester
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Posted: 5th Mar 2007 20:33
Ah,i see why it did strange.

Looks good anyway.

Tom J
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Posted: 5th Mar 2007 20:41 Edited at: 7th Mar 2007 20:57
Thanks

There may be a couple of bugs with the site every now and then because I am modifying the CSS.
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Posted: 6th Mar 2007 00:04
The black on gray is too hard to see. Header and links don't line up in either IE or FF. And in IE, pressing BACK to go to the main page after clicking a link displays white bars in place of the section headers of the left content. And a pink header? Doesn't match orange links. I'd say fix the colors (ones that match) and if you're going to auto-center the body then you should do the same for the header and navbar so it all stays aligned.

Tom J
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Posted: 7th Mar 2007 13:21


I experimented with making the header orange to fit with the links. I'll sort out those other things at some point too.
Tom J
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Posted: 7th Mar 2007 13:28 Edited at: 7th Mar 2007 13:40
edit: whoops double post
Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 7th Mar 2007 17:34
Try this CSS - I fixed a few things for you using FireBug.

The whole thing now center aligns properly, I cleaned up SOME indenting. I removed a few missing images. I neatened up the code (missing semi-colons, etc). Added a little padding... Looks better imho.



Try to consistently use either spaces or tabs. People tend to prefer spaces as tabs can look different on other people machine's. The Drupal standard, for example, is that an indent is two spaces. I've used 4 in your code above where I could.

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Tom J
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Posted: 7th Mar 2007 21:03 Edited at: 7th Mar 2007 21:04
Nick, thanks for the help! That new CSS has really improved the site in Firefox And I'll also take your advice about spacing to improve the paragraphs. The new CSS causes a bit of trouble in IE7 but that shouldn't be too big a problem.

Anybody making comments, please don't comment on the freewebs footer, (the one saying "Get your own site for free") because it wasn't my choice to put it on the page Maybe I'll get premium services so that I don't have to put it there. Or maybe even move away from freewebs.
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Posted: 7th Mar 2007 21:22
for some reason a white rectangle appears over the menu options (links, games and Related/cool forum topics)but other than that its good bedsides some alinement and dynamic script glitches. what did you use to make it?


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Tom J
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Posted: 8th Mar 2007 18:34 Edited at: 8th Mar 2007 18:38
Thanks

For the HTML I just used a text editor (such as notepad) and for the CSS I used this program which is pretty helpful and has a demo version.

edit: That white rectangle problem has been experienced by other people too, I'll try and sort it out.
Tom J
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Posted: 8th Mar 2007 22:08 Edited at: 9th Mar 2007 20:05
I have updated the site, tell me what you think! The colour scheme now works better and it should align properly in both IE7 and Firefox, wooooo! I'm so happy!

A day or so back I got a criticism about there being black text on top of a grey background on the page. I've tried to sort this out the simple way and the text is now white/very light silver. Well it is in firefox anyway, I would really appreciate it if somebody could point out why IE7 is still displaying the text in black, darn Internet explorer

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Stuff I still need to do:

Do same size columns
Better spacing (Haven't been working on the HTML much recently)

Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 8th Mar 2007 22:20
What white box error? It works fine for me in FF2, IE5.0/5.5/6.0/7.0 (I didn't bother going any futher back).

Its a really nice looking design you have there. Much better than most of the "whaddaya think" posts on this forum.

For help with colour picking - check this out:
http://www.colorjack.com/sphere/

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Tom J
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Posted: 9th Mar 2007 19:06 Edited at: 9th Mar 2007 20:04
Quote: "What white box error?"


It seems to have gone away Well that's good, I don't have any bugs with the site.

Quote: "For help with colour picking - check this out:"


Cool, I will edit: site doesn't work for me

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