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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	The first site looks like MSN and Google got up to some funky business under the covers one stormy evening. If that's what you were aiming for then your pretty close, but I still have some beef with it. You might want to re-think the outlines around, umm, everything! Some are white, some are red, some are black, none of them actually line up with each other. You've created a hefty mess (technical design term for ugly) that almost seems random, and I'm assuming that isn't what you were aiming for. Using thin 1px lines is a good way to section off areas of the page but if none of the sections line up is just looks too chaotic and confusing. Cross your t's and dot your i's; your a designer, writer, publisher and editor now so you better make sure your multiple personalities are communicating with each other effectively. Oh and one more thing. If you ever use a fixed background image for any site that's not personal I'm gonna shoot you in the knee. Why? Well, I've got a 1 Ghz processor running XP and IE6 and fixed backgrounds still make the content scroll real ugly like -- I don?t have the testies to see how sloppy that's gonna to perform using Mozilla. So until the standard PC is a Pentium 5 6.0 Ghz monster (standard as in 3 years from the current markets top-end machines, which would make todays standard PCs about a P2 400 to P3 600 / Apple G3) then I'd strongly advise against doing that. 2nd site. Um, I couldn't even find a "English version" link. Then again, I'm surprised anyone can find anything on that site. A white background; black text, black headings, and grey links. Woot! How to turn the web into a sheet of paper. Seriously though, a little colour would go a long way. Some of your mouseOver styles are doing funky things too; like the links that have HTML, PS and PDF in them. Again with lines not um, lining up. I know your code is will formed, and I think it's wonderfully that you went to the extra effort to make it valid and standards compliant but I think you've gone a bit overboard with the CSS. Mainly on the whole dotted line thing. As I said before, some of the lines don't seem to line up, others seem to overlap where I think they shouldn't (dotted line under each menu heading). Cutting back on the these a little and using a bit of plain old colour could do wonders. Ohh and the logo has some nasty jaggies on it. Might want to fix that. Apart from that, a pretty grand effort if I don't say so myself. Especially on the standards compliant front. =) [b]Edit:[b/] Sorry if that sounded a little harsh. I'm in an odd mood. [This message has been edited by Dracusis (edited 10-12-2002).] Loading...
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