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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	V's got the goods for the most part. Unless otherwise stated, I agree with what he has said. 1) I'd like to complement you on your proper encoding. Most sites that gets dropped into this forum lacks encoding, and it is very easy for me to see because my default encoding is Korean. It is very refreshing to look at a site and not see any broken characters and not have to change the encoding by hand. 2) There seems to be a little gray line just to the right of the semi-circular navigation area. It looks to me like a simple flaw in the background image, and something probably easily fixed. 3) Not only do I think you should get rid of the "designed for 800 x 600" text, but even if you decide that you [b]really[/b] want to keep it, move it to somewhere a little more inconspicuous. At the very top of the page, it is one of the first things the user will see (possibly the first, since the "flawed illusions" text in the top left blends in with the background, whereas the "designed for" text really stands out). 4) Too much text-as-graphics. That being said, I understand why you may have made your e-mail a graphic and not a mailto: link. If you want to avoid spam, though, there are other ways of accomplishing this that are much easier on your users. You could, for example, make a PHP contact form--this is what I use on my site, and it is very convenient (if you'd like to see what it looks like... [url=http://www.liminality.org/contact/]here it is[/url]). It passes a hidden form variable for your e-mail using PHP, so your e-mail address never reaches the client. My contact form is a modified version of the one that kuckus puts together in his [url=http://www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorials/php/contact_page/contactpage_1_en.html]contact form tutorial[/url] over at the Guru's Network. You might want to check that out. If PHP is not your cup of tea, you can just use one of the many e-mail encoders out there to encrypt your e-mail address. Hivelogic's [url=http://www.hiveware.com/enkoder_form.php]Enkoder[/url] comes highly recommended. 5) Like I said, I pretty much agree with V's comments above, but I would particularly like to stress: use CSS over font tags, etc.; rollovers and making sure you can't click on the page you are currently on (one of my pet peeves); no centered text, please. That's about it, I guess. Visually speaking, I find it very easy to look it, for the most part. I'll be interested to see where you go with this site. Good luck, and happy coding! [img]http://www.liminality.org/asylum/fortunes/fortune_cookie.php[/img] [url=http://www.liminality.org]www.liminality.org[/url] Loading...
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