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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	OK, going on the knowledge I have of past incarnations of this site, here's what I think: 1) I can see you're moving toward a more clean and simple design as you go along. I think this is a good thing. The less clutter, the more the visitor can focus on your content. 2) I would prefer more space in the left margin. You've got a whole lot of space on the right--you could easily move some of that over to the left. Not to much, of course, maybe ten more pixels or another em (depending on your unit of measurement--although I would recommend something liquid). 3) Your links are going the "wrong way." What I mean by that is that they are going from more contrasted to less contrasted. The links shouldn't become harder to read when you hover over them. Also, they are the same color as the text itself. Granted, they may be distinguished by being in bold face, but then they run the risk of getting confused with headings. You don't have any links within your content yet, so it's tough to say, but it might get confusing later on. There are two ways you could go with this: the first way would be to make the menu links and the contextual links behave differently. I'm a bit of a purist, and so I believe that all links should be the same for the sake of consistency. However, if you really wanted to go this route, I would recommend making the menu links a light gray in their inactive state, and pure white in their hover state. The second way would to make all links behave the same. This might be difficult, considering the difference in the menu background and main content background. You could try a mix of the blue and gray, just lightened, or you could experiment with other hover effects (like under- or overlining). Which ever way you decide to go, a good rule of thumb to remember is "more contrast on hover." You want the links to stand out even more when the user hovers over them, and this generally means figuring out how to make them stand out slightly less when the user is not hovering over them. 4) Code-wise, look into making your menu an unordered list. ALA has a [url=http://www.alistapart.com/stories/taminglists/]good article on this[/url] that you might want to look at. 5) Also code-wise, I wouldn't use a table for your Asylum ring links. You could make a simple container div and then have the links inside of that. Also, the links are currently too big for the table, and the last link is running onto the second line. Doesn't look too pretty. ____________ I do like the general direction your designs are taking, though. You've still got a little work to do in taking full advantage of CSS, but you're getting there. mob68 made some comments about the color scheme--I'm not into heavy metal, so I wouldn't know, but it sounds reasonable. Ultimately, though, the color scheme needs to express what you want the site to be about, and that can only be decided by you. [img]http://liminality.org/asylum/sigs/[/img] [url=http://www.liminality.org]www.liminality.org[/url] Loading...
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