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"Site updates" box would look less cluttered if there's 1 line spacing between
date/text entries (menu above and most other text on page have 1 line spacing
anyway) ...

Left sided vertical grey dotted line on "Using this site" box should either go down
to footer or lower border of mentioned box should be set same as vertical line ...
Horizontal line between box name and text bellow is dotted 1 px, why not make it
same thickness as other lines? Same goes for horizontal line between "Site updates"
box and "Navigation" menu above it ...

Footer would be more design-specific if it's same as header = full black, not fading
from white to black ...

Last edited by overklokan (2008-05-06 10:22:23)

Congrats on the impending nuptials, or in my typical way of talking -- cool! You're getting hitched! Lucky lady!

As for it being too personal, or not professional enough for a contact page -- I both agree and disagree. I agree it shouldn't be on the contact page! It should be on the first page. Heck, I've been plodding on, when I can, and simply bookmark the page I'm working on in Firefox, so haven't gotten to contact page yet. What? I'm gonna learn you're getting hitch when you're celebrating your six month anniversary?! First page! First page news!!!

As for the idea that it is too personal information to add, again --agreeing and disagreeing. If you had made this as a money-making venture (or when you do), it can be taken as too personal, HOWEVER, as one of the key audience of your site, it's written for Noobs of various degrees, so we're not looking for hoity-toity professional site (although it looks extremely professional and so unbelievably magnificient compared to all the other tutorials I've discovered on the web), so any concept of a real person behind this particular site is a plus to us. Says that you're a real person, who wasn't born knowing all this stuff, so we have hope of understanding it ourselves.

Can't comment on the CSS stuff yet. Haven't gotten there yet. Hopefully, you know me enough now to notice I can be a tiny bit longwinded , so am only up to "Form Elements" (for HTML) and page 11 of commenting after only having 14 hours to study your site so far. Speaking of six month anniversaries -- I think I know what I'm giving you -- my completed review. (And Dave thinks my comments on here are books. LOL) A romantic present, right?! LOL

Boy, musta been something in the air the last year or so, third SRer getting hitched, and my brother, after a mere 53 years of remaining a bachelor. Viva la Marriage!!!

matte wrote:

I have not gone back to read the page/site properly, but maybe a para or two about ONE style sheet Vs style in the header like some site use....

I have created a page explaining the 3 ways of implementing css style rules with advantages and disadvantages.
http://validwebdesigns.com/css/css-explained.php

Hi Cole
I think your site looks great. its well-organized.   Everything is easy to find. There's a ton of information which I myself will probably use. Your color scheme is good although there a few words in the top left-hand corner that I can't read.
The only other thing is I'm  not sure  your domain names fits your site.
I think you'll do great. Not really sure on how you plan on making money. I don't see any advertisers or any programs for sale.
all in all at your site is wonderful.


Don
D & C Discoveries

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Last edited by DON (2008-05-23 14:34:52)

atwhatcost wrote:

Hey, CE, ummm, did you delete the site? Can't get to your site to continue -- in FFor IE?! Both of them are telling me it's not my computer.

Bummer -- in the beginning of a five day heat wave, (90F and above, or above 32C for the rest of the world), so I'm avoiding going out as much as possible, giving me more time to keep going! Been held up for a while trying to get the garden together, so a heat wave is helpful, in this case.

No, got some host server problems going on. Haven't been able to get more than a

"We are working on the problem and will have it solved shortly. blah, blah, blah bunch more non sense , blah, blah

Thank you,
Your support team

Im keen, but i have been swamped ever since honeymoon As soon as i get a chance i will make one though, do i win an ipod? lol.

(funny thing about winning an ipod is that they probably wouldnt let it through customs not because we are worried about terrorists but simply because our customs officials are chops... sigh)

They seem to be working for me in IE6

Hey CE!  I know it's common practice, but I find it confusing when there is a <hr> under the heading, effectively separating it from the text that it belongs to and appearing to put it with the text above.

I think this may be part of the trouble being referred to in the Challenge post.

Regards,
Laurie.

laurie_m wrote:

Hey CE!  I know it's common practice, but I find it confusing when there is a <hr> under the heading, effectively separating it from the text that it belongs to and appearing to put it with the text above.

Actually, he isn't using <hr>s, but borders.  It's up to the individual CSS coders how they want to display the headers in their version.  For example, if you look at the "Columns" design, I've set the top borders instead.

Sorry about my lateness here.

Laurie, that is one of the benefits to having the beauty of css page. An opportunity for each person to style and lay out the page as they see it. As we all know you can't please everyone with a single design as we different opinions on what we like and how we would present something.

If you would like to use the same 'Sandbox' graphics and just change the lay out, you have my permission to do so.

Thank you Steven for jumping in and answering Laurie.

Thank you Gilly for the comments.