disaster-master — Thu, 28 Feb 2002 17:03:50 +0000

LOL @ jag. You are funny.

jag5311 — Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:07:54 +0000

There, that should look much better, i lightened it up quite a bit. I agree. Its weird, you know, when i view this stuff, i think wow that is excellent, and then when you guys see it, you are like, well this and that.... and then i am like, wow, they are right, that does kinda suck. So thanks

bryan

disaster-master — Thu, 28 Feb 2002 04:37:35 +0000

Yes, that does look much better. You do have just a tad bit too much drop shadow though. Can you see where you have cut off the shadow a wee bit at the bottom?

Don't make your drop shadows so prominent and dark. Try one with a little less offset to the shadow, the opacity a little less and maybe blur it more. Take care not to cut the shadow off when you crop the image.

I don't see the white line you mentioned. Looking at ya in IE 6.0

jag5311 — Thu, 28 Feb 2002 01:12:18 +0000

I have made some changes

1. changed the buttons, much smoother, look much better,
2. fixed the banner situation with the white line, it should be.

Now you can let me know more input

thanks

bryan

The Webmistress — Wed, 27 Feb 2002 21:40:49 +0000

I like it! I have the same critisisms about the fonts on the buttons and that the buttons look a bit old, chunky and jaggedy. Get those right and the site will be great.

Busy — Wed, 27 Feb 2002 21:40:47 +0000

bordercolor is an IE add-on, even CSS wont make it work on all browsers, if you want a border you're better off using nested tables adjusting cellpadding and spacing to suit.

a couple of browser problems.
IE5 - the 3rd image under topsites isnt displaying

NS4.7 - the white content area is about 5 pixels wide, this is probably due to no content so should resize with some. has table borders. the "poll" and "menu" buttons are up top, hard against the table border

NS6 - the poll is overlapped, the poll options go over the tables edge making it look very messy, also the font seems different (check your css layout). the menu and poll buttons are away from the table border

Opera6 (as Opera6) - there is a small white line under your banner. poll and menu hard against the top, also the poll font is different.

that 3rd image isnt displaying on any, all this checked on 800x600.
Instead of the light grey, thought about another color? purple maybe to carry on from the banner. the light grey is letting the look down.
its looking better everytime - keep up the good work

Megan — Wed, 27 Feb 2002 21:03:58 +0000

I think those buttons are too.... chunky looking. Try narrowing the base shape a little bit shape, then lower the distance setting on your layer effect and/or increase the blur setting. Try some slight variations on that... Also consider getting rid of the black outline.

jag5311 — Wed, 27 Feb 2002 20:55:33 +0000

I also think part of the problem is that the font is 14 for the buttons. I have changed it to 12 in photoshop right now to see how it looks, and it looks better. Just wondering, what is wrong with the button. You said it looks weird or something, being beheveled? I think it has the coming out look or roundness look.

disaster-master — Wed, 27 Feb 2002 20:42:10 +0000

I think it looks nice. I do not like that font your are using on the graphics for the menu, poll, topsites and links header but I know that you want to keep this. In my opinion, I think your logo has enough branding in it that you don't necessarily need to use that font through out the rest of the site. Have you thought about maybe making the beveled graphics a brighter color to bring out some of the colors in your logo?

Megan — Wed, 27 Feb 2002 20:38:59 +0000

The logo looks fine - it's just that text on the buttons that looks weird (and that doesn't seem to be the same font as the logo either...) Are you sure those are the same fonts? Weird...

For a a solid black border you'd do this in your CSS declaration: border: 1px solid black;
For more information check out this page: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_border.asp