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Hey,

I just recently updated my website with a completely new redesign. I made it look more like another webpage that I partnered with. Let me know if there are any things I can change. The menu system is very hard to change, because it uses CSS to alter everything about it, so I couldn't figure out how to add a border to separate the buttons. Also, it used to be extremely skinny, so I widened it quite a bit. Is it still too skinny?

Also, I have a major question to ask. You know how when people make the browser window smaller, the website should shrink without cutting off any portions of the webpage, for some reason I can't get it to do that with my website. It always cuts off quite a bit, so that forced me to off center the site a little bit. How can you get it that it equally cuts off from the left and right and keeps the main page centered?

I'm also experimenting with google ads, and a blog updater that sends an RSS feed straight to the site from my blog.

I like your design, the drop down navigation is great, I also like your donate buttons.

Your background seems to have a few blank white patches in it, there's a few spelling mistakes in there; and as you say when I look at in different resolution there's definitely something wrong, what editor if any are using then I might be able to assist you better?

Theres a big white space below the footer which I'snt doing anything you can put something in there or delete it, and also down the right hand column you have content boxes with nothing in them; you could put some website widgets in there such as a mini shout box or chatbox, picture of the week and lots more that's out there and available for use.

Im guessing you are using a free host, I would highly recommend you don't use one, lisa has a good article on free hosts.

http://www.2createawebsite.com/prebu...e-website.html

Good luck with your site buddy hope I wasn't to harsh!

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Good design. Just keep building up that content to make other gaming fans want to bookmark it (but I'm sure you're doing that anyway). Not sure what the 2IP banner is loading but it's kind of bothersome (I'm assuming that's your host?)

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thanks a bunch! I'm using dreamweaver, and I just used one giant background picture. So I just aligned the tables to go right over the right spot.

I wish I knew how to do Php, because I'm sure it would look a lot more professional. I really want to switch to a better paid host, cheap, but good. I don't want to spend money, though, until I make a little to pay for it. But I guess I should look at it like an investment.

Thanks for the white space notification, I'll fix that in my next update. I also have some links that don't work yet (they go back to the homepage.) So I'll work on that.

Now would you suggest, since in different resolutions it cuts off parts of the webpage, that I push it over to the left and maybe make it a little wider?

Yeah, thats my host - it annoys me a lot too! I think I'm going to have to upgrade it to a paid host, I think you suggested a good one before. Gatorhost was it? I just hate having to spend money, before I make some, and without reassurance that I will make money off of it. So far I've got 36 cents from google ads, so I have a ways to go with them.

Also, to get my site name out there, I'm partnering with a lot of similar sites, so hopefully I'll get a lot of their traffic.

You raise a number of questions.

The site generally looks good. I would agree with similar comments in other discussions that counters are pretty much dated and looked at as amateur stuff. You don't see that on newer sites much. I think the navigation looks OK without lines and borders so I wouldn't worry about that now.

The blog content area seems a bit narrow to me. The big problem is the area outside the content columns, however.

Checking your source page I find there are fixed widths being used in the layout of the site. In this case you have a "margin-left: 254px." That is a wide margin that pushes all your content off to the right which is not good.

Perhaps that is what you did to "offset" the content, but it causes a wide fixed empty area on the left that doesn't adjust in either firefox or ie. That makes it hard to get the content on screen in a reasonable way at all.

It is not a quick fix but the real reason you are having problems making adjustments is that the page is written in xhtml and css which is great but continues to use tables for layout which is old style and not recommended by current standards.

If you go to http://www.w3schools.com/ and study a little about using css for style and layout I think you will find it pretty easy to learn. Then you can adjust your widths as you wish. It will also enable you to do a lot of decorative things with your navigation if you want. Meanwhile I think you should at least change the margin to a smaller number (try 50).


James

Yeah, I guess thats the problem, but I used a background image for the entire page. So I'd have to adjust the image if I were to get rid of that margin. So basically I just aligned everything to look like it does.

Good thinking anyway, in a way. It's a start in the right direction, in my opinion, when we start seeing why tables are not a good way to go in the first place.

Once you get your CSS working for you, you can make a lot of changes (even major ones) with just a few strokes.

James

It's HostGator. www.hostgator.com

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I am not sure if anyone has noticed this, seems that the bottom right blue tag line with grey background in the top logo may be a little harder to get people's attention, perhaps a little brighter color for the text ?

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Hey,

Once again, I completely redesigned the site in order to display more information in a neater fashion. I chose to do a side bar navigation system that displays everything you need, instead of a drop down menu. I also decided against using tables to organize the webpage. Instead I used one of Dreamweavers page templates, that puts in div tags to divide the webpage into sections. Now the page shrinks proportionately when you make a smaller browser resolution.

The other thing I changed, was how I displayed the blog. I'm now displaying it through an IFrame, which displays a second webpage (my blog) in a box on my webpage. That way you can scroll down the blog without losing the navigation. What do you think of these ideas.

Also, I'm now preparing to switch over to hostgator. I plan on doing the monthly payments of 8 something a month, plus 15 dollars a year for one domain name. Is this a wise choice? Do you think I'll start to generate enough money then with google ads to keep up with the monthly payments? I really don't want it to come out of my own pockets, since I'm a poor college student.