my blog

mirage2009 · #1 (**permalink**) 11-07-2008, 12:11 PM

hi everybody
I've been designing a website for some time now but it's not ready yet
so I just created a blog temporarily until I finish the site
I just would like to know what you all think
www.egypt-mania.blogspot.com

lisa · #2 (**permalink**) 11-07-2008, 02:41 PM

Nice and clean. Two things that stuck out to me. The blue text in your header is a little difficult to read. May want to try experimenting with another color and also increase the font a couple of points. Also, your orange news feed on the right overpowers your content. I would tone down the color a bit unless that was your goal. Good job!

TechieGuy · #3 (**permalink**) 11-07-2008, 06:35 PM

You blog is coming along nicely.

A few points to consider:

1. With Blogger, you can use labels much like categories, and then list the categories in your sidebar. This will provide an easy way for your visitors to find all posts related to a specific topic.

2. While it is nice to show numbers (such as you BlogCatalog number) on your blog, most visitors won't care too much about it. I would keep your sidebar organzied and free of clutter. Too many blog owners insert many widgets into their sidebar, which only clutters and slows down the blog.

Other than that, good job.

mirage2009 · #4 (**permalink**) 11-07-2008, 09:39 PM

and looking forward for more
thanks

mack77 · #5 (**permalink**) 11-10-2008, 06:04 AM

Looks good, but why not add some pictures, its worth a thousand words right?

mirage2009 · #6 (**permalink**) 11-10-2008, 06:20 AM

hi mack, i really have been thinking about photos, and I'll add some soon

TechieGuy · #7 (**permalink**) 11-10-2008, 07:56 AM

You should definitely add some photos, especially with the black background. I'm pretty sure you could find some great photos of Egypt.

mirage2009 · #8 (**permalink**) 11-10-2008, 08:53 AM

Hi techiguy, I sure can find lots of photos about Egypt, I've even took hundreds myself,
one of them is the banner placed in the blog

mirage2009 · #9 (**permalink**) 11-13-2008, 09:38 AM

I want to thank all who replied and reviewed my blog
you have all been a great help thanks

mirage2009 · #10 (**permalink**) 12-12-2008, 06:54 AM

Hi jessi, and welcome to the forums!!!

but what do you mean "that means yours nickname" ???

James · #11 (**permalink**) 12-12-2008, 04:35 PM

mirage2009

Just looking over your site again. Really terrific stuff. You have just the right touch of personal information to give it a sense of reality and authentic personality along with some great pictures and bits of information.

One small issue that needs fixing. I looked a bit but didn't find the cause. You use the auto margin for the main part so it should be centered, but still there is an extra margin or something that pushes the whole page to the right quite a ways in the window.

Again, a terrific site.

mirage2009 · #12 (**permalink**) 12-12-2008, 10:52 PM

Thanks James, I always pay attention to what you say.

about the page being pushed to the right, only the header is pushed and I've tried everything to fix that, I've gone through the code several times but can't find the problem.

James · #13 (**permalink**) 12-12-2008, 11:26 PM

If you will look at the header carefully you can id the nature of the problem. If you look closely you will notice that the header is indeed bordered to show a width and location the same as the text below. Only the image itself extends to the right side.

If you will look in the <head> in the css style section for <div id='header img'> information and change the margin-left from auto to -70px it will center the picture, extending it 70 pixels to either side of the rest of the body below. (Your image is 800 pixels wide and the body is 640 pixels.)

#header img {
margin-left: -70px;
margin-right: auto;
}

Of course, otherwise you could just change the width of the image to 640 like the rest of the body, but I like the wider width and it is an excellent picture. You might also want to crop the image just a pixel or two on the right side to get rid of the red line.

mirage2009 · #14 (**permalink**) 12-12-2008, 11:55 PM

Thank you James, you're great.

I had to edit many things in the css
header img

also

inner wrapper

outer wrapper

discription text allign

thanks for turning the lights on

mirage2009 · #15 (**permalink**) 12-13-2008, 12:04 AM

I think I edited one thing too many

so every thing was alligned centre

so I' have to redo the template, I guess

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