just a simple site layout...

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Charles256
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just a simple site layout...

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any gripes with http://blesseddefenders.com/index.php ?

btw, i do realize it fails validation because of the center tag....i could slap some CSS on it...but one center tag...eh....maybe...
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Cookie Watch: Site sends session cookie on front page

Boxy layout, doesn't stretch

What is site about (figured after one quick skim) - no clue, talking about some sort of fictional character thingy. Second reread reveals it's a guild within World of Warcraft, suggest linking some of those terms to relevant sites

No title for the site

Menu very obvious

White on black, not my absolute favorite, but okay...

Nice picture

Links don't work yet!

Browse to News page

I really don't like the color scheme

Alternate design is a bit silly

Noticed extra text... big artificing, suggest use PNG

Uses absolutely no CSS

Pretty lackadaisical HTML

http://www.contentquality.com/mynewtest ... /index.php

There you go.
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Post by Charles256 »

dang it..why'd youbreak it up over so many lines?:-D
either way, it is a non-liquid layout.so sue me :-Dthe site does have a title... Blessed Defenders..it's there...
I did the alternate design because me and a friend couldn't figure out which he liked more..
what extra text are you referring to?
and um....sorry my HTML isn't imaginative ?:-D
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Post by Ambush Commander »

The text on the picture. It wasn't there before.

The HTML should show the structure of the website, especially since you've got a really, really simple layout.
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

It feels a bit wrong to me being fixed width and all to the left of the page. I'm viewing it in FF at 1024x768.

The artistic side of it is great though! ;)
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Post by Charles256 »

okay. i centered the entire thing, go me :-D
what do you mean the HTML should show the structure of the page????? explain please :-D
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the text on the graphic, boring. blend that text in much better.

the navigation on the left, maybe make that into very simple pictures? i like the javascript rollover picture thing and i think if you did very simple pictures then it would work well. also the links are some white, some yellow. i don't get it.

my thoughts thus far.
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