Opinions on this design I hacked up last night.

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Opinions on this design I hacked up last night.

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I hacked this up in a couple of hours last night. What do you guys think?

Keep in mind it's a work-in-progress.

http://beta.apevibro.com/

The links do not work and will take you to somewhere you didn't intend to go.
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Still a little rough, but clean. It definitely needs some color in the body. 17K for the light background image is decent, 120K for the large banner header background is a bit much. CSS needs a little work, but I think you might have something. I didn't bother to run it through the validators seeing as you are probably going to be doing more work to it.
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That image is leaving as soon as I can find something decent. It's really only a placeholder.

I'm not the best at CSS by any means, and if you can tell me which parts need fixing, it would be appreciated. I think that will be later though.

I'm having trouble with that background image. The content column will be pushed under the menu when the window gets smaller. I haven't figured it out yet, but I've only worked on it for about 3 hours.
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Your nested list navigation on the left needs a little work when it comes to the padding/margins you are using. Everything else seems to work, but I would pay close attention to that navigation area. Also, your HTML appears to be doing wierd things, like opening an anchor tag (<a) at the end of the line prior to the href call. This added an extra <a tag in your HTML.
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Yeah, I know about that. lol

Next week I'll update it.
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Might want to take a look at it in Firefox.
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Tomorrow I can and willl and i iwl;l pOSt what i fint. so you gyus an let me know hat youtnhink
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I was beyond drunk when I wrote that, so pay no mind!

I looked at it in FireFox and wowzar, it's pretty messed up.

I think I'm going to do it all from scratch. :- /
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Probably the best way to go anyway :wink: .
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Post by TheMoose »

IE:
menu works, few pieces aren't styled like they are in Firefox; the main body section is borked (surprise)

Firefox:
menu is overlayed and underlayed on the body section

Looks good though, I like the simple feel to it.
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WOW, IE and FF render that page so totally freaking different! That is insane.
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