beta.apevibro.com - Does this look any better?

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daedalus__
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beta.apevibro.com - Does this look any better?

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Try IE, then try FF. It should look fine in both now. :)

I think I was drunk when I wrote the last set of stylesheets for it and that's why everything came out weird.
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IMO, it's very... bland.
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Post by Benjamin »

Looks like you need a margin under the left menu and some padding for the main body container on the right. Might want to shrink the font down over there a little bit as well. Other than that, I would change up the colors a little bit and add some images.
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Post by alex.barylski »

It's very plain...like what web pages may have looked like 10 years ago...
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Post by daedalus__ »

It will be prettier later.

The thing that I was trying to point out/fix here were the menus. They were horribly mutilated by IE and FF because of poor CSS. I remember someone pointing out that it was messed up in FF.

For business, I think that things shouldn't be flashy, unless you run a strip club. This place makes foundation equipment, and honestly, it isn't that flashy of a business. :)

If you guys have any suggestions though, I am always looking for ideas. I'm not that great at design. :)
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

In FF:
The upper nav menu has a 2 to 3 pixel gap from the left menu that really draws your eye. You may want to close that. Also, I know you don't want to be flashy, but you want to keep your users awake :wink: . Throw in a splash of color here or there, just to liven it up a bit. The foot might also look better if the text was smaller and maybe centered across the screen.
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