I created this monstrosity after having a funky dream about it. Apparently, my brother had to come calm me down because I was yelling "THE FORMS AREN'T WORKING" in my sleep. Nerdy dreams rock

Anyways, I started with the header image and then naturally I did the nav-bar, then the background, and then the footer. I've never used backgrounds like the content div has before, but I wanted to try them. I think it looks all right. But my pride and joy is the header. While it may look a little big, I've never had a big header on any of my sites before and I wanted to experiment.

Cragllo wanted a few people to send him templates and whatever so I thought this would be a nice start - I have a few more planned including some more techy ones since you guys love those

And it does in fact validate for once which is truly tres bien. Comment/rate/shred/bring me a couple of donuts - this took all night

 

 

 

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Wow, that's a very nice layout. Banner's a big tall, but very nice. I'd give it an 8/10.

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Great template. A few questions and suggestions coming up:

• The Banner: Nice, but it might have been better (on the downloaders part) for you to put the image as a background and for the text to written using xhtml over the background image just like you did for the Serenity part where text is written on a bg image. That way it's easier for the user to change the banner text.
• Downloading: How would I go about downloading it? Do I have too copy and paste your xhtml, create a new directory called images and download them all indivdually. That's a lot of work for me and I may not even know much xhtml (which maybe the reason why I'm downloading your template). I need something fast, quick and easy like a zip which extracts when I upload it to cpanel But alas I cannot find one so I must look somewhere else...

A nice template, well organized, firefox campatible, validates. 10/10 but half a point is lost for each of the reasons above so your total rating is:

9/10

 

 

 

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Oooh the banner idea sounds pretty easy. Yeah, I'm trying to make it viewer friendly

And the download thing I haven't put up yet because I want to make sure the page is error free before I zip it and put it up there. But I went ahead and put text in that area so I could just replace it with my download button later

XHTML is just revamping html. It's a simple procedure. Your image tags must close themselves by putting a /> at the end instead of a >. Same for break tags. Just a bunch of organizational issues within the code and things like that. I don't have too much of a grasp on XHTML but I use what little I know

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Updated!

Things I've fixed:
<ul>
<li>The header is now editable and looks fairly decent - I borrowed an idea from WP in linking the title of the site to the index page.</li>
<li>Got rid of some minor code that was uncessary within both pages.</li>
</ul>

If you guys think it's ready to be downloaded, let me know and I'll put it in a zip file for you guys...unless you'd prefer .tar.gz and .rar

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Ooh... pretty! I like it. I agree with what you were saying about the muted / pale colours. I think it's nicer (more elegant - and easier to look at when you've been staring at the computer screen for *way* to many hours now....

Anyway, isn't it fun to get techie dreams. Last night, I dreamed that I had finished coding off this big part of one of my other sites. (I'm trying to redo the site...) Anyhow, when I woke up and realised it was a dream, I was kind of bummed, because now I'm going to have to start doing it all over again. At least I'll have a sort of head start with knowing what I plan to be doing now...

Anyway, nice work with the template! I like it!

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Yay thank you! Hehe, I love my techy dreams. Once I built a house using HTML coding and I was all like "The windows have to be bold! <STRONG>!". That was the goofiest dream ever

I used to use a lot of bright colors in my sites. You should have seen me when I tried to turn a french country comforter into a website. Olive green on maroon with a side of cream and mauve - it was my worst site ever ><

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i like the soft colors that aren't too distracting form the rest of the page, that is something very important that you have clearly mastered. however, i suggest you spice up the nav bar a bit.

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Will do I wanted to keep it simple at first but yeah, it could use some loving.

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Very nice and professional looking template, I give it 8 out of 10
The only bad points about it are
1. I like the more flashy lay outs with much colors and stuff xD
2. I dont really like the footer image of your site (the part where it repeats)
Your template is Opera compatible too by the way

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