Ciroxyz, alright, I toned down the font size to 12's and 14's. The 10/12 font sizes looked too small on the 1024 by 768 resolution which is why I bumped it up. I guess the verdana does look a bit better then arial, a bit more impersonal which worried me a bit at first and I'll have to think about which font I want more. I'm actually thinking about verdana on some pages and arial on others, depending on which mood I want for which page. And I'm a bit hesitant to mess around with gray on the page since I'm not looking to make the site look more somber, and kind of like the look as it is. I've been thinking about redoing the text for those buttons as well like you suggested.

I was wondering, why do you think I should try gray on the site? I was wondering how to get a slight border near the picture too on that left side so the text wouldn't run up against it like that, do you know what the code for it would be offhand?

Also, yet another reminder to people out there, the site is http://zambrano.trap17.com , not http://jzyehoshua.8m.com

 

 

 

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Rite ok then
now. . . lets start on the new one.
first impressions: Vastly improved graphics and style

Graphix - 4/10 more interesting than ur other site, and i prefer the buttons, although they could be a bit more visible by creating a stroke or something. The header grpahix look nicer too

Layout - 3/10 mmmmmm again its quite a simpel layout, but is improved by the new graphics the smaller text and differernt font is good too

Content - 6/10 Well i assume ur still creating pages and moving content from ur old site so i'll assume it'll all be the same.

Errors - no major errors that i can see, but something i think wud look better is that if you changed the white block to the left of naviagtion to the same grey as your main cotnent background, then'it'll flow nicely

i would give this site an improved 5/10,

 

 

 

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Yep, I was talking about the new site. The blue, dark green, black, and white doesn't really work. It has too many blocks of colors in one place. Also, I linked the validation URL to you in my last post. If you didn't get it then, it's validator.w3.org so check your site up on that. Make sure you have the correct doctype first. If you made yours in an editing program, it should automatically insert the doctype at the top of your page although some of them insert extra code.

The banner is basically your title although title in HTML signifies the text at the top of a window. It's just site terminology.

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Ok, thanks BR, Goosestaf. I've made quite a few editing changes now, the black bar is gone, the Apologetics and Poetry sections have the links in cool looking tables, the buttons are in the same style as the site title now, there's new pages, a shoutbox, and I put the stepping stones section in a nice looking textbox with a scrollbar.

So yeah, I went with a lot of your ideas as best I understood them. Sorry about the misunderstanding BR, I'm used to thinking of banners in ads, noob mistake I guess

I did try the validator thing a while ago but it gave me some error about line 41 on the main page not having the right coding or something but I couldn't see anything wrong with it and the faq's didn't help, so...

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kinda plain. Try using photoshop and some css. The green is just way too plain and the white background makes the site look like it was made in the 90's. Good first effort though.

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OK, for one, you shouldn't close font tags if you didn't open them. Doing a style attribute within a paragraph does not require closing the attribute that you used. Take all of those out first (and there are a lot)

Secondly, one of your META tags, the second one I believe, is kinda screwed up.

Yours says: and it needs that last quotation mark or it won't work.

And the last mistake I could find was this image source:

Yours says: .

Don't close that quotation until after the "margin:20px;" part. All of those combined ought to clear up the validation...or at least let me see what else is wrong with the coding.

And I suppose the buttons are nice...but the colors are still trippy. I mean, this is a religious personal site. Blasts of blue and green, black and white, aren't going to make the mood any more serious than it is now.

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Hey man, I really like your page!! Nicely done and what matters the most, you have good contents..

Today it is less and less obvious that there has to be something more in this world than just pure materialism and your page talks about something more. I am not christian, but I respect every religion because in their essence they share the same idea - DO GOOD, AVOID EVIL, PRACTICE LOVE AND COMPASSION! This is also the message of your site so this is why i like it...

Keep up the good work mate..

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