A few quick suggestions about your site:

1) The page is formatted in such a way that it needs a horizontal scrollbar when viewed in a browser at 800x600. Perhaphs you could make two versions (a high res, and a low res one), and then display the apropreate one using javascript (if you want me to elaborate about that just lemme know, or you can just search for it on google).

2) I like the top banner, but it seems too constrasty to me. It is so strong, visually, that it distracts my eye from looking at the rest of the site (which is mostly in midtones). If you toned down the contrast some I think you'll find the site flows better together.

3) Try to keep the middle column (where the content of the indivdual pages, e.g. Home, Computers, Transit, etc) at a fixed width. As it is there seems to be five different widths. This means that the right-hand column (with search, latest posts, etc) is in a different postion neigh every time that you select a new page. Admitidly, its mostly a cosmetic issue, but it'll look more professional if the formatting stays uniform.

 

 

 

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I have made a site on Joomla CMS (too most, as Mambo), and I do't have problems with moving the form. But it also is not required to me. If it is interesting for you, may look my design - http://zhicorp.awardspace.com - I apologize, that all in Russian, but design to estimate probably if it is necessary, can give you same, you see it we compose and with Mambo

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gaea: I don't really know anything about graphics, but before I changed the template, it looked fine for me. As I mentioned, I can't changed the wwidth of anything very easily with a broad (full-width) template and the components I installed.

Artem: You have a nice template, but I like the way I did my site. Ok, I'll add the module title display to the Login Form module if it makes everyone happy) and clarifies things a bit.

Also, I'll be trying new templAtes over the next few days. this is because of that dark link color problem which I can't seem to fix.

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Hey !! I checked ur website , it is very nice , especially the color combnation and the navigation bar style is very nice...is it pre-made theme or u created by urself ??

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Thanks itssami. I used tthe template Grassfields Forever by Tim-online for Mambo, slightly modified. I think I got it right this time. With this template, the background for the text is always white.

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I like the layout, it looks pretty good.
The image is nice but the blurriness hurts my eyes a little. The blue text boxes are too strong.
Some of the buttons don't really match.. Just looks pretty normal and 'average' to me.

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I think the design of this is really good. im very impressed. But theres also many things that you can improve. Ill start of with the banner/logo thing. Its a pretty nice picture but the depth of field dosent suit it very well. If pictures have to much stuff that are out of focus than inside of focus. The kinda mosaic effect you added looks really good with it though. Very high tech. If you want to keep the current picture i would suggest that you add some white text on the left side. or black really. but i would suggest you use white and keep it in the green area of the photo. You can like have the name of the site on the left of the focused area and on the right have a slogan or somehting similar.

The next thing i would suggest is you to change the top menu a bit to possibly come more into style with the other menus and also try to align it with the width of the rest of the page if you know what i mean. Also the left menu is a bit to high i think in firefox. you might wanna check that out. i dont know if its intentional.

But from the graphics i think its really good. well done

 

 

 

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Most of the stuff you see is made by the template's developer. All I did was remove a couple of things that were messing up the layout of the page (as it appeared on my screen, which has a 1024 x 1600 resolution). I did not make that 'grass fields' image, nor any of the styling of the menus, etc. But thanks for your compliment anyways!

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The text "The Bus Stop" in front of the image at the top needs to be in a different style, but first change the picture. What does a field have to do with computers and buses? Otherwise, it's pretty good.

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I have absolutely no clue, but I think it looks nice. Green is one of my favorite colors.
If you know of any good 3-column Mambo/Joomla! templates, feel free to suggest them here.

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