9block, good suggestion. what with the main articles being the first thing you see.. I think I might take your point and put the latest on the right, or something. First though, I'll take the searchbox mods - I seem to be having success with that! And yes, It is actually a Joomla! setup I would highly recommend it if you're willing to go through the hassle with templates and customising it to compliment you're content!..


Thanks Alex, that's a really nice link. Very well laid out, so I've decided to take it all on board!! I've got two notepad windows open right now, trying to mod the site's php for those nice safari features (type=search and also the history search feature) *It's done! so basically it seems to fall back nicely and i'd like to know if those two safari features worked...
I was thinking it would be nice to style the searchbox with those rounded corners, like it appears on a mac. If you know how to do this, I'd love to hear it

 

 

 

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Here is a link to an article which explains a method for styling of Input fields.
Be warned that the input field stling is Browser dependant and may not work in all Browsers exactly the same.
Even still, it might be worth a try.

http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/inputfile.html

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Really clean layout. I like the colors.

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It was moved to SPAM because you had no contributing post except for your URL. This is just advertising your website for link traffic. It's against our forum rules.

Although this time it's an improvement but in the future, if you want to have people review your site, try naming your topic title differently--say I would like your opinion on my web site--and try to be descriptive in your post.

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Wow... I'm not quite sure what to say! I'm sorry that was what happened, next time as you suggested I'll use a different topic title.
You can have my word, I'm not after link traffic. I don't have any ads or get anything from it, so there's nothing in that for me! I suppose I would always like more visitors, but I've gone after that by joining with thedailyrant.co.uk and we get a couple of visitors from them....

 

 

 

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I LOVE the new search box. Fits right in. But your nice javascript drop-down seemed to have disappeared in safari The menus just pop up now without enlarging like they used to. I tried it in firefox and it still works. x( As much as i hate to downplay safari, it does like to break javascript that has a very small error in it. Even some of the trap17 forum drop down menus don't work. Did you change anything to the javascript since my last post?

Edit: Nevermind its fixed again

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Ah, thanks once again alex! I've been away for a week so nothing has been done on the site.
your post actually quite worried me, until I read the last line, although I must have read the first bit at least three times before reading the last line haha!! I didn't change any of the javascript, I just changed the html that the php searchbox module generates (at least that's what I thought I had been modifying ), to go along with the safari bonus features

It's odd that something like that would just change, but I do know that when javascript is disabled the smooth drop down stops and the menu appears instantly. it sounds like you had javascript disabled somehow (maybe temporarily?) or some cookie problems

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I really like this website. The design is really nice, the colors fit in well and the Java Script drop down box is really cool. I think it looks professional but still fun/cool at the same time. The side navigation is a plus because sometimes people don't notice that there is a drop down box they just look at the top links, or if for some reason the drop down box doesn't work they can always use the side navigation. I haven't seen the site before now so I don't know how much it has improved but I think it looks really decent right now. I can't see any improvements need at the moment.

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Thanks dude. I like what you said about it being cool but professional and fun at the same time... Actually, I hadn't thought about that use for the side menu! I just happened to set it up that way with both using the same menu links!

I suppose it's a good thing you couldn't find any improvements required I sorta had my eye on the search box styling, but it doesn't seem to be much of an issue!

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I like how it's uncluttered and it's easy to find everything. Overall it's a pretty nice layout and color set.

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