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[quote]hey, im not suer how you did that, if you're a hacker please tell me what you did so i can fix the problem. [/quote] Ha! Well you allow HTML characters in your posts! A person can put in javascript, or iframes or anything at all to deface your site and steal peoples sessions etc. Php code seems to be removed - so you might be ok on that front. As for registering - it said my account had to be approved - but yet I could start a help topic. Rgds, Steve

I would have done it a little more subtly. I would have put the second Nav in the green div with smaller text with maybe a bold to show that it is a sub-nav menu. Your add comments to the news needs a lot of integration. Your red text and dashed border on the main home page are very distracting. The red text been particularly a bad colour in this instance. Rgds, steve

CSS versus tables in my workds. 1. It gives mouse hover effects WITHOUT Javascript. 2. It renders HTML and Background Graphics Quicker than table background="" 3. All your CSS code is kept in an EXTERNAL Style Sheet. This means that clients when going through your site have the CSS and Styling Code CACHED on their computer -> so all they have to download is JUST the few <div></div> and html tags.  4. If you want to change the colour of then awful standard blue <a href's etc. you can change it in 1 file and the whole site updates  5. You can tell a background image to repeat in the X or Y direction, or both to form a nice gradient full browser width background. and it goes on and on and on.... Also - you have mysql errors on your page and I cant login. Rgds, Steve

Looking Good. Still a few points: Tweak the colours of the Navigation and also the a:hover colours. They are wrong currently. Bullets for the subject listings. Remove the <br> from the Footer. It doesnt matter if the two lines are close. Its only the footer. Also - the FIND A TUTOR. Choose lighter oranges for the Drop down select menus. The width of your site changes with different select options in the above menu. Make the FIND A TUTOR div a fixed width. A last point: the navigation does not need to be soo tall. Shorten it a tad. -steve

Looks nice. A few things. Have some Navigation groups CLOSED by Default. Also for the Head/Title of the Navigation - the text should be a <a href> and not just the icon. Also when opening and closing the navigation, the icons do not always appear. Also - on the right - I would like to see something to take away teh white. It just ends abruptly. -steve

mob: nope. indeed not. Was just saying. He has the Transparency look and feel already there. I just wanted to point out other avenues. -steve

The navigation back out of the Cartoons database is very difficult. The image URL only brings me to index.php of teh forums. Its just a little confusing. I would have the main navigation bar there - and for the database pages - put a second smaller horizontal nav under the main one. -steve

echo above. You need more mouse over effects for the navigation and the like. Rgds, Steve

Its not really in with teh current web style. See http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/current-style.cfm Rgds, Steve

Scrolling up and down your website with that background is very off-putting to the eye. Try resolution of 1024X768 and try scrolling with the wheel on the mouse. Other than that - its fairly graphic heavy. - 164KB!! The bottom kinda ends abruptly with the dark black going into the red background. I would like to see a mouse hover effect on your Navigation buttons. The text size is a tad small. Your doing everything with tables???!!! Rgds, Steve

[code]<a href="blah" style="display: block;">[/code] Thanks for that tip. -steve

Its getting there...albeit slowly. Firstly - Id prefer if the Page started at the top, and you put the phone numbers somewhere else. BUT the TOP IMAGE is WAY better. However, the text "Math, Academic..." in Orange. Its a little hard to read. Put a v.v. small shadow on that text - to make it stand out, similar to $45 an Hour but way less of a shadow. The Navigation is still screwed - with them long sentences. That "Math Tutors v's ..." is mucking it all up. Try putting it in a single line instead of using a <br>. If you persist with the scrolling text - put some padding on the Right & Left sides where it scrolls out of and into. There is WAY too much LEFT padding/spacing on Find A Tutor Box. Also make this Find a Tutor Box NOT AS WIDE. Whats that Something.....something.....something text???????? Take it you. Your making a Professional Website remember. Now, for your subjects on teh Right - you NEED BULLET POINTS. This will give it a Professional Look. Choose nice bullet points. I like small squares as bullets. A 1 line Footer would be nice - it could contain information to a Disclaimer. Something like: Copyright (C) 2006 | Tutoring | Disclaimer Rgds. Steve

Ah ya - echo the lads above. Its just MediaWiki. Any you dont even have coloured divs (red/blue/green) for teh different sections in teh directory. That logo is brutal. You've even lost the nice fancy background you get with MediaWiki as on http://wiki.kartbuilding.net/index.php/Main_Page Time to get reading the Manual on MediaWiki. -steve

Much Better. A few things tho -> your still not listening (forgive me if you have already justified them): 1. The Header/Top image is still WAY TOO TALL. Get your Resolution down to 1024 x 768 -> its most likely what your boss/customer has it set at. At that res. your Top banner takes up too much room. 2. Your Navigation is Mucked up. Have SHORT words for the items - not sentences. Instead of "Why Choose Us" - put "Our Offerring" or something. 2 words MAX IMO. 3. The extreme background. Whats them tiny grey squares etc? Its only allright - it takes away a bit IMO. 4. One last thing. Why do you have SOO many Sizes of TEXT?????????????/ On your front page - you have 8-9 different SIZES of text, not to mention fonts. ONLY HAVE 2-3 Different Text Sizes for headings MAX. The reason been - each piece of text with a different size draws the eye across and back abruptly - instead of having an even flow of text. 5. Sorry - one more thing. Fix up your footer a bit. Its too far below your Content div. ya - on a last point - the text fonts are a tad on the big size. Keep going. -steve

You answered your own question there -> Learn CSS and XHTML. You also need to do a bit of Graphic Design. - Gradients and Water Themes with light colours In My Opinion. You will also need to learn some php & javascript and put it to use. (currently the contact form uses bravenet stuff with ads!) So these are the things required: CSS, HTML, PHP (or similar), Graphic Design, JavaScript. Pretty sites which look nice, are easy on the eye sell. Perhaps you might want to go back to 'bodging' some templates into what you require. -steve

IMO = In My Opinion Rgds, Steve

There are a few things about it -> I commend your use of graphics trying to make it look different - but the dark colours dont really work for me. The HOME page is completely empty. Your top logo/graphic is poor and needs work. Your Contact input box is WAY down the page -> move it up so I dont have to be scrolling at 1024 x 768 Your picture gallery is a tad bare. I also dont like it opening a new window to show a large image. Your login doesnt show much. Like even anybody not even logged in can see -> http://www.shaundaniels.com/webcam.php Anyways - a chnage of colour and top div are needed IMO. -steve

A few points: 1. its gud that you are willing to change stuff. 2. You missed some very valid points between version 2 and 3. 3. I take it Version 3 is the current one. If so, this needs to be done: - Get RID of the Blue Background (behind the page) - Try putting instead a Blue Border Around your page in white. 1-2px wide should do it. - Your Top Header is HUGE! And white. No No - you need to change it. Put the background at the top a nice shade of blue - to match the blue border. - Your TOP header is TOO TALL. CONTACT details DO not go into a Header Section!! - Have a Contact Us tab with all the info. - Cut the special promotion out of the Header. In fairness -> it doesnt go there! - So put the Text you have on the left in the header with the image on teh right - cutting out the contact telelphone and the special offers. This should give a nice height for your header. - Your Navigation sucks man. Especially in Version 3. Without even looking at the code -> I can see you are screwd by having to use Tables trying to get a professional look: It doesnt work. - Bring back the tabs you had in Version 1, and align them to the left. - Your find a tutor box is AWFUL WIDE. If you fix your Header and your Navigation -> you'll be much more on teh way. For an example of what I mentioned via - white background and border look at my last site: http://skycon.skynet.ie  Im not saying its v. professional looking - but its CLEAN. -steve

Its good -> but you could do a lot more. The Header Image at the top should be as wide as the white main page. The top seems open. It needs containment - a border or something. Move the main content UP more to the top of the page. For a real professional look -> the tabs (navigation) should have a gradient pattern with some shadow etc. Currently you only have images. Well if you stuck with this you could change them to a nice 3d effect. If you knew a bit of css - you could use a 1px wide image and put it as a background in the x direction. This would let you have mouse over effects, e.g. a:hover { text-display:bold etc. etc. } -steve

Its ok. Very plain IMO. At my current res. here 1024x768 -> its not in the center of the screen. Your header bar at the top is very weak and needs more emphasis to set the scene. You might want to offer some extra information regarding PR. Like explain how your measurements are done. The link popularity tool works well. Didnt get SERP working. You dont stripslashes on queries. You also allow HTML TAGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your whois works well. Other than that -> its ok. Not sure how many people would use. Its generally I keep useful links in my favourites. And you dont really offer anything new. Potential. Make it a little more slick and appealling. -steve

Buuuuuuggggggyyyyyyyy  :'( I broke it I got this: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'Reilly', 'steve'[email protected]', 'Test "this"', 'Test's and more tests and ' at line 2 on http://www.owpt.biz/home/test/send.php You dont cancel quotes, and you allow html characters  >:( Use htmlentities to tidy up and store the values. Im not sure are quotes allowed in email addresses - but if they are you better plan for them. Other than that - I do like the concept. Rgds, steve

Echo obsidian. Its not the white space really or the white look and feel - its the fact you need borders and divisions between your areas. Yes - the white clean and airy look is in. Rgds, steve

Looks ok. A few things: Your HOME tab doesnt work. It just stays on Website Charts. The top bar needs more containment (borders) and a colour. The site currently looks open and too white IMO. Other than that - registration seems to work ok. -steve

I dont know off hand, to see if the image has fully downloaded on the client side. Not sure if ajax would give you this for free -maybe. On the brighter side -> you cpu usage is within acceptable limits IMO. -steve

Ya - Looks nice, I like it. Wasnt too gone on the grey background - but its fine. Also - what can you do via your admin panel? /admin Can you add content etc.? Rgds, Steve