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Are you referring to the title of those thumbnails?

http://www.waiming.com Created this site for someone, for practice purpose. Be honest, good or bad This is my first site with css (no tables) and php, it's 95+% finished. Just started learning this stuff about 4-5 months ago, still need to start learning javascript. Majority of data are generated dynamically. The shopping cart is a plug-in. Known issues with IE 6 & 7: no pop up image, z-index(giving up on this for now), some minor positioning. And very minor 2 line w3c errors on the <form> only. HTML generated with php, may look sloppy, not sure how to get it to line up properly yet. How much $$$ one would charge and approximate time it would take for someone with experience to create this? Just curious.

Only happens in FF2 & 3, not IE6

As I'm clicking on the left menu, from top to bottom, once I get to "Irrigation...", the address on top of that menu, the line spacing or something spreads, causing the whole menu to shift down. The top menu look much better than before.

Looks good. the content area is not true center in FF2 or IE6

I feel like a deer starring at those high beams.

Trying to use a background image or using an <img> tag and setting opacity, and placing it behind a floated <ul> menu that's been centered to page using position relative. So far, the only way that I can think of, is to put the img container below the ul container, setting the ul container DIVs, some to relative and absolute, the relative container will collapse to allow the img tag to move up and behind the ul menu.

Here's a test page http://ifubad.awardspace.com/absolute.html There's a floated list within div.b (black), that DIV's position is set to absolute, the text automatically wraps according to the width of div.a (red), unless a large enough width was specified for div.b. But if DIV b position was set to relative instead, then it it will not wrap. How come absolute forces the container to fit within a positioned parent container, unless a width is specified, while relative does not? I tried using white-space:nowrap, doesn't work. Is there a way to force it not to wrap, if I cannot use a specified width?

who gets paid more, a graphic designer or web programmer?

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if SOME teachers were great, you would think he/she would be doing something else that makes more money. I remember going to college for one class, cause I was curious about a programming language that I already knew, but thinking I may pick up something new, instead I found that the teacher was all theory and no practical experience, plus not keeping up with current technology. I ditched that class soon after.

like darkwater mentioned, tables are better for tabular layout. tables is an ancient method for layout, css is the new. Maybe not, probably because the person they got to do the web design, don't know how to use css, which I have no idea why, since CSS is really not that difficult.

Especially with light color text, it's always an eye sore when the background is black. The fluid layout, problem with that is there is not enough content to fill the width of the screen, I'm using 2560x1600, if my window is maximized, it looks like a big void in between and the login boxes are way over to the right. For example, when you are on the john, would you prefer to reach over just a little or across the room, just to grab some necessary toilet paper? Overall, to be totally honest (I hope that's why you want critique), is that the colors, layout look slapped together, nothing exciting about it.

The background image gets in the way of the text above it, makes it slightly harder to read.

Wait until u see it in IE. The centering and background made it looked a bit better than before. The horizontal menu button hover brown, does not stand out from the dark gray background and they're kinda hard to read, should use a lighter shade.

Sorry, it's "Web Developer" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60 but you should get firebug also.

The extra space on the left within a list is padding, if using an unordered list for example, set ul {padding:0} will get rid of it. You should check out the tutorial on css based list, if you read that section, you will have a better understand of it http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listutorial/ no, it just doesn't look good, that's all. But, you don't want it to look like crap either, it's actually really easy to do. You need to also check your layout in IE6 & 7, the vertical menu along with the footer are pushed way down the page, IE6 and probably 7 are screwing it up. As long as you have XP sp2 or Vista with IE7 installed, get this IE simulator, you can then easily test IE5.5, 6, 7 and 8 beta all in one app, without doing a multiple IE install. When using IETester, just make sure that every time you first load the app, select the default IE7 first, otherwise, the app itself will crash. http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage In honesty, who cares about IE, but unfortunately, IE6 & 7 still have 50+ % of the market.

you are over using the <p> and <div> tags. why don't you create the menu items using a list instead. The address for example, why are you putting each line in a <p>? That's all I see mainly, p and div everywhere. True, the original site's source is a Picasso too, but that's not an excuse to create a slightly different mess. I understand gray is the easiest color to use to match everything, but it is DULL DULL DULL. Give it some life. if you want to easily validate css and html, get the firefox add-on firebug, those features are within the Tools menu

I just took a quick look at your page source, WTF, I almost crapped in my pants!!!

You're young, have fun, enjoy life. Yes, girls and partying are an important part of life, I did my share of those, maybe a little too much when I was a few years older than you. Just remember one thing, time flies, next thing you know, those things are not so important anymore. BUT, in the mean time, mingle away with the girls

Hey Darkwater, started coding when you were about 9 or 10? Cool, wish I really got into it when my parents bought me my first computer, the FIRST Apple for $3k, still remember opening it up, it was as empty as my ex-girlfriend's head. Anyway, keep it up, you just may be the next to sell a site for 1 billion.

style your footer div with clear left or right, try clear:both, which will clear the div that is next to it.

also, it's a good idea not to display irrelevant information like the W3C Validated line, only info that is related to what your site is offering, everything else, nobody cares, just extra clutter.

IMHO boring color scheme, that gray is really depressing, makes me want to call suicide hotline Left aligned page, I personally think left aligning feels a bit bowlegged, too much weight on one side Very bland hover style menu Banner is really plain and boring to look at for a 120k page with only 8 request, it loads toooo slow. I'm working on a site, where one page is loading about 3mb with 66 request, takes about the same amount of time as yours. Hope that's not the server you'll be serving up pages with. The stats counter has a gray border extending pass the vertical menu div. Why put up a stats counter logo anyway? That trend was happening about 10+ years ago.

When I "FIRST" go into your site, every time, the Contact Us and Forum menu items does not highlight and not pointing to any links, after you click on one of the first three active menu items, then they work.