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[Alberto Simon]

I liked the watermarks and inspired myself to use them on my own blog 
(http://albet.blogdns.com) I hope you don't mind me using your idea, if it 
bothers you, I'll remove them.

Regards,
Alberto Simón

"nick" <nick.atamas at gmail.com> escribió en el mensaje 
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> Deewiant wrote:
>> nick wrote:
>>> nick wrote:
>>>> Deewiant wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> ...suggestions...
>>>>> Other than that, the layout's quite good. <g>
>>>> Thank you for the constructive criticism.
>>> I made some changes. Thoughs? Do you think it's good enough?
>>>
>>> http://hcoop.net/~natamas/d/template.html
>
>> The stuff in the footer (Home, News, Products, About, Contact, And other 
>> things
>> that belong at the bottom) doesn't show up too well, I almost missed them
>> completely. The black background is too dark IMO.
> The stuff in the footer would ideally be legal B.S. and such that you
> don't want distracting the user anyway; the mock content is a big
> misleading. The Home, News, Products would ideally be a duplicate of the
> real nav menu, so it would be OK to miss it. I could kick up the
> contrast though.
>
>> Still doesn't validate. Too bad about IE's box model.
> Haven't done that bit yet.
>
>> Without images, the visited links in the top menu (the tabs) have too 
>> little
>> contrast against the dark background. I'd suggest changing their
>> background-color as well as background-url.
> Ah... interesting point. I thought I made the visited links the same
> color as regular links.
>
>> Every other CSS class/id actually has meaning except for the two in the 
>> new
>> title: class="bright" and class="dark". It's so rare to find a site that
>> actually does this correctly that I'd really like to have it done: just 
>> rename
>> them to something like "title_d" and "title_prog" or whatever, I think 
>> you know
>> what I mean.
> Yup Yup, that was incorrect naming on my part.
>
>> That title should be a <h1> instead of a <div>. Slap on display:block and 
>> it
>> should work the same, but the page will be more semantically correct.
> K, I'll try that.
>
>> I'm not sure if this is of much importance any longer, but the page is a 
>> bit too
>> wide for an 800x600 resolution, at least with the default font styles - 
>> one can
>> always make fonts smaller to make it fit better, but it might still be 
>> annoying.
>> The minimum viewport width to display the page in Firefox without a 
>> horizontal
>> scrollbar seems to be 896 pixels.
> Easy to fix; I'll just take away a couple EMs from the body width.
>
> Again, thanks for the input. I'll try to fix all that later tonight.