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i usualy design for firefox first because i have firebug installed and it helps a lot in the process of coding the site. after the design is complete i check with IE6 and IE7 and after that with safari, opera and chrome. in the end the site is displayed perfect in all the browsers.

the design looks very nice! i like it

i like it. it's clean and the colors are very well picked

it looks nice

web 2.0 is just a trend in design. glossy buttons, vivid colors, rounded corners for elements in a website ... in my opinion the new trend around is grunge style. i personally hate web 2.0 in excess because it's all over, but if the design is clean and simple it is effective. grunge style should be used only if it's used wisely. a website should catch attention, therefore it should not be orientated or compared with what is around the web. just design the way you think so the information on the website is easy to understand and to make people return to that website.

Dizi has a good ideea. i usually create a div ( div id="wrap" or div id="container" ) that contains three div-s: one for the header, one for the body/content and one for the footer. the rest of my div-s are just classes ( div class="left_column" or div class="tag_cloud" etc. ). the CSS is easy to create around them. you could get some inspiration by doing this. open a website you like click on view source in the browser's toolbar and look hw the XHTML/HTML code is arranged. then install firebug plug-in for mozilla and explore the CSS for that code. it worked for me. cheers

the website looks amazing. only things bothering me is the loading time and that stupid faerie - it does not look cool

there are so many good artists out there. it's hard to decide so here goes my top ten 1. Boards of Canada 2. Future Sound of London 3. Autechre 4. Pendulum 5. Thievery Corporation 6. Asian Dub Foundation 7. Jamiroquai 8. Tool 9. Solar Fields 10. Radiohead

for a first it looks great. i'm not a fan of that drop shadow effect in the content area, but if they go with it it's fine.

I use photoshop to create these buttons. and then save for web. their size will be small ... maximum 10 kb.

very kewl collection of useful links

very nice mate

i would like grunge vector illustration on websites, better navigation and typography!

I saw Wanted ... and I can tell you i had a good laugh about it. lame movie

well in my opinion the navigation in the right side will pop-up over the text and that is not ok. and also the categories in the footer are not matching the overall design.

i like the second one, but go with the one the client likes and if necessary make some adjustments to it.

read here http://www.w3schools.com/

well you should use corel draw or adobe illustrator. they are vector based programs. the design u make should be scalable without losing pixel at the edges. you could use photoshop to. but you have to design at a specific dimension.

of course you're not to old ... it will take some time to learn things but learning is fun

well my dream job is to be the mayor of a little (I mean LITTLE! as Smurf size, minuscule) town somewhere in the woods. Probably somewhere in the woods of Norway. MAGIC EXISTS THERE!

indeed the header can be improved. also the navigation. the content area is ok

wowy WDF ROCKS!

neat job! congratulations Rob! your website is amazing!

you could try these options: - talk about the forum on blogs around the web and somehow advertise it - word-a-mouth - advertise on different pages over the web (this is not free but it's not expensive either) - place banners in web pages - grow the community slowly good luck

the design is very clean and i love the typo. one suggestion ... change the picture in the upper left corner of the website. u can surely come up with a more catchy one