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thanks guys, it really is an honor to have won thanks to everyone who voted for me!

Um...what are you talking about? CSS has been fully supported in all major browsers for well over 5 years, even IE6 has decent (if a little quirky) support for CSS layout, there is absolutely NO reason to use tables to layout anything except tabular data. How about using 'float', makes laying out forms and aother such items very easy. irn3rd, laying out forms with CSS is a simple case of seperating elements into blocks and positioning them using the float property and margins/padding. It's worth learning now because it wont take long if your familiar with CSS and it gives you far greater flexibility. If you like I can post a simple example up here?

Just so you know your top menu is apprearing vertically on this machine, using firefox 2 on linux

.php files have php code in the original source files that are on the server. When the server fetches a page with a .php extention, it knows that before it sends it accross the net to your browser it has to process the php code and 'construct' the HTML that is generated from it. Once it has processed the php code the resulting page that is sent out is pure HTML, and would work with a .html extention, but because the URL is of the origonal file it retains the .php. Think of PHP as a way to dynamically create html pages before you send it to people's browsers, so for example if I had a page that displayed todays date, I would have some PHP code that fetched the date and then inserted it as HTML. By the time the browser reads page (and you the source code) it knows no different, the only tell tale sign is the .php on the end of the URL. Hope that clears it up

word for word (albeit with better spelling)? Thats pretty unlikely, but mayb I'm being paranoid! hehe

er........thanks for the echo Harish.....I'll take that as a compliment

The header is too busy, you need to use one or the other in terms of the logo and the slogan, or redesign it to make them work together. At the moment they both fight for the same space resulting in a confused and messy feel. I would also drop the reflection on the menu as I think it adds unnecacery clutter. I also don't like the diagonal green stripes, they are a little too bold for the rest of the design, grabbing the attention by force. The layout in general is good, nice and clear and I like the style of your 3 icons, but the 'promote' one needs to go the other way (low to high/red to green), as at the moment the suggestion is that your stats will go down if they hire you I also think the money bag is a litte crude and out of place compared to the other two 'friendly' icons. I also dont think you need the faint cloud background behind your titles, it would look alot cleaner without them, especially as they have harsh edges on either side. Overall though it's not a bad start

its kinda empty no personality or indentity in there.....looks like a template before you put the 'good stuff' in. Having said that it loos like it has potential, I like its simplicity, but it needs a little more interest IMO

hmm seems as if it's not getting styled in the other browsers. what does the CSS look like?

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp they rate IE6 at 20% and IE7 at 26% Why would it be time to top supporting IE6 when at least 20% of people still use it? It's not up to designers to force people to upgrade.

I really don't think you can discount IE6, to say that users of it are not worth considering is very unprofessional. If you are making a site for a client then the fact that people still use IE6 is your problem not theirs. To be honest although IE6 is completely ridiculous in the way it reads CSS there is always a way to make it work, it just requires a bit of perseverance. If it's your own personal site then fine, do what you like, but for a professional to deliberately exclude 20% of web users is just plain ignorant.

What exactly is the problem in IE6? also have you used a site like www.browsershots.org, it will give you screen shots of your site in different browsers/OS's

Oh dear god, I can't stand that program! Start using Photoshop, really it's not as hard as you might think, and IMO it's one of the best designed programs out there. There is so much info on how to use it you shouldn't have any trouble finding it, even if you just use youtube. The thing with Gimp is that even though you can do a lot of the stuff you can in photoshop, it's just far less efficient and streamlined and at times infuriatingly unintuitive! Perhaps that's because I'm used to photoshop, but still, there is a reason why Photoshop is industry standard and Gimp is well....not

Generally (as Minute designs so elegantly pointed out) it's best not to have any CSS in your HTML file, instead have it in one or a few external style sheets. The one exception to this is if you need to change a style dynamically (using PHP for example), in that case there is no choice but to put that particular style inline (as far as I know anyway). I've started using one sheet for layout, one for typography and one for forms (for PCitYourself I used one style sheet and it became a bit of a nightmare to edit). If you want to learn more about this stuff look up 'CSS framworks', which should give you an idea of the different approaches.

Hi Carae I would say the site still needs a little work, particularly the home page. I think the header is weak, having text that big actually makes it harder to read and see what your site is about and the gradient behind isn't doing it any favors (if you want a gradient like that it needs to be a lot more subtle like this). have a look at this tutorial site and notice how simple the header is yet it gives the site personality and identity without overwhelming the content (I'm not suggesting you use that colour though ) or this site. I'm not saying you should necessarily copy these headers, just using them as examples of simple but successfully designs. Get rid of the corrugated texture too, it really looks dated and IMO it's not helping anything. The home page is currently very difficult to see what's what, you need to organize your links/categories a lot more clearly and again the big icons make it harder to see. You might even consider having some content on the home page instead, something like "latest tutorial" and/or "latest blog entry" etc. You could then have a smaller section on there for tutorial categories (without the HUGE icons which are very distracting). You also seem to have a problem with your main menu (firefox 2 linux) whereby sometimes it will load on 2 levels rather than one. Idea_seive had the same problem on his site yesterday and he explained how he fixed it in this thread. Anyway keep working at it and I think you'll have a useful resource for students as the content looks pretty good