http://www.webwellb-n.com/courtney/

In particular, my Netscape crashed and I haven't been able to look at it in that.

Anyways, I do welcome any comments.

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The layout and colors look good.

I really didn't have a problem reading the dark blue on lighter blue in navigation.

Really like the colors and layout of the site! Hope you will show us all the final product.

Loved your static background. It was perfect and in no way presented a problem with reading of text. It made me take a second look and say, "how did she do that?" Want to tell?

I think I agree about the shading for your navbar (Had a look at that using Sanrope's colour picker and then mucked around using various saturations.)

This one seemed to work for me:

<0.62,0.745,1.0> (decimal)

"#99CCFF" (html)

I think I'd probably align "customs brokers2 etc left - but that's just me

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Hope this helps :-)
Gorilla
aka Mark Saunders
http://www.computerdriving.com

marksaunders@techie.com

[This message has been edited by gorilla (edited 06-13-2001).]

They really wanted to use some elements from their new brochure, so I wanted to work the image some way, but wasn't sure how. Then I saw a web site that used the screen-back idea. So I reverse engineered some of that and applied the concept to this one. It tooks quite a bit of "playing around" (with the transparency level and brightness) to get to something I was happy with.

Basically I made the image 500 pixels wide and really lightened it. I made sure the background of the image was the same as my background colour. Then you use the code "background-image:url('images/filename'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed;" within a style header.

It's really not very hard and I was surprised that although the layer effect isn't there in Netscape (Surprise!
or Opera for that matter), that it did not tile the backbround image and that I could live with how the versions of the site with the browser versions I have are quite acceptable.

Let's see what the client thinks!

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I'm curious as to why you consider that important. Do you feel that would add to the professionalism of the site? I prefer to keep my links text based as much as possible. Doesn't interfere in the download speed and more friendly for the search engines.

I've noticed more and more of the really "big" sites have gone this way. Yahoo! is almost all text based links.

Seriously, am I overlooking something?

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Nancy - just a thought - you're already making great use of css in this design. Have you thought about using it for your links to achieve a roll over effect? It's *really* easy and when coupled with borders can give you something that looks like a rollover graphic but isn't.

Mark

Yes, I had planned to use colour variations using CSS for this site. I'm still waiting on approval from the customer on what I've done to date.

Let's see if suzkaw responds about the image rollovers.

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