Ralphie

The layout looks really nice. I agree that it might look better if you center everything. The only thing that I can see that you need to work on is not having just one giant background image. By looking at it, it doesnt look like it should be a huge problem to get the site to scroll. Just break up the layout. But you said you are working on that so I have nothing else to add. Nice job.

I hear it all the time that people hate school. But really, what would you be doing if you didnt go to school. I bet some would just stay home and stare at a computer or TV for the entire day, day after day. Now some of you may think that that would be great, but think about it. You would never see anyone and after awhile you would get tired of playing games every single day. You would hardly ever see your friends. Sure school can be a pain with all the work but you get more out of it than stress. It allows you to gain knowledge and also socialize and see people you wouldnt ever see or have known if you didnt go. If you spend all of your time thinking how bad and worthless you think school is, thats how its going to really feel. Why dont you just try and enjoy it? Ive got a ton of work with several AP classes and I am also involved in sports after school. I dont have a lot of time but I am still happy with how things are going because when I am at school or practice, I try to enjoy it. Is the glass half full or half empty? I say half full.

I dont like those scripts. All it does is make people put more of those sites out there. This just means that they will be even less likely to prosper. Ive seen a lot of copy cat sites and most of them look horrible. Some just completely rip the design from the original and others look like they were put together in five minutes. I dont mean to go against your post, but to me, the demo for that script looks ugly. I really don't mind if people put pixel advertising sites out there, its just bad when people dont spend any time trying to make it appealing.

With all of the things we have today, it would be really easy to manipulate a 'bigfoot.' I would bet that some people have dressed up in costumes and gone lurking around to try and fool people. Then there is always photoshop which can do some really amazing photo manipulations. Sadly, it can be really difficult to decide if something is true or not. I dont believe there is any such things as bigfoot. If people claim that they see bigfoot or find tracks I believe they are just trying to get some attention.

I am actually starting a process in a search of a content management system. I really dont know too much about them but visit this site: http://www.opensourcecms.com/ This site has a listing of several content management systems and also allows you to demo them a little bit. They also have ratings for the systems. Thats really all the advice I can give, as I am really unfamiliar with them. Good luck

You are talking about writing tutorials, but what kinds of tutorials do you mean? Are you talking about ones for photoshop, coding/dreamweaver, basic web development, 3d rendering programs, etc. Whats your focus?

Well I havnt made any sigs in several months so here is the first one in a long time. I made it a week or two ago. Its more like a mini sig as the size is pretty small but I think it turned out alright.

there should be a link towards the end of the first article. the last sentence of the article says "Where's my bloody flying car?" is very simply "Right here"*.just click on the last word and it will give a download prompt. click it and it will take you to the car in google earth.

Heres an interesting read for the day. If you look at the article here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/23/flying_car/ you will see that a flying car has been spotted. they have a link on the page with the coordinates so you can look at it in your own google earth if you like. There is a second article located here: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ this one is a little bit updated and it talks about possibilities of what could have happened in order for the image to come up like that. But look at the first link before your read this one. I found the articles amusing. What do you think about it? What are your ideas of what caused it?

cant you just see all the people trying to walk around and walking into things as they watch their movies through their sunglasses and can you imagine how expensive they will be once they come out?its a cool idea for a gizmo but i dont think i would buy them.

Although I havnt actually tried using a lightscribe drive, I have seen some of the disks after they were finished. It really comes out pretty good. But really, I have no need for one so I wouldnt get one unless it came with a computer I was looking at.

This is a pretty good tutorial. Steps are explained clearly and it is easy to follow.One thing I would suggest to all of you who try it is that if you are going to have reflected text, use a less complicated background. Its just my personal opinion, but putting reflected text on a background full of colors and shapes just doesnt seem like the text would actually be reflected. But that is only advice and is not meant to take anything away from the tutorial.and eyzzat, if you want to make a moving/animated graphic, you would need to use something like adobe imageready.

This is for all of you who have websites. There is an outrageous number of websites out there of all different types. I thought it would be interesting to see what kinds of websites everyone has here at Xisto. So if you have a website (or more than one, not necessarily hosted by Xisto), share what its about. What do you like to put on your site? Also, provide a link if you can. Even if you dont have a website but are planning on making one, share your thoughts and maybe you'll get some extra ideas.As for me, I currently do not have a site. I used to have one that I was going to put a few games on and links to sites I liked. It was pretty much going to be a site that I could go onto during school when I was stuck with nothing to do. I never really finished it and now it has disappeared. Maybe I'll try and remake it or make an entirely different site in the future but for now, I really havnt had any determination to create anything. So what about all of you?

well ill be launching a site soon but i am looking for paid hosting. i dont have the time to post often enough and will need a lot of bandwidth. what suggestions does everyone have about paid hosting? i am looking for hosting that has plenty of space and lots of bandwidth. i dont want to spend an outrageous amount of money either. what hosting companies are reliable and would be good to host my site at?i know that Xisto has Xisto - Web Hosting as a partner. i would like to know how reliable it is and do the websites using that hosting run smoothly and have plenty of uptime. but i would also like some suggestions about other sites besides Xisto - Web Hosting.thanks.

excellent. i really like the colors of everything on there. great job.

thats a nice collection. you really have a whole lot more sigs than i do.

pretty sure you posted the first one in another post. but the second, i like how it looks. i like how the shattered glass if flying out of the sig. i agree that the blast is a little too dominating. it really takes away the focus from the render on the right side of the sig. im not really sure what you could do, but you could try having part of the render on the right stick out a little, or try and get the right side with brighter colors. looks cool though.

looks very nice. the scanlines are a little heavy but overall it looks very good. great job.

the effect is cool but it is a little too bright. around the head it is okay but i think around the body you lose a little to much of the detail. background is good but it doesnt match the render.

i would definately agree that the png looks much better. on the last one, it looks a little weird how the render is cut off along the right edge. i see that it is lined up with the render but just a straight line looks a bit out of place to me.

the center of it looks very cool. i understand how you wanted to use the black but i think there is just too much black. i suggest that you add a litte texture to the black parts. keep it dark and i would use the blue color again. you dont need a lot, just enough so its not just blank.

i completely agree about the animated images. its usually people who dont know much about graphics design or are new to the website thing (ive seen many of these cases) that use them. they look at them and go, "oh cool" but really dont know how unprofessional and horrible it really looks.i wouldnt really know about the css scroll bars as i use firefox, but i can imagine that it would be annoying.i havnt seen to many sites with problems of large images. yes it is annoying and i dont really like it.also, you said that a good website should have a layout which includes graphics and coding all done by the owner. this isnt necessarily true. lots of people download templates for their sites or pay people to make them a layout. there really isnt a need for the website owner to be good at making layouts. i think they should be more concerned on content and organization. some sites have pretty much no images but the way the layout is and the organization, it looks really nice. but whoever is going to make layouts using a lot of images should know what they are doing. and if you want to make a nice layout but dont really know how to make all the images and slices, there are plenty of tutorials out there that can give you enough knowledge to at least make a basic but decent looking website.but to add to this list of bad items in a website, id say something i dont like are those counters that show how many people have visited your site. you dont see any major companies with a little counter on their website, do you? to me, it looks unprofessional. even if you are just making a personal site, it just looks bad. its like saying "w00t im so 1337 i made my first website, it rox0rz!"

if the united states did not drop the bombs, then think of how much longer the war would have continued and how many more lives would be lost. the japanese had a fighting attitude to fight to the death and never surrender. this is what caused the japanese to have such heavy casualties throughout the entire war. if the bombs were not dropped and the japanese did not see how incapable of winning the war they were, then they would have just kept fighting. american soldiers would be sent in and the japanese and united states' military and japanese civilians would suffer more casualties. ive also heard that as the american troops were island hopping, the japanese people would commit suicide rather than surrendering. my history teacher even said that people would throw their children and themselves over cliffs. even after the first bomb was dropped, the japanese were given a bit of time to surrender, but they didnt. they saw how much damage the bomb could do but they didnt surrender, they allowed the second bomb to be dropped by not surrendering. can you just imagine how much bloodshed there would be if the allied powers were forced to continue to attack until the japanese would surrender?the use of the atomic bomb didnt go completely 'unpunished.' im not really saying this is a punishment, but the soviet union became angry at the united states for many reasons, including the use of the atomic bomb, which then led to the cold war. during wwii, the united states and great britain did not have a great trust with russia. this mistrust led to the not sharing of all of the secrets of the atomic bomb, which then led to further dislike between the two powers and was one of the causes of the cold war.its really hard to say if the atomic bomb was the correct route to take. we can see how things turned out after it was dropped, but what if it never was. would more lives have been saved? i dont think so. would the cold war have taken place? i believe it still would have due to the sour relationship with the soviets and americans.from the things i have learned and been told, this is the type of conclusion i currently have. there is probably a lot more information out there that i dont know about and if i did it might change my views. so if you disagree with me, dont flame me for my opinion, just share your thoughts.

i know its just supposed to be humorous or whatever but im sorry, i dont like anything about it. like others said the border doesnt work for that sig. i dont really like the render, but thats probably just because i dont like stuff thats all gruesome like that. and i dont like the blood either for the same reason, but i guess it looks okay as how it is supposed to look. the things in it just dont go together. i dont mean to be harsh, but that is just my opinion. try another theme.but no i do not like mcdonalds. the only time i go there is if there is absolutely no where else to go, meaning i hardly ever go.

i going to go with snlildude87. i like the background, especially the colors of it. the text looks cool and the render is blended well and fits with the background. very good overall sig.