biscuitrat

It's random, so that's kudos to you. But they're right - the border doesn't work very well with it, and the red really stands out. Try blending your sig a little more. Definitely work with the text, and try out some brushes if you'd like. You have definite potential. Keep it up!7/10

Things I want to point out in no particular order The navigation is neat, but it's better to use lists instead of images - lots more room for neatness there. You don't need to use your logo everywhere. After a while, it'll just start getting messy. Now, in respect to the layout of the page, don't use tables for layout - use divs. The quotes section seems almost unnecessary. It looks like too much work for you to update regularly. With regards to updating, how are you going to do it without creating too much trouble for yourself? If you're using a news script, great, but if not - that's a lot to edit each time you want to add a series of news articles! Search through Hotscripts and see if you can find anything, if you aren't using one already (you might be, I just can't find any trace of it). Additionally, the site looks very cluttered. I don't like the giant "READ MORE" arrows to the right of each article. It just feels like a decorative element (a bad one) rather than something instructing viewers to keep reading. You use a very small font for most of your page - which is bad for a lot of people. You also don't make a distinction between a page header and normal bold text, which makes it harder to read an article. I also feel that your headers shouldn't be centered - English is read left to right, so looking in the center and then reading from the left might be a little jarring. Organize your page better, please! The colors - hmm. I like them by themselves, but on the left navigation menu, the orange is extremely bright to me. You also overuse the blue and orange on your headers. I would say pick a neutral color scheme and add a few accent colors. That'll not only make it look more professional, but also easier to read for those of us who stare at schoolwork all day and expect something friendly for their eyes. Sleep time now!

From the earliest reaches of civilization, humans have revolved around an "alpha-male/female" system, which likely evolved into worship of nature - and eventually, the forces that embodied nature. Referring to God as a singular aspect is an anachronism, as polytheism has been around for a great deal longer than monotheistic traditions of the same roots. Nature gods served the purpose of explaining natural phenomena that otherwise wouldn't be much more than, "sky-water", "white-powder", etc. Eventually, superstition came about and nature gods were transformed into beings of incredible power - as symbolized by ancient Roman, Greek, Babylonian, Aztec, and Hindu traditions - however, one sees a contrast between this and the ancestor worship/Confucianism and philosophy that pervaded East Asia during this time period. These were later absorbed and combined together to form the biblical God that seems to be the most common - and wrong - manifestation of the actual history. In essence, I suppose, having a "god" is a way of placing events on Earth in another's hands; or essentially, moving the blame and the burden to someone else who can handle it; things we can't explain become divine in nature - miracles, disasters, creation, and destruction. Humans still have a very limited range of understanding, and faith comes from the need to know and understand what cannot possibly be conceived. The divine is a purely human concocation, in my opinion, but a very strong one at that - and definitely the most enduring. I have no idea why I write so much so sporadically. NOTES: Saint Michael - Romans sided with the "winning power", where for many centuries before (I'm in Latin ), they were distinctly polytheistic, a tradition taken from the Greeks. The Edict Of Milan (313) made Christianity legal although it wasn't officially adopted until after Constantine, who was baptized on his death bed. It fell upon later emperors to enforce that initial start. You have to remember, Romans felt threatened by the Christian prescence although Judaism was apparently tolerated - this holds true for any government that finds another power growing threatening to it. Romans carried out various actions like this quite regularly. Everybody remember that this post can't be anything but opinionated, due it's nature. So no yelling

I don't like the outer glow - it's very noobish. In addition, the color tones don't seem to match up. You have dark text on a muted background - which would work, were it not for the bullet. If you added a filter to the bullet/color overlay, or something to make it less deviant from the over-all schema, it would look a great deal better. Now for the text: Can't say I like the style nor the wording. What part of this implies a bullet to one's head, figuratively or literally? I see a fist jutting up out of the background - something reminiscent of protest or victory, which works well with the grunge where the text doesn't. It looks like you used a variation of Courier to get the job done - it looks all right, but if you're going to do grunge, do it all the way. Use a grungy font - Courier is primarily regarded as a techy font, being monospace and all that. And the background: It's pretty good, I think, except for that whitish line jutting to the right of the fist. It seems almost out of place. I see you had fun with random brushes - try not to use too many of them. Try to stay within your theme or it'll start to look really messy. Again, the bullet doesn't seem to fit. Its current position in the middle of the text makes the text a little hard to read. Ideally, the bullet would be somewhere more prominent so people would see how the background correlated to the text it's accenting - since that's essentially what an image signature is. Notes: Migue was right about it being a little too short, but it really all depends on how big your website's layout is going to be. For the moment, stay with the style you've chosen. In conclusion, I'll probably give you a 5/10 - good work, keep it up, and sorry for the commentary!

Beautiful! I love the colors, woodtones, and the "easy button"! I'd feel ashamed to take a picture of my desktop because there's so much random stuff around here - books, movies, LOTS of writing implements, a Kleenex box, COMPOOTER THE MIGHTY, and assorted things that assist in my remembering of well... life. Oh, and if that doesn't help the squalor, the stained white walls would do it. Chocolate milk and white do not mix, or so I've noticed - and neither do bugs and subsequent bug stains.

Two things that would help: A link, and more information. Not that I'm interested in a clan, but just to enlighten those of Xisto that are - so if you have a website, let us know! And if you don't, more contact/organization information (especially as to whether you're a well-established clan or one that's just starting out, for those it matters to)?

Free speech comes with a price, and that is the ridiculous sensitivity of our populace. We're too easily offended by little things, little statements, tiny pictures no one in the world would care about. But they do, because they realize that mankind has a tendency to be profane and otherwise disrespectful -- the best representation of this would be porn and debilitating software. If you're composed of genius, why use it to screw over people? Why unleash something like that, something that can very well backfire on yourself?And the worst part is, a majority of Americans are computer-illiterate. It can be one e-mail, one IM, and your computer's dead, dying...done. We could remedy this two ways - tracking the assailants, but also taking steps to teach ourselves to help ourselves. It may be new technology, but things aren't going to revert to the way they were anytime soon. Feel like your dot matrix still has the power to give you what you want? Think again. Times change, and people have to change with them.

I remember I started on the charity of free scripts and free hosting. It's really a blessing, that such talented people turn around and create for others. If I could program worth anything, I'd give it a shot. The script would turn everything pink. Just because.Additionally, most sites offer free forum posting because, well, it's a way to generate revenue (through page ads/refresh) and it's also a way to build traffic. If you have a place where people can write their hearts out, talking about whatever they want, you're going to have more visitors than say...a portfolio site. That's my advice to anyone who's thinking about starting a blog - have faith, and commenters will come in the thousands

Maybe we should make the front page a little more informative on how to apply for Free Hosting. We got a lot of the same questions here, and it might just be because the answers are lost within several thousand other posts. Buffalo, Opaque, anyone?

I love how many people post on a hosting site that they want exactly what the host offers. I mean, do you take it as a serious bid for help or do you just sit back and wonder how long it'll take for people to realize the answer is quite literally right in front of them?

In addition, there are so many posts on this forum that moderators can't move back and forth to label those posts as broken or missing, so anything you click is little more than a hopeful guess that the post will still be there. Happy hunting

I just fail to see how Creationism has any evidence though -- PHYSICAL evidence. We can prove the age of fossils by carbon-dating. Is it some weird concidence that humanoids are unearthed with small changes within a few thousand years of each other? Is it hard to believe that an animal will change and adapt to its new environment? We humans do it all the time. People in the desert learn to use water sparingly, can tolerate heat. Even viruses mutate and change. Was it really in God's plan that the newest strain of influenza is difficult to track because of mutations in its genetic code? I have my own religious beliefs, but Evolutionism clouds all of that. I think it's a pretty sound opinion that evidence leads to a well-believed fact. Faith and science are not the same things. Faith essentially means that one "believes". Science comes from the Latin "scio" which means "I know/understand". And that's how it should be. I'm entirely opposed to teaching theology in a science classroom because of what it implies. In Kenya, evangelists are lobbying to remove the archeological finds of a generation from a national musem - but why? Because it interferes? Or because it's true. So many scientists these days are both religious and curious. There's no harm in religion itself, but using it to promote something that has no basis, except for in one's heart, and in doing so, harming the work of countless hundreds of scientists, is the part I can't agree with. Intelligent Design defies one of the laws of matter, in that it indicates that matter was created/destroyed. The same works for Creation. It's just one of those things that seems to bother me, that people say they believe in the 6-day creation, but if so, how does that explain so many other things like dinosaurs, mammoths, prehistoric man? If man was created in their original form, why are we unearthing so many remains today? Creationism is not a fact, but a belief that will never cease to confuse me.

I believe Xisto - Web Hosting offers decently priced domains. I checked it once, but all the prices are kind of swirling together in my mind. While free domains might not be an option, what about...reduced price domains? For the first year or something? And then we can pay the Xisto - Web Hosting price. That would be pretty balanced to me. You still get money, we still get a discount for being members. You could also offer discount rates for long purchases.I'm only thinking economical because there are several thousand members of Xisto. Can you imagine how clustered registrars would be with that many free domains coming in? Think of the money Xisto could use based on that. The best option would be the discount, if at all, for Xisto/Asta/Xisto - Web Hosting members from Xisto's domain service. Yay, Biskie helps!

Cerrrrrb, it's been so long! But your site is always broken. It was great the last time I saw it. See if you can get it back up and let me know. I'd love to see it.

Salad Fingers is a classic though! RUSTY SPOOOOOONS! You have to love him for that. It is ridiculously creepy how many times he gets himself or others maimed in his quest for oxidized metals. In addition, the music sets me on edge. But my favorite part would be how MARJORIE STEWART-BAXTER TASTES OF SUNSHINE DUST AND HUBERT CUMBERDALE TASTES OF SOOT AND POO. Soot and poo. Giggle!

I voted Firefox, I realize, but it's because it's familiar to me and it's my favorite to use. But above all, I would prefer Opera if it was a little more compatible with cool and crazy stuff. It has widgets, yes, but Firefox has so many. The people who voted IE are being silly. Firefox crashes every now and then, for me, but when IE crashes, it used to be so hard to end that task without ending another program. I'm a little thankful for the beta though. Although the fonts are incredibly blurry, it's a great deal better than IE 6 was. When it's released, I hope they not only fix that but the CSS errors designers have been clamoring about for nigh a century.OK, not really a century, but it's still pretty important!Opera has been in the shadows for a little while. It's very sleek, very easy, powerful, free, and more, but it seems to exude this angelic aura - all ye worthy touchest it not! Firefox brings that to the normal user, with a glitch here or there. Those of you who report that Firefox is more glitchy than IE have to remember that IE has a long and troubled history of being buggy, unsafe, and so much more. Firefox, because it's in the media spotlight, attracts more attention than Microsoft's rag-tag child.So yes, the best browser is probably Opera. But the most casual browser I would say is Firefox.

I draw most of mine for the sake of them looking cute and funny simultaneously. At least I laugh

1) World of Warcraft2) Age of Wonders (fun)3) Warcraft III4) Diablo II (both)5) Frozen Throne/The Sims/ The Sims 2Do you sense a trend?

Ewww, get rid of the bevel first. The color's actually not that bad, but you could use some work on your images. Also, you know, content on your pages would help. But not bad - 6/10.

If everyone waits for the price to come down, how many are actually going to be sold in the end? I'm sure there are several people saving up for it now, but it's pretty easy to spend at least $1000 at once that way - just a PS3 and 8 games will do it. Me, I'm waiting for the Nintendo Wii, being a huge Nintendo fan.

The colors are fine...bit bland. Over all, the design is rather simplistic. I'm not saying you need images, but for people to have to scroll all over the place to see your content is kinda hard. You have some left-aligned and some centered. Keep one alignment and stick it with.In addition, your site is poorly organized. It's confusing the way you write the numbers next to the navigation links. Furthermore, I know most browsers don't support WAP, but creating a site exclusively for one browser limits the millions of people who use IE and Firefox instead of Opera - I'm just lucky enough to have all three. In your files section, make sure you say what each file is going to do. People want to know what they're getting when they go to a website, so make sure you tell them. Otherwise, you're just going to confuse a lot of people, the way you did me for a moment.Another thing that bothers me: Just because PHP scripts allow you to capture information about your hits etc. doesn't mean it's exceptionally necessary to have it viewed all the time. It takes up a significant portion of your page. I don't know if it's possible to validate WML or what limitations it has compared to XHTML, HTML etc., but to have a good layout, you have to have a good plan - I would recommend using DIVS for that purpose. So 4/10 - I realize your site doesn't have much content but you have to attract users first.

I would like to say that they really dont look at individuals files one at a time - they put it all in a database and run searches for choice information. As such, 99% of you still have your privacy, assuming you dont do anything wrong with your computer, or else you may come up in a search. Also, if somebody hijacks your computer for malicious purposes the police dont just walk up to you and toss you in jail, but search your computer in much the same way to find out who did it (if it wasnt you then you are safe). Any bits of irrelevant data they find is not logged, talked about, or remembered - you are one of millions. Any relevant data is filed with the case to be viewed again as necessary during the case and only to be opened ever again if there is a purpose (make sense?) and the case needs more work. Oh, and btw I would like to add that some governments (US included) already are monitoring the general public using many methods, most people just dont realize that they are trying to cover their bases so it doesnt become a large scale issue. You can be monitored by software on your computer (spyware, spybots, and many other forms of malware), hardware (more rare to what Ive seen but it can and has been done), keyloggers and the like (software and hardware exist), external devices and storage media (pop in a cd and they could know which one - look it up), your cable/phone line, your isp (and yes they do give that information, and get $$$ for doing so), other clients, servers, online tracking spiders, email, search engines, general public hubs, proxies (they arent invincible), intercepters, and even satellites. The list could go on but im tired! Im just trying to say you are making way too big of a deal out of this, they arent trying to find out how many pizzas you order a week, or if you like to go to http://www.hugedomains.com/domain_profile.cfm?d=yummyfudge&e=com a lot. Its not just for terrorism but also for financial reasons, like the millions companies lose yearly on piracy.

Thats really cool! Maybe someday instead of going out with your friends to play Laser Tag you will just do it in your backyard! pew pew

This is just compiled superstition. No day is different from the next. These are all acts of extreme coincidence. Call me a skeptic but nothing bad has happened to me on Friday the 13th, Friday, or the 13th day of any month. In fact, I can recall some good things happening to me on Friday, but never anything out of the ordinary.As a Hindu I know my family doesn't like odd numbers, but aside from being weird, that's not too bad. In fact, I believe 13 is a lucky number and 7 is an unlucky number or something crazy like that. Different cultures interpret things differently. And for the record, storms can sink ships no matter what. Ships can run aground no matter what. Maybe that day was foggy, maybe the captain was drunk. The name of a ship doesn't mean anything. If I remember, there was a character in Mr. Roger's Neighborhood called King Friday and he was always pretty cheery.Mr. Rogers = life lessons!

Oooh, nifty cool. Reminds me of a Firefox plugin for encrypting passwords. Very nice