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i think the new layout now with the dark blue background is much better than before, you did a good job by using the ingredient here and there to give it this look, BUT even the white color fits the blue but it kind you over used it in way that makes the words "a quest of wisdom through knowledge" lost with the overall design. in other words they are not showing clearly and hard to read correctly. and becuse the word "knowledge" in different color with a curve way, made things much more harder to look clean. the same is said for the logo "Xisto", you made the sub heder in three different fonts and in three and i think in two or three ingredient of white color, nd this makes the over all look in a mess. and i really can't understand the reason of using Xisto in the front page when you suppose you changed it to Xisto??? it makes thing confusing right there. any way, my suggestions as a designer are: - make the binary digits (0,1) more transparent to reduce the elements stand out from the background and to not ffect the writing above it. - make all the logos (mysql,google,cpanel,jquery...ect) fade more and give them a shiny blue effect when hover, and try to make them smaller or add some space between them and the Xisto writing. - fix the logo of the header to contain two fonts one for the header and one for the subheader, and i think it should be "Xisto" not Xisto. and if you want to inform others about the change of the name, just add a few words in the main body with a link about the whole story . and another word about the java script or jquery of the menu effect, it doesn't work properly, here is what i got in opera after click on it twice or three times as you can see, there is a cut edges left from the left side in ugly way. and notice that the (linux, microsoft..ect) all that line is hiding behind the menu tab. while it looks fine in firefox, looks like this hope that helps, good luck.

great, i will be waiting for the new layout with less bugs. and i really hope that it will be done cross browsers so everyone can see it correctly. and even if it is not i will report it right away, good luck.

thank you bani and velma now i can see what is happening. for the intro, it seems it is not showing in opera. here is what i see on my browser as you can see there is no link for the intro, for some odd reason. therefore i was confused and didn't know what are you talking about guys. and as i remember i usually see that intro when i click on Xisto link in the menu of the forum but it seems the link is changed so i couldn't find it. now seriously, why a forum or a company like xisto needs an intro and a front page?? i mean what is the point of having two front pages "because the intro is assumed to be a front page for the whole company too", so what is the point here?? i can understand!! anyway, i checked that front page in firefox and it seems the intro link is showing there, here is the screenshoot in firefox so opque, you have to make it cross browsers so everyone can see it correctly.

yeah i must say it is weird to notify visitors about their global coordinates. i thought that too but i think he might want to impress his vistors or has a point bhind it. who knows??

ok here we go - i like the dark gray color of the header with the texture in it but i think it should be centered for the whole page or expanded to cover the whole width of the page, not like now it is aligned to the left side of the pagewell, in fact there is a strange thing about the header because i just decrease the view of the page in my browser and i found it is already expanded but in a (1024&768) like the one i use, it appears like it is cut from the right side. maybe that happened because of the logo of the knowledgesutrs, i am not sure. you should fix it any way. because right now when i view the page in my browser (opera) i see the header is cut from the right side and it looks like it is smaller than the footer.also when i decreased the view for 70% i can see that you expanded the header to 100% but not the footer so you should fix that too.- even i said i liked the dark gray but the degree of red is not fit with it, it is like something wrong with this combonation, try a lighter degree of red and see how it looks like.- and just tell me why you have the "HOME" worf instead of the logo, which it pushed to the end of the header?i can't see a meaning to that home there and why the logo is pushed to the end?!- the curve corners in the index box and the over all layout look fine and elegant i like it.-also i like the light gray for the menu hover, but you have to use that degree of gray for the menu in the header too. because as i see when we navigate to a sub category a tab in the menu of the header will be added but in a more darker gray. and this i think you should change to combine colors of the whole site.- in the bottom i think you should to center the copyrights too with the links to fit with everything there.- in the sidebar, i like the design of the header of each section with that dark gray to fit with the header and foter but you need to use a one type of font to all of them because right now i can see you are using two or three and that doesn't look profesional you know. you need to make the hover of the sidebar links gray to suit with everything else, as i can see the hover background now is pink!! who is that related to everything else??and finally you should justify the spaces between sections in sidebar. right now they are not equal.that's it for now, fix it and post the link here and i am ready to help good luck.edit...i found more right now -the feedback icon that appears in the left side in this link http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ it should be fixed, because it doesn't appear when i scroll up and appears behind the copyrights when i scroll down. in fact that happens when i scroll the page to the right so i think it is normally not to appear on the top but it should be fixed to be above the copyrights i think.and as i can see now when scroll the page to the right the whole page is being above the feedback icon.in firefox i see the same things so no new. except the header appears less cut off from the right side.- the logo of knowledgsutra needs to be png format because i see a line seperate it fro the background.-and there is a transparent bar above the red line in the bottom, i don't know if that what you want oor it appears there by mistake.

the funny thing that you all are talking about something i can't see, i don't know where is the wrong here, maybe from my end, i don't know. anyway, please post the link for the flash intro so i can see it maybe i am missing something here!!!

you are right even i have a real intentions to report him and see what he will do maybe he will get sick of us and ban me between i want to give him so many things to do to make him buzy for the next two months, just to make him pay for that time he was away from here .

yeah i know bani but the problem that i can't find it, i mean the flash intro. when i click on this link http://forums.xisto.com/ i only see a static page.so maybe i missed something here, if so please post the link.

am i being that long away from here?? because seariously i am completely lost!!! where is the phrse of "innocence is a bliss thing"?? and what is the meaning of catch22?? and please opaque what is this link for?? is it a new theme for the forus?? and if you want review to it just start a new topic abou it or i will report you now seriously just start a new topic about it and i will help. you know i can't post here or it will be considered as spam.

yeah good luck with that opaque, i hope you can revive that forum again. and be active like before, we will always be waiting for moe from you since you are the boss in here, right?

hmm i think this tough topic that posted by banni is pushed opaque to change things of the front page that i see for the first time :)i just opened Xisto.com and i didn't see any flash intro or anything, no music or loading. only a static front page with some links for the forums and other services. and about that front page i do like the effort that made to create that graphic effects, but in the sam time i do believe it is not suitable for the forums since here the forums are blue, so after the effort that made in that page i think the reasonable thing is to change the theme of the forums to something near to red.

hmmm robi so now rice is your interesting great no i will tell you what do i think about rice. my whole life i say one thing " RICE IS MADE BY OTHER COUNTRIES AND BEEN SENT TO US TO EAT IT, LOVE IT, AND GET FAT "and this is the truth, one plat of rice can gives you a lot of calories that you should exercise for a whole week to loose it but do i eat it??yeah i do, but sometimes. and in my family we used to prepare it a lot for lunch in so may ways. usually we make it plain, white rice and made it with a little of oil, much water, and salt. put it on the stove and leave it to burn and if i saved it we will eat it with vegetable soup or paste "i don't know what do you called it".anyway, the other and more delicious ways are:either made it red, we add tomato paste to it and it will be great especially when we add to it layers of fried potato, eggplanet,green pepper, onion and chicken or meat.or we can make it yellow, by adding yello spices to it like curry, cumin. and we mix with it peas,pieces of carrotes, cornsو Raisins and chickenزor we can make it by adding lentile to it or mung beans and they are delicious too. and of course there are much more ays to prepare rice but this is all i know. have fun eating rice .

HEEY, NO i was like blaming myself for not being here for two weeks or about, and it seems i missed a lot of things and this is absolutely sad. but as i said coming late better than never some right .

honestly this is the first time i see someone who deletes wordpress files and wants to replace them with html files!! this is so wrong because wordpress is just like a complete building structure, that everything is depending on everything. so messing with fils and wanting to replacing them is a huge mistake in my opinion. especially with html files, because wordpress files work on php files extensions only and never read anything with an html extension.so,i suggest you to delete everything and install wordpress again. start from the beginng and i hope you backuped your files so you can return the data again. good luck and keep us informed with the results.

hey i even missed the party :( but still comes late better than never comes RIGHT?? so HAPPY BIRTHDAY Xisto and even i was here only for a year and a few months but i had gret memories in here, i met wonderful people and get friends. and no atter what, i will be always gratful for this forum. hope you all feel the same about it and hope opaque gives it more time like before to let it grow again.

thanks you all aboutyour responses i am very appricated. and i think i should add some more few words in here since i was working to be an online freelancer. but as many as you said it is something hard to do in these days. and even i didn't get anything yet after working on it the few past months but i should say i tried freelance.com and it wasn't very encouraging there because just as k_nitin_r said. most of the contests holders either pick the cheapest, the quikest or someone they worked with in the past. but later i tried 99design.com and it is a whole new different world for me. the contest older pick the best design and they offer a certain amount of money and they give it to the best design that suits their requirements. so things there are so competing. and only the best get the prize. in general, the best designer sould be not only the best in designing but the best in understanding what the contest holder needs and how to give it to him/her. and this itself is an art you know and how to know what they need and give it to him/her is as hard as designing. till now, i am still trying and hope to win a contest soon wish e luck guys and i will post frequently here to tell you any further informations. thanks again and wait for my update.

hey anwiii, i remembered your words when i received more offers from google adsense. till now i received two by mail and two by email!! it looks like things as you said, google now has many competitors and try to stand strong again. if not then why he is offering many like this?? it doesn't make sense right??

hmm seems no one replies me, but it is ok. i fixed it, and i found that it is not a firefox bug or anything, even it looks like that since the site was working fine in many browsers except firefox. but finally i found it is my fault, the whole problem was in divs tag in my code they were working fine but when i added the new script i should change the design. any way, everything is fine now, the problem fixed by my side and my portfolio will be released in a new look soon i hope .

no, no need to thank me, i really hoped i could help in any way. i tried searching google for the problem but didn't get much information about it, also i downloaded the file and checked the script in a harry but didn't see anything weird. and about the php code that Iniyila mentioned, i found it normal since i know you use wordpress cms. in fact i trying to find any weird script or attached file that may hacked your site. but didn't find any, so i gave up and went to sleep deciding to give it a shoot later, but when i came back i found everything is ok and the problem is almost fixed . you know what? first i excluded that the error from the server side, because i checked my site and it was working properly. i didn't know that xisto moved some to other server, now seriously they should send an email or inform people about that, why did they do that any way?? i will check mine too to see what is going on. and second i thought that maybe someone hacked your site since you are pissing people off all the time i mean the new users/ spammers "you still shoot them once they put their head inside the forum door " so i thought that may one of them decided to take revenge from you .tanks god i was wrong and everything gonna be fine soon. and the good part is, although all your