Check Out My New Site how do you like it?

I just got hosted at Xisto and decided to make a new site. I made a background and used a old template I had on my computer (so I didn't write all of the css).Check it out and IE users beware. (Why can't IE do something right?)

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Well your sidebar is very good and neat looking. Though the rest of your site isn't very appealing. You should add some kind of content box for your content and move the waterfall background to be the background of the content box or something. Your site doesn't have much content, I assume you haven't finished it or something. What are you planning for the full site? A personal web portal? Cause you basically have the same content (and more) on your Google page.

seems cool for a blog, lol, i was using internet explorer...so it came out messed up, but i can tell that it looks good when everything is in place, im too lazy to open firefox....anyway..let me give u a tip....make a file called ieonly.css and make it us it instead of the normal css when ie is detected, thats what i did with my site....

Well i changed some of the css, added a better background and a cool flash game i found somewhere. The site looks much better now. Try the game and tell me what score you got, my highest is 1900 something.

First interesting background you have it work good with the blue colors, but yes a content box will work good since with light background like that will make the text hard to see. I would suggest using the background strip you have for your nav men and put that behind the scores on the right side, with that there you be able to set up boundaries as to how your site will look as you build within those two backgrounds (the vertical strips) as your borders.Fire Fox 2 errorsFirst thing I notice right off the bat is the horizontal scroll bar at the bottom it shouldn't be there, check all your widths and see what you can change to make it go away. this is on 1024x768 on the 800x600 it is beyond just a few pixels. Of course if I got my computer max resolution 1920 x 1200 your nav menu gets split and then pushes everything to the right.Now that isn't so bad for the number of errors to fix within the firefox browser, on the other hand IE is just a mess.IE 7 Errors to fixFirst two things I notice is that your <div> widths need to be adjusted because in IE your right side menu gets pushed down (as seen in 1024x768). Thus your background image gets cut off and we see the blue background that you have.The next thing I notice is your left nav is completely messed up and by the looks of it you have several <div>s going on at once and you only need 1 to do what you need for a left nav/menu.As you can notice your kubuntu logo gets missed align as well, heck your centering tags or divs on that.When I check the validation what surprise me was that all your CSS was validated which mean your site should look clean in either browser but it. HTML wise you have 7 errors most likely due to the flash game.Although not necessary it will good to have a doc type in your html files so as to get better valid and for browsers like IE won't go into qurik mode and thus ruin your design, so other then those minor modifications your off to a good start just tweak your site as you go and remember your designing your website for other people and not you .

Thanks Saint_Michael for that review. What you pointed out is one of my greatest problems in web designing - I just design according to the browser I am using (I'm not a great html designer although i am quite good in flash and php). I usually end up overlooking these errors or when working in a team someone else just fixes them. This is actually the first time I'm making a site for myself as I usually do the web development for my college website and a student society website in a team of 3 to 5. I also did some projects related to web development but in all these sites my main contribution was in php and/or flash so I never actually had to deal with such problems as pages not looking identical in different browsers. Hopefully I will get this site to work the way it should and improve my designing skills. I eventually wish to shift my blog over to this site but that's gonna happen when I get rid of all the errors and get a little more time.

I knew that template looked familiar http://www.oswd.org/design/preview/id/2849/, because of the way the nav menu looks like on my laptop resolution, I just couldn't put my finger on it till a couple of days ago, then of course I had to look for this topic as well. Anyways for some reason your cpanel log in is popping up, you may want to check your scripts on that.

The site looks sort of (no offence) random. The main content box should really be an introduction topic about you. You should put your game on another page because it makes your main page look a little cluttered.