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Chumpman

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If you are trying to use that website to sell computers, it might be best to jettison the "red/black super nintendo" style. It's really fugly on the eyes and doesn't look very professional IMO. Keep trying and listening to suggestions, good luck.
 

dfi

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Originally posted by: Aharami
can someone explain to me what CSS is exactly?

Cascading style sheets. I'm probably going to do a piss poor job of explaining it, but I'll try. The purpose of CSS is to allow you to quickly make stylistic changes across all pages. This is done by having 1 file, the .css file, contain all the stylistic information needed for all your webpages. So if you wanted to change the background of all your webpages (and say you have 1000 pages so it would be a pain to modify each one), all you have to do is open up your .css file, find where you assigned the background color, and change it. This can be done with font size, font color, link colors, etc etc ad naseum.

Then there's this whole other bit about CSS and <div> should be used for layout, not <tables>, because <tables> is suppose to be a way for you to organize data and <div> is what you should use for layout. Not going to get into that but if you search CSS that topic is sure to come up.

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dfi

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Here's a couple things I don't like.

1) The colors. Red and black is not very lively. Kind of makes me want to doze off.

2) The use of frame. Frames are very rarely done well, both from a navigation and appearance point of view, and imho should mostly be avoided.

3) Everything is too big. The logo, the icons, the font. This emphasizes your lack of content.

4) The counter. Big page hit counters scream "this is an amateur website!" Get rid of it, or at least make it unintrusive by making it smaller and off to the bottom corners.

Here's what I would do:

It doesn't look like you have a lot of content. So don't try to fill up the entire space. Instead, dedicate yourself to only filling a portion of the screen. You can do this by limiting the amount of space you'll take up horizontally; maybe dedicate yourself to only using 1/2 or 3/4 of the horizontal space. The rest can be blank, a non-repeating background, or some non-intrusive color.

Alternatively, you can go the other route and enlarge everything. It's a bit of a challenge to not make it look tacky when everything is big though. This probably takes more artistic planning and talent.

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