The website looks good. A couple comments. I found the text came up rather small on the page. I would also suggest providing more contrast with the text on the right.

Thanks for the comments! anybody else?

beautiful broseph! /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
you're work is coming along great. one picky thing in your code...i found this

I'm sure you can find an alternative to that....it was going great up to that point /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> Excellent job you've done.

Agree with the above: that looks great!
Also I too think some higher contrast on the right would be helpful.
I'd also suggest not 3 different fonts. Try the same one for elliotswandesigns, on the right, for the menu. The one you have now is very script-y.
Some padding on the left margin of the menu might be good, too.

beautiful broseph! /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
you're work is coming along great. one picky thing in your code...i found this

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I'm sure you can find an alternative to that....it was going great up to that point /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> Excellent job you've done.

Thanks!

I changed it so I used a paragraph tag instead of one of the line breaks now (that is better, right?)

Yeah it is a little hard to read, but that's the best font color I could find against the blue. I may try lightening up the square, but I'm not sure if that would make it somewhat blinding in contrast to the rest of the site.

What's that brown box at the bottom of the page?

Hmm. I can't see it in FireFox, but in IE i see a 2px high slit, and I'm not really sure what it is... at first I thought it might be the footer showing, but I gave it a height of 0px and the slit was still there... or are you seeing something in a different browser?

Very nice...
Almost didn't even see this "Elliot Swan Designs--Affordable website and graphic design based in Keizer, OR" at the very top. I would move it down a bit and change the color or not have it there at all.

Your text on the right hand side... too bad you have that light colored box... it would look better if the text could just be overlayed on the stream

Left side menu... a little left padding or margin would really help.. and in this case I think the rollover would be better served with just highlighting the word and not the entire block

Other than those nit picky comments... Nice Job

ok we're moving along greatly. let's keep going /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

now this:

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I would suggest ditching the align="justify" on both the p tag and the div tag. just add text-align:justify to your #inside ID. also, consider changing your #container to say text-align:left rather than text-align:justify.

second thing. You don't need that break ( <br /> ) tag between the two <p> tags.
Just do this instead:

this way you'll have a standardized margin between your paragraphs...seeing as how you've used the universal rule

once you do that you remove all paddings and margins from every tag...which included your <p> tags which automatically come with a bottom margin (which was stripped away). So, for that case, since I like to use the universal rule as well, I put back the margins that I actually wanted to stay /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

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This is how it looks like in FF 1.0, res. 1280x1024, WinXP

very nice. I like those designs

polvero: OK, I fixed that up except for the changing the text-align to left in the #container div... i'm not sure why I would want to do that.

Jonatan: Hows it look now? I think I fixed it, as well as the border should stretch all the way now, too.

Thank you, everyone! /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

The brown box is gone, but the background image still breaks out of the container div, but it might be supposed to do so. Nice job!

you would want to do that as a general rule on your sites. text-align:left; is the default alignment...
setting EVERYTHING to text-align:justify inside your #container just doesn't seem very logical. justify is usually a special alignment you use for paragraph body text....but you've applied it to your header, navigation, content, and footer.

oh elliot! The swan for "Swan" is a very classy touch..yes indeedy! Awesome work dude!
Very beautiful scene there.

So uh..what happened to Front Page? /laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":lol:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

I shall say it: I. Hate. Frontpage. I can't stand it anymore... way too hard to get things to look the way I want them. I will admit though, when I need a quick table or need to make some thumbnails I'll pull it out, but other than that... I've been sucessfully converted.

you can make thumbnails with frontpage? what am i? an idiot?

gosh, i am!

anyone want to share how this is done?

pat D

just instert an image, then select it and a horrizontal bar will appear on the bottom of the screen. click the button that shows 2 squares (one big and one little), and you've got a thumbnail.

ROFL...yeah!! another convert! woot! /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />
*shakes Elliot's hand*

well it was, after all, a health risk. /laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":lol:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

You may want to have someone proofread. I noticed a spelling mistake on one of the pages and a grammatical error on another.

If you're trying to sell products or services, you want the customer's experience to be as close to perfect as you can make it.