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Hey, I just setup a new website and I'm using Dot5 to host it, has anyone used them before, they seem pretty good. Though I'm not an artist I think the colors work pretty well together. Well tell me what you think.

http://jomho.com/

Thanks

Show us the link.

oops, jomho.com, not sure how to link though

While we are on the subject, how do you make hotlink on this forum, can you use html?

Is this it?

http://www.jomho.com/

ya how did you do that

Just paste the link in

hxxp://jomho.com/

I like it - it is easy on my eyes. The site is clean.

The colours seem to work - I like the text shadow on the logo.

Yup - straight to the point website...makes a great change from trying too hard all the time. I like it.

Ummm... WAY too simple for my taste... and I absolutely hate "Coming Soon" / "under construction" pages that are empty. Either you have content or you don't. You can always ADD the link to the top nav bar when you have actually done the stuff. Now you have 4 out of 6 links showing nothing.

These were obviously thing I didn't like - please take them as constructive criticism... :)

The menu bar is a bit dark. The black text on the dark grey at the bottom is a tiny bit hard to read until you do the mouse over. It's a bit simple, but clean.

I would make the links white, with the same orange as the title bar for the rollover. Would be easier to read and fit in better. (or the other way around, orange and white rollovers, either way)

OK, good idea, I guess they are kind of hard to see. I might take out the coming soon page too.

I wanted to keep it simple because I see some people that add so much, I guess I could say "Junk", to there websites that it doesn’t look very professional, and it ends up making dizzy. What I think is unless you know what you are doing, unlike me, you should keep it simple. Although maybe I might add a little bit of stuff to it in the future.

Oh ya, I just wanted to say that I think blitzmax.com has a real nice look to it. Nice and clean.

Thanks again.

Hey, I like your website Grey Alien. The colors work real nice together and it's not stupid simple like my website; it looks very professional. Did you make it yourself, or did you hire someone?

I fixed the links, what do you think. Now you can see them a little bit better.

how about something like this (as a start):

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title></title>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-uk" />
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
	<meta name="robots" content="all" />
	<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="false" />
	<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true" />
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
	background: #fff url('http://jomho.com/GRAPHICS/BG.gif');
	font-size: 0.9em;
	font-family: verdana, helvetica, helv, arial, sans-serif;
	margin:0;
	padding: 0;
}

div#wrap {
	border: 1px solid #606060;
	margin: auto;
	width: 750px;
	background-color: #fefefe;
}

div#header {
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0;
	background: #606060;
}

h1#logo {
	width: 100%;
	height: 100px;
	background: #606060 url('http://jomho.com/GRAPHICS/Banner.gif') top left no-repeat;
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0;
	padding-bottom: 10px;
}

h1#logo a{
	width: 300px;
	height: 100px;
	display:block;
}

div#nav-container{
	width: 100%;
	margin:0;
	padding: 10px 0;
	background: #707070;
	border-top: 1px solid #f0f0f0;
}

ul#nav{
	list-style-type: none;
	margin:0 60px 0 60px;
	padding: 0;
	background-color: #707070;
	float:left;
}

ul#nav li {
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0;
	float:left;
}

ul#nav li a {
	color: #fff;
	text-decoration:none;
	font-weight: bold;
	padding: 5px 10px;
	margin: 0;
}
ul#nav li a:hover {
	color: #ea5e00;
	background-color: #fff;
	padding: 5px 10px;
	margin: 0;
}

ul#nav li#nav-selected a{
	color: #ea5e00;
	background-color: #f4f4f4;
	border: 1px solid #555;
}

div#content {
	clear:both;
}
div #footer {
	clear:both;
	background-color:#999999;
	text-align: center;
	color: #fff;
	font-weight: bold;
	font-size: 0.9em;
	padding: 5px;
}

a {

}

.access-text {
	display:none;
}
.left {
	float:left;
}
div#content {
	padding: 10px;
}

div#content div.box {
	border: 1px solid #606060;
	background: #f4f4f4;
	margin: 25px 50px;
}
div#content div.box div.box-content{
	padding: 5px;
	margin: 0;
}

div#content div.box h3 {
	color: #fff;
	background-color: #ea5e00;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #000;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 5px 10px;
}
span.clearing {
	clear:both;
	display:block;
}

ul#screenshot-list {
	list-style-type: none;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
}
ul#screenshot-list li ul {
	list-style-type: none;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
}
ul#screenshot-list li ul li {
	float:left;
	padding: 5px;
}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
	<div id="wrap">
		<div id="header">
			<h1 id="logo"><a href="http://jomho.com"><span class="access-text">Jomho Software Development</span></a></h1>
			<div id="nav-container">
				<ul id="nav">
					<li id="nav-selected"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
					<li><a href="#">Software</a></li>
					<li><a href="#">Tutorials</a></li>
					<li><a href="#">Forums</a></li>
					<li><a href="#">Projects</a></li>
					<li><a href="#">Links</a></li>
				</ul>
				<span class="clearing"></span>
			</div>
		</div>
		<div id="content">
			<div class="box">
				<h3>Welcome!</h3>
				<div class="box-content">
					<p>
						Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Curabitur a lacus eget est sodales condimentum. 
						Sed vel arcu egestas nunc sagittis feugiat. Nulla malesuada nonummy dui. Nunc augue sapien, pulvinar vel, 
						lacinia vel, tincidunt eget, nunc. Aenean dignissim lectus vitae leo consequat fringilla. Quisque eget elit 
						id est aliquam hendrerit. Phasellus dictum aliquet elit. Sed vulputate, pede at ullamcorper interdum, eros 
						lectus aliquam nisl, non feugiat diam enim et orci. Phasellus nec turpis. Nunc imperdiet quam vitae augue. 
						Sed et nisi at lectus varius commodo.
					</p>
				</div>
			</div>
			<div class="box">
				<h3>News</h3>
				<div class="box-content">
					<p>
						Proin at sapien. Maecenas eu nisi id lacus vestibulum mollis. Proin euismod fringilla felis. Nullam eget lorem. 
						Praesent pulvinar, velit et semper auctor, mauris ligula mattis augue, ac pulvinar elit diam vitae lectus. 
						Praesent sed ante in lectus pellentesque porta. Vestibulum orci arcu, luctus sed, sodales in, mollis a, augue. 
						Etiam egestas cursus ipsum. Ut eleifend. Morbi ac metus id diam dignissim porttitor. Etiam laoreet interdum metus. 
						In sodales. Vestibulum gravida. Quisque eget justo. Mauris faucibus justo sit amet urna. Ut nisi risus, dictum non, 
						mattis in, eleifend ut, lorem. Quisque tempus nisi eget risus.
					</p>
				</div>
			</div>
			<div class="box">
				<h3>Screenshots</h3>
				<div class="box-content">
					<p>
						Vestibulum at urna in risus consequat gravida. Donec hendrerit, risus ut euismod porta, odio tortor mollis mi, 
						ac malesuada nisl felis eget nisi. Maecenas ipsum. Sed libero tortor, ullamcorper non, interdum a, imperdiet non, 
						neque. Nunc lacus libero, hendrerit vitae, blandit sit amet, viverra sit amet, magna. Praesent faucibus tempus tortor. 
						Etiam dui. Mauris dapibus, nisl ut fermentum fringilla, arcu leo luctus lorem, ut pulvinar arcu enim quis sapien. 
						In feugiat lacinia ante. Nullam placerat purus at elit. Phasellus aliquet. Nullam sagittis nunc vel neque.
					</p>
				</div>
				<ul id="screenshot-list">
					<li>
						<ul>
							<li><a href="#"><img src="http://jomho.com/GRAPHICS/Screenshots/Screenshot_003_L.gif" width="50" height="50" border="0" alt="Screenshot of my game" /></a></li>
							<li><a href="#"><img src="http://jomho.com/GRAPHICS/Screenshots/Screenshot_003_L.gif" width="50" height="50" border="0" alt="Screenshot of my game" /></a></li>
						</ul>
						
					</li>
				</ul>
				<span class="clearing"></span>
			</div>
		</div>
		<div id="footer">
			&copy; 2006 Jomho Software Development - All Rights Reserved
		</div>
	
	</div>
</body>
</html>


I would switch the stylesheet from inline to external (use
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/your-stylesheet.css" />
)

I think the orange is a little dark on that grey, but it would probably look good at about #eaab00

You should ideally use all lowercase for filenames as well (case issues have already hit you (with the background)).

Nice site :)

Oh, ya, I was having problems with the background thanks!!

How did you do that that fast. Wow.
Can I use it?

How did you do that that fast. Wow.

I do it for a living :)

Can I use it?

Of course, that's why I posted it. :)

remember to change the nav-selected id on the menu to represent the selected item.

*EDIT*
it could probably use a little tweaking to look right in IE (as sites always do).

Just added a screensaver that I've been working on to my website.

http://www.jomho.com/software.html

If you want you can tell me what you think of my screensaver on this forum or my forum.

I've never had anybody on my forum before :.( <-- See he's crying.

http://www.jomho.com/forum

(though I've only had my website online a day or two, hmmm??)

That page assumes I am running at 1024. The home does not.

They should all display at the same lowest rez. It is ok to require 1024 on all the pages, but you shouldn't mix with one page only needing 800 and another page having horizontal scrollbars when you don't have at least 1024.

oh, I see, I'll fix that

^^^^^^^^^^
I fixed it.

Hey, has anyone tried to run my screensaver on a different OS other then window? BMax is supposed to be multi platform, so let me know if it worked. Again DirectX is a window thing right, and BMax uses DirectX by default, right. Would I have to use OpenGL to get it to run on multiple OSs. I'm confused.

Tell me about the game editor >> please email.

It would be nice to have a break between the image and the text, and also nice if the text and image started on the same horizontal line. Would look a lot better.

What's your email, Indiepath?