Web Portal/Start Page - Attempting to build a young Web Community with this page

first...quickly...
try to help ur audience distinguish between a link and the normal text.... I find myself mousing over everything to try and find links in the content of ur pages... you have some errors with ur script in the chatroom entrance...
Your nav table on the right...get the text away from the edge of the screen....use cellpadding/cellspacing/align.....anything really..

that's all for now...i'll check the rest later

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Bandit Creations Web design
bandit.nasha.com

a few points (besides the fact it looks good):
- once I had closed all the options in the middle table how to I get them back.
- you don't need a final ¦ at the end of the top nav menu.
- not all your dlo graphics match with the cell bg colour.
- some sections have a lot of white space.
JP

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Thanks for the advice... I have gotten some good pointers already. I am considering rebuilding my site now though.

You can turn options back in in the customize menu. This is on the top bar where it says, 'Customize Your d-Lo' maybe I should have made that more clear.

Any other comments?

I really like it also. Here is how you can improve:

1) the black in your graphics isn't "true" black. it's sorta black/grey.

2) you should move the d-Lo news up against the top of the cell.

3) your menu bar (with make us your start page, customize, etc...) is aligned to the right. why? i would align it to the middle.

4) in the drop-down menu i would make it orange instead of yellow.

5) on the movies page (and maybe more) there is a black bar. i don't think you need it.

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FireBurn Web Publishing - fireburn.com
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OK...

I will address most of these issues. In fact.. I started a new design because this one takes to long to load. Tell me what you think of this url. It is my test page for a new design. Do you think I should go with it, or keep it the same.(The new one loads around twice as fast)
http://dlo.net/index.htm

Thanks

Hey, so were you the model for the "Ass grams"?????? ROFL
great sence of humor on this web site, looks like it will be a smashing success!!!
Page looks like it was designed for a weird monitor size, just a tiny little bit of scrolling to fit on my screen, if you narrow it by about 15 pixels you can get rid of the need for a scroll bar since it's not needed to view the page.
As mentioned the links could be highlighted a bit so we know they're links, maybe just bold if you don't want to change the color.
Would indent the left menu just a little bit, now it's touching the edge of the screen (there's plenty of room to do this).
Would center the links withing the black bar on the top---have to scroll to make out the last two letters of E-mail.

Looks like a fun project, keep up the great job

take care,
Carolyn Jones

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Asymmetric Designs, unique designs for contemporary minds
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new site is more to my liking but the left column lacks content and looks emtpy.
JP

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