whttp://www.jonsimmonds.co.uk

Its not 100% finished yet, need to add some form of photo gallery and a blog module + find a host that doesnt crash all of the time (using a free service from http://www.frandt.com but its so un-relaible so i need to find a good uk based host (used frand to see if I liked XOOPS or not))

So far i used my old color scheme from my static based html site, and around 4 days of editing the defult theme I came up with the theme called "hamster" the only one selectable on my site.

So far i need to change the news title font colour for visited/active link (somewere one is set to white and one is set to black font colour)

but to me im not sure if the colour scheme works or not, I dont want to revert to a white background, id much rather make the blue scheme work so if anyone has any suggestions then please let me know!


Thanks

Jon

p.s content hasnt been added yet as i wanna get the look right then add the content1

getting connection refused for:
http://www.jonsimmonds.co.uk

can't comment.....

Quote:

grr frandts free service sucks, cant really complain though as im not paying for anything...

**edit** Looks like apache has failed on the server *edit**

**edit 2** working now **edit 2**

I would suggest:

Making the background for center blocks the same background you are using for l and r blocks....EG.

SET "itemText" for the same BG as "leftcolumn"

the bold is harder to read on darker backgrounds, you may want to change the text color or just remove the bold (bold looks great if you use light text on dark bkgd).

If the only theme you are using is hamster, I would remove the theme block as it serves no purpose.

The theme comes across great in mozilla and ie... good job.

Hope my comments are worth something .

Best,
Trip

Thanks for the advice tripmon :)

Totally agree with the background's, I'm defo going to change that

What do you refer to when you say bold text? the links? or the news title? Eitherway im contemplating chaging the news headline font colour, and possibly chainging the links from bold to underlined (though i personally hate underlined links, but thats my opinion and not the opinion of my visitors maybee)

The theme selector box will disappear, i have only left it there so I can test differences between tweaked theams and my main "hamster" one.

Im glad it works out in both IE and mozilla for someone else, my main aim when designing the theme was to have a "one theme for all browsers", eventually I hope to get rid of the tables and use DIV's instead but thats a long way away yet!

Thanks

Jon