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melissa:
Oops. Didn't realise I lost my borders around the shopping basket and popular products! Thanks Klaus.

Can I ask another question? Do you like the blue heading or the Georgia + underline heading better?

Melissa.

kweitzel:
personaly I thin the Georgu plus underline looks better ... it seem to fit better than the blue one. But other people might think different.

cheers

Klaus

deeve007:
Hi Melissa,

Nice, clean site overall, though a question and a couple of constructive criticisms...

1) Are all 3 of your menus WB generated, or hard coded? I have to look into the two menu thing I've read on this forum somewhere...

2) The background is way too busy. You already have a strong graphic for your logo, then the flower image, plus butterflies in the background. Overkill. I would suggest trying someting more subtle for the background. If you do need to have some sort of pattern, try something based on the flower graphic you have, perhaps with the contrast taken right down.

Subtle is good in this case.

3) I would personally put a little more effort into styling the left hand navigation. Some sort of panel without list style bullets, with changing background colour on rolloever or similar. Make it more like a navigation "panel" rather than just a list of links as it is now.

Anyway, just a few thoughts.

Cheers,
Dave

melissa:
Hi Dave,

I really appreciate your taking the time to give me some well thought out criticism. I will consider all these things. I agree that it would be nice to style the left nav some more. I had been wondering about the butterflies. I'm a little attached to them. I guess my previous designs had been very bland, and I went all out with this one - perhaps a little too far!

About the menus...

My site has two sections - the WB part and the shop. In the WB part, all three menus are generated using show_menu2 (http://forum.WebsiteBaker.org/index.php/topic,2584.msg16207.html#msg16207).

I have used "multiple menus", which I got some help with sorting out  (http://forum.WebsiteBaker.org/index.php/topic,3352.msg21035.html#msg21035)

To get multiple menus, you need to add each menu in as an option in your template's info file. I have three - Top, Bottom and Main (the default). When you have added a page, you can change the menu option to select which menu you want the page to be visible in.

The Top menu is unlikely to change, so I hardcoded that into the CubeCart template, rather than try to mess too much with getting it to show dynamically.

By the way, does anyone have an opinion on fixed width styling for 800x600 screens versus slightly wider 1024x768? I've been getting Google Analytics, and no one with 800x600 has visited my site yet.

Mel.

kickarse:
Very nice !  :-D

I'm very interested in how you integrated CubeCart... any hints for moi?

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