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Yes I like it. Personally not completely sure about the menu (and the combination with red), but for the rest I really like it.

Yeah, I have to see how the highlights will work when I have it built. It's hard to tell now...

We can always make changes then (and by we I mean I )

EDIT: I brightened the active dot, but I'm not going to update the image until later since it's so insignificant.

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Update (sorry for DPing again). I may or may not include the dots, mainly because I'm getting irritated with them.

I started experimenting with the featured content thing and so far it is kinda going okay, kinda not. I still have to finish some styles, but mainly I am having issues with alignment of the elements.
http://nintendoaddict.net23.net/v3/index.html

I still have to work with it more (I haven't even attempted to get the text aligned yet)

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The black text does not work
 
But Very nice

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Glomping the internet populace.One forum at a time.

It's not going to be black. As I said I haven't even started styling the text. Maybe you didn't see the last preview:

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Okay, so here is what I'm at:
 

Note: The shadow for the footer isn't going to actually look like that. I've improved it since I made this preview
 
I'm stuck now though on what to do for content. I know that I want two columns (Left is 600px for main content, right is 200px for latest content and info from the forum). But I'm still stuck on how to make the posts and such...

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liking the Yoshi xD

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Glomping the internet populace.One forum at a time.

I decided to try and keep styles the same throughout so, here is what I have so far (this also has a better shadow on the bottom):

I'm thinking of expanding the content area so I have more room for the second column.

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I can't suggest anything special but what about the links like HOME FORUM etc have Tabs/Bars?

I don't really think tabs would fit... the highlights that I have now will only appear when you're on that page or hovering.

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Okay, so I've hit a MAJOR roadblock. I'm trying to get the featured content slider to look right, and it just isn't happening. As you can see, one section is on one part of the page... etc.
http://test.nintendoaddict.com

There must be a problem with the CSS or something...
I'm not sure if I should style the actual slides yet...

Here's what I'd like it to look like:

If anybody wants margins (some off them are off in that image) let me know.

EDIT: And I just noticed that the dots aren't even right (they used to be whole, but not anymore)

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I can't see any of the slide information on Safari or Firefox (on Mac). In the div#navBar - disabling "float: left;" makes the information visible again! Hope that is what you meant, didn't find your question 100% clear.

They're actually on the right of the content... it's fairly annoying.

There are just tons of problems with that area, and I'm not sure where to start to fix, but I'll start with what you mentioned!

EDIT: So far so good.

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Its still looking good xD  
 
But for somthing that complex the coding will be a nightmare :S

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Glomping the internet populace.One forum at a time.

It's going to be based off of Wordpress. There is no way I can create my own content management system right now.

I considered Dreamweaver's InContext editing, but I think I'll just use Wordpress instead.

And in case anybody is wondering, I haven't updated it since I made those changes. I'm probably going to finish the featured content bar before uploading again, unless I find something else.

The skin will then be made for either phpBB or SMF, or something else that turns up along the way. As of now I'm not entirely sure where to go. SMF has more BBC in it and has a similar interface to Proboards (what we use now), but phpBB has more of the customizations/mods that we use. I don't really want to pay for something like IPBoards.

Plus I have a converter for Proboards>SMF or phpBB

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MyBB?

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Glomping the internet populace.One forum at a time.

If there is a converter for it, I'll check it out (we have tons of content, it would suck to lose it).
 
So I think I've got the featured content thing done. I'm testing it in a few browsers with Adobe BrowserLab to be safe.
 
I'm not sure if I should fix the transparency on IE6 or not. The browser has become minor in the usage on our site.

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Okay, so I'm at another roadblock. One of the things I wanted for the menu was to have a smooth image transition on mouseover, similar to this:
http://paragraphe.org/stackoverflo [...] de-images/
 
That one looks great, however I'm not entirely sure how to implement it into my menu. Any suggestions?

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Alright, I'm at a problem larger than what I had above. If you visit the site (you may need to refresh a few times to get it fully loaded again), you'll see what I'm talking about right away.
 
As you probably saw in the layout, the main content background is behind the shadow from the featured content, however the web version is pushing this after the shadow.
 
I feel like there is something stupid that I'm missing on this...

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Using jQuery and this function? But I guess you already figured that one out
 
$(document).ready(function() {  
 
  $(".appearing-image img" ).css("opacity",0).fadeTo(500, 0);
 $(".appearing-image img" ).mouseover(function () {
      $(this).fadeTo(300, 1);
    });
 $(".appearing-image img" ).mouseout(function () {
      $(this).fadeTo(300, 0);
    });
   
});
 
For your other problem I currently don't really have time. Have to leave pretty soon and didn't had breakfast yet. I will have a look at it later if I can!

For the buttons, I'm trying to figure out where I would put that in the code. If I can't do anything with it, then I'll just use a standard rollover.
 
And take your time

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You can just put that code in the main html/php file. If you analyse it you will see that it is applied to all files identified as img by the css.

Oh, I meant where I would put the "active" images. Would I put that in the ul/li tags?

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So the activated images (on rollover) will get the div class "appearing-image center".
 
I looked into your problem - it is caused by the height property of the div 'sliderBack'. I have got no idea why it does that.. but there is a way to fix it. Put a top-margin of -8 px on the 'mainBack' div. This will also show you have a more graphical problem regarding the shadows, but you would have walked into that anyway.

Alright, I'll give that stuff a try tomorrow. I'm pretty tired (long day), so I'm not sure how good it is to do this right now.

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Well that got it into the right position, however it's over the shadow of the Featured area... I'm not sure but... would Z-Index be any help in this?

EDIT: Got the menu working though!

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