Wow. The intro itself is very impressive, and then comes the site. I defer to Janys' keen eye, but unless you've already incorporated her suggestions, Anita, I'm on board with it.

Very well done; bravo!

Still playing with my "fun site" do i ever love vsd...the site is http://abcomputered.com the links in vsd are the main page and skype. every time I work on this page, another project comes up so I don't really know if it will ever be finished. Take a look and see what you think.

Napolean....... have had a look at your site and must say that I love your bold choice of graphics and colours. Lots of impact.
If I can just say a couple of tiny things I have noticed - hope you don't mind.
I notice that your text boxes are not standardized and that they are not aligned - here I am talking about those object boxes with the rounded corners. The two in the lower section of the page are not aligned, either at the top or at the bottom, so even if you have just copied and pasted the same size box, to look nice and even, you should nudge them a little.Use your keyboard directional arrows for gentle nudging which is more accurate than drag and drop. Add in a horizontal line to get that right........ you know that once the blue outline of the box "disappears" on the guide line........ you have positioned it correctly. Then you should do the same I think with the two left hand boxes....... add in a vertical guide line and nudge both of those over to the left to align with the guideline.

Apart from that, I can see there are lots of interesting things going on in your site, and am sure that it must be a lot of fun to keep coming up with new projects to add in. Continue to have fun.......VSD offers lots of possibilities to play around and create exciting pages and it looks as if you are exploiting that to the full.

In one of my earlier posts in here I gave the address to download a free "pixel ruler" which is what I use when I want a quick check on alignment. It is a very useful tool and a good back up once you have removed guidelines from your pages. The ruler just lies over the top of your screen and you can move it around the page as you like....... and rotate it also.

That is a handy gadget! I use it all the time. That link is:
http://www.mioplanet.com/products/pixelruler/index.htm

It does try to link to their website when you use it, but I just block it. Don't figure they've a need for knowing what I'm measuring!

Anita very well done.. good work looks very professional.

That program comes greatly used here, I use the free version 4.0 miotoolbox
it comes with the pixel ruler and also gives you your x,y,z location, and magnifier for zooming in if you can't see whatever and you can make screenshots as well. http://www.mioplanet.com/products/check_update_en.htm?212MioToolbox
before anyone complains this is a sardine not SPAM.....

First run effort at design for my kids site. They are going to run this website as a school project, hopefully learning something along the way.

http://www.nokiddincrafts.com

Site designed from template using HTML editor (in both HTML and Visual mode) and storefront is CC Shopping Cart!

Nice Job Phil!

oh, your right Janys. I have made so many changes tinkering, I forgot to realign those text boxes. A ruler is in definitely in order and I can't use the vsd guides because of the boxes png graphics. I wish there was a transparency channel in gifs so I could just align them on the page. It's also not the best move for seo, because the png fix isn't w3c, but because of my traffic sources, it's not that much of a problem. I also am going to remove the tooltip from the coffeecup link due to the problems in ff.

I want to also change the content on the skype page to increase the usability. I was thinking of just having some videos on the site and not being hosted by youtube so when a video is clicked, it will go to an additional sales page providing more instructions.

I use several different solutions for site building, but vsd is my baby. I like vsd because layouts are created so easy.

Thanks again for your input Janys.

Thanks Bruzer. It's been a fun adventure getting reaquanted with slinging code... Hopefully I'll get good enough to add the flash and flare that would make my sites stand-out on there own soon.