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[HM666]

Whoa! The skin is fine except that striped background makes me dizzy. I'd lose that personally and put something a little less noticeable. You do not want an aspect of your skin to draw away from your forum content and what you are trying to communicate to your readers/members. The background is super distracting.

When I click on the articles link at the bottom of your forum while viewing your forum the article page is missing the header, it just has the logo. I do not know if that was intentional or not. Same with the News link. The Sitemap link is a literal Sitemap, which usually if you have a link to it for your site its an organized list set in the same templates that you have installed. Its just a ton of links. I do not use vB5 so I do not know if its supposed to be that way or not, but that is typically not really going to help you to include that link if its just the sitemap that you submit to a search engine.

You might want to hide the ChatRooms links from the public since its only for members.

I will say this, it is one of the better vB5 sites that I've seen. So you are on the right track, you just need a few little tweaks to finish it up.

[shimei]

Hi HM666,

I took your advice and dropped the striped background. As for the three links on the bottom of the page, they are actually not part of the website, but part of an SEO effort by a company I use. The actual Sitemap is located at a different URL and submitted to Google, which works fine.

Thanks for your input,
Shim

[HM666]

Originally Posted by shimei

Hi HM666,

I took your advice and dropped the striped background. As for the three links on the bottom of the page, they are actually not part of the website, but part of an SEO effort by a company I use. The actual Sitemap is located at a different URL and submitted to Google, which works fine.

Thanks for your input,
Shim

Background is much better If you are working with a company for those links I would bring that up to them. They maybe unaware that the links are leading to pages without the top header graphic and they may have intended for that SiteMap link to be hidden.

[NelGlez]

I am very impressed with what you have done as far as style goes. I haven't decided to work with vb5 yet but what you have going on there makes me want to try it on a future project. Great work!