New website multi use design template (beta testers wanted)

This is a current website template I have been developing for the past 2 weeks, I have torn it down and started over twice now, using diffrent layouts, colors, and tag lines.

Content changed from one thing to another.

This site won't be fully functional for 4 more months, untill then, it's just a shell of pointless information and rants that mean nothing.

Nothing other than what's in current development works.

The point of this post?

I need a few beta testers, diffrent screen resolutions, operating systems, diffrent operating system versions, level of updates, and so forth.

I can't see everything that the users can see on their completely diffrent computer systems. Each person has a diffrent system, each person is at a diffrent level, well computer.

I have no way of testing that with my one system.

So I need a little feedback:

Site layout

colors

template size

text types

pictures

tables

Live HELP systems

function

EXC

Thanks for your help guys.

the current beta site link:http://iammonavie.com/Documents/page_enter.html

#418021

Win Xp Pro SP 2/ firefox & IE6

site looks very profesional, and cool..

the only thing that i see that should be changed is Link FONT ( top menu ABOUT US CONTACT US FORUMS) is hard to read..maybe Verdana 9px or somehting would be better?

other than that, site looks amazing.

#418793

the web new word is "accessibilty". Maybe asking for

SITE BEST VIEWED IN 1024 + SCREEN RESOLUTION, ARIAL NARROW FONT COLLECTION MUST BE INSTALLED

800.600 SCREEN RESOLUTIONS AND LOWER WILL SEE DISTORTION TO THE SITE AND CONTENT

SOME SMALLER THAN 1024 SCREEN RESOLUTION WILL WORK

COMPUTERS WITH OUT ARIAL NARROW FONTS INSTALLED WILL SEE DISTORTED TEXT FORMATS

IF YOU DON'T HAVE ARIAL NARROW DOWNLOAD IT IN OUR FORUMS

MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORE 4.0+, NETSCAPE 4.1+ OR FIRE FOX RECOMMENDED

is a bit too much. You can probably make it work anyway on these platforms, by degrading the style.

Moreover, asking for fonts is a big no-no in webdesign

#418800

yes. requiring the everyday web user to download fonts is a bit much.. i'd use a font that is preinstalled and compatible with all browsers is a better choice.

#418901

THANKS GUYS!

I have noticed this, and im turning all custom font links into images!

OMG! thank you thank you thank you for reply and giving me some feedback on my site! I'm happy to know out of all the post views that some one was willing to give some input on the site!

Bless you!

some one who care and respondes to what another person does!

AWSOME!

#418926

I have noticed this, and im turning all custom font links into images!

de nada remember to put alt="text..." tag in the images or better, use some text-replacement css to hide the text and have the picture as background, like

Home

will be styled by

#id SPAN {

display: none;

}

#id {

background: url(home.jpg);

display: block;

height: ...

width: ...

}

#id:hover {

background: url(home-hover.jpg);

}

etc etc...

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