Site update

[Marshall]

Merry Christmas one and all!

I have just finished giving the Marshallx Industries site a long-overdue update. New color scheme, title and every page is now W3C validated.

I've also done away with the downloads page (which wasn't there anyway) and placed download links for the various projects on the project's own page.

Still got 404 errors on the Purple Alert and Enemy Unknown projects - sorry about that and will get something up as soon as I can.

There is also a new WarCraft III project I'm working on.

On a side note, the next version of Launch Base should be ready soon.

[DCoder]

Splendid! Now if only your profile (the Website field) stopped pointing to marshall.cannis.net ...

Edit: On the LB page, you might want to link to an explanation of what Ares is.

[Marshall]

Done and Edit:done!

[Renegade]

Mmmmhhhhhh....good. Though I still suggest making the download links h2 or something. Make them BIG! SIZE DOES MATTER!

[DCoder]

Oh, there's a "middit" instead of a "middot" at the bottom of the LB page.

[Marshall]

Fixed, and I've reworked the hyperlinks so they're more in keeping with RenProj and other popular sites (i.e. blue changing to navy with underline only on mouseover).

I've made the download links bold (I think h2 is freakin' massive and not really neccessary as the links are in their own section at the top of the page)

[Renegade]

That is exactly where I see the problem, though...the downloads box is sort of in a blind spot - when a user opens the page, his focus is automatically on the large, colorful, contrasting, isolated object in the middle of the page - the screenshot. Once he's done ogling that, his eyes go upwards to the beginning of the box, to find out what launch base is. Then he scrolls down to read the feature list, sending the download links off the page - basically, his eyes jump over the download box, and never return.

If you want to keep the links up there, I'd make them large, so they have visual precedence over the rest of the text. It would probably be better to make them slightly larger and place them below the other boxes, so you have a natural order of This is Launch Base - This is what it does - Get it here. This does have the disadvantage of sending the links below the fold, though, so maybe placing the links to the right of the screenshot would be best. That way, the links are immediately within the focus area.

Independently from that, I just noticed that the black on blue of your headers is very low in contrast.

Code:

.cnttpu {
color: #CCCCFF;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 13pt;
}

Works better.

But other than that, it's a nice design

[Electro]

The Anal-Retentive HTML Markup Enforcer deems your index page INAPPROPRIATE! However, the fault isn't yours (unless you start using the STRICT Doctype); DCoder's news script spits out nigh but XHTML. Take a look at this.

[Renegade]

"This document was successfully checked as HTML 4.01 Transitional!"?

[Electro]

Anal-Retentive HTML Markup Enforcer

Result: Passed, 25 warning(s)

[Marshall]

Those warnings are from the RenegadeProjects news script, which isn't neccessarily in HTML 4.01 Transitional like the rest of my site. But hey, it does say "Passed" - they are just warnings.
All the other pages at marshall.strategy-x.com pass with no warnings.

[Renegade]

Result: Passed, 25 warning(s)

[Electro]

Those warnings are from the RenegadeProjects news script, which isn't neccessarily in HTML 4.01 Transitional like the rest of my site. But hey, it does say "Passed" - they are just warnings.
All the other pages at marshall.strategy-x.com pass with no warnings.

DCoder's news script spits out nigh but XHTML.

I know it's from the news script. My brain treats warnings like errors: until they're dead, the page doesn't validate in my eyes.

[Marshall]

Sorry Electro, but, as you pointed out, the news script is in XHTML whereas the rest of my site isn't, so I'm lucky to get away with just a few warnings.

Passed!

[Renegade]

I know it's from the news script. My brain treats warnings like errors: until they're dead, the page doesn't validate in my eyes.

Well, then your brain is wrong.

Ask any compiler.