<whoever was talking about the "Games" glitch in the site submenu>
The background image has a ~10px-tall transparent space at the top. Someone (either you or the previous designer of Carbonite) tried to move the nav submenus down 10px using
padding and found that for that to work, they'd need transparent space at the top of the menu. This screws up tiling, leading to the transparent gap in the middle of the menu. (And it's not Chrome-exclusive BTW, the tiling also breaks on Firefox but you've probably just had the window scrolled so you can barely tell because there's solid grey behind the menu.)
To fix it, edit the background image (
http://www.staredit.net/skins/3/layout/dropdown.png) so that there's no transparent space at the top (crop it), then change the padding-top to margin-top on
#nav1, #nav2, #nav3, #nav4, #nav5.
If you look very carefully near the top of the submenus, you'll see that their black borders are borked for the same reason. It looks like this:
│▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒│
├──────────┤
│ │
...where the shaded part is the part outside the menu (where the transparent background space is).
EDIT:They're the same icons as Epic and Turtle, though, hence my confusion.
You broke the URLs.
URLs on Carbonite:
http://www.staredit.net/topic/12658/last/&skin=setfilter=sc2Proper URL:
http://www.staredit.net/topic/12658/last/?setfilter=sc2The skin.php file doesn't use fully-resolved URLs, it uses a blob of PHP variables mashed together. Find that blob and re-mash it.
EDIT2: In topics, if a posted date is too long (e.x. "Yesterday, 9:09 am"), it'll wrap oddly.
To fix this while keeping it centered, remove the widths from the two SPANs in H1.centered. Note that I've only tested this for Firefox using Firebug. HAHAHA, DISREGARD THAT. The date is centered exactly between the username and post number, but it is not positioned at the center of that entire horizontal bar of space, if you know what I mean.
EDIT3: Well, if Carbonite is supposed to have the "Site" and "Favorites" links drop down and left about 5 pixels on hovering, remain there after you move your cursor off of the dropdown menu, then raise back up and to the right to its original spot as you mouse over where the dropdown is again, then ignore me. If not, then don't.
Browser, version, OS. I can't figure it out from your YouTube vid as it's "private" and apparently we have to be YouTube friends with you to see it.
EDIT4: For the record, the current SC1 icon is pretty nice but I do think that the pixel-red-Wraith provided by Aristo is more recognizable.
EDIT5: As a remake of the original Carb, this is very nice. Offering my own opinions on the design itself, though... It seems inconsistent -- a haphazard jumble of rounded and straight corners, bevels and flat surfaces, etc.. And in a lot of areas (such as the entire breadcrumb menu area), the text is way too small given the thickness of its container.
Also, OH GOD, OH GOD THE TABLES!!
TL;DR: Fairly good job on the aesthetics though there are inconsistencies, and I should close the View Source window before my eyes bleed.
Post has been edited 6 time(s), last time on Oct 17 2010, 3:07 am by DavidJCobb.
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