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[Israel <israel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/18/2014 09:58 AM, William wrote:
> The website so far. Pardon the graininess of the top left logo. I woke 
> up early with an idea that led to a series of major overhauls and I 
> was burnt out by the time I got that far. But as promised, I am 
> putting this up today. You will also notice the text in the navigation 
> is slightly out of alignment. Perfectly fixable, but I wanted to get 
> this up while I had the chance since I'm sure if I will be around to 
> mess with it anymore today.
>
> All of the pages currently have the same content. Real content, 
> especially for the front page, is on the way - I just needed a place 
> holder. Also pardon the Latin placeholder text.
>
> All of the items in the navigation are placeholders. While a few of 
> them are a must, we need to determine what sub pages we actually need. 
> This will determine the actual content that needs developed.
>
> I have tested the site in Chrome, Firefox, and Midori at 
> 1600x900(16:9), 1280x1024(5:4) and 1280x960(4:3)
>
> As it stands, the navigation vertically stacks itself if the window 
> becomes to small.
>
> Keep in mind:
>
> We also have a documentation wiki at wiki.torios.org and a forum at 
> forums.torios.org/index.php. If we are going to be using the forums I 
> am not yet sure if I am going to create a but as an external link up 
> with the social media icons, or directly integrate it into the 
> website, and therefor navigation. If we go with the forums we will 
> need moderators.
>
> Here you go:
>
> http://www.torios.org/test/demo/index.html
The text in the table doesn't scale when on smaller sizes.
You should fix that in the CSS.... (though I personally don't like 
tables... I usually use height/width percentages for divs and float: left; )
Since I don't like tables, I would have done the list as CSS buttons in 
an anchor.  And done some a:hover{//color effect}
It also seems better to me to use responsive techniques in the padding 
and font size.  (i.e padding: 2% 2% 1% 1%; font-size: large;)
Of course you need to make it work for IE also, so you may already have 
a plan to do this stuff....
Unless you are using something for mobiles instead.  If you are doing it 
you should also include the scalable part:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, 
maximum-scale=2.0, user-scalable=yes" />

And maybe the:
<link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="144x144" 
href="apple-touch-icon-144x144-precomposed.png">
and
<link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" 
href="apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png">
types for the mobile users.

Also, I think using SVG would be better than png for web graphics, 
though again there are those browser caveats like Opera Mini, the ever 
problematic IE, etc...

There is also modernizer, that you may also be planning to implement in 
the future...

I am sure you are already thinking about these things, and getting ready 
to implement it, so I am not trying to point out the obvious. Just gave 
you my few quick thoughts...  Oh and sharethis.com has a nice social 
media script that also lets you gather some info back about the traffic 
statistics though you may prefer to use your own stuff :)
Sorry my e-mail is so nit-picky, I know you just made this and the 
overall design looks great.  I like the colors you used, and the way you 
laid everything out.  So just take my blurb with a grain of salt as you 
obviously know what you are doing and made it look great!