>Just google "site ping service DNN" and you'll find stuff.
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>You picked the one site (longwood whatever) that actually looks pretty good.

http://www.medache.org/

>Your site look like a typical DNN site.

I can live with that. I can't live with spending days CODING something that looks hardly any better and still has bugs. It's especially irksome when it's coded by someone that really has no clue what THEY'RE (not their, not there <g>) doing.

The other thing that I do not understand at all is this.

When my screen is 1024 or higher (denoted by the ---) and the website fits between the [ ], how anyone can think that looks good is beyond me. It's pretty easy to have a site extend across the page (full width). Fixed width should be outmoded. Give the users the ability to use their wider screens! :)

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> Some of Nina's stuff, if you can get by the psychedelics looks pretty good too.

Most of the "look" is in the eye of the beholder, psychedelics especially.
There's no accounting for taste, so I don't try. :)

IMO too many worry about the sizzle and forget the steak. As an example:

http://www.ninasfreeskins.com/Default.aspx?alias=www.ninasfreeskins.com/xd4fuseme

The graphic is nice! Too bad the site is fixed width. That is a hit on the functionality. What I'm after is good functionality. The skin should be done separately and by someone better able to make it look good. The "look" should complement, not interfere with the functionality. Form follows functionality, not the other way around.

Seems to me a horizontal menu bar should dynamically adapt to the width of the screen - wrapping around (at least) or adding scroll controls below a certain minimum width. If you use a horizontal bar, you'll be tempted to add more pads, extending the width of the bar. I've heard having to laterally scroll a site is bad, but vertical is ok.


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>>Hi John
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>>Merry Christmas!
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>>>I agree with points 1 and 3; however, the 8 second lag is an IIS thing (the worker thread goes to sleep) not a DNN thing. You can get modules for DNN that constantly ping your site on a pre-determined schedule to keep it awake and responsive.
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>>Hey! That sounds like a great thing. :) Can you provide a link?
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>>>My biggest gripe with DNN is that all DNN sites look the same. You can spot them a mile away.
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>>Isn't that kinda like saying all VFP apps look the same? :)
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>>How does this one...
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>>http://www.foxridgesoftware.com
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>>look like this one?
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>>http://www.longfellowbenefits.com/site/