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[Ray Smith]

Hey everyone. I have two sites using the MD2 skin. I'll showcase the second site tomorrow. In the meantime, take a look at www.FartsandFunnies.com and let me know what you think. Be as critical as possible...don't worry I can take it.

Since I don't have any HTML, CSS or any coding capabilities, using MD2 has been a huge relief for me. The design options for this skin has made it easy for me to generate some adsense revenue already. It's not a lot ($103) but it'll be nice to be able to use it to grow the site.

Anyway, check out my little humor blog. It's in the "beta" phase right now. I have the illustrations of my comics being developed and the official launch will be sometime during the summer. At that point I'll get a professional to make some customization to the MD2 skin. Hopefully Alex or Sean will be available

Oh yeah, I know it needs a logo, but I'm holding off on that until the redesign.

[blogviet]

Nice custom site with MD2

[Sean Davis]

Ray, I remember when you first posted your site in the forums. I thought it was funny lol. I still do. I actually like the design options you've chosen... with the normal page look instead of the full width. You put it together well.

The only thing I would adjust is the border you've selected in Dashboard => Thesis => Design Options => Fonts, Colors, and More! => Body (and Content Area) => Add a cool shadow effect to your layout. Because everything is white, instead of a double shadow being added, it just looks like your interior layout lines don't reach the edge. Take a look real quick, for instance, at the very left edge of your header or very right edge of your sidebar.

I think it looks better with this CSS added to your custom.css file... removing the 0.3em white space (border):

.custom #container {
    padding: 0;
}

Either way, great job!

[jablythe]

Ray -

Nice job with your customization of MD2!

All the best,
-Alex

[Ray Smith]

Thanks for the feedback guys, I appreciate it.
@Sean, thanks for the tip. I implemented it and it looks a lot cleaner. Also, is MD2 made to use a full width instead of page framework?

[Sean Davis]

Oh most definitely. I thought you were just choosing to go page width because you like it better. Full width should have been automatically selected once the DAT file was uploaded during installation.