My new spot :)

**Blackice** · 09-07-2006 04:55 PM

Created a new gaming site pointed at Halo. Halo for those who don't know is a very popular Xbox game.

Halo Related is the URL.

I'm having some problems with traffic, and what's weird is after I installed vBSEO my links in Google went up to around 100. Now it has dropped to about 2 :S

I'm hoping it will go back up.

Any suggestions would be nice.

And to anyone who knows a thing about CSS! The header image in Firefox looks fine, but if you look at it in IE the header doesn't lign up?

Thanks for any help

**Joe Ward** · 09-07-2006 11:20 PM

Jamal - site looks great. I like the colors in the template.

**libertylounge** · 09-08-2006 01:06 AM

Looks great, I think

Few suggestions:

1) Make your welcome headers an image, can see my guide how to do it here: [HOW-TO] Make your Welcome Headers an image!

2) That random image you have in your header, might try making it integrate into the rest of the header a little better. Even with the drop shadow, it looks a little out of place.

3) Create a favicon.ico to give your site a personalized/special look for people when they bookmark it or use tabbed based browsing. It's currently the default vBulletin one.. which makes it seem like a generic msgboard.

**briansol** · 09-08-2006 01:32 AM

IE can't count. I've come to that conclusion many years ago.

What I would do to fix it....

change this image:
http://www.halorelated.com/images/misc/header.gif

so that it is just the white "tab" area.... and save it transparent.
then, even if its's off a pixel, it won't screw the bars up, as the bars are going all the way across on the background image of the table.

**Blackice** · 09-08-2006 12:52 PM

Thanks for you suggestions

@ liberty:

I will work on making my welcome headers an image!

the header needs a serious change, this is the first 100% template ive ever worked with, and i'm not really sure what to do with it.

and once I get my photoshop installed onto my new computer I will be creating a favicon to give it a nice custom feeling

Thanks for your suggestions

@ briansol

I'm not quite sure what you mean, if you take a look at the site in IE you'll see the problem kind of stands out, i've read your suggestion a few times through while looking at the header and can't really understand what i should do, thanks for your patience