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    My new spot :)

    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
    http://www.halorelated.com - A site for Xbox and Halo junkies!
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    Jamal - site looks great. I like the colors in the template.

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    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.
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    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.

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    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
    http://www.halorelated.com - A site for Xbox and Halo junkies!
    http://www.hiphoprelated.com - The #1 Hip Hop Spot.

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