1. Can you give me an example of a site that does this? I'd be curious to see how it looks
Hard to explain but basically you would stick a (e.g. black) layer between the armchair pic and the icons and set its opacity to maybe 20-25% so it becomes semi-transparent. It just gives a bit of contrast and helps the icons step out. If you look at the industrial cleaning co in my sig (no plug) the navigation bar is the same as the banner image with this effect so it stands out a bit more.
2. I can't draw either
I got a stock icon set and Alan added a couple to it for me.
If you come across any suitable icon sets please let me know.
Will have a look but most decent ones are commercial with licence.
3. I'm considering removing those blocks completely, as I don't want the main page to scroll as much as it does.. Thoughts?
Maybe but downside is you loose the refreshing content and page becomes static. You could bang the login up into the banner or search bar? It takes up a fair bit of real estate there. Opening paragraph really needs to be resized and emphasized - maybe a background color or something to draw attention.
4. Which unordered lists do you mean? The only ones I can see are the ones in the two blocks on the main page.
Yep there the ones - if you're getting rid of those sure it doesn't matter.
5. Which items?
Opening paragraph
top 10
news
sub-categories? You could also highlight these with an icon/arrow/>> (can never remember the html code &187; or something)
Any reason why you dont carry the green theme into the page proper? Page could do with a bit more colour maybe? Unless you are hoping to keep only one main contrast - between page and adsense
Thanks for the feedback so far
