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Photo by George Guille, It's going to be a long 300km... Bolivian Amazon

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It's going to be a long 300km...
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Hi, I think the site is very pretty and i lave the look of it. AND I wish i could do things like that but i cant and cant be bothered to learn java or html..

However I do have two negative thing (but hopefully helpful): I am running it on a laptop (screen size 14 inch) and the display text size was very small almost impossible to read (I would guess 6 point), and the interface only took up about 1/2 my screen (I run firefox btw, if that makes a difference). So it made it hard to read, I dont know how you can /or if you want to but make the text adaptable to different screen sizes.

2 I played around for a while and could not find a few of the links (the page did not turn for me) so i gave up. I would maybe make a navigation box that makes things easier to surf around. I was told that in todays net world if a punter need more then 2 seconds to find what they are looking for they will give up, and i guess this is kinda true for me..

Other then that keep up the good work..

Also good choice on the XT .. I have one myself.. although it dont look like it any more..http://www.xrv.org.uk/photopost/data...m/AlexBike.JPG
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Like the look alot. It has a real adventure feel to it. It did take me a bit of time to figure out how to turn the pages(too small) of the book. Perhaps just a click would be better, although I did enjoy opening the pages by drag.
The bag drop could have fortune cookie sayings as a suggestion.
Great job just perhaps a little simpler.
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Thanks Matt - always good to be complimented by a 'techy' - since I shamelessly pirate & hack all my script and hope my good design dazzle the techy's into thinking I know what I'm doing!



I'm working on white pages - so hang in there!

As far as ee's are concerned - Where' planning a special surprise for clever boys... in due course! LOL!
Hey looking forward to the surprise!

The IP thing is still a problem for me to see the site in work, but at home it's working fine.... how are you pointing the DNS to the IP? It may be worth hanging the IP off a Nameserver first, which may avoid the problems.

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Hi, I think the site is very pretty and i lave the look of it. AND I wish i could do things like that but i cant and cant be bothered to learn java or html..

However I do have two negative thing (but hopefully helpful): I am running it on a laptop (screen size 14 inch) and the display text size was very small almost impossible to read (I would guess 6 point), and the interface only took up about 1/2 my screen (I run firefox btw, if that makes a difference). So it made it hard to read, I dont know how you can /or if you want to but make the text adaptable to different screen sizes.

2 I played around for a while and could not find a few of the links (the page did not turn for me) so i gave up. I would maybe make a navigation box that makes things easier to surf around. I was told that in todays net world if a punter need more then 2 seconds to find what they are looking for they will give up, and i guess this is kinda true for me..

Other then that keep up the good work..

Also good choice on the XT .. I have one myself.. although it dont look like it any more..http://www.xrv.org.uk/photopost/data...m/AlexBike.JPG

Okay now it is so big that i cant see more then a 1/3 of the screen.. is this my computers fault?

I remembered last night what it reminds me of and that is Micheal palin's Sahara opening..
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