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4 Responses to “About”

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   dave prescott said

   August 4, 2006 at 11:00 am

   nice site but your menu text (top) is damn hard to read!

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   chdot said

   August 4, 2006 at 11:20 am

   yeah sorry, WordPress made some changes yesterday that have messed things up I hope it will get sorted or else I’ll have to use a different template

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   chdot said

   August 4, 2006 at 1:58 pm

   Gone for “striped black” – less colourful but probably more readable

   Now do I put the Nav Bar ‘buttons’ back in alphabetical order??

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   Patsy James said

   August 10, 2006 at 10:27 am

   What about adding a bit of space or a line between the 2 lines of the navbar, as it looks a bit messy the way it is.

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