Well, Your suggestion looks pretty pro, as in its smart aesthetically pleasing!

this is what I've done since posting V2:

http://www.lakescot.co.uk/default.htm

It's not finished. I think a custom google search is a good suggestion, I was looking into that a bit last night too.

Also I'm planning on fixing up the colours a bit more, fixing up boxes/headers for the body text etc etc etc

The idea of forms is something I have never tried. It would be useful to be able to do surveys and eventually we plan to have an online ordering system, but I think its a couple of steps off of that atm.

TBH I think the graphics could be improved a lot. I was finding the whole css/xhtml thing dead INTERESTING last night. 

you need to get rid of the bullet points in the menu, center the logo and increase the horizontal and bottom padding of the text in the content box.

Ricky, your second version looks awful, to be honest. The menu is hardly legible (not enough contrast), the text runs against the borders, the logo text is horrible and your choice of colors is bad. 

I name classes and ids depending on their purpose. Dunno what's not semantic about a listing with fixed narrow width named "narrowlisting".

Ricky: Eeeeek, the colors! 

Naming classes - a bit like naming entities in Quake. You can either call them something obvious like "grunt_balcony_1" or use your imagination and call them something like "evilzombiefucker" or "coldshit" or "frederick" or whatever...

What does semantic mean?

Also I fixed the company logo on the bottom right corner of the screen too!

Heh - I'll give another heads up when its a bit prettier! 

Does anybody use anything other than just notepad to script web-pages? I mean I've looked at stuff like NVU but found it over complicated things for me (personally) 

I use Eclipse, but that's because I use it for other things as well. Probably overkill for just HTML/CSS. 

narrowlisting does not convey information about the contents of the element, only about the styling, which you want to seperate out of the html in the first place.

id="article" is a nice semantic name. 

I disagree. You cannot generalise that.
If you have a very distinct website where every element has it's unique place then such semantic names are nice.
If you have a more random site with different stuff here and there then it might be a good idea to name the styles after how they end up looking like.
In other words if I might want to re-use a certain style with some completely different content, then I would be a dumbass to give it a "content" name.

In the end it all comes down to what YOU feel works best for YOU. 

... an attribute :P 

This is me from Human Head. Getting all set up and what not. Cheers. 

lol now zwiffle will be fired

Or at the very least blocked from surfing on the job. 

hurray 

I'm very surprised that nobody thought about opening a sex thread, as this forum is full of pervert... :P 

What does semantic mean?

Semantics is the study of the meaning of words. 

. . . use your imagination and call them something like "evilzombiefucker" or "coldshit" or "frederick"

That's pretty much what I do, just to avoid giving things the same name by accident.

Imaginative or stupid . . . not sure ;) 

can't wait to see your addition here:

http://www.humanhead.com/headcount_bios.html

It looks like a sausage factory, though. If I was that one chick there I would start every morning
out playing the tune, Its Raining Men, because I would have all the sexy hunks at Human Head all to myself. 

if you are on the level design team keep an eye on your boss:

http://www.humanhead.com/bios/dhalsted.html

From his pic there, he looks like a certain temperate, Australian actor. Just watch out for the flying phones, all I'm sayin'. 

I probably meant the word 'temperamental' but too tired to care. Must be all the push ups. 

convince them to do a Rune 2 please. 

We'll have to link to it on the "Who are these people?" thread!

:D 

I think you need more gif animations. A page is boring to look at if nothing moves. Blinking text would rock too. 

If my boss had hunting as his first hobby and "If I Did It" as his favorite book then... 

...OK, getting somewhere with it now:

http://www.lakescot.co.uk/default.htm

(For those who think this is computergame related/interesting, er, its not)

? 

...sucks the sweat from a dead horse's phallus.

Why do they think they have the right to screw around with things like padding?

Why doesn't the most popular browser support things like opacity?

And the rest... 

welcome to the wonderful world of webdesign.


That new look is much better. I would get rid of everything right of the text (the cow and the bottom logo), make it fixed width and horizontally center it.
And in the navigation the backgroundcolor is too aggressive. Maybe simply use the color from the rest of the page.
You are still using the Eras Demi ITC font that no-one has.