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Hi, Chrisber, actually that is intentional. It is a flexible layout, meaning it’s designed for 1024* but will accommodate 800* users as well.

When at 800*, the side boxes should drop to the bottom and then fill the space evenly(this was a bitch to get right!).

It does look funky if you’re re-sizing your window, but if you’re just running full screen at 800×600 the site at least accommodates you without scrollbars. If you running 1024×768 or larger then you get the design the way it was intended. This was important since we wanted/needed the space for the content, but yet we know our audience still contains lots of older users who’re running less than ideal equipment. (We’re also supporting back to IE 5.5)

In fact, the layout should funtion identically in IE 5+, 6, 7, 8, Firefox, and Safari. (If anyone see differently, please let me know)

Anyways, thanks for looking! 😎

Ok, I have re-thought the methodology a bit more, and decided that the route I was going was not ideal – moshu made a great point – and so now I have re-done things to be based on categories now.

The only thing I don’t like is that I get an extra section in my url structures now – when linking from the “wp_list_categories” based menu – while the actual urls are next to the root domain – toddlambert.com/edition10/

So I have both toddlambert.com/editions/edition10/ and toddlambert.com/edition10/

I don’t thing that should raise any issues with duplicate content penalties.. but who knows.

Lastly, I have not found a good method for keeping just the last 5 categories listed for navigation. Using “wp_list_categories” there is no “limit=” so for now, I have to hand-code, using “exclude=” which totally sucks.

Hmm.. thanks ladydelaluna.

That’s kinda how I am doing it now.. I actually have a custom template, which calls a seperate sidebar.php file for each product line. And then inside of that, I am using the structure I outlined above, to segment each product category by it’s intended market (automotive, casino, etc…)

This just seems horribly inefficient – There should definitely be a way to group pages and sub pages together.

Using WP as a CMS is frustrating, because it is soooo close to working the way you need it, but then minor issues such as this come up, and question your use of it at all.

Oh well, maybe WordPress 3.

Thanks again.

Thanks guys… I appreciate the looks/remarks!

I thought about the spacers for the breadcrumbs… you have a good point.. I will try it both ways again, and see which works out better. The way that you suggest is definitely more typical, so people may be more inclined to accept them that way.

joelwalsh, there is a “contact” link on the main menu, and there is a “Request Demo” in two other places, on every page of the site. One of my motivations in this redesign was to get people to the “action” item (in this case contacting us for more information), quicker. Can you elaborate on your thoughts of this, I am very curious about your remarks and wonder if maybe I need to make things stand out a bit more.

Thanks again for your input, I definitely appreciate it.