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1. The requirements are something that the user should be aware of before downloading.  In addition to listing them in the side-bar, maybe it would make sense to duplicate the requirements section from the about page on the download page. Have a sub-section on the Downloads page for "Requirements" with introductory text like "Before downloading, make sure your system can fulfill these requirements."  We can leave the requirements summary in the side-bar too (like you already do), but I just had that thought while looking at it.

Sounds good to me.

2. It would be nice if the screenshots were more prominent.  Since they form a relatively narrow list, do you think it would make sense to put the screenshots in the side-bar, to give the side-bar some more purpose?

Also makes sense to me- perhaps thumbnails in the sidebar than can be clicked to see the full size image?

3. In my version of the site, I actually have a file called NavBar.inc which is included in all the other html files.  They're actually .shtml files so that I don't have to maintain the navigation links independently on each page.  Would it be practical to do the same with these pages to include a common navigation bar, and possibly the portion of the the side-bar that doesn't change?  Details of all the formats supported by SourceForge are at https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Project%20web%20and%20developer%20web%20platform.   Details about shtml format are at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes.  If you don't have a way to test .shtml files, I can probably implement that part myself.

Both the nav bar and the footer are .php files. They are included in every page via a line of php. There is no need for .shtml, Sourceforge supports php. It would be a good idea to make the sidebar an include as well.

4. Now that the "About" information has its own page, I don't think I need the "Important Information" heading.  The sub-headings by themselves will suffice.  I can change that just as easily as you, though (after I get the site).

OK. I'll  remove it.

5. Do you happen to know a good way to automatically include RSS feed/links on a page?  Then I could just have the RSS feed instead of manually adding news links, right?

Yes, I can write a php script to do that. I also have a sort of barebones php-mysql CMS that I wrote for my blog that I could incorporate if you'd rather use that. (functionality for adding, deleting, and editing news entries via an admin panel, automatically updates rss feed)

Also, I just noticed that the bold formatting of the text at the beginning of most of the news items was lost.

I see that, I will fix it.

Hey, it looks nice. I might be interested. Is it easy to learn? Do I need photoshop to create the site?

You'd be best off editing it in photoshop, though Gimp and a few other programs will open and allow you to edit psd files.

Thanks Jam and SmartBoy.

whoops...fergus should be spelled with an s.
http://www.fishbones99.com/fergus.7z

Oh ..damn
I missed it again.
Happy really late (at least it's still January, ..on this side of the dateline..*laughs at Jam0864*) birthday Ben.     

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^^haha, pwnt.^^

Holy smokes - I triple posted here...
*is ashamed of nooby self*
I haven't been on these forums in ages...Viewing these topics makes me want to go start making a new game...

Ugh....Lol.

Does this message come up when you're submitting information through a form on your site? If so, it's because the form 'action' isn't set up right...I don't really know how to do this...But I know it never works with forms that the information isn't run through a different website...(ie. Freewebs form creator send the information to freewebs, who sends it to your email) Don't know how much that made sense, but I hope you get something out of it.

Google Sketch Up is just CAD software. I remember my dad downloaded it once...

I know. I was using UltimateZip to extract and the error was from UltimateZip.