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For me personally, I don't get into blogging or social networking or whatever due to that I don't really have the time. Nevertheless, I can give you my first impression....it didn't impress me nor did it grab my interest to look into it further. The header/logo is okay but could use some visual improvments. It just doesn't appeal to me. Not sure why you would change the home header to a different header for the inside pages. The blog page doesn't even match your main site. People like consistancy once they land on your site so they don't have to guess where the menu is at or wonder if they are on the same site or not. Code, although you did use divs for the layout, you didn't use any heading or paragraph tags. Bold tags are out and so you should use . I could have missed it but I didn't see where you defined a font-family because the font is inconsistant throughout. I don't think this concept is anything new but keep in mind that I just don't get into that stuff much. However, this doesn't mean that you should stop or move on. It just basically telling you that you still got work to do. I do like the title/domain and the motto/tag line.

I think resizing down will work. Nah! There is no reason for it. I just think the icon is a bit much. Maybe move it to the top of the left column? Keep in mind that my suggestions are just my opinions. What you have is pretty good. What looks good to one person may not apply to another.

You got my vote. It's still pretty early in the voting. Blessings.

One thing I don't like is the shopping cart in the upper right. Although I understand that you are catering to various currency, I would move it to the left column sandwich between the search box and the categories box. Preferrably this shopping cart will not be visible until someone adds an item to it or when they are logged in. If you decide to leave at the top, try adjusting the shopping basket to be much smaller. I don't like the 'Add This' bookmarklet icon located at the top. I really think it should be moved over to the bottom of the left column. I don't see any link I can click on to find out about the company or the website. About Us would be nice. You can then rewrite the home page intro to be a flash providing sales and specials info. You can find one similar to what I have done here. I don't see a logo yet but I do hope that it does indeed matches the site's theme. Overall, it looks nice but the key here is how it's going to appeal or attract visitors once the logo is added. What shopping cart software are you using?

You are really not giving us much to go on. You need to provide more details with the specific code or url you are having trouble with.

That's not unusual. I was paid $800 deposit to do some rework on their existing website. Half is refundable if they decided to part ways. Well, they parted ways and I don't know where they went or how to get a hold of them. You would think they would want the refund but it has been two years and not a word from them.

Better. Not fond of the page curl at the lower right. It looks like you should be able to click to open a page. If this is not your intent then you will need to either remove it or just give a slight curl much like a paper curl after it's been lifted up a few times. The plus side is you are creating your mockup first before coding it. Looking forward to seeing your code work.

Conditional comments is not enough for IE6 or earlier. You will need a bit of javascript and a bit more of css than what you have now. Son of Suckerfish menu You can search for Suckerfish menu for other possibilities.

More like a lecturer because a politician requires to be political correct so that it doesn't upset everyone.

No offence but you might to post the url because what you may have might have some serious issues where the code I provided will not work. However, to answer you question, basically add this div#wrap { margin: 0 auto;} to the css file and then in the HTML you would add the following at the beginning and the end of the body code: all other html code between here

Pretty nice. The only things I see is that the footer and the main body do not seem to have the same width. In other words, the footer text (far left and far right) do not line up with the header left/right edge. The other is that there is still too much white space.

Simply figure what your time is worth per hour and then determine hour many hours it took you to complete the website design project. You would then divide the total amount paid for the project by the total hours you've put into it. If the results is under the amount you think you are worth per hour then you didn't get paid enough. Your Time Value Per Hour = A Total Hours Spent On Project = B Total Amount Paid By Client= C C divide by B shoud = A A times B should = C C divide by A should = B

You seem to enjoy some aspect of multimedia and communications but you would like to obtain more skills. This doesn't mean you have to get a masters to learn everything there is to know about it. Google serves quite well as a college substitute as far as obtaining information. I personally know of four people that are in the web/graphic design business and all are doing quite well. Only one has a BA. Do I think getting a master is a waste of time? It is if you have no plans to make a career in multimedia/communications. And as for your family and friends comments, yes, do what you love to do and then build on it. Of course I don't know about finding a rich guy and marrying him. Being rich doesn't provide happiness.

Run any version of IE on the same machine: IE Collection

No two clients are alike and so when they say they are ready it doesn't mean they are for a variety of reasons. It's ideal to have 3-4 projects going so that way if a client or two is slow to respond to the things you require attention to then you can work on the other projects while you are waiting on them. Basically, if you really want to keep a tight schedule then you can give your clients a specific deadline to deliver the info that you require to get your job done in a timely manner. You also indicate that if they don't meet the deadline then their project will be pushed back thus you give them a new deadline for them to deliver the info you require. If they want the job finished yesterday but they are the one that caused the delays then you can stipulate a new billable rate to give priority over the other. In most cases, clients know they have delayed the project and are willing to make adjustments to a new deadline. The other suggestion is to schedule your projects further apart so it will not take up too much of your time with your family (like me). The other option is to raise your rate. You produce quality work and if you are in demand then maybe a new rate will wean out the little jobs that might take up too much of your time. This was the case with me. I had serveral clients that wanted stuff done at my low rate that I given them when I first did the project. I have since raised my rate because I just don't have the time to do jobs at that former rate. Sure I lost a few but most of them I was able to retain at my new rate. Of course my suggestion above is something that works for me but it might not be ideal for you.

If this is your first site then it's not too bad but you already know that you want to make it better. First thing you can do is validate your site. Secondly, start learning the proper use HTML and CSS. You are using tags which is deprecated (not valid or is superceded by another tag and the old tag should be avoided) You have no character encoding. You need to start using HTML 4.01 Strict DocType. Remove inline styles and put them into the CSS file. Use divs/CSS for layout instead of tables. Start coding by hand and don't use WYSIWYG editor especially when it comes to checking the page out visually. To test your pages, use Firefox browser. Firefox is a standard compliant browser. IE8 is close behind but it still has some issues. Finally, although not horrible, improve your image editing skills. We are here to help. Don't ask blanket questions but instead ask specific questions for each post you make. Really take the time to read through this forum and check out the Killersites video tutorials.

Providing the code is ok but since you are using images for your menu it's really hard to vision what you are trying to accomplish exactly but my guess is that you want a horizontal menu that is within the #header in which the #header is set for 250px in height. The problem arises is that the #nav has a height of 76px and a padding-top of 220px; Add those two and the total becomes 296px; That exceeds the #header height. The #logo height is unknown to me and but let's assume it's 100px high and is set for the full width of the #header. That leaves you 150px left to put your #nav in below. If it's going to be 76px in height then the remaining pixels you have left is 74px; You might say; 'But the menu doesn't drop down below the logo', the solution is to add clear: both to the #nav. If this doesn't resolve your problem then you will need to provide a url so we can look at it. One more thing, you have an closing that might cause a problem in which you should remove.

Be sure to use tag appropriately. Proper: Heading One Heading Two relevant for content below relevant content for heading two Heading Three relevant for content below relevant content for heading three The h2 thru h6 heading tags are sub-section titles of the main heading tag (h1) and each should be given a short title for the following content that is relevant to it.

Most templates have flash or images that require certain software to edit them such as Flash or Adobe Flash. Otherwise, you need nothing else other than what was mentioned above to edit the files.

I assume that you have a gap in the menu and that removing the padding-top seems to fix itself. Keep in mind that when using padding you have to consider it along with the height (or width) of your div. Example: If you have a div that is 100px high and you give it a padding-top:20px, it will actually end up being 120px high. Same applies to width. So if you use padding-top: 20px then you need to adjust the height from 100px to 80px. 80px + 20px = 100px. Doing it this way will not require you to use Conditional Comments.

Typically, you would have a div wrapped around the entire code and give it margin: auto to align it to the middle or center. div#wrap { margin: 0 auto;} Of course there are other possible issues if this doesn't work in which we will then need to look at the site itself.

tags are not the same as tags. The will only fill the width of what's inside the tags and so there is no way for it to align center. You can do 1 or 3 things: 1. Just use a tag with a class defining the styles you desire. 2. Just wrap a tag around the existing tag and give the tag a text-align: center. (Makes more sense to use option #1). or 3 Add display:block to the tag css. The will force the to be the full width of whatever div it resides in. Keep in mind that the tag is not a block element but instead an inline element.

Hi All, I have client that may decide to use Drupal in the near future but I really don't have time to learn another tool/software and so I am looking for anyone that is a forum regular that has good experience with Drupal. If so, PM me. Again, I will only accept forum regulars that has made the minimum of 200 posts on this site.

Templates are okay but you really want to be able to create sites from scratch and define your way of coding that benefits you. I for one detest templates because it seems that some of the coding are off the wall or unneccassry. Does it mean it's bad? No but to me it's takes me longer to figure out what the codes are before I can really get to work on it. However, templates can a great learning tool to help you see how and why it was coded the way it was. If you find a template you like, why not take a snapshot of the demo and then splice out your own images, add some uniqueness to it and code it using your method of coding. That way you are familiar with the code and updating will come easy. I believe in the CSS forum we have a standard CSS file that has the basic default settings. It's very good and can make your task a bit simpler once you get familiar with it.

You gave a color style for the table but if you have another one that is for the cell, then that will supercede the table. Example: .signupframe {color: blue;} (this class is assigned to the table) td {color: black;} (this will supercede the above code) This is the same for font, background, etc. So you will need to specify it precisely by adding td to the class that you have. However, you may have some styles that is specifically for the table itself and so you might want to just add this new style just below the one your have: .signupframe td { color: #00baff; font-family: trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; } You can then remove color, font-family and font-size from your original class but it's not going to hurt if you leave it there.