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In addition to my last post, one thing you should always include in your contract/agreements is that you should make the url seo friendly. You can find several good SEF mods for Joomla that will work. If you are using Joomla 1.5, you can simply turn on the rewrite and modify a line or two of the .htaccess file. I think it will be good business for you to offer that to them free of charge. Still, they need content and that's their responsibility.

Yeah...my wife has been hacking all day and she says that she only needs crackers. Oh? I forgot that this is not a medic forum. NEVERMIND!

This is the part of business that no one likes but it's going to happen. Most can usually be worked out but their are some that are just a pain to deal with. What you can do is offer up a suggestion on how to get more content on their website. They won't admit that they made a mistake but sometimes if you give them a good example on how to get started by demonstrating how to do one of the pages you might end up with a satisfied client and possibly generated more revenue in the process.

Where have I heard that before? Now what am I to say to him... that is unfair! What? :/ You said that? Really? Ha! I do remember hearing/reading that a few weeks ago. Maybe it was that old grand webmaster on this forum?

I never used plogger but I found that Gallery2 fits nicely for any sites that requires a gallery.

Well, I looked at that site and yes it looks nice but Thelma hit the nail on the head that it is severely lacking content. A picture is worth a thousand words to human eyes but it's worth nothing to search engines. If you have given them this information at the beginning or even during the project and they didn't want to foot the bill to do the SEO then you can wipe your hands clean of their negligence. For any serious business owner that wants to sell online needs to make some kind of commitment to SEO whether they hire someone or they do it themselves.

No..no..nooo. You just can't do that. This will certainly upset the customer in which they might start giving bad reports to friends, associates, etc. He can state all the work he has done but he has already done the work with the agreed price. You just can't come back months later and say.."Oh...by the way, I forgot to bill you for this stuff." especially if the contract/agreement has been completed. I do not know the full extent of this store using Joomla but if you are not careful you can leave many remnants of the word "Joomla" or credits which could appear in Google/Yahoo. This also includes any components or modules. As a web designer, I would provide your client all the resources they need to help improved their sites ranking. The way I do it is that I have a set of url bookmarks to SEO sites that has tips, tutorials and even software download. I just zip the bookmarks together and email them to my clients. Normally this should be done when the project begins but sometime it helps to send them at the end of the project as well.

Your brain. No software is going to build a good site unless you have AT LEAST the basic knowledge of HMTL and CSS. Having some graphic design skills is helpful to. Software like Expression Web or Dreamweaver are like Notepad on steroids. It's going to perform many nice functions but it's not going to build a site for you unless you understand the basic fundementals of web code. A hammer does not build a house but giving the hammer to a skilled carpenter can.

Nice article. What about doing non-profit websites? Some developers will charge a low fee or pro-bono. Is there some kind of write-off for work rendered at less than your going hourly rate?

Do you have your website online that you are wanting to implement the design to WP? Basically, I would take one of the existing html pages and gut out all the contents on the main area of the page and then use the remaining code for your header and footer. It really is easy but like you a few years ago, I was a bit confused how to approach it.

Yes. Just rename the url to point to the blog. As for header links remain intact, you must add the code from your actual site into WP's header and footer pages so that it renders just like your main site. Here is one example I have done: Main site and here's the blog site Naturally, you will probably have to adjust the WP header/footer links so that it all connects correctly (i.e. images, hyperlinks, css style sheets, etc).

You would edit the header/footer php files via WP admin area. Within that same area you can edit the stylesheet for WP to match. You are not limited to just the header or footer portion of your design but you can literally wrap your entire design around WP.

Susie, what does the exported data look like? I have taken a few of them from online stores (one being GoDaddy store) and imported with very little problems. Basically you just need to cater the definitions to match the new store and maybe remove unwanted columns . As stated by another, you should look into the new ecommerce software to see if they have a method of importing another store's data.

It's really sad that most of the users still uses IE and yet it has the worst support for current and upcoming technologies. When is MS going to catch up?

We've used thickbox on this site but not as a carousel but as a method of customizing a system. Just click on 'LET US FIND THE SWEETEST SYSTEM FOR YOU' just to the right of the logo.

Get rid of all the margins you've posted and add this to your CSS: #wrap { width: 900px; margin: 0 auto; } You HTML will be something like this: ---all your other html/content goes here--- Of course you can adjust the CSS for the #wrap to reflect the width you desire.

I think you forgot to mention that Orville Reddenbacher popped in.

Oh!! Goodie!!! That is the only Browser that allows scrollbar colouring. Ugg! From a user's perspective, I don't mind styled scrollbars within the HTML content. What I don't like is when it messes with my browser's default scrollbar.

This has been explained to you but your code is not showing the changes that was given to you. You incorrectly placed class="first_menu" within a tag. It should be move to the cell of the first menu: [/b] The class="second_menu" is in the correct location and so you don't have to change anything there. You didn't even adjust the CSS to have each class name assigned to the styles that you want to adjust. In your CSS you must assign .first_menu to each of the link call out you wish to change. This is how your CSS code looks like now: You need to assign .first_men to a:link, a:visited, a:hover, and a:active like this: .first_menu { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #CCCCCC; } .first_menu a:link { text-decoration: underline; } .first_menu a:visited { text-decoration: underline; color: #CCCCCC; } .first_menu a:hover { text-decoration: none; color: #FFFFFF; } .first_menu a:active { text-decoration: underline; color: #CCCCCC; } The same thing applies for the .second_menu of the CSS.

Google is your best friend. Just search for CSS Tutorials. Meanwhile, you can check out Killersites tutorials.

Trying to fix up an old site can be time consuming and confusing. Keep the site as is and build a new one from scratch using divs and css. Just post here when you have an issue in trying to get things to work.

You can acheive that using Wordpress. However, one of two things will have to happen. 1. You will need shrink the image in the main blog content area so you can allow a side column or; 2. You will need to widen your site by about 160-180px so you have room for the side column.

Looks like some kind of script that is generating that menu. This is the code that I suspect is produced: What a mess.

If you want your Wordpress blog to look like your regular site design then you basicaly define the portion of your code to be a header and a footer. It's really easy. I have done about 3-4 businesses that uses Wordpress that displays seamlessly with the entire site. What is your url of the site design that you would like to implement?

You may want to check into about accessibility for those that have disabilities which might limit their ability viewing flash. As a prepartory school, sooner or later you may find yourself at odds with those that demands your site to be is accessible.