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I dont see a problem with Google self - it shows your website as you've said. Not sure why one of .swf appears (though nowadays Google does follow links in Flash content as well so may be this is a reason). On the other hand, if you use Flash for the website, embed it using swfobject. It will give you an oppotunity, besides all, to add alternative, accessible ( to everyone) content. Also, add doctype and use no tables while embedding ( you'll find full correct code if you follow the link I gave). You didnt ask for it but just some feedback: If you link to .pdf file from your Flash, let visitors know about it: some .pdf content is not accessible for everybody. The links ( and navigation in general) in your Flash content should stand out - make them as a buttons or at least use underlined text. So in all, make your Flash website as accessible as possible. And of course, if you have not much animation, consider making HTML website and include some Flash content if you really need to.

it will be great - this thread will be at the top of their google search

can you report them somewhere ( like google or yahoo) together with contacting ISP about this report? Also, discuss ripp off on all social network available reporting their link. Hopefully it will get into their Google results and they will not like it.

Technical part - absolutely. We need to get you to the level of coding as for 2009 ( for now it still like it is on the level 15 years back). It will improve not only your own website but potentially also websites of your clients. As you have an experience in HTML, all you need is to learn how to build up an layout using minimal mark up (minimal amount of tags) and study CSS to the level which give you a freedom to style this tags the way it is needed. So If you keen to learn I would suggest - go through w3schools tutorials on CSS; Make your own CSS template following, for example this tutorial Read about semantics and accessibility, starting off with Molly's article and then accessiblity forum I reckon it all will take just couple of days ( if not hours) to get into it. And of course ask your questions here in forum.

Now I will try to make a list - may be it will help you. Your present site is in a root directory now with the address: ww w.yourdomain.com [*]create a new folder in this root directory , called 'test', it will have an address ww w.yourdomain.com/test [*]copy all your present website in this folder - all files and folders it consists of. Now the "test" folder is your test field for all new stuff. [*]after you made your changes, upload this 'test' folder to the server. Now everybody, to whom you give the address ww w.yourdomain.com/test , will see the changes you've made. Hope it will help you.

You can try this tutorial - it will give you an idea on how create your own CSS template from mockup (image of your layout). Once you done it, it will be easy to code any layout using the same approach, just changing CSS.

Some of quotes are indeed from the forum ( as of "all_jelly_no_toast" and few others). I thought that it would be a pity if they get lost. At one point they (together with the cup of coffee) made my day And I would support the idea of Killersites collection if we will vote on it.

Nice link Susie, I especially like comments to this article By the way, for a while now I have experimental QOTD page on my blog, some of quotes are witty but all are awesome.

most of them are stanalone programms but there also FF addon and some online tools: such as Vischeck and colorblind webpage filter.

Sorry LSW, I'm not sure I follow- what do you mean by it? These tools or double posting?

May be it is indeed rather the thread for Accessibility (or both for Photoshop - as we often make mock up in it choosing right color palette)

it is better not to mess up with hover state much in your menu bar - just give it some other color or underline it. May be for some fancy layout you can use in CSS: font-style: italic; or, if you go for extreme look - you can use images for menu bar as it is described in here

to "myDownfall": not it is not especially if you hang around web design forum and ask for help. Please read this thread for further explanation. to moderators: can you make a thread "Why should I validate" sticky in Beginners forums (thought it was already sticky with this title somewhere but cannot find it now).

I hold 3 language versions on my small website and the only way to manage content is to use php includes sets (so in al one folder with includes per each language): for example: english-folder: header.php content.php footer.php otherlang-folder: header.php content.php footer.php And then php script is used to organize index.php from those includes. If you decide that Spanish version is a home page, use includes from the second folder, and create index-en.php which will appear when your click on this magic button. The problem with multilingual website is that once you build it, you (or the website owner) must do its regular (and preferably adequate) updates for each language and this is really become too much work to manage. It is all possible of course but depends on how organized the content is, how often updates are needed and how much time/money are spent on updates. For small website like mine, to support few languages, the script from this article serves ok but I suppose you can (and may be should consider to) adapt some CMS for both languages if you build bigger website.

however daunting it might sound, when you experiment with opacity, try to write inline styles for your "opacity" divs first( for example): This black text has 50% opacity applied and then, if possible move them into external stylesheet: Also, try this source , may be you'd get some ideas for your fix.

seems like you havent read sticky posts beforehand so better do it, comply with forum rules and then get your reviews.

I also think that this thread is rather for twitter, blog or some music profiles sites. Of course in open forum we can clash on music tastes but not by posting 1 song per post Forums database will collapse.

I keep the playlists on a music blog sidebar as there often new good music websites ( though with quite different lifetime value) to choose from. The most stable are last.fm ( which I like for decent radio- "type a tag in and listen" formula) and radioblogclub.

And of course in Google you can find all sorts of advices on this. There is even reputation defender website with rather same advices which we already wrote about.

In any case there should be scripts with login system and download possibilities. there are plugins for any CMS ( for WP there is plenty for sure) with similar features.

you can to promote by adding blog and using other social networking - such as forums, YouTube, Twitter and so on.

well, you can open an account on any free hosting and upload your test page. It will spare us a time to help you fix your code right away. I have an account on freewebs but if you just make old forum search you'll find a few other good ones.

The first 3 I would look into (though may be you already did) - basecamp, google(doc and all that goodness) and dropbox. If those cant help, I can look in my bookmarks on tools later on.

not sure what are you trying to do, so can you post a link to your test page and tell us what to you mean by: The reason we always ask for url for your test page is that it always necessary to take into acount all your CSS, not just part of it. Also a tip: when you read maxdesign tutorials - while in Firefox, always look into full source code of a page you are on for exact CSS of each example. The same you can do with your test page. Open it in Firefox ( have you got a developer bar plugin installed?) . If you got it, click CSS on this bar and then Edit CSS ( or view CSS if you want to just view CSS file) - now you can edit CSS properties and see the result.

Could be, but with CSS - if you went through w3schools for basics of CSS and maxdesign for semantic mark up and styling, all you need is - practicing with test CSS templates keeping in mind modern ( as of 2009) browsers charts: in 4 years we "happily" got IE7 which now pushing away IE6 (with some revolutionary efforts of some designers:D). All use of CSS based on browsers support, bugs and all that. So in all, don't buy this old book on CSS, there are plenty of new ones.