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Just use a Content Management System like Drupal or Joomla etc. : CMS (Content Management System) : Accessibility Otherwise if you want to have it on Unix, PHP. If Windows, C# and .NET would be better. Then MySQL for the database, MySQL language for MySQL Database, or SQL if you use a an SQL Database. MySQL is a derivitive of SQL so learning SQL would help with MySQL if you go that route.

I can't really imagine how. What if they have more than one? I have around 27, from throw away to real accounts and one for things such as this, how will you catch the one I want you to use? I would say let them fill it out themselves so they can choose what to use.

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ROFL - Well as said ideally no. But that said there is the ls saying, I think we have a version in English, but the German's say "The Cobler's children go bare foot". That is to say that the Cobler/shoemaker is so busy making shoes for customers, he has no time to make shoes for his own family. When I was freelance that was how it was. Now that I no longer do web design... I am still using the temporary template I took for WP. now I am to busy programming or spending time off the computer at home. Ideally it is not good, but realistically... most designers will recognize the truth... customers? Hard to say.

Like some of the SEO experts we get here. Titles are grand: An employee testifying today was told that the expert in "Forensic Accounting" As a Bodyguard I was a "Executive Protection Agent" As a garbage man for the Army I was a "Sanitation Engineer" and now of course Analyst/Programmer III But the best is the FCC calling airplane crashes "Controlled Flight into Terrain"

It depends on the host really. Last time I switched My host (kuala-hosting.com) simply moved my entire site to their servers. If you have a copy or you can run a backup to the site and upload that yourself to the new host. You will also have to enter your domain name provider to point your domain to the new hosts servers. Again they may be able to do that for you, or you can do it yourself and your new host will give you the info. It can take up to 72 hours before the net starts pointing to the new servers so you want your old site up through that time. Mine usually did not take that long.

How about not using JavaScript? Anyone with JS off will not see it. Anyone navigating without a mouse will not see it as JS does not support key focus and mouse over at the same time. Using CSS you could make it work with Keyboard and mouse. As a University project it should be accessible to students and staff and student families with disabilities. Your university should have a disabilities office, I know Alaskas University does, get in touch with them for testing it. Aside from CSS you could try using Ajax (which is JS based, but better than vanilla JS), it already has built in controls for such things. As for the text spacing, did you use CSS?

IE 6 is a zombie, dead but does not know it and runs around eating hapless web sites. It is "standards Impaired" to be politically correct. What did Satan do to you to deserve being brought into conjunction with it. Besides you know what all those web developers in Hell have to design for right? IE5 and below!!!!

Biodegradable servers? I thought of Green as in new... like green horns.

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It is not the tool, it is the brains behind it. A cheap/free graphic editor and a free HTML editor is fine for starts. You need to learn the code first. Alternative Editors for Web Development Free Image Editors

Always trust your gut. You will have clients you cannot make happy or expect allot but want to pay little. You have to be able to say no if your gut is uneasy. Bad clients can ruin your love of web design and you will not do your best work for them so maybe hurt your Portfolio. Always be ready to say no. Those bad clients are never worth the money they pay.

Medic? I thought you had her chopping wood... or hacking at it if she is not very good. Polly want a cracker?

Do I feel another grey hair sprouting... yep, sure enough.

Oh! Twhirl is a AIR application, so made with Adobe Flex that I have been learning.

OH well, sounds like it is on them again and I would say no for all the more reason is a nice diplomatic letter explaining the problems and what needs to be done to improve it.

What terms do they want? Jewelry and they want to be Nr. 1? Hardly and they have to pay Google big bucks. So are their expectations even reasonable for the keywords they are checking for? I have no idea where I am with web design, but look for LSW and I am usually page 1.

You got cracked if anything, not hacked. Hackers are the good guys, hackers are at war with Crackers. You would ask a Hacker to get your site back from a Cracker who took it over to do damage. The press just got the terms mixed up years ago and the Hackers got the raw end of the deal. Hackers only hack sites with the owners permission. Unfortunatly I seem to have lost contact with my Hacker friend who could help you. You could do a search or ask in forums for a Hacker. Then ask them what they do and what a Cracker is. If you get this answer, they are likely serious, if not they are punks who are trying to be.

Where have I heard that before? Now what am I to say to him... that is unfair! A Nail gun does not build a house better than a Hammer, just faster. Dreamweaver is that way, it does not build web sites better, just faster. I do most of my web work on free editors now. Same say with tools, tools will not give you high ranking, money will. Good code and structure will help as will good content. Copy is a ghood niche if your good at it. To many sites get poorer ranking because their copy is bad and not rich enough. Hang around people like you are needed, just do not spam the board, but if someone is looking for it you can offer it.

No, sounds right. Remember, Safari and Firefox Shows you what you wrote. Opera is usually pretty close. IE shows you what you want to see. IE forgives mistakes, the others assume as a web developer you know what your doing and the code is error free, so if it is not, Firefox and C0. show it to you. Don't trust IE, it assumes you an idiot.

Lawyer But I agree, in my position, no, they wanted and original design and I delivered. Search engine placement is as much content as design, maybe they need to improve their content.

OK, thanks. Which one is less obvious at work?

I like some of his music.... or was that Glenn Fry? But you have to be logged onto twitter in a browser right? LSW09 (some one stole my name!!!!! :/)

OK, guess I may have to check it out. I hate fads but if it has some solid use... lord knows I do not keep up with my bookmark bar of blogs anymore.

I would compress the banner, the man and logo, the candy bars etc all onto one layer with the curved lines and trim it as small as possible to those curved lines. Maybe move them closer together, so your target is say 780 pixels big. Then take the red and black section and cut it down to a strip of say 10 - 50px wide and place it as the repeating background. so it tiles across. Now take the logo section and place it as a image above that. Center it in the header box and give it a margin of Margin: 0 auto; , this way it will stay centered and adjust itself to the center of the available space and is always centered until the resolution is under 800 pixels wide, which is now fairly rare. Meanwhile it blends in with the background under it. As for the menu, you could make it part of the image and use a CSS Image map to make the links. If the hot spots are based on the image size, then the image and hot spot will always match. The downside to this is you have to recreate the image every time you wish to add a new menu element or edit them. Be sure to keep an original version and always work on copies. For the image map see: Night of the image map