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  1. That's a great point. It's not just you who is responsible for delivering on time, it's the client delivering on time as well. Quite regularly clients don't keep to timeframes and every time they do this it can add a lot of extra time and pressure to a project. One way you can try to get around this is to have a key contact for the project who can make quick (i.e. same day) decisions on things, rather than have a problem go around the houses which can often add days for a decision to be made. Of course you may hit a difficult issue that can't be easily answered there and then, in cases like these you need to agree resolution within a set time period, e.g. 24/48 hours. If you have to wait for their weekly "committee meeting" to get an answer that's a sure sign the project will overrun.
  2. For this sort of build I'd split the project into core milestones, where the client pays for completed work when each milestone is completed and signed off. Where you have milestone that can vary enormously on time/cost get the client to sign off on a detailed specifications list, this will help you work out an estimate and offer the client a minimum and worst case price. Any work over and above the agreed specs charge at your hourly rate. Of course your aim is to bring this milestone in below the worst case price so the client thinks they're getting extra value! Larger projects often suffer from scope creep where clients start wanting extra changes or work over and above what's been agreed. The more detail you have for the site specs before the build stage the better, anything outside of the specs you change extra for.
  3. None that I know of. It's better to use actual language names rather than flags - the main reason being the same language can be spoken in multiple countries. Also a country like Canada uses English and French so what language would you use with the Canadian flag?
  4. Dark grey text on dark background is very hard to read. Footer links look correct in source code but aren't clickable, though you can tab through to them and action each of them. Limiting logins to Google/Facebook is a no no for me, provide a 1st party login for people who don't use those services. No option to reject cookies and tracking, that's a huge red flag as far as I'm concerned. I am very surprised you haven't proof read your text copy. On your Privacy page....
  5. Have you tried the Xara support forums? I found two threads that mention that error: https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?77940-error-message-and-incomplete-page&highlight=3621.k.no.ad https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?76167-New-Template-Crashes-upon-first-change&p=571757#post571757 Other than that have you contacted Xara support?
  6. Yep it's unlikely anyone will want to be involved with a "large" project with no payment. A better way of approaching this would be to write a business plan, get some quotes, then go to a bank to get a business loan to fund your venture.
  7. Do a web search for "background textures" there are oodles of them.
  8. Blisk browser - https://blisk.io - can do that for you,
  9. Why are you using an image editing tool? Design your mockups in HTML and CSS.
  10. Recreate it in HTML, you can then make it responsive and accessible to everyone. Also as it would be vanilla HTML you could even package it up for distribution to view offline. When I used to do pitches for web contracts I always used HTML documents 😀
  11. Welcome to the forums I've built a few similar type of sites over the years using ExpressionEngine or Craft CMS's, generally where site members have various levels of access, i.e. "Free" (limited set of videos), "Basic" (selected range of videos) and "Premium" (all videos). Vimeo is a good option for protected videos, they allow you to control where your videos are accessed, i.e. only via your web site domain name or IP address. That way you can restrict access behind a paywall or login. Any decent web developer should be able to help you, perhaps do a search for people local to you so you can meet face to face if needed. I'd always recommend writing up a complete list of specifications you need.
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