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I've used Joomla a couple of times for projects and found that the easiest way to template is to download a blank or skeleteon theme. They're pretty much all set up, it's just a case of adding your css and html. The following link is for a decent tutorial. It for 1.6, I think some of it comes directly from the 1.5 tutorial but it works in a very similar way. As I said, I'd start with the skeleton theme version as it's a good way to learn and thankfully, Joomla's learning curve isn't all that steep. http://www.compassdesigns.net/joomla-blog/joomla-16-template-tutorial-with-960-grid

Sounds like Wordpress is the way to go but I'll take a peek at Wolf and Perch too. Thanks for the replies, appreciate the help.

I know this is a common question but I haven't found anything that really answers my question. I realise that is probably ambitious without trying a few content management systems myself but hopefully you guys can save me some time by pointing me in the right direction. I've used Joomla, Drupal and ModX before. I didn't really get one with Drupal but it was sometime ago and my PHP is better these days so it might be something to look at again. However, I'm primarily looking for something simple for my clients which is why I'm almost ruling out Joomla and Drupal. Both have a learning curve which isn't great for my clients. What I'm looking for is something simple, lightweight and fast which as I said, would be easy for my clients to use. I do like Joomla but it's s little heavy for what I'm needing. My clients atm, are all individuals or small companies so they don't need massively feature heavy sites. Whereas in the past I was drawn to Joomla for it's ease of use due to the amount of modules available, it's not something I'm really looking for now. So, the most important part is for me to be able to easily extend the CMS with modules of my own. I've looked into this with ModX and found it hugely overwhelming but I haven't looked at any other CMS' for doing this. TL;DR? I'm looking for a CMS which has the following features; Lightweight/Fast Small learning curve/ease of use for clients Easy to extend with my own modules Any suggestions for me to look into would be great.

Excellent, thanks for the link. I'll take a look into this today

I'm looking to pick up a CMS to use and code a site in. I've looked at ModX and it looks like the kind of thing I would like to be using, simply because it seems easy enough to template. I'm planning on digging into this tomorrow but I'm after a couple of features and I'm wondering what CMS would be best for them. I want a forum (SMF or phpBB). I want my users to beable to login and have their information in a sidebar (and stay logged in for the forums etc). I want to try out a wiki type feature, where I can have articles on stuff which my users can then edit and I can moderate. I also want to be able have a blog. I want to be able to do this based around one template which would have two sidebars (on left and one right). The content would then be in the middle container. So the forum/wiki would be between the two sidebars. I'd like the CMS to be easy to template or just give me enough flexibility to create my exact template ie no forced columns/menus etc. I also want to be able to integreate those things above, I'm not too fussed about a learning curve for doing that. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Not sure if this is the right place to post but I'm looking for some inspiration to do a minimal website design. What sites do you think showcase a brilliant minimalistic design?

Sorry, I'm not familiar with php, is there a way to embed this into an already existing XHTML document or would I have to use a HTML version?

Thanks, I'll take a look now.

I'm wondering if any can help me out with making an email contact form. The image attached is what I want the layout to be (it can be styled later). I've seen tutorials on text inputs and fields but I'm not sure how to convert it into an email box. I want the user to fill in the various fields, then it send an email to whatever email is stated. I also want a new window to pop up with a thankyou (new html page) in it Thanks in advance.

I've managed to get the image lined up properly now. I've tried the two methods in the link you posted and it works fine on Firefox and IE but on Opera and Chrome, the footer still slides under some of the content. Any ideas? Thanks for the reply also, it's appreciated

http://www.fmlbadges.com/mantest/index.html I'm trying to do a layout for my site. Now I have a problem with image layout. I'm trying to put the image of the building to the right of the text but for some reason it is only sitting below the text rather than at the side. I've tried floating, absolute positions but can't get it above where it is now. Also, as soon I try to float something, the sticky footer stops working properly. Any content I float, is ignored by the footer which has the effect of the footer going underneath the content. Any help would be appreciated

Thanks for your response. I'm still having a little trouble though. I've input the sticky footer css and html, but I'm still having a little trouble. The footer stops at the end of height (specified in 'center') but if I remove it, the footer just sticks at the top of the browser. Any ideas to fix this? body { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background: url(images/bg.jpg); background-position: top center; text-align: center; } #center { position: relative; width: 750px; height: 848px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } #topbar { position: absolute; left: 3px; top: 0px; width: 743px; height: 5px; } #logo { position: absolute; left: 6px; top: 5px; width: 307px; height: 120px; } #homebutton ul { width: 109px; height: 120px; position: absolute; top: 5px; left: 313px; background: url(images/home.jpg) no-repeat 0 0; list-style: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; } #homebutton li { display: inline; } #homebutton li a:link, #homebutton li a:visited { border: none; width: 109px; height: 120px; display: block; position: absolute; top: 0; text-indent: -7000px; outline: none; } #homebutton li.home a:hover { background: url(images/home.jpg) no-repeat 0 -120px; } #servicesbutton ul { width: 107px; height: 120px; position: absolute; top: 5px; left: 422px; background: url(images/service.jpg) no-repeat 0 0; list-style: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; } #servicesbutton li { display: inline; } #servicesbutton li a:link, #servicesbutton li a:visited { border: none; width: 107px; height: 120px; display: block; position: absolute; top: 0; text-indent: -7000px; outline: none; } #servicesbutton li.services a:hover { background: url(images/service.jpg) no-repeat 0 -120px; } #pricesbutton ul { width: 108px; height: 120px; position: absolute; top: 5px; left: 529px; background: url(images/prices.jpg) no-repeat 0 0; list-style: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; } #pricesbutton li { display: inline; } #pricesbutton li a:link, #pricesbutton li a:visited { border: none; width: 108px; height: 120px; display: block; position: absolute; top: 0; text-indent: -7000px; outline: none; } #pricesbutton li.prices a:hover { background: url(images/prices.jpg) no-repeat 0 -120px; } #contactbutton ul { width: 107px; height: 120px; position: absolute; top: 5px; left: 637px; background: url(images/contact.jpg) no-repeat 0 0; list-style: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; } #contactbutton li { display: inline; } #contactbutton li a:link, #contactbutton li a:visited { border: none; width: 107px; height: 120px; display: block; position: absolute; top: 0; text-indent: -7000px; outline: none; } #contactbutton li.contact a:hover { background: url(images/contact.jpg) no-repeat 0 -120px; } #welcometext { position: absolute; left: 13px; top: 171px; width: 339px; height: 221px; } #topbanner { position: absolute; left: 361px; top: 147px; width: 376px; height: 247px; } #leftbanner { position: absolute; left: 13px; top: 416px; width: 238px; height: 349px; } #middlebanner { position: absolute; left: 257px; top: 416px; width: 234px; height: 349px; } #rightbanner { position: absolute; left: 497px; top: 416px; width: 240px; height: 349px; } html, body, #wrap {height: 100%;} body > #wrap {height: auto; min-height: 100%;} #main {padding-bottom: 62px;} /* must be same height as the footer */ #footer { position: relative; margin-top: -62px; /* negative value of footer height */ height: 62px; clear:both;} /* CLEAR FIX*/ .clearfix:after { content: "."; display: block; height: 0; clear: both; visibility: hidden; } .clearfix { display: inline-block; } /* Hides from IE-mac \*/ * html .clearfix { height: 1%; } .clearfix { display: block; } /* End hide from IE-mac */ .Normal-P0 { margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font-weight: 400; } .Normal-C { font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif; font-size:12.0px; line-height: 1.17em; color:#c0c0c0; }

http://www.fmlbadges.com/mantest/index.html I'm currently trying to build the site linked to above but I have a problem with the way the footer works. I want to make it so that if the resolution is longer than the site, the footer extends (in line with the main content of the site) with the colour #101010 to the bottom of the page. How can I achieve that with the code I already have? Thanks in advance.

Are those just validation errors? If so, I was going to fix them after I got the layout working but thanks for pointing them out. I removed the absolute positioning but like your said, it just messes up my navigation bar. The rollovers don't work on the actual bar but they are lined up underneath.

Brilliant. Thanks for the help guys. I'm still struggling to get the white banner below the navigation bar though, can you give me any pointers to fix that? And also, on the actual site the navigation bar doesn't line up with the other images, even though it does offline. Can you see any reasons for that? Thanks again.

http://www.fmlbadges.com/mantest/home.html I'm going to come across as the noob that I am but still If you goto the above link, you will see my mad layout. I want the white box (who we are) to sit below the navigation bar and I want the three images underneath it to line up horizontally below that. I'm hoping someone can look at my code and tell me what I need to do to fix it. Thanks in advance.

Just done a quick Photoshop layout. Any cc would be appreciated

I'm in the process of learning and haven't used anything other than Notepad. I want to learn how to code before moving onto something like Dreamweaver.

I'd like to agree with sunwukung. What is the point of posting a site design if you're just going to turn your nose up at our opinions? No one is pretending to know everything about everything or be offensive, we are just giving opinions which is what you asked for. Feel free to ignore them but it's no coincidence that most of the reviews have said the same thing.

It's exactly like Myspace! Thanks. I figured PHP may be best. Guess I have lots of learning to do

I'm currently putting together a band site which works like a social networking site. Bascially the users can set up a profile page for their bands but I'm not sure what the best language to use is. The following is what I want the user to beable to do:- -Be able to sign up, and customise their own pages with images, colours and even move boxes around. -Upload images, songs, videos etc. -Rate other bands and their songs. -Become friends with other bands. I've been learning HTML and CSS but don't know much about other languages.. I've had basic experience with PHP and think I could do all this with PHP/MySQL but should I be looking at something else?

I've uploaded my current code, I've been trying to do this but still cannot get it right. Clicky I want it took look like the image posted above by Ben. Thanks in advance for any help.

I am coding my first site and have used the code in the sticky here to center the site which has a width of 960px. The problem is that when I assign a background colour to an element, it only spans across that 960 width, whereas I want it to span across the entire browser window. I tried using a width: 100% tag but it still only spans across the 960 width. Is there anyway to make it span to the browser edges?

I did not. I opened the reply before and typed my post before seeing your last post

If you know the software, yes. I'm talking about layer styles mostly, satin, shadows, strokes, bevels etc. You first get on the software and you want to use them all.