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Ah, typically after fighting with it for an hour and writing the forum post, I end up fixing it accidentally by changing the size of the containing div and positioning elements within it.

This problem is stumping me. I have a div with a set width and height, and overflow:hidden. Inside that div is a dl. dt + dd is set to display:none, and dt:hover + dd is set to display:inherit, and the dd is absolutely positioned outside the containing div. This works fine in Safari, Firefox etc. In IE7 however, the position:absolute dd is still being cut off by the dimensions of the containing div (with overflow:hidden). i.e. despite position:absolute supposedly placing an element outside of the document flow, IE7 is still keeping it limited by the dimensions of the containing div, and cutting off the overflow. Any ideas?

I'm a huge fan of Magento as well, I think it's a level above pretty much every other open source and free e-commerce system - very flexible, powerful and really user friendly on the admin side as well. The initial design learning curve can be a little steep, because of the way it's templating system works (it's very fractured, split up into lots of files), but once you've worked it out it's as skinnable as anything else out there. If you're integrating with a content management system as well, then I'm a reasonably big fan of VirtueMart on Joomla.

You'd never use 10,000 fonts or even a tiny fraction of them. I spend more time trying to eliminate unused fonts with font management software than I do in seeking out new fonts. Even for free fonts you're better downloading on an individual basis from sites such as dafont.com, where you have a visual preview of the font and information about whether it's truetype, opentype, etc. Many of those free fonts are available for commercial use as well (and will be specified as such clearly), and for the others you can always request permission from the designer. Don't be afraid of paid fonts either. From time to time it's well worth making the small investment for a top quality font that works perfectly for a particular client, or which you think you might reuse regularly in future.

Yeah, the H2 for the sub-titles makes sense, but effectively there's no really obvious place for the H1. I suppose on the front page it's OK to make the site name/title the H1, but really H1 should signify a specific page content rather than the site name. So if I were to have a similar layout on an internal page I'm still not sure where I would use the H1 - bearing in mind that I don't want to skip directly from <title> to <h1>.

I'm drafting a total redesign of my website, and have a rough mockup of my new front page at fogofeternity.com/dev/foe-draft. I'm not sure on the best way to correctly layout H1 and H2 tags though. The logo and tagline will be consistent across all pages, so H1 not really appropriate for those as it won't be page specific. The three headers of 'making great websites', 'with a passion for design', 'ready for you to use' seem more appropriate for H2 though, as all are of equal value. If that's the case though, there's nothing appropriate for an H1 and semantically there should be a page specific H1 prior to any H2s. I've currently got a hidden H1 but that's just a development thing, ideally I don't want hidden H1 on a final page. Any thoughts on how best to structure this?

Was looking for something exactly the same earlier this week. Picked up a 30 day trial of FontExpert 2009, which seems pretty decent. Certainly it let me streamline a very bloated fonts folder very quickly, and divide my fonts into defaults, commercially usable, free, etc. That being said, I think all the best font management software appears to be for Macs.

If it's any consolation, the changeover is a lot less painful than you might expect. I held off on moving across to Wordpress for a long time, because I never felt I had the time to do the import/export and get everything set up. But once I actually went for it, only really took about a day to get everything up and running reasonably smoothly.

Hi there I'm Robin, and I'm a web designer. Have moved into freelancing/contracting in the last year or so, and currently working on redeveloping the web presence of The Anime Network and related companies, as well as trying to grow my 'fog of eternity' business more widely. I love minimalist, retro and vintage design, and love the fact that these days there's a genuine division between web design and web development. I work with Wordpress, Joomla, am slowly learning Expression Engine and Drupal. Spend a lot of time on twitter (@fogofeternity) and social networking in general, and write regularly on my own blog. Joined this forum because I genuinely enjoy web design and want to talk to others who do too, learn new skills and perhaps help out from time to time as well. Cheers Robin