Victor Tanvuia

I'm looking for a company someone's been had some great experience with and can fully recommend. There is so much you can find out about a company during a trial period. I remember not having any issues with our current provider over the first 3 months, but after that things started to get a bit on the slow side and quality continued to degrade. Also there are certain things you can't predict at the beginning, but if you have some experience with a company you know how they react to different issues. I'm fully aware there's no such thing as a service without failures. The question is not whether things fail, it's how quickly they can recover from a failure. That's, in short, the reason I'm looking for recommendations.

I am aware of these shortcomings of VPS's, but we currently have small websites so I'd need to put quite a lot of them on a single machine to make it worth buying a dedicated server. I don't want too many applications to run in the same environment as many of them have different requirements and it's also better from a security point of view. Also if one VPS fails the others will continue to work. There are always pros and cons.

Hi Everybody, I'm looking for a nice reliable UK based VPS hosting company. Pricing is not a major issue. I'd rather pay more and have great service. Fair enough the price is important. We don't really sit on bags on money, but I'm not looking for the cheapest there is. I'm looking for good service and a decent price. We are looking at acquiring a number of VPSes as we'll be moving our entire hosting infrastructure to VPS. Tech specs: Linux - preferably Ubuntu Unmanaged Thanks Victor

I'm sorry to tell you but your ideal CMS does not exist , not by a far margin. Most of them will fail at point 2 and 5. They are horribly complicated to administrate, as for extensions many of them will integrate poorly.

There's really not much difference in therms of actual syntax between HTML and xHTML. The difference comes in coding style. You don't really want to code in xHTML how you were used to in HTML. I don't really have a tutorial for that, but I think the best way is to learn is by actually doing something. You learn things as you need them.

thanks for the help. We've managed to find somebody. Actually it was more of a success than I hoped it to be.

Hi everyone, We're new to the UK market (very new) and we want to boost ourselves a bit by offering 1 free complete web/print solution for a company/non-profit/person (or we can refer to it as entity) in the UK. My question is how can we reach potential customers with this offer. Our website is fairly new in the UK so it doesn't yet have tons of traffic. We're not that rich so buying tons of advertising is not really an option, and I understand people in the UK actually hate being contacted by phone. Any ideas how we could do this. They would be much appreciated. Maybe you know some non-profits or some foundations that would want a design/redesign.

Wow, now that's ugly. You're probably better off leaving your name out of this.

I doubt people would realise the difference. They're unlikely to know the difference between just coding a website and fully building one. It's a tough decision. Wish you the best of luck

The problem with elance sites is that people there usually go for the lowest prices. I know I've done my fair share of elancing and whenever I had a higher price I lost the project. If you want to get work from such a website then you'll have to play by their rules... and number one is Price matters.

HaHa. I know how you feel. We've had such customers before and we've decided not to put our link on the site. The way I see it is associating your brand with that site, and if cheap websites is not your main business then its better not to associate your name with such work. You're not talking to potential clients directly on the web so you probably won't get the chance to explain to them that it was what the client wanted. And even if you would the first impression is very important. I don't think that single link is that important as to be worth the bad publicity.

You could try to use a CMS, but don't expect it to be a miracle. They can save you a lot of time on the usual stuff, but can be a pain when you want to do things a bit different. Also if you want to create a template for that CMS you'll still have to learn some xHTML/CSS. Even if you don't plan to start from scratch, it's good to be able to change something here and there to create your own personalised template. One CMS that's a fairly good starting point is Joomla. It's decently easy to install and setup. It also benefits from quite a number of free and paid extensions to cover almost anything you would want to do with it. It's surely not for the average user, but for a person with a little computer experience it's quite straight forward. I wouldn't advise you to go for Drupal or Typo3. Drupal is very flexible, but that flexibility comes at a high price in therms of ease of use. I can't say much about Typo3 because I've never been able to understand its administration interface. I find it too darn complicated. Hope this helps

I don't suppose setting ul li style to list-style-type: none; is a good way to go, that would kill all bullet lists on the site. #clickthru{list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none;} would be a better solution. A great tool to debug html/xhtml+css layouts is Firebug. It's a nice FireFox extension and it can really save you a lot of time. You really should give it a try

Hi, At our company we use Slicehost VPS servers. They're fast, flexible and the support is great and friendly. Actually having an expert on the other line willing to help you whatever question you have is great. The downside is you'll have to be able to manage a linux VPS yourself, but if that works for you then they're surely the way to go. They might be a bit pricey, their starter 256MB of RAM plan starts at 20$ a month, but it's worth every cent.

Hi, If you need to include some code multiple times (like a template of some sort) include_once or require_once will probably malfunction your application. If you just want to include a php file containing a library then include_once/require_once is probably the best idea as it would prevent the application from including the same file twice (who knows maybe another library uses the same file).