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lee grant

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    lee grant reacted to DigitalSquid in Practising with Wordpress and PHP   
    Well, for the plugin option, NextGen Gallery would be a good shout:
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/
     
    However, if you're doing it from scratch then I'd probably start off by taking a step into the crazy world of Custom Post Types:
    http://kovshenin.com/archives/custom-post-types-in-wordpress-3-0/
    http://kovshenin.com/archives/extending-custom-post-types-in-wordpress-3-0/
     
    That will give you easy access to create the menu item without tearing up the WP Admin core, give you control of the interface layout and (assuming you create a 'Galleries' category or taxonomy) keep it all separate from the normal blog posts.
     
    As for the actual gallery functionality, that might be a bit of trial and error. WP does include it's own basic gallery system:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_the_gallery_shortcode
     
    It's not great but I'm sure with a bit of JS or jQuery you could spruce it up a little.
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    lee grant got a reaction from waynede in 2 JQuery Slider in 1 page   
    Have you tried jQuery.noConflict():
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    lee grant got a reaction from abeer in How to   
    Pretty much as pat says,
     
    Here's the documentation & so on
     
    http://plugins.jquery.com/project/pagination
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    If I said I needed a laptop, but I'm only prepared to pay £50 and I want to try it before I decide whether or not to buy, you'd laugh in my face too.
     
    You've come on this forum, shown no appreciation of the amount of skill and training that goes into what we do, and tried to dictate how much we should charge to provide the services that provide our bread and butter based on what someone else has charged you. It's a bit disrespectful, to be frank.
     
    Nobody expects to buy a Macbook Air or a Dell Adamo XPS for £200 just because that's what an Eee PC 1001 costs.
     
    Good design is an investment that more than repays itself in increased sales. I have to be honest, your website looks like you paid £500 for it. That means potential customers are going to look at it and wonder why you paid the same amount for your website as you do for one or two units of stock, and that's going to affect your sales.
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    lee grant got a reaction from Ste Hughes in can someone redesign my logo for me please   
    I'll do it for £6000
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    lee grant got a reaction from Mollart in Our New Site (in development)   
    The footer looks so much better here!
     
    Really like the rollover links in the top right.
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    lee grant reacted to Renaissance-Design in Hiya! In desperate need........   
    Hi Leyah,
     
    My name's Chris and I like good music. I'm looking for a promoter to arrange acts to play in my living room every night for free, because I'm averse to paying DJs and promoters a fair wage for their skills despite needing to earn a living wage for myself.
     
    I will pay their expenses and treat them to a couple of hours of free design occasionally.
     
    If you want your DJs to be heard and appreciated by me, please reply.
     
    Many thanks,
     
    Chris
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    lee grant got a reaction from rossanderson88 in Best way to do a content box?   
    I'd ditch the iframe idea an do it with ajax and jquery like so ..
     
    http://www.electrictoolbox.com/load-content-jquery-ajax-loading-image/
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    lee grant got a reaction from rossanderson88 in Best way to do a content box?   
    Yep you shouldn't have any problems.
     
    This may be a better read for you http://yensdesign.com/2008/12/how-to-load-content-via-ajax-in-jquery/
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    lee grant got a reaction from oldbook in HELP WITH CSS HOVER ASAP PLZZ GUYS   
    I've just made this which is quite similar in the way it work, just needs styling and such
     
    /***** NEW LINK *****/
     
    http://klevermedia.co.uk/slide/
     
    needs a little more work, hope it helps.
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    lee grant reacted to charliesaidthat in Google's NEW SEO Guide   
    Google Published this SEO 'starters guide' (pdf) today. It is full of great tips, some most of us will know, there were a few hidden gems I found interesting re:mobile sites.
     
    I suggest this gets pinned here - as it covers A LOT of the questions we get here regularly.
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    lee grant got a reaction from james-harvey in HELP WITH DIV TAGS   
    What he said
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    lee grant got a reaction from james-harvey in HELP WITH DIV TAGS   
    Hi, try something like this ...
     
    HTML

    <div class="container"> <div class="box"> 1 </div> <div class="box"> 2 </div> <div class="box"> 3 </div> <div class="box"> 4 </div> <div class="box"> 5 </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </body>
     
    CSS
     

    .container { width:950px; margin:0 auto; background-color:gray;} .box { float:left; background-color:red; width:17.9%; margin:10px;} .clear { clear:both;
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    Sure it works for a hover state too I've used it, it just means you'll need to make two images for your tab each in a different colour then slice them both.
     
    This will explain in more detail how to do it http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slidingdoors/
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    lee grant reacted to Authentic_Style in How's life as a freelance web designer?   
    I'm 23 and have been freelancing for a year and 4 months and its going brilliantly.
     
    Financially its better for me and I do enjoy it more as the projects are generally more interesting.
     
    Freelancing does have its downsides though...limited contact during the day... you need to make sure you get out in the evenings and have hobbies that will get you away from the computer.
     
    I have found that my age can be an issue when meeting face to face with clients. But once we get talking about my experience and their project (and I show them my work) then they don't seem to have any problem working with me at all. Most of my clients come back to me for more work as well, which is great.
     
    Before you go freelance full time, do make sure you have some projects on the go and that you can get a steady stream of inquiries just in case you experience some quiet times in the beginning.
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    lee grant got a reaction from Helen in colour scheme for logo   
    white!
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    lee grant got a reaction from Frost Tear in How do I achieve this effect?   
    They're content sliders ..
     
    http://visionwidget.com/inspiration/web/295-jquery-content-sliders.html
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    lee grant got a reaction from Martin Greenwood in stopping non paying customers?   
    It's a small step, can be taken out if they know what they're looking for but it can help none the less http://csskillswitch.com/
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    lee grant got a reaction from HTML/CSS Newbie in Web Designer or Web Developer?   
    Well a web designer should be able to cover the basics of photoshop design, xhtml & css and a developer more CMS, PHP and so on.
     
    Correct me if I'm wrong
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    lee grant got a reaction from PixelBerry in blog/comment style?   
    Excellent, glad it works for you
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    lee grant got a reaction from PixelBerry in blog/comment style?   
    It's really simple, I used to use it a few years back. Yo just include a little php code into where you'd like to use the news posts.
     
    Have a read through if you have any problems I'll take a look, I can't remember off the top of my head how it all works.
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    lee grant got a reaction from snoogins in Layout issues   
    Try using a different stylesheet for ie6 then set your float elements to display: block; it might do something!
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    lee grant reacted to CAD Web Design in General opinion   
    My honest opinion is that I perfer the current website, (at the moment).
     
    The dark does however work very well with white but I think it may well be a case of "why fix something that isn't broken?"
     
    I understand us web designers always have more ideas and are never happy with the final product, but my advice would be to finish off the design anyway and sell it as a template?
     
    Alterntively, you could design your current website in white and have an option which allows your visitors to switch themes between dark and light?
     
    Chris.
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    lee grant got a reaction from Maxson in Is my website OK?   
    http://browsershots.org/
     
    Try this.

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