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I'm quite sure that your registered address for your bank account doesn't have to match your invoice address, some companies have lots of business locations some overseas and have a different addresses on their invoices. I would edit your post and remove how much you earn a year, just my opinion.

Client won't sign a contract, just walk away...

Yeah pancake is awesome, especially the expenses tracker it saves me hours now when doing my annual returns ! and it was only something like $79 ?

Your client doesn't need to know the hourly rate, not all projects go to plan and you can end up being out of pocket. I charge a daily rate which changes depending on the urgency of the work also the complications and risks. If someone wants a e-commerce shop moving to a different server it would probably take a day but if you only charged £20.00 a hour thats only £150 per day and I know some companies that have charged 5x more than that.

Are you based in India

Afternoon WDF , has anybody used Worldpay Checkout Forms before. ? The below link is the some examples on the Worldpay site , you will notice that when you try and calculate some costs the total just gives an error ? Was hoping this would be a quick fix ? can anyone spot it ? Code http://www.worldpay.com/support/kb/bg/examples/example_0/jr_example0.4_code.txt Demo. http://www.worldpay.com/support/kb/bg/examples/example_0/jr_example0.4.html Regards BWD

Never used first found but must admit the sales technique is very convincing , if you google ' SEO Manchester ' they don't rank very high and I know they are not cheap.

Sometimes its worth to bite the bullet with clients like this , we can automatically spot a time waster and difficult client from the minute we hang up the phone. If your relationship with the client isn't compatible don't take the work on. Difficult to turn away business but just remember a few things when a dealing with a new client. - On your first email proposal with costs or whatever you need to ensure you have a expiration date on the proposal , make it 7 days which is plenty of time for them to respond. If they don't respond or call then forget about them as obviously the development isn't important to them. - Get an idea of the content they already have and what format it is in before you accept to do the work , we once had 50 polaroid photos posted to us when we asked for some photos of the companies work and to make it worse all the text content was hand written with bad writing. - Research the client , if they already have a site with another company do a credit check on them and you might find that company hasn't been paying its bills or is in liquidation but still needs a website. One client we had traded under a false business name and was actually money laundering through his site , all of his cheques bounced and even the address was fake. !

I'm curious why you would need to design a social network site from scratch , im presume its a dating website or something specialist as most people would just use facebook.

I personally don't like using wordpress for the entire site also giving clients access to modify all content is risky and usually end up making more work for yourself. I would use a Custom design and install the CMS as the main blog / news and then if the client needs to update other areas of the site just integrate wordpress into certain pages and pull content from the DB. Back to the original question , £150 for a 4 page website... maybe if you are just starting up and need to build your portfolio but I would be charging around £500-£750 and if they need mobile add another £250

27" 2012 Imac with Thunderbolt for main designing

Doing development work for friends or family is always a big risk , If I was you I would walk away from the development and focus on the next project. You would have to take her to a small claims court which is going to cost you money either way. Basic SEO should be implemented on any build but in your next contract highlight what is included and what isn't. For all new contracts we take on we specify the facts about SEO and what to expect. On your project proposal get them to approve it in writing or email so a month later they aint complaining. From experience I did some work for an actual web developer which was odd but it turned out he was never happy with anything , basically he tried to copy what we provided without paying but what he didn't realise is everything was watermarked and written in PHP so impossible to replicate. We got the deposit and decided to terminate the contract before we wasted more time on this individual.

A few things I would pay attention to. - Typography needs to be more standard , keep it simple and use Arial , remove letter spacing and keep line-heights default to font-size. - There is quite a lot of empty space e.g below the About Us almost 50% of the page is empty. Use a wireframe to position content before building. - Right sidebar is not required as you already have a navigation at the top of the page. - Missing META Description Tag and Incorrect use of ALT tags they should be named as exactly what the image is e.g " radiator repairs " Hope this helps !

Converting a PSD to XHTML is not a easy task , most web developers usually work with a designer to ensure what is being designed can actually function in a web browser , it might be easy to draw layers in Photoshop but coding them is a complete different issue. From the screenshot you have provided I can see a default 2 column layout with header and thats about it. I would download the 960 grid system from 960.gs and create a blank HTML file with the 960 CSS attached and then use this code. CSS .top_header { min-height:200px; background-color:grey; clear:both } .left_column { background-color:red; } .right_column { background-color:blue; } HTML <body> <div id="header"> <div class="container_12 top_header"> Enter Header Image / Slider Here </div> </div> <div class="container_6 left_column"> Left Column </div> <div class="container_6 .right_column"> Right Column </div> </body> Its quite basic but it should help you get started

Couldn't agree more , 960 GS makes custom development a joy full task with lots of CSS elements that save you hours of coding. Not sure if you have used the push and pull attributes but they are great.