MyshMash
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MyshMash reacted to Renaissance-Design in My website is pants!Write yourself a brief. Sorry, couldn't resist...
Seriously though, pretend it's a client broject and write a brief. Then work out your information architecture and write your content (because you want to be a good client, right?)
Then, and only then, work on the project. Set yourself aside some time to do it, too - you don't want to be starting work on it in your 9th hour of the day.
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MyshMash got a reaction from smoothonline in Your biggest clientWho's your biggest client or what's your biggest achievement in web design? Any big brands or high traffic websites? How much were you involved in the whole process?
Please include links
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MyshMash reacted to sash_oo7 in Show/hide selectboxyes it will work for images too
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Simple Two Col</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" /> </head> <body> <script type="text/javascript"> function show(obj) { no = obj.options[obj.selectedIndex].value; count = obj.options.length; for(i=1;i<=count;i++) document.getElementById('SkiDiv'+i).style.display = 'none'; if(no>0) document.getElementById('SkiDiv'+no).style.display = 'block'; } </script> <script type="text/javascript"> function show2(obj) { no = obj.options[obj.selectedIndex].value; count = obj.options.length; for(i=1;i<=count;i++) document.getElementById('SkiDi'+i).style.display = 'none'; if(no>0) document.getElementById('SkiDi'+no).style.display = 'block'; } </script> <form name="myForm"> <select onchange="show(this)"> <option value="1">Chronic 177</option> <option value="2">Chronic 172</option> <option value="3">Chronic 167</option> <option value="4">Chronic 157</option> </select> </form> <div id="SkiDiv1" style="display:block"> <form name="myForm2"> <select onchange="show2(this)"> <option value="1">Chronic 177</option> <option value="2">Chronic 172</option> <option value="3">Chronic 167</option> <option value="4">Chronic 157</option> </select> </form> </div> <div id="SkiDiv2" style="display:none">tip/waist/tail mm: 110-80-103 <br> sidecut r. m: 18.0m avg<br> tip/tail height mm: 56/56 mm <br> running surface mm: 1384mm <br> stance back from center mm: 64mm</div> <div id="SkiDiv3" style="display:none">tip/waist/tail mm: 110-80-103 <br> sidecut r. m: 16.5m avg<br> tip/tail height mm: 56/56 mm <br> running surface mm: 1335mm <br> stance back from center mm: 62mm</div> <div id="SkiDiv4" style="display:none">tip/waist/tail mm: 110-80-103 <br> sidecut r. m: 16.5m avg<br> tip/tail height mm: 56/56 mm <br> running surface mm: 1335mm <br> stance back from center mm: 62mm</div> <div id="SkiDi1" style="display:none">This is 1</div> <div id="SkiDi2" style="display:none">This is 2</div> <div id="SkiDi3" style="display:none">This is 3</div> <div id="SkiDi4" style="display:none"><img src="angry.gif" alt="Angry face" /></div> </body> </html>
just replace the text within
<div id ="SkiDi4"></div> or <div id ="SkiDi3"></div> or<div id ="SkiDiv4"></div> or <div id ="SkiDi3"></div>
with the image tag
<img src="angry.gif" alt="Angry face" />
please note here you have to use your image path and name
also you can add more divs as you like
<div id ="SkiDi4"><div id ="SkiDi5"></div> <div id ="SkiDi6"></div> ......and so on
hope
you can understand
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MyshMash reacted to funsella in Jquery Slider helpIll try to explain, but be warned that I may confuse myself
<script type="text/javascript"> $(function(){ $('#slider1').bxSlider({ //Points to the containing DIV where your slider is auto: true, // This is one of the sliders options, enables the auto slide function controls: false // This function removes the controlls }); }); </script>
There is a long list of functions for this slider here
Just remember to place a "," after each function you use except the last function.
The last function should not have a "," at the end or it will cause errors in IE.
I hope this helps
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MyshMash reacted to pandad in Some advice please40-60k is easy once you have a solid network, decent clients and a good head on your shoulders. Its all about learning how to find the right clients, how you pitch to them and then how you develop the work. There are bound to be people on here (no offense) who would do an ecommerce site for 500-2000! I start my prices from £XXXX if your lucky but the average site is around 8-12k
Thats not to say I don't do the odd £1250 ecommerce site (but I have a reason for that)
The easy days of freelancing when starting out at £25-35 p.h are long gone sadly everyone thought it was an easy industry and started to charge £20p.h then 15 then ill do you a website for £100 and then india came along and started knocking stuff out at under £60.. Thankfully the last 4 years (and ive had a 2 year gap), have improved a little and people are understanding that cheap is not always best.
There is going to be around 18,000+ students looking for web role positions this year and thats including all the ones who didnt get work last year.
Its not easy to walk in and pick up a lead design or creative director role without something behind you. Not to mention 10 years ago when I was employed a web design role meant web design, photoshop and a bit of html now they want you to know wordpress, drupal inside and out be able to code php and understand mysql and thats a web design role forget the web development side some of them requirements are even crazier.
If your starting out (you got anything to show us? or show me if you like via PM) your going to be better offer networking like a crazy fool which involves having a good supply of business cards and picking a target market, no point thinking your going to design sites for everyone! Yes it does happen like that at times but I still have a target market that I constantly push and work to obtain new work over and over again.
There is no sure fire way to land that job or find your first client thats down to you! Not everyone likes to sell but you need to find a selling method that works for you and you enjoy cold calling and emailing is just 1 way and I'm not the biggest fan of them I do something different (not going to give my tricks away lol)
Practice, Research and Practice take part in online events etc you will get better, your knowledge will improve and you will over time become recognized for you work (hopefully)
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MyshMash reacted to mrchristoph in Some advice pleaseHi, I'm 28 and last year went through the same kind of thinking process, working in insurance at the time and getting quite depressed. I would recommend getting a good looking portfolio together, and then looking for a junior web developer job - where you will learn 1000% quicker all the skills you need to learn. It's possible, because I did it! Unfortunately I wouldn't expect you would earn anywhere near 40 - 60k for at least 10 years in the industry (if anyone else can tell me how I would love to know!). Your first job would almost definitely be under £20k.
So to answer a few of your specific questions I would recommend the following:
Don't got o college - learn the skills yourself. Most courses are outdated and useless. Employers like self starters.
PHP is the most useful server-side language to learn, its good to know all the basics, but but don't get too hung up on knowing everything, because it's impossible.
Get into a CMS - as 99% of all websites are built on one these days. Although it's initially difficult to grasp I recommend Drupal. But there is also Wordpress and Expression Engine which are also very good.
Also get into jQuery and javascript more. I hear that javascript is going to get very big in the next few years.
Reading this forum helped me loads on getting me on my way. Good luck!
Oh, and don't learn .NET, unless you want to be a bitch
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MyshMash got a reaction from james baker in Protest of NestleI've sent an email.
I hope to see the orang utans one day in Borneo.
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<b> used to be for making text bold for a reason, but then <strong> was introduced as a way of emphasising text for screen readers, and <b> was left in sort of a debate of should it be used or not.
personally I think <b> could be used within semantic mark-up to make text bold that doesn't need to be emphasised and is for design purpose only. You will get those that say that <b> should never ever be used and that you should use css to make text bold but...
<p>this text is <b>bold for no reason</b> within a paragraph</p>
has just the same value as
<p>this text is <span>bold for no reason</span> within a paragraph</p>
and it can be styled exactly the same in the css as the <span> can be. Plus draft HTML5 documents have gotten <b> within them for this purpose, so if w3c think that <b> is of value then it still must be
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MyshMash reacted to Wickham in Browser problemThe footer image footerlogo.png is 150px high but the #nav div is 135px high with 20px padding.
Edit the #nav height to 130px which seems to cure the space in my IE7 and Firefox and delete the negative margin bottom for the img.
#footer { background-image: url("images/navbg.png"); padding: 20px; -moz-border-radius: 10px 10px 0 0; -webkit-border-radius: 10px 10px 0 0; border-radius: 10px 10px 0 0; margin: 0; font-family: "Century Gothic"; height: 130px;/*was 135px;*/ clear: both; color: #fe8096; } #right img { position: relative; margin: 0 -20px 0 0; /*was 0 -20px -10px 0;*/ padding: 0; float: right; }
The padding should increase the div 130px to 170px but for some reason the 150px image seems to fit.
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MyshMash reacted to Gareth Daine in increasing Conversion...Hi Folks,
I thought I'd share this little article by Luke Wroblewski on web forms, and how using a certain approach to layout and design has increased conversions by up to 40%.
http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1007
I found it very interesting.
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MyshMash reacted to snowyswebsolutions in My first online website!Can I ask whether a template was used as the css images are loaded from an external image storing site?
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MyshMash reacted to Wickham in Relative positioningI can see the problem now. Relative positioning always leaves the space where the content would have been if you hadn't moved it, which means the #content div has moved 170px from the normal left position but still left the space where the floated nav should be.
If you used margin-left: 210px; for the #content style instead of left: 170px, that might cure it.
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MyshMash reacted to IanC in Building websites for freeWorking with charities can be a very slow process. Apart from the larger ones (who can and do afford agency rates), they can be run by part-time volunteers in their spare time, and potentially run by a board of trustees that only meet once in a while. Even if they commit to a keen web designer, they've still got to be able to commit the resources to the project to deliver anything worthwhile. It's not that likely someone is sitting around just waiting for someone to volunteer, and it's possibly not the fastest way to build a portfolio.
Charities also have the same issues and concerns as any other organisation, including branding, image, 'market placement' and perception. In some ways they have more need to be cautious than a business, as they can find it harder to afford the resources, both time and money, to put a bad job right.
Websites for a small business can be relatively straightforward compared to a non-profit organisation too. A typical SME website only really has one target (the customer), but a non-profit website needs to cater for end-users, potential volunteers, grant-awarding bodies, sponsors, PR and media, authorities, etc. They may also be much more aware about accessibility concerns than a lot of businesses, as this is much more publicised in the non-profit sector, or may be absolutely fundamental to their target audience.
I got involved with working through a charity via an organisation for IT professionals. However the onus here was on 'professional' - effectively helping to de-risk projects by giving some assurance to the background and skillset of the volunteers.
Two years down the line, I've ended up on the board of trustees, and we're putting together the plans for a very major marketing review and website rebuild. Now my estimate is 20+ days effort to get it where we want it to be. The thing is only a small part of that is going to be actual web development and shiney-shiney. Most of the time is going to be spent on back-to-basics 'business analysis and market research', strategy, trawling through Google Analytics and keyword research again (things change!), content, writing, branding and alignment.
We've got very lucky, as a rather good marketeer/writer has offered to help out where we really need it, and it will be quicker for me to bang a new and potentially complex and feature-rich site out in Expression Engine as it would be to manage and QA the work of someone wanting to learn.
But it does demonstrate that for every part of the time someone wants to spend learning how to build a website, the organisation might have to find substantially a lot more resource internally for the project, probably in their spare time and/or around keeping the charity operational.
I would not want to put anyone off volunteering to help a charity out - It's very worthwhile and very rewarding. But they do need to be well aware of all the factors that are involved, be very patient with any organisation they find to work with, and don't go into a relationship looking for any portfolio quick-wins.
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MyshMash got a reaction from JamesW in Dissertation Title SuggestionsI read something in this book that I really like the idea of:
Web design using standards can not only save companies money but is also better for the environment.
Web standards = less code = less bandwidth/less server space = less servers needed = less energy needed/lower energy bills = money and energy saved. (A lot better explained in the book )
Edit:
I found the chapter here.
Although I don't think he means it seriously, it could be worth looking into.
