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If your plan is to handle it yourself, then a lot of testing in advance of launch would be my advice, you want to make sure that you can prevent any spam or harmful submissions automatically rather than having to individual reject any that aren't suitable - as this is what I imagine is going to take up most of the time if it's successful.

Good luck, i'm sure you can do it!

You have to set a name on your input fields.


<input type="text" class="textbox" value="name" onfocus="this.value = '';" onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'name';}"> Should be


<input type="text" class="textbox" name="name" value="name" onfocus="this.value = '';" onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'name';}"> Good luck!

It would also be worth looking into the filter_input function it's really powerful. http://php.net/manual/en/function.filter-input.php

It would also be worth looking into the filter_input function it's really powerful. http://php.net/manual/en/function.filter-input.php

There is areas of caching to look out for.

Browser cache (Press CTRL + F5 on windows or CMD + R twice on a mac). Caching Plugins, like W3 Total Cache, you will need to clear all the cache, although this doesn't usually affect images/text in post content. CDN Caching, if you are running anything like CloudFlare, this can cache too, so you need to turn it in development mode whilst your developing and then purge the cache when you are finished. If you are still getting issues then it's more likely an issue with a plugin or theme stopping you from being able to edit content.

I don't understand why the platform is being kept secret.

If your looking for some tutorials on WordPress and theme development in general I have recently added a post to my blog below which talks about theme development for WordPress, it could be useful. Another great resource is TreeHouse - it teaches you a lot that you will need to get started, but since your after a little extra income this might not be the best option.

It might be a good idea to spend your time coming up with a wireframe and then a design of the template you would like to create and then make it into an HTML template, which could be posted up on themeforest. Then over time convert that base html theme into a WordPress, Drupal or Joomla theme (whichever CMS you wish to focus on).
 
Good luck

This looks good in chrome when I add this to your CSS. Hope it helps!
#newsearch .textinput { height: 26px; float: left; }

You can create a custom report and add the following:

- At the top tab click Customisation.
- Click +New Custom Report
- Under Metric add "Unique Pageviews" or "Entrances".
- Under Dimensions add "Country".
- Then save your report and set the date range at the top right.
- Under the Secondary Dimension dropdown, underneath country, select Month of the year

This will give you the numeric representation of the month of the year 01 for January etc...

There might be a cleaner way to do this, but this should give you the data you want.

Right, got you EpicWebs - many thanks for the reply, that's a great help.

I think some constructive criticism rather than just negativity would of fit in there.

Fuzzy just because we are developers and not designers does not mean we know nothing or very little about design, same goes for designers who develop, some of them are actually quite good at development too. I too can tell a good design from a poor one, maybe not to the level of a highly experienced designer, but I spend all my working days alongside a hugely experienced designer so his influence of course rubs off.
 
In answer to your question, it depends, a design is supposed to fulfil the requirements of the projects specification, if it's to generate sales then clearly conversion is the key here, it might be to build brand awareness, it could be a governmment website designed to offer useful information and have nothing to do with conversion. The one common thing though is UX, the UX has to work otherwise everything else falls flat on it's face.
 
Admittedly this website does have poor UX, that doesn't necesarrily mean that the designer & developer has commited a cardinal sin, He/She is here to ask for advice and learn so we can criticise all we want but we should be constructive about it. I can't imagine your first ever designs were any good. Nobody starts out an expert, and the common thing with every single expert on the planet is: they made mistakes. and they continue to make mistakes and learn from them.
 
Just like there's developers out there who could tear my work to shreds, there will be designers who can do the same to yours.

There's no better way to study & gain experience than working in the field. I can assure you there are designers out there who have never studied design at a typical institution like University who are better than you or anybody on this forum. Some of the most famous and celebrated designers never formally studied design.
 
It's a huge, and in my opinion false assumption to think that you have to have (formally) studied design to be good at it. I'm not by any means saying I'm a great designer, I'm not. But I do know about design, to a degree.
 
I know this much: It's not black and white between knowing design and not knowing it. is grey. Very grey.

So what about those great and celebrated designers, who never formerly studied it. Do they know nothing about design? Because they have a pretty overbearing influence in the design patterns you see around today.

Also it's very likely that if they are using a content management system, updating modules/plugins and core files on the fly will eventually end up in an error. Which in their mind will be the fault of the developer.

I think some constructive criticism rather than just negativity would of fit in there.

The main field which makes it so powerful, in my opinion, is the repeater field.

It's great stress-relief!!

I play some Hearthstone until it gets boring then I got back to developing sites.

There is a lot of opinion floating about on this subject, however for that initial meeting, what is wrong with trying to impress, wear a suit, if you get the job you can wear what you want.
 
 
 
 
Totally agree with this, do you think you will be turned away because you are dressed to impress? looking smart and professional is not going to be anything but a good thing..

This isn't good advice, there is plenty of agencies out there that want their employees to dress smarter than casual clothes. Wearing a suit for an interview can never turn out bad... where as casual clothes can.

To make music continually play you have to force a new window popup with a music player inside it.
BBC Radio iPlayer does a good job of it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/on-air - might be worth taking a look.

The only other way is to have the whole website inside an iframe or a frame, not sure that's very friendly though...
 
The news site has an example of them doing a popup.

This stack overflow question has a good example of a popup: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27860164/popup-a-radio-button-on-click
 
Or you can just google javascript popup.

By measuring the conversion I am assuming you are doing this along with AB tests on Captcha Vs non Captcha otherwise you're not getting any real information on how it's affecting conversion.
 
If the fields are hidden in creative ways like I mentioned earlier and not doing something obvious like display none or positioning it offscreen then VERY few will find ways of bypassing this.
 
You are giving your users extra steps to accomplish their task, that will lower conversion. You find far less high profile sites now using captcha than you did previously because of the bad UX they provide. I have never experienced captcha on Amazon in all my time visiting there, same for Google.
 
The new solution by Google posted by @@EpicWebs does look very promising however. I'd actually recommend that over the honeypot method. Traditional captchas though are what I am talking about and they are horrible, especially in terms of accessibility.
 
All that said on less security critical sites I'd probably still go with the honeypot method. it's a toss up between the two depending on the project.