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Ok, thanks for the interesting replies. I have come to an agreement with them. I usually charge per project tbh. But I haven't done freelance for ages.

Hi everyone, A co worker has asked me to make some simple changes to a friends portfolio website. All that needs to be done is: Place a X on several images so that they can close the images when they pop up. I just have to make a new CSS class and make some changes to the jquery plugin. How much should I charge? I feel bad charging at all haha... Thanks.

Fixed the problem now, can you delete? Thanks!

Evening everyone I am working on a personal project but I have come across a little problem trying to do something. I have created a form that can be used to upload an image. The image gets uploaded to the server but what I want do as well is create a randomly generated id for the file. I can do this as well however, I need to check the database to see if an identical ID is already in use for another image. And if so randomly generate it again. $generateimageid = rand(0, 9) . randomString(1) . rand(0, 9) . randomString(1) . rand(0, 9); $imageid = $generateimageid; $uploadname = $imageid.$fileextension; Basically I need to run this again. I thought I could put this in a function and check the database to see if a field has the same ID and then repeat the function. However I can't use variables outside of the function. Thanks a lot, any help would be appreciated

Oh there was a backup fortunately, I just really wanted to get it sorted because I know I can do it, and it's not a big task, just must have missed something. But yeah I'm going to have to learn from it.

I do for the most part but hey I thought this would only be a minor change. I will have to make sure now I just stick to the local copy of it.

Last week I started a part time job maintaining a website. So this includes making new pages, adding new links to the navigation and just simple things really. Yesterday the boss wanted me to rearrange the navigation links around which are all images and have a roll-over effect. So I did it but one of the images didn't work. No problem, I just checked through trying to find where I made the mistake. He saw that the site was missing a link, I told him I'll fix it and it will just take 5-10 mins searching where I went wrong. He complains saying that I should just revert back to the old one if it is to hard for me. And also said I shouldn't be messing around with the style sheet, I have to change it to change the navigation and do a lot of the changes. He then says the the web designer is a professional web designer, further putting me down. I just feel like I'm not going to be lasting long there, especially since he complains how much he pays me. Anyone have any similar stories to tell, bad managers, bosses? Maybe I'm just being too sensitive.

Late reply, been really busy I'll have to think about using tables to store all the questions. It's just so much easier to have a table dedicated for each question. That way the entire question and responses can be displayed anywhere on the site. Cheers.

Theres a table per question. I thought it would be good to have a table per question so I can store it all. And use the results whenever and view the records. There's a page that displays what's in the table.

I can do that. The pages need to be updated a lot so every time I update, I have to edit the file so it points to the new table. Have thinking about it myself, going to try something tonight and see if I can get it to work.

Perhaps not the easiest to understand. My index page has a form that once clicked goes to a file called postandthank.php. Postandthank.php connects to the database and adds the information the user has put into the form. On the index page which has the form, it also displays all of the entries from the database. Simple guestbook Because both the index.php and postandthank.php files both connect and select/insert fron the same table. I need a way to change what table they insert/select from. Is there a better way then just manually going into the php file and changing the value. Or is there I can do this over a form. It would be better if it was easier for someone who doesn't know PHP to do this. Would be quicker as well. Perhaps on a form that once filled in will change what table the pages are looking for. Perhaps this is better

I'm not 100% sure what you mean but I can give a tip. min-height: 5em or whatever number you want will expand the div out to what you want and then expand when content has been put there. I have found % and pixels to not grow.

I like it a lot. I think the navigation is missing something. The site has a lot of personality. The website burns my eyes because of the whiteness/brightness but that's probably because it's nearly 2 am and I've been staring at a screen.

Welcome! This forum is great for help and support so you've come to the right place. If you've got a lot of willpower you can do it. I recommend http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp for the basics. Learning Web design and development is a lot more fun and easier if you have a project to work on and learn things for it. It's the way I learnt HTML/CSS and now I can write pages easily. It can be stressful but don't give up! Good luck mate.