Synjyn

For some reasone your image containers have a typo: scr= instead of src=
 
e.g:
 

<img width="115" height="80" style="display: block; width: 115px; height: 80px; border: 1px solid;" scr="http://universitycompare.com/wp-content/themes/blue-and-grey/images/universities/10004180.png">

It varies from client to client, and business to business.
 
You need to sit down with your client and talk about what they need and what the hope to achieve. Look at their business can come up with a solid keyword research along with why you've picked those keywords.
 
Then, using these, keywords look at Google and pick a competitor from the top, middle and bottom and then look into each one of these domains to determine what sort of links they have, their domain authority, number of links, number of c-class IP's blah blah.
 
With this, you can then determine what it is they actually need. So instead of going over kill and risking penaltys, you can then sit down and tailor a plan to their needs.
 
With all that information about each competitor, their links, where their from and, if you want to go deeper, look at what links their links are getting. This way you can uncover if there is anything fishy going. It's alright if their website is only getting 5 links, but those five pages might each have 5,000 links pointing to them,
 
Now you can either do exactly what your competitors are donig and then add your own spin on things or, if it's a mess of a backlink campaign, look at getting something more powerful together.
 
Link baiting, guest blogging, content creation, social media, directory submissions etc etc

Take a look at a plugin I wrote. It might suit your needs.
 
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posts-for-page/

its the padding on the UL.
 
As Andy suggested a CSS reset would fix most of the issues you encounter including this one.
 
Otherwise you need to do something like
 
 

#slider ul { padding-left: 15px; position: relative; }

It's all well and good saying they are a perfectly good host for you. But the real measure of a good host is how they deal with you when things go wrong.
 
If nothing significant has ever gone wrong for you with your hosting company then of course you'll think they're fine. I used to think 1&1 were great - until something went wrong. That is when I discovered how truly crap they are.
 
Tobes has obviously had issues that Heart have not dealt with satisfactorily. It's completely pointless, unhelpful and beside the point for people to keep coming in here saying "well they're OK for me". How is that helping anybody in this situation?
 
They've messed up for him and should sort it out - that is completely not up for debate.

I'll let everyone else answer for themselves. Timing myself - I quote fixed-rate jobs, so I just scribble a note if something's tken me considerably longer than I expected so I can account for it next time.
 
I then lose the note and bill the same for the next job.

To avoid issues with CSS in development and releasing, append your CSS file with a query parameter like xxxxxx.css?v=1
 
Each time you make major changes, just increase the version number, the browser will think it is a different file (to the cached version) and reload it.
 
As for the issue, I saw the same thing with IE9 running in IE8 mode (using F12 developer tools) - this was because of a security warning (see bottom of screen), once I clicked show all content it displayed fine. Maybe this is the same issue he sees in actual IE8, but either closes the warning or doesn't see the message like it is shown in IE9.Look at your mix of http includes if on a https domain.

Cool stuff, I used to play around with making tunes but they were all pretty sh*t so I moved to playing drums in a band.
 
Liking that nochrome tunage.
 
I put together a DJ hip-hop/breaks mix - have a listen its a got a bit of everything -> http://soundcloud.co...j-sims-oct-2011
 
Working on a new mix now.

If you want to spew out cheap and cheerful websites and not worry to much that is one business model and can work fine.
 
But to be able to land the big contracts where you get to work on cutting edge technology, push boundaries and get paid well you will need to up your game, as these firms will check out your previous work often with people that are pretty clued up. If you can't show previous work of a high standard you just will not get a foot in the door.
 
I think a lot people overlook these stepping stones to getting the big projects that the larger agencies can get and the reward that comes with it. So even on the smallest jobs I do my damnedest to make sure both design and build are as good as I can deliver. In doing so we have managed to land some extremely large projects in amongst the smaller ones.
 
The other thing I see a lot of is designers making a mess of code, and developers making a mess of the design. If you really want to scale up you have to start to specialise otherwise risk just becoming mediocre at both rather than a master of one.
 
Still I have nothing against the model of quick, cheap, and many - this can also generate good income but for me would be a massive lack of job satisfaction.

You need to outline the terms here - from what you're saying, it sounds like you went through the whole process without seeing or signing off on the design?
 
What were the terms of the contract?
 
£19k is a fair price for a large/well-respected agency or for creating a bespoke CMS, but I don't see the need in this case - from what I can see of it any of the usual suspects would have sufficed without reinventing the wheel.
 
The important thing here is to not take the "we were robbed" mentality, because you as the client need to share in the responsibility for a less than perfect project. If the design doesn't fit your business objectives that's likely due to poor communication from one or both sides, and if so this is not the time to throw it open to the criticism of third parties in an attempt to quibble over the price.
 
What does "a dazzling, awesome site with all the bells and whistles" mean, in understandable English?
 
If you're unable to communicate exactly what you expect from a design project, it's possible that the fault lies with you. For all we know the project could have started at a couple of grand and dragged out to £19k through countless revisions while you gave little to no useful guidance.
 
Three sides to every story: yours, theirs and the truth. Unless you can provide some concrete facts I'm tempted to delete this thread.

Good stuff. The singer sounds a lot like Paul Weller to me, nice clear recording too.
 
You hear my crap here - if you wanna!!

Not really the sort of stuff I usually listen to so can't comment too much musically, but it sounds good and you have a particular style of your own - and yeah agree with Bomb - the lead singer sounds a bit Weller.
The production is good, lovely bass sound. But I do think you could have brought your drums up a little. They sound ever so slightly reverb-ey in the mix and not quite as up front as the other instruments for this style of production. In the beginning break they sound ok, but when the bass and guitar come in the drums are very slightly swamped. Perhaps it's the bass and guitar that are too presence-y? Only my opinion, maybe another set of ears will think slightly differently?
It's good to play it to fresh ears.
Give us more of your lovely drums!
Anyway - pro sounding effort and well done.

You could always respray your own car - after all you can get the spray cans from Halfords.
And surely there's a plumbing materials shop near you - why hire a plumber? Jut get yourself an adjustable wrench and you're away....
Tattoos? Just use a hot pin and some India ink - ......
 
On the other hand if you were prepared to put a few years work into learning the necessary skills + if you have some talent, then you could indeed have a quality website for free. Although it wouldn't be free in terms of your own time.

The test for class should be in the dragging function, I renamed them to be a bit clearer. Also I have always this method of adding event listeners which may have been causing you issues.
 
Note the preventDefault which is key to stop the browsers own handling of clicking and attempting to drag the object.
 

//Firefox if (document.addEventListener) { document.addEventListener("mousedown", drag, true); } function drag(event) { if (event.target.className == "toMove") { leftpoint = event.target.style.left; toppoint = event.target.style.top; x = event.clientX; y = event.clientY; document.addEventListener("mousemove", move, true); event.preventDefault(); } } function move(event) { document.addEventListener("mouseup", drop, true); event.target.style.left = parseInt(leftpoint) - x + event.clientX + "px"; event.target.style.top = parseInt(toppoint) - y + event.clientY + "px"; event.preventDefault(); } function drop() { document.removeEventListener("mousemove", move, true); document.removeEventListener("mouseup", drop, true); }

Work for yourself, doing the jobs that you love. Set your own wage, hours, holidays and location. I've worked from home, my bedroom, local coffee shop, a park, beach and pretty much anywhere that I fancied. Sure, I'm not pulling in the money that a Senior web designer of a large London based agency is getting. But why would I want that stress, when the money I'am getting is more than enough

name is beautiful ...make XXX sites...

Give them a height and they should slot into place.
 
#left .djbox { float: left; height: 300px; width: 350px;}

I've fixed it now. It's not as pretty but I haven't had to add any extra markup or use jQuery to fix it at least.
 
In an IE7 specific CSS page I took away the relative positioning of the container div ('.selectPic') which means that I had to take away the absolute positioning of the ('.selectPicDrop') tab otherwise it'd position itself out of the parent. I changed it to relative positioning, and gave it a z-index of -1 (in line with that IE7 gives everything a new stacking order starting at 0.) Then I just added a margin to the top to push it back down and voila.
 
I hope this helps someone else who runs into this problem.
 
Basically, if you run into this, you need to find a way to remove the relative positioning of the parent element.
 
Edited because of my horrendous use of the English language!

That was a tricky one, I did try out a few possible options using IE dev tools but the IE tool sucks compared to Firebug.
 
Well done on sorting it out is was not an easy one.

If you are using the img tag it should be defined inline, the image is part of the content and should have semantic value, similar to the alt tag being required.
 
If an image is being used for layout (e.g. a background) then it should be defined in the CSS and img tag not used.

If you are using the img tag it should be defined inline, the image is part of the content and should have semantic value, similar to the alt tag being required.
 
If an image is being used for layout (e.g. a background) then it should be defined in the CSS and img tag not used.

There is no single answer to issues of security when it comes to the web. Much of it is dependent on how valuable the data you are storing is, how data backup is managed, the visibility of the site and its likely-hood of being a target, and balanced against cost for security measures.
 
What you have sounds fine, although sha1 is a bit stronger than md5 - both are unlikely to be cracked, remember to use robots.txt to hide the admin from search engines. On from that if you let the user manage the passwords you can enforce policies on the password strength, change frequency etc.
 
If you are storing valuable data the next step would be to have the admin run over HTTPS so traffic is encrypted but for most general sites not really necessary.
 
Really you can go a long way down the security path, some of our sites hook into company accounting systems which require quite a lot of measures on top of these, but even then it will never be 100% - and they start to add expense for the client so you have to strike a balance.

This is a little bit of fun I've been working on for the last few days. Tell the world what you love about the internet.
 
http://LoveYouInternet.com
 

Hi Stacey,
 
I started around the same age as you doing web stuff on the side while I followed another career path. Now I am a partner in a business and do web full time and find it interesting, challenging and rewarding which is great, so it is definately worth giving it a try and seeing how you get on.
 
Start with the basics, HTML & CSS. Its also useful to get an understanding of what is meant by 'Client Side' & 'Server Side' web devlopment/programming.
 
Good luck
 
Simon

A friend of mine runs a small graphic design business, doing print catalogues, posters, biz cards etc, and this ties in very well with web sites as with both of us we can provide consistency accross all of these elements.
 
This is an ideal situation so I was lucky in this respect but I had done a lot of networking over the years and this is a also a source of business.
 
Clients at the moment range from very basic static sites to full on backend systems and integration with business processes, extisting SAP systems etc where good programming skills become essential.
 
Having a seperate designer and developer is ideal, as I am really able focus on the skills to develop web applications and likewise the designer on just the design elements rather than try and spread yourself to thin accross all of the disciplines involved.