angstmann

Alright! I'm in the North East too. Can't beat the icy cold winds and rain can you! Welcome to WDF. I pop on here now and again to give my evidences, so hope to see you around. EDIT. Woah! Just checked out your site... forgive me for butting in but I think you are seriously undervaluing yourself. £25 for a logo? £60 for a single page site?

Definitely dont sell yourself short with e-commerce as it can become EXTREMELY complex the closer you get to launching the site. I'm thinking payment gateways, SSL certificates, etc etc. Also, there are ALWAYS loads of templates to style regardless of which cart you opt for. Some have less than others, but bear in mind there is more often than not a ton of templates to style, which all takes your valuable time.

ExpressionEngine is great. Its a commercial product though, and even though its relatively cheap, there is a licence fee, which may or may not come into the equation for you, depending on the project you're working on. From what I can tell, ModX seems to share similar principles to ExpressionEngine, and I've been meaning to give it a proper try myself, havng messed around with it briefly a couple of times in the past.

Been thinking about this myself recently. Although it seems a hassle to set up hosting individually for each client, I do see the benefits. What I think I might start doing is providing clients with my recommendations for hosting and get them to sign up for it themselves (I can of course assist them with this). That way, they have a point of contact other than me, should anything go wrong with things like email accounts and/or web hosting. My reasons for this - I have spent far, far too much time being a tech support person for clients with regard to things like email accounts and passwords, etc - its a genuine time killer. If clients know from the start that hosting and in turn email accounts is the responsibility of the web host and not me directly, I see that as a huge plus point. This type of arrangement needs to be made clear from the start though, obviously - and I do also understand that some clients may prefer their web site developer to be their sole contact where possible.

I can't believe I missed these... thanks for posting the links.

Two great choices for moderators if I say so myself. I just wish I had more time to spend here... I'll do my best to pop in more though as I'm intrigued by Bluedreamer's spam axe...

Welcome, im just a short drive down the A1 in Co. Durham...

xhtml strict here...

We're currently using the demo and I'm pretty impressed. A few things seem a tad over complex to achieve, taking too many steps, but the commenting and ticketing system is good. The file upload and commenting system works well too. Takes a bit of getting used to if you're used to things like Basecamp or Central Desktop but it seems to do the job nicely.

Ive deffo not been here in a while... a bit of lurking here and there. Like most people I have had a lot on my plate, work-wise, family wise and health wise... life gets in the way sometimes. Been on a few other forums, but this one still seems to be one of the best I have to say. Maybe I'll pop back in a bit more often.

I've been running OS X on my Advent 4211 (MSI Wind) for about 6 months now. Runs pretty well I must say. £270 all in. Bargain.

Another vote for ExpressionEngine here. I have used it for projects both big and small. Not much it can't do really, either out of the box or via extensions, modules and plugins. Levels of support are unrivaled also. You should definitely take a look at it.

Thanks very much Sameer, I will check those out. The one I am trying to implement is based on Suckerfish, probably similar to Superfish. In the meantime, if anyone can spot anything fundamental I may be doing wrong, I would welcome any feedback. Cheers!

Thanks Rob, I'm afraid that just makes the spacing massively wide (see screenshot). The reason I am having to specify widths is, I think, to do with getting the drop-down menu to work properly in certain browsers. I followed a guide here to do the drop-down menu and I think this is where the problems have sprung from!

Hi, I have been trying to implement a drop down menu on the site I am working on. I am ALMOST there, but I have a problem with the spacing of the navigation menu items. They are not spaced equally, and in IE, the last item "Corporate & Promotional Gifts" breaks onto 2 lines. Take a look here: http://is.gd/89hA I am thinking that if I could make the spacing smaller and make it equal between each item then all would be fine... but I am a bit lost, and have been experimenting, so may have messed things up somewhat! Hope some CSS gurus out there can help!! Thanks in advance... The CSS is here: #nav { padding: 0; margin: 8px 0 8px 45px; list-style: none; } #nav ul a { padding: 10px 0 6px 6px; } #nav a { display: block; width: 15em; color:#fff; text-decoration:none; } #nav li a:hover, #nav a:active { color: #F64337; } * html #nav a { width: 8em; } #nav li { float: left; width: 8em; } #nav li ul { position: absolute; width: 15em; left: -999em; background: #000; padding: 0 0 3px 0; } #nav li:hover ul, #nav li.sfhover ul{ left: auto; }

Thanks a lot, I wish I could lay claim to the design. Im just doing the ExpressionEngine implementation and a few layout tweaks though. And a right headache its turning out to be! :/

Yes. Managed to sort this out eventually. I've had a nightmare day with one thing and another! It wasn't sIFR related as it turns out, just me being a complete CSS newbie as usual. I forgot to left float the containing element and specify a few widths here and there. I'll post the amended code, if it helps : #youth-head, #youth-head h1 { float: left; background:#ff4cd3; } #youth-head { width: 100%; } #youth-head p { float: right; margin: 15px 15px 0 0; color: #fff; } So, just me being a numpty really... I forget as much as I learn when it comes to CSS.

Yes. sIFR is implemented on those headings, and you are right, I also noticed that at first it appears to load correctly, and then drops down. I wonder if its a "sIFR in IE6" issue then.. rather than a normal IE6 issue. hmmm.

Hi, I have an IE 6 display issue, believe it or not. Can't for the life of me nail what the problem is, my mind is blank. I'm sure it must be an easy fix though, so grateful for any pointers. Take a look at this in IE7 or FF : <URL removed> The pink heading bar at the top should be fairly thin, if you look at it in IE6, the H1 heading drops and makes the bar double the height. Here are the relevant bits of CSS: #youth-head, #youth-head h1 { background:#ff4cd3; } #youth-head p { float: right; margin: 15px 15px 0 0; color: #fff; } Sorry if that code snippet doesnt really help, but hopefully you you can view the source and work out whats going on! Sorry! I can't work it out... it always seems to be the little IE6 bugs that get me. EIther that or I'm doing something wrong. Grateful to anyone who can spare a moment to look at this. Cheers rich

angstmann is my surname. Its of Germanic origin, but I'm personally of Swiss origin, 50% Swiss, 50% British. I've always used it on forums and use it to sign up to a lot of other sites. It sometimes annoys me once I get comfortable on a particular forum and get to know people. I'd rather people called me by my first name really (Richard/Rich), as it seems odd to use my surname to refer to me, as NOBODY refers to me as that in real life at all. (not since school anyway, and thats a distant memory!)

All my previous and current dealings with Fasthosts have generally been pretty negative. They offer a great feature set at a great price, but they charge for extras like nobody's business and they have a very strange attitude to support. IE. you get a dedicated server that comes with no support at all, yet you buy bog standard shared hosting or a reseller account and you get support!? Crazy. Also they are very poor communicators with their customers and have reliability and capacity issues regularly. I cant say a good word about them. We hope to move the vast majority of our client sites over to a Clook VPS later this year.

Totally agree with you Bluedreamer. SEO in the way you describe it makes my skin crawl. I have a love-hate relationship with it in general. I hate doing it, hate keyword research, keyword density and all the bull and TOTAL contradictory information I read really does my head in. It seems to me that there really is no right or wrong way to approach SEO and I honestly find SEO the most BORING topic to read about and the most BORING part of my working life. I just don't understand the fixation with it, and like wise wizely the over-SEO'd copy I read on websites makes me want to puke. I am also sick of browsing through the various web forums and not being able to see past all the SEO gubbins that people are spouting. I do appreciate the importance of basic SEO and things like backlinks etc, they are a necessary evil, but I have recently unsubscribed from every single SEO-related RSS feed because I'm totally sick of reading SEO bull.

Text Editor suggestions from me: Mac - TextMate (www.macromates.com) Windows - E Text Editor (www.e-texteditor.com)

In my opinion £100 is WAY too low. £100 buys you nothing these days.. you gotta earn a living!

Loving my new iPhone. Had an iPod Touch before so I knew what to expect in many ways, however, the 3G iPHone really does take things to a new level for me. Only problem so far... battery life, but thats cos I have been using it actively (rather than passively) since I got it a few weeks ago. Its not perfect, what phone is, but its easily the best phone I have ever owned, probably the best gadget I have ever owned to be honest. I'm not blinded by Apple products only GOOD products. I wouldn't buy any piece of rubbish just cos Apple released it (although I know some people who would!)