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Thanks ayoungh, I'll review this more closely soon and see if it meets my needs. Nevertheless, if anyone else has suggestions, let me know.

You guys know of any good accounting systems out there? Essentially something I can keep track of accounts payable and tax information, etc.

It’s a misplaced emphasis in what is important in online marketing. These business owners think that managing their own web site will save them money. However, it is better for small business owners to focus their core competency to run their business, and leave the work to someone who can make their website work for them. Yet, they still have a legitimate question: What value do you add? And you should have some advantages over the enthusiastic teenaged hobbyist. Upsell your skills in SEO, online marketing strategies, having access to great CMS templates, or whatever edge is true and worth your while. And know your niche and target audicence. Sometimes the client isn't worth pursuing.

I remember reading about web safe colors a while back. I read somewhere that those concerns are no longer applicable to modern monitors.

Thanks for the welcome. ayoungh, there's so much to say about it, but in brief, I found that good standardized markup allows good usability for users with disabilities. Cliche as it may sound, developing with the progressive enhancement allows user agents to do their thing to facilitate to disabled users. For example, One interesting concept I learned regards laying out your site with the most relevant information at the top (using just HTML), so it can be read to users using screen readers. You can always use CSS to manage the arrangement (for style, emphasis, etc) for other users who navigate by sight.

Hi jbraden37, To create a seamless gradient background that blends with the background colour of your website, use the css repeat property where you declare your background image. body { background-color: #E50303; background-image: url(images/background-gradient.jpg) repeat-x; } The "repeat-x" in the code above tells your gradient image to only repeat horizontally. Therefore, the gradient will cover the width of your site, and any information past the height of the gradient image will be shown over your background colour.

As Wickham said, add a float to allow your boxes to line up side-by-side. When they run out of space to fit on the same line, they will wrap to the next line. You may need to establish a new block formatting context on your container div by giving it one of the following properties: * float: left * float: right * position: absolute * display: inline-block * display: inline-table * display: table-cell * display: table * overflow: auto * overflow: scroll * overflow: hidden The block formatting will allow your container to "hold" the floated elements, which may otherwise overlap with the parent container.

Excellent find. I didn't think free invoice management systems were out there—yet, I shouldn't be suprised that they exist. Thanks for sharing!

If you'd like to add your msn address to your website, as Lena mentioned, including it on your contact page is the way to go. However, keep in mind that placing your email address publicly on a web site also makes it readable to spam bots, and you will receive more spam to your msn address inbox. To display your email address while avoiding spam, it will be helpful to consider ways of masking the "@" in the address from spam bots. Common techniques are at-manglers done on a scripting language (complicated, but there are scripts you can copy/paste) writing your address as an image (not difficult, but not most convenient for your user, and or the ol' write-it-with-brackets trick: yourname [at] yourdomain.com (easy, not the prettiest). Hope we understood your request right

They mean that you shouldn't use tables to position information on your website (unless it is information that is supposed to be in a table) and definitely not for the structure of your website. From your description, I'm guessing your news section doesn't need to be in a table. You can surround the information with <div></div> tags and use CSS to define how it looks on the page. Do you have some CSS knowledge?

Hi All, Just warming with a shout-out and a little-bit-about-me. I was one of those teenagers that learned HTML by reading forums, tutorials online and peaking at other people's code. I studied Media in University and wrote my thesis on design standards for interoperability. My research focused a bit on designing for users with disabilities. Today I work for a web design company and working on building my portfolio with a little freelance. See you all in the forums!