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BTW - my initial posting of the JC guy was a larking around way of saying "good choice" - I wasn't taking the p***.

Actually those two were jokes - you know, kidding around. Wow - kidding around is one thing. To come up with a comment like that is another though. Perhaps step away from the php for a while, might do you good

This is urban myth. Having dialled up a few on youtube recently I can say from recent and first hand experience that he only actually says "nice" or "great" about 30% of the time. The rest of the time is random stuff - "grr---oovy" being one of my favourites. "Wunderbar", "Mellow" being a couple of examples of other ones. I can edit my post if you insist

IE (certainly 6 not sure about 7) will only implement the :hover class on an <a> tag, so although you could put it directly on the image in Firefox you would have to use js to change it in IE. Looks like what you're trying to do with td:hover would work in Firefox but not IE (or at least not IE 6). By the way it's a semicolon not a full stop, so it's td:hover, not td.hover.

Asus - Grrr---rrrroooovy. I was looking at those (still using CRT). So am I to understand that if you go up to 19" from 17" then you work under a different res? i.e. not 1024 x 768? And some people don't like that for doing web design?

Usually I think they're under the impression that it takes far less time/work then it usually will because of perhaps one of these reasons: They have "had a go" of Dreamweaver and reckon it's easy. Some "Know it all" friend of theirs who has "had a go of" Dreamweaver will tell them it's easy to build your own site nowadays......... Of course both of these don't take into account semantic validated coding, constructing graphics etc. etc. etc.

What if the client wants a very bespoke website, i.e. one that is difficult to make with the existing CMS programs - but the CMS was to be very simple, such as adding simple copy, or pictures to a website, would it be worth trying to make your own simple CMS out of php and mysql that you could bolt on for clients like this?

lol that's cute.

The way I do it is - knock up a quick design, forget about it, knock up another one, forget about it, knock up another one etc. etc. (saving them of course). Don't worry too much about whether they are ideal or not. Then take a break - get fresh eyes and look at them all - there may be elements from one and elements from another one you want to keep, combine them into one design. Also - spend some time looking at other designs on the web to give you inspiration. Don't outright copy them (obviously) but gain ideas from them that you build on. I tend to sit pixel pushing with photoshop a lot - for a while nothing happens but then you hit upon something which gives you another idea, which leads into another idea etc. etc.

I keep getting phone calls from job agencies (got one about half an hour ago) saying "do I use dreamweaver" - to which I say "A bit but I'm more into hand coding". They only seem to care about dreamweaver though, which is frustrating to say the least. Perhaps I ought to ocassionally start using it just so I can say yes to these agencies.

Personally I don't use it anymore for just this reason - I guess it may involve less button pressing or it's kind of "contained" within one program - the view and coding. But yes you have a very good point - it's only really good for coding view, and that's pointless really when you can use notepad and firefox/IE.

I don't like the effect on the logo - it's pointless. Surely you want to make a logo which has an arrow in it to match your name?

I've only used it a bit, but strictly in code view. If you make things in design view you'll end up with a load of rubbish bloated code that won't render properly cross browser. Yes I'm a coding snob. For a reason.

It's nice and clean, however a bit plain. You need seperators in your nav between the nav objects - they are a bit bunched together at the moment. You also have some errors in your code. In the portfolio the pics of the designs don't do anything- like taking you to the site, or enlarging the pic or something. Also there is no logo or anything like that, and the header might look nice as an anti aliased graphic, as it's a bit texty at the moment.

I usually put comments in next to the closing tags as well - like </div> // Wrapper end to keep track.

Hi. That made me think of the Firefox developer tools, especially "html tidy". It will tell you immediately whether there's any unclosed elements, etc. etc. - could be useful to you.

Hi there. Live near London, been teaching myself design and development etc. for just over a year now. (x)html, css, a bit of php, sql, javascript, flash and actionscript. Nice to meet ya.