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Hi all, Any help appreciated on this one. Im currently in the process of designing and building a website, on safari on desktop and my blackberry browser it aligns perfectly fine. However when viewing on my iPod touch or iPad, I'm having a strange issue where my header is indenting/shifting and the footer is also a little dodgy. (I'm not a pro, just like designing and what-not on the side!). Any ideas what it might be? Apologies in advance for the awful coding and messy'ness. Will have someone who is actually good scripting go over it for me! Link: My Broken Website Thanks!

Thanks chaps. Struggling with this AJAX malarky, will get there in the end.

Im working on a contact form for the contact me page. I dont want people to be forwarded on to another page to let them know its been successfull. How do you create like a tool-tip style box to let them know the details have gone through? Thanks Sam

God I love italics!! Thanks for the feedback man. Also, the pointer;cursor worked a treat porky, you da boy!

Totally agree bud. Its just a Typekit crappy java thing they attach if your using the free version. I'm testing to see how robust and reliable it is before purchasing the Pro version. It will be gone soon, I promise

added my validation Sam

Ahhhh gotcha! So basically, keep pointing and hinting at the EPC quote page throughout the website, rather than just highlighting it on the home page. Will get on to that. Is there anyway to see which page people are clicking on when getting a quote? I've got the usual aw stats page, but is there annything which is more in depth for the analytics? Thanks! Sam

Thanks for the in depth feedback mate, really appreciate it. I will add a contact form on the contact page, it does look a little bare now you mention it. Apologies for sounding like a noob, but what do you mean by call to action and how will that help with the oquoyte page? Thanks! Sam

Oh christ, hadn't uploaded the spy validation! How can I change the cursor on hover, I cant seem to sort it out? THANKS! Sam

My advice would be not to start an online estate agency. I know about 5/6 people who have started one and its been a huge fail. In order to get on to Rightmove (which lets be honest, you need to), you will need to have independent valuers/agents working for you up and down the country who can carry out valuations and take images. Avoid it. Unless you have 100k or so to get it up and running (which I assume you don't, as you're looking to pay a fixed fee for a website which will need ongoing development) - You will need T.V advertisement, Radio, Local Press. Its going to cost a lot of money, and when you're only charging someone £250-300 to sell a property, the number just wont stack up unless you go at it big time. Sam

One thing I need to get sorted is an anti-spam to stop the bots on my order page. Any ideas on how to stop them?!

Thanks chaps!

I quite like the italic headers, gives a bit more dynamic I think. Plus, I prefer that font in italic, it looks a little bland straight up! I was thinking about adding one of those jQuery slider thingies on that main section where my laptop man is, but im in two minds about it. Every website ive seen has one and im starting to think they are a little overdone. Thanks fore the feedback so far!

Greenhouse Energy Whats your thoughts people? As always, feedback whether good or bad is much appreciated! I submitted it to CSSMania and it got featured, was made up with that! Regards, Sam

Hmmm, i may look in to font squirrel later on. Yes, the Typekit account is free at the moment, I still hate the way IE makes the text so bitty/pixelated!

Hi, I am currently re-designing my website, and experimenting with Typekit. Is there any way to remove this horrible little gremlin who sits in the bottom right hand corner? If not, what other alternatives are there to Typekit which are reliable and enable me to render my own custom fonts. Thanks, Sam

Domain age?

Very tidy, big fan. Nice.

Thank you for the feedback guys, really appreciate it! You can tell im still a novice! Sam

Thanks for your help guys, I now have a number of targeted keywords and phrases. I am now ranking 4th in google for my main term. I am Happy!

Any tips?

Thanks for the feedback guys, really appreciated. I thought the very light gradient background gave the whole design a bit more depth!.. I will have a tinker later on and see what I can come up with! Sam

I'd say 30% - Only because it hasnt been done... LOL. Subtle, waayyyy better IMO.

Make sure you post up the results!

You can be a sole trader, and be in full time occupation. Id do that, keep a 'normal' job in which you have a regular monthly income, and do the design on the side. If things get really good, and you have plenty of demand for work, Consider it full time. However, I would not put all of your eggs in one basket.