Leon79

Let me update you on the project now that I've been working on it for a week. I created and sent 1 wireframe and 3 prototypes of the site to the customer for their review, based on my initial sketches. As you all said, the quality of the pictures they sent me is really horrible, not useable at all. I advised them to hire a photographer which they are now looking into. No feedback yet on the deliverables that I sent them. Let's wait and see what happens.....

I would definitely create a Business of some sort. If not for loans or credits from the bank, it's an excellent tool to guide you throughout your journey and assess yourself. It keeps you on track and aware of your goals. I'm running an online store and two years after launch I still consult my Business Plan, and I still feel like my initial ideas are as valid as they were when I started. So by all means yes. It doesn't have to be lengthy though. A one pager can be sufficient just make sure whatever you put in there is relevant and achievable and don't set your targets too high....don't overestimate yourself. Do a google search for 'SMART principle'. I would also advise to find a mentor or colleague entrepreneur and have him/her look at it with a sharp eye. It helped me a lot.

Thanks Climber, I agree! I won't rush it, quality is more important than quantity. The client can also not expect me to have a site fully completed in a week for € 500. I wouldn't rush it even if they paid me a lot more.

Thanks the_web_wizard, I talked to them today, they're really small and their budget is actually € 500. This is really not a lot of money and if I had any experience I would not accept. Given the fact that I need some real work for my portfolio I think I will go ahead and do it anyway. It's a great learning experience in any case and once I'm more experienced I can start charging 'normal' rates. @citypaul: thanks, yes, indeed I got the impression today that they have 0 knowledge with regards to building sites and it may end in more work and a longer duration of the project if things need to be changed along the way. Regarding images, they will provide everything. I'm quite well 'schooled' in the theory of building sites, the process and the tools needed. Just haven't done any 'real' client work so far, just some personal stuff. A question for all of you: say you're an experienced UX/UI/Web designer in NW Europe and they ask you to do a 3 - 7 pages Wordpress Site, what would be your minimum ? The site would include standard html5, css3 and some Jquery. Thanks !

Hi there, I was looking for some general advice on pricing for a first project, hopefully this is the right forum for that :-). Tomorrow I will be visiting the client who needs a small website. They are a beauty salon combined with a coffeehouse and they currently do not have a web presence. They need a simple responsive site of appr. three to seven pages with contact form, about page etc. I'm thinking of building a Wordpress driven site. This is the first time that I will be building anything for money and have no idea what I should charge? I would prefer to quote them a final price for the whole project instead of hourly billing. Any ideas? Their budget will probably be less than € 800. Does this make any sense ? Thanks!

Thanks all! It worked but was not quite the effect I wanted. For the moment I just leave the pic left top. Thanks anyway for your helpful suggestions!

Thanks Wickham. That was a very good idea :-) I tried it but as you said, the results are different across browsers.... I guess for the moment I'll stick with the standard float, top left. Thanks!

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Hi all, I have a little problem with text not wrapping around the top my image. See attached the "AS IS" screenshot and the "DESIRED EFFECT" screenshot. I did play around with floating the picture inside it's element to the left and it appears the floating works, however, I'd like to have the image in the left bottom with the text nicely wrapping on top and to the right of it. What CSS markup do I need? This probably quite easy to fix, however I've been playing around with it for about 15 mins. and no solution yet... Thanks for your help!!

What also worked was removing the background image repeat x and y (since it will already go horizontal and vertical by default) and setting the margin to 0; on the #body.

OK I think I found the solution: setting the margin on the #Body to -20px; solved the problem........ not sure if this is really a valid solution but it worked and looks fine in both Safari and Chrome....

Hi Nils, I tried it, but it did not solve the issue.... It only removed the margin at the bottom, not at the top. "margin-top: 0px;" didn't work either... I also switched off linking to the reset.css but that didn't work.... Do I have any options left? ;-) Thanks

And the strange thing is that I already set up margin:0px; in my reset css as well.......

Hi Nils, thanks for your reply. I do have firebug as add on in Safari but didn't use it in this case.... but it's a good idea, thanks! As for the margin:0px;, to what element did you add it? To the wrapper or to the body? I did try this yesterday myself as well but it only solved the problem on the bottom side, not the top. But will try again later today and let you know. Thanks so far!! Leon

Thanks, it's not uploaded yet so I add the CSS markup below. It happens both in Safari and Chrome on Mac OS X. Thanks body { background-image: url(../Images/backgroundpattern.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x,y; font-family: futura; } /* Links */ a:link { } a:visited { } a:active { } a:hover { } /* Page Structure */ #wrap { height: 1100px; width: 960px; margin: 0 auto; padding-top: 0px; background-color: #FFFFFF; } } /* header */ #header { } #logo { } #navbar { } /* Main Content */ #maincontent { } /* Footer */ #footer { }