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You should use a component like Community Builder for the first option. It allows custom fields and user profiles. Just switch off the parts of CB you don't need.

I did find this yes, but it seems to be just a page with forms that go to the relevant individual websites. So the W3C HTML Validtor would be a single page at a time. Then if you needed to compile a report for someone you need to cpoy and paste from all the different websites, and then into your own format. So what I was hoping is to find some software that does all tests, for an entire website, and provides a report. Regarding the single page W3C validator, I did find this tool which uses the W3C validaotr to do all pages on the site, http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/. But would be good to get other checkers in there too like Broken Links etc.

I have been trying to find some software that performs all website checks you need for all pages on the site but am surprised I cant find any. Software I can find seems SEO related and checks keywords, competitors, etc. and valid HTML checks seem to be one page only W3C checks. I wondered if there is some software that encompases as many website checks as possible (valid html, css, broken links, missing image alt, missing image width/height, bad syntax etc etc) for all pages on the site, that gives a nice report at the end. If it encompases SEO issues too then great. Thanks

I've been trying to use GIMP and Paint.NET instead of Photoshop for a long time but they just dont cut it. They are both missing some simple and crucial features used often like drop shadows on text, and all the other layer effcts. You can add scripts to GIMP to make this work, but not very good. The preview does not work for me and it takes ages to render. So I decided to invest in Photoshop, there is no alternative. I bought a new CS4 on ebay for £150.

A client gave me a very comprehensive report a SEO company prepared on their website, covering just about everything you can think of, not just on SEO but accessibility etc. I thought they used some software to generate it and wanted to get it. But I cant seem to find much software that does this. There's WebCEO but it is not as comprehensive as this other one at all. I wondered if anyone knows what website checking software is available to run comrehensive reports on websites? Thanks

One thing I always make sure people understand and thats the difference between Web Design and Web Development. If you become a Web Designer, you may create good looking websites, but if you build it with just HTML/CSS it will be quite a basic, static site, that in my opinion does not deserve to be built these days. Whereas a Web Developer will be able to build dynamic and functional websites that actually serve more of a purpose than a "brochure website". Ideally a Web designer will design the site and the Developer build it. To be the developer and build sites you need server side scripting languages like PHP/MySQL or ASP/MSSQL. Content Managers should be the norm. To design a site then graphic design skills are necessray, User Experience understanding (UX) and things like that. Its not enought to just learn HTML/CSS these days, you need a lot more to build a good website.

I searched for ages trying to find info, I didn't know they were called "sitelinks" so nothing much came up. Now I know they're called sitelinks there's quite a lot of pages on this so will have a good read. My own site ranks #1 for certain popular keywords with my local area and I dont get them. So probably a combination of factors. Hopefully the results that come up searching for sitelinks will give some tips toward trying to get them. thanks

Hi. I know of another site showing the links and it has a PR4 (according to a few of the 3rd party PR checkers) but my site also is PR4 but does not. Must be something in addition to PR maybe?

Hi I have tried searching for this online but cant find it anywhere. If you do a search for webdesign forum you will see extra page names/links added under the main page result. This is quite common now on many sites. I wondered if it was automatic but i cant get it for any of my sites, so wondered if there was something you can do? Thanks

Hi. Just wondered if anyone knows a good dedicated server company in the UK for approx. £100 per month? So far I only know about 1and1 and Fasthosts and similar but am worried about using them as I have bad experience in the past. I have a hosting provider that are great for my many websites on the VPS I have with them, but a client requires their own dedicated server due to space requirements. We need at least 40Gb I would say, initially. My current host VPS dont have the space (max. 20Gb), and their dedicated server offering is too expensive (~£380 per month). Thanks

But the web designer is no longer around. So I cannot take my wrath out on them. God forbid, they may have even died. If that is the case they cant be unhappy either. People seem to assume the web developer is in business still, or at least knows or cares whats going on. But the developer has abandoned the clients and their business after taking payment, with no notice. We dont know whats happened to them. You cannot think its Ok for a developer to take a clients money then cut off the service and dissappear. Or at least for no one to help the client if this happens.

Pipe10 have replied. But it seems they are adamant not to give the content even though they admit the web developer is uncontactable (yet continue to ask me to contact them ). Their support reply clearly indiciates they do not care about the end client and would rather support the client who is out of business. I would be very weary about using www.pipeten.com as they do not seem to want to help on this matter at all. So I think legal advice in a situation like this is the only way to do it. Thanks for your replies. The www.archive.org website seemed excellent at first. It did have the homepage and contact us page of the website, but no other page unfortunately.

I am just after some advice on what to do, so it seems contacting a lawyer to take this up with Pipe10 then is so far the only option. I just wanted to make it clear that "contacting the web developer" is not an option as we have been trying for months, they have dissapeared. Everyone keeps telling us we have to "contact the web developer" no matter how many times we tell them thats not an option as we have tried and failed! Pipe10 are no longer answering my emails.

I think your missing the point, your statements assume the web developer is still around and contactable... I am still here and alive and well so obviously the hosting company wont be allowing anyone access to my server which is of course correct. A client is able to call me up for permission to access their account or for me to send them the content. But if god forbid everyone in my company died I think the hosting company should try to help the clients who I had websites with by allowing them access to their content (if the account was paid up which we are offering to do). Currently it is as if the web developer has closed business and/or died so we cannot continue a discussion with the hosting company based on "contacting the web developer". For all intent and purposes the web developer is no longer a factor, not part of the chain, does not exist. The contract is with a ghost. We are happy to give proof to the web hosting provider but they are not offering us that option. They are not offering any options apart from "contact the web developer" even though we have explained they do not exist anymore. But no one seems to understand that they have vanished.

I would argue this point.... firstly we dont know why the web developer wants to restirct access, he has not given the client any reason. Their site was suspended one day with no notice, but they have paid all their money and done nothing wrong. So personally I do not think the web developer has the right at all (although I am not a legal expert). Also, the web developers own website has been suspended with the same message. I forgot to mention that. We do not know if the hosting company, Pipe10, has suspended all his accounts (perhaps he has not paid them) or whether he has suspended his own and the clients website. Either way, the client has paid up and not done anything wrong, so personally I think they should be able to get their content from pipe10 in the web developers absence. I also think Pipe10 are being completely unhelpful and are just sticking by policy rather than helping clients. If the web developer has not paid them then we are happy to pay them so we can get the content, but they wont even offer this as solution. They offer no help whatsoever.