PowerDresser

My 2 cents worth... 1. Porn 2. Music/Movies 3. Fancy cellphone stuff (like YouMail)

Im not sure how many of you are out to make money from your web sites, but I'm wondering how many of us lot actually do. Are we so tech savvy that we endulge ourselves into the depths of semi-colons and curly braces too often to think about the bigger picture? Am I the only one who is guilty of forgetting the overall strategy and objective of the site? Ive actually created some notes which I keep running while working on the site. It helps me maintain the focus. Perhaps the need for the notes is not a great sign in the first place, but I can get bogged down in the odd CSS issue here and there. So just out of curiosity, how many of you are earning a substantial living from your pieces of work?

Hi Liam, I am using JReviews from reviewsforjoomla.com. I tried their trial version to see if it would suit me. I have actually bought the fully licensed version and to be honest with you, £50 is quite a bargain for the flexibility of the system. They've done so much work but left it flexible enough to accommodate a vast amount of scenareos.

I would suggest using a combination of Design and Code view. In the version I used to use, you could do this. Remember the click "Refresh" (or whatever it's called now) to update the Design view if you update the code by hand. I still think it is useful to test out how things work - esp. when you're using layers.

Yes I think so. As a matter of fact, I think it's pretty good to learn CSS. Type some text, give it a class definition and play around with the options and then you can see in the stylesheet what it has done. Plus, you can preview most things without having to save your file all the time and opening a browser.

Thank you very much! I really appreciate the time you have taken to evaluate my site. I also appreciate your comments about the fact that this site has a professional tone. This was one of the key objectives of the site, as I'd like this site to be used by people of all age groups. Of course! Thanks for the useful comments! This is something I am looking into. I am messing about with my scribblings (on paper) as we speak. I've changed the size and strength of those title fonts. It does stand out better now. I've tried a few scenareos, and the best looking one I thought was to keep the tagling underneath the logo. It didn't look quite right sitting in the middle. Because of the way the template is, I wanted to keep the top part clear as it gives a clean look. My goal is to keep content on the page to a minimum. I've seen other Airline/Airport review sites and I find them very busy. It makes all the elements appear less significant. Also, I am planning to localise the site into European languages as well as Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. (This could be costly, but this will be later). As a result, I have reserved the area just under the "Access" button for switching the language. That leaves a gap in the middle, but I still like to keep it less busy. This is a consequence of using a ready-made template which I bought several months ago. I'll take a look into this as well. Quite right about 'fireworks'. Im not keen on them either. I want my visitors to have a peaceful and informative visit with as few distractions as possible. You're right. The interesting thing was the something I read in Google itself about coverage - but they would suggest sticking more ads I guess. Yup, it did help. Thanks a lot for the help. By any chance, have you travelled in the last couple of years? Hi AVVStudios, thank you for your comments.

Are you short on time? Have you thought of looking at existing templates such as the ones on templatemonster.com?

As bluedreamer said, you could use a CMS. Most good CMS installations are usually support multilingual sites. Is Bangali script Right-To-Left? If you're coding from scratch, I would recommend you set each of your page's encoding to UTF-8. You could use the ISO encoding equivalent, but I think its better to stick with UTF-8. If Bangali script is RTL, you'll also need to specify this in your body tag. Here are the examples <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" > <body dir="rtl"> Only use the latter if Bangali is right to left - otherwise you will see your scroll bars, combo boxes and other things flipped horizontally.

When it comes to SEO, the job of modern search engines is to "recommend" sites based on its analysis of your site. Someone above said you don't need to fork out money to enhance your ranking. This is definitely true. As mentioned above if you conform to the usual guidelines, you won't be penalised. It's also worth noting that if someone is searching for BMWs, you don't want Postman Pat's web site appearing (I have no idea why I gave those examples, but my point was that you really want to attract the right visitors. Here's a list of things you can do/check for. 1. Check if you have a robots.txt file in your site root. This will give search engine robots an idea where it is permitted to sniff around your site, especially if you have physically separated your site out by using subfolders. 2. Generate a sitemap of your structure. There are many tools out there that can generate the sitemap XML. You can then submit this to Google (along with your Robots.txt file). In time, Google will start indexing based on the "content" of your site - not just the META and Title tags. Also, one other point worth noting is Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs. If you're using a CMS, your CMS may be able to generate good URLs that look like /section/content.html instead of /index.php?p=1&item=2 etc etc.

I would say think about your objective. Are you learning for the sake of learning the ins and outs of web dev? If so, going down the route of hard coding simple sites in (X)HTML and CSS using your favourite text editor is a great place to start. If you're looking to construct a site for a particular purpose (in a short space of time), think about using an existing platform to develop upon. Examples of these could be a CMS such as Joomla or Drupal. You could adapt a blogging platform such as Wordpress as well. There are many templates out there for both Joomla and Wordpress (not many for Drupal). I know this might be a little early in the day for you, but keep in mind the separation between the appearance and the coding. I'll stop here before I talk more crap at this late hour....

Hello everyone, I've recently constructed a site using the Joomla CMS and some components in order to collect and present visitors ratings on Airlines they have travelled with and Airports they have visited. The site can be accessed at http://jet-vista.com I'd like some constructive feedback in the following areas: 1. Design / Layout 2. Usability 3. Any other areas. Im working on a method of searching fields in the reviews and giving the visitors a method of generating reports. (This will take me some time however)