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Hey guys, thanks for all the replies Never thought about the ambient light/not having the room dark thing.....that might explain a few things Cris

Hey guys/girls/other, Having spent all of my computing life since 1998 using Windows based computers and laptops with various screens, I finally had my first experience of a Mac last Friday after spending a few hours coding on a friends 27" iMac. Although I am not in any way, shape or form an Apple fanboi (far from it) I was very impressed by the monitor and how to me (as a 4-eyed migraine and headache sufferer) there seemed to be very little, if any, glare from the screen under any circumstance yet still offering very good contrast and brightness to allow me to code and design for those few hours. Now I know nothing about monitors other than resolution, and with this in mind could someone please let me know firstly whether it was pure coincidence that I felt the Apple monitor offered near zero glare, and secondly what to look out for in a monitor when I look to buy myself a new one in those January sales? I have heard of frequency and refresh rates and aspect ratios and all that but it means nothing to me Any advice greatly appreciated as always Cris

For some reason I now cant edit my post, very odd. Anyways, is ANYONE able to offer me some advice please as to what could possibly be wrong with my code in post #3 above that would mean the HelveticaLTStdRoman font isnt displaying properly? Thank you.

*whisper* Between you and I, I dont know what the difference is anyways

Hi Zed, thanks for the reply. I have the following @font-face syntax in my CSS sheet: <div>@font-face { font-family: HelveticaLTStdRoman; src: url(../fonts/HelveticaLTStdRoman.otf);} and it is called in the H4 styling as follows: #upperfooter h4 { font-family: HelveticaLTStdRoman, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; margin: 5px 0 30px 7px; } Can you see anything wrong with my coding that would stop the helvetica font from loading? The font is hosted on my hosting here: www.uk-microrc.co.uk/university/salomon/htdocs/fonts/HelveticaLTStdRoman.otfAlso, if both are loading Arial, why would one then use different margins?thanks

I asked someone to check out my latest project site that I am working on and they came back with a problem that has baffled me all day and I am hoping you guys and girls will be able to offer some advice Apparently this screenshot has been take whilst viewing the page in Chrome on a Mac running OS X. This is how I see it, running W7 and viewing in the latest versions of IE, Chrome, FF, Opera and Safari. The site can be found at http://www.uk-micror...docs/index.html Can anyone think of any reason why the margins wouldnt look right in the first screenshot? Is it a Mac issue or just some freak of nature issue? The guy with the Mac said that he thought it was because his Mac wouldnt import the HelveticaLTStdRoman font and therefore reverted over to Arial, but the font in both screenshots looks remarkably similar? Also, if you declare a <h4> as 24px (for example) surely the two fonts should therefore be 16px from top to bottom of the text? Im so confused! Thanks in advance

Hi guys/girls As I only have 2 months left until I finish university I am hunting around trying to find as many local web design studios etc as I can to see what is out there and "available" to me. The problem I am seemingly coming across is exactly what to search for in Google....? Ive been searching for "web designer gloucester", "web design studio gloucester", and "design studio gloucester" but also came across "creative digital agency gloucester" etc. Could any of you pass on some ideas of good keywords that I could throw into Google at all please? Hopefully the information you pass over in this thread might be of use to others in the same boat too Thanks as always, Cris

Just wondered if you had access to some sort of design tool. Using PS to knock up your ideas etc will help you loads with the whole "visualising the job" thing, and that tutorial I linked to a few posts ago will explain all how to slice em up ready for stick on t'internets

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/design-and-code-your-first-website-in-easy-to-understand-steps/ That was the first tutorial I used to get me started and I still refer back to it (to remember how to use the social icons in the right hand side list). Have a play around with that too. Do you have Photoshop at all?

At least you're still enthusiasic about it Have a look around that Net Tuts+ site I linked you to earlier in the thread, there are loads of great posts, not just that one I linked.

Considering you've been playing with HTML/CSS for 4-5 weeks I dont think its shabby at all! Yeah learn about colour theory, yeah learn to put your CSS in a specific style.css file etc etc, but thats all things to do in the future as you continue learning new techniques and skills. As far as where you are after only 5 weeks of looking into coding inbetween having a social life I think you've done very well indeed. Hell having spent the last 3 years at Uni I can honestly say that your site is better than some the shiz ive seen from my fellow student "associates". You aint going to win any awards with that site, or top the Google rankings, but its a start, and we were ALL once learning how to code and in the same position as you. Keep it up, you'll learn loads in a short period of time and you'll look back at this design and see the changes and improvements. If you are seriously interested in all this have a look at this "Basix" set of tutorials on the NetTuts+ website: http://net.tutsplus.com/sessions/web-design-from-scratch/ Lots of great information especially if you are starting off with a very limited knowledge of web design

And with that, I finally understand what this "last-child" thing is all about. Thanks!

Didnt see the 2nd image. For the 2nd image I would just replace the #body with the following: <div id="body"> <div id="content"> </div> </div><!-- end body --> I know there are ways of coding columns in CSS3 but ive never tried my hand at that....

If this was me, id start as follows.... <body> <div id="wrapper"> <div id="header"> <div id="logo"> <h1>Logo</h1> </div> <div id="navigation"> <ul> <li><a href="#">home</a></li> <li><a href="#">about</a></li> <li><a href="#">services</a></li> <li><a href="#">portfolio</a></li> <li><a href="#">contact</a></li> </ul> </div> </div><!-- end header --> <div id="body"> <div id="info"> </div> <div id="services"> </div> <div id="offers"> </div> </div><!-- end body --> <div id="footer"> <p>Copyright © Cris Oxley 2011</p> </div><!-- end footer --> </div><!-- end wrapper --> </body> </html> You could replace the navigation UL with a simple set of H2's if you insist on using the | bar? Hope that helps a little?

Thanks for all the replies fellas, a great help as always