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Hi all, Firstly, I don't want this to be breaking any rules. But seeing as this is a general discussion area, I assume that it will be ok. I run a Sunday League football team in Brighton, and we are crowd funding for the new season. We are looking to raise £500 towards a new kit. To those who are unaware, Sunday League football is surprisingly expensive, and with traditional sponsorship proving more and more difficult, I thought I'd try something a bit different.. If you get a moment to check the link below out, and maybe even donate, that would be great. I appreciate that there are charities and such which need money more etc...but this is important to me, and to the people who are associated with the club. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/sussex-coast-fc Thanks

Its important to not go into it expecting clients to just fall on your lap. Im currently putting everything together to get into freelancing again, but i tried about 4 years ago when I left college. I was naive, and just thought oh ill make a website, put a couple of classified ads up...happy days! If only it was that easy... You won't be supprised to hear that I didn't get much out of it. Im now older and wiser and understand that its not easy, and its going to take a lot of hard work. As suggested above, if you can do some free work to help build a portfolio, or indeed just create some dummy sites which have no real purpose other than to show off your skills as a designer. But make sure you take your time, do read up on things etc...and another really good suggestion someone mentioned above - find a site you like, and just copy it. See how close to the site you are copying you can get. Its a really good exercise to improve your skills.

I agree with GoldRush98, needs some work. Its a really nice start, and there isn't too much wrong in my opinion. I really dislike the icons at the top. They don't seem to match the rest of the site. Everything else is clean lines and flat, but these icons have shadows, 3d effect etc..Simple flat square ones, or circle ones would help the header I think. My other major gripe is the text...its quite boring. The main text areas aren't so bad, but the sidebar text is too big, and as mentioned above, doesn't have sufficient padding etc.. Also, ive just notices aswell, the newspaper type text layout? Justify I think it is...no need for it on a website in my opinion. Just align it left, it will help...something like this perhaps (very quick mockup) Like I said earlier, its a really nice start, and a few minor changes would improve it so much!

How much "Comedy" is too much? I personally like it when I read something on someones porfolio which makes me giggle, and always try and add some myself as it seems more friendly and natural. Whats your opinion, do you like it? Or do you try and avoid it at all costs...

Mastering photoshop as suggested above would take years...ive been using it for a while now, and am quite good for things like designing website layouts etc...but some of the crazy s**t i see people do on it blows my mind! I would focus on learning the basics of html and css...you only need basic knowledge to start off, and can pick up new skills along the way. As a simple exercise, try and create a simple website with a header, main text area and footer. Then start adding things to it...if it doesn't work, go and see why it doesn't work and try again. There is nothing more satisfying in coding, when you can't get something to work, and then suddenly you have a brain wave and alter the code slightly, resulting in it working! Good luck!

Well when creating a PSD for a website, it makes sense to make all the visuals for reference, but rather than saving them as images and using them later etc...just recreate it with css.

Hi, so as the topic suggests im looking to be pointed in the right direction on how to dynamically get an ID. $('.updateEasyPieChart').on('click', function(e) { e.preventDefault(); $('.percentage, .percentage-light').each(function() { var newValue = document.getElementById(1).innerHTML; $(this).data('easyPieChart').update(newValue); $('span', this).text(newValue); }); }); here is the piece of code which needs editing, im not looking for someone to do it for me, i want to do it myself...i would just like someone to give me some helpful info on how to do it. The 1 inside document.getElementById(1) Needs to be called dynamically throught the links below...the id of each link is sequential 1, 2, 3 etc...When that link/button is clicked, I somehow need the id of the link to be passed into the document.get...understand what i mean? <li><a href="#" id="1" class="button updateEasyPieChart">70</a></li> <li><a href="#" id="2" class="button updateEasyPieChart">60</a></li> <li><a href="#" id="3" class="button updateEasyPieChart">50</a></li> If you look here at this quick link, you can see what im basically trying to get working by clicking the button 70. When 70 is clicked, the value in the pie chart changes (none of the other work as it is calling only id 1) http://fifamatchgene...chart/examples/ Im not the best with javascript...so any help is appreciated. Thanks!

There are a couple of basic things you need to get sorted first! Your Code <!DOCTYPE html> <head> <title>Ask Smartphones - review phones that no or little reviews</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/main.css"> </head> <!--begin top--> <header> <div id="menu"> <p>Ask AP</p> <li><a href="index.html">Search</a></li> <li><a href="index.html">Forums</a></li> <li><a href="index.html">Blog</a></li> </div> </header> <div class="content"> <img src="images/Icontelephone.png" alt="click here to search"> </div> <div id="body"> </div> Pointers...Whoever told you to have <div id="body"> im pretty sure needs shooting! (unless ive been living in a cave)...also you have no closing <html>...also header will only work on modern browsersm which is fine if only you plan to look at it, but if other want to and have ie 8 for example, it might not work. But i believe you can use javascript to allow the browser to see it...Take a look at the code what i would use (just something else to try) <!DOCTYPE html> <!--header info--> <head> <title>Ask Smartphones - review phones that no or little reviews</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/main.css"> </head> <!--End header info--> <body> <!--Body Opening--> <div id="wrapper"> <header> <div id="menu"> <p>Ask AP</p> <li><a href="index.html">Search</a></li> <li><a href="index.html">Forums</a></li> <li><a href="index.html">Blog</a></li> </div> </header> <div class="content"> <img src="images/Icontelephone.png" alt="click here to search"> </div> </div> </body><!--Body closing--> </html> /*css reset*/ html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre, a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code, del, dfn, em, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp, small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var, b, u, i, center, dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li, fieldset, form, label, legend, table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td, article, aside, canvas, details, embed, figure, figcaption, footer, header, hgroup, menu, nav, output, ruby, section, summary, time, mark, audio, video { margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0; font-size: 100%; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; } /*css reset*/ body{ /*background color or image tags go here*/ } #wrapper{ width:960px; margin:auto; border:solid 1px red; /*good practice for early building stages*/ } header{ width:100%; height:50px; border:solid 1px green; } #content{ width:100% height:500px; border:solid 1px blue; } Aslong as you follow the DOM, things should just fall into place (read up on that)...im not a fan of using float:right either...float left is always the best option for me...but thats just preference...its weird coding in a reply box so, sorry if there are any errors....And if you plan on using dreamweaver, please don't get in the habbit of using the drag and drop features....dremweaver is very good for coding, but drag and drop is just wroooong! Good luck! p.s. I don't know what happened to the code indenting...went a little weird...

I dont like the way the color scheme changes. I think the site should stick to the scheme of the homepage as that is quite nice, and the jump from dark theme to light with purple banners is pretty extreme. But homepage i do quite like

I like it, nice color scheme, bright colors but not too in your face. I would however move the feaured properties section up a little to try and maintain a consistent gap between sections...other than that, good job! *edit* also, not too sure about the indent in the text, maybe try and align the text with the boxes (if that makes sense)

ahhh i always do that...hahaa, thanks for spotting it

thanks, i did have the gallery right at the top below the header...but decided to sling it at the bottom....I think i will slow the news line at the top down a little..thanks for replying

Just thought I would get some feedback on the website i've made for the football team i've set up... Its pretty much finished...a couple of things to tweak but apart from that, its good to go! Ive only tested in IE and Firefox, but haven't heard anything bad from people using other browsers so far... Let me know what you think http://interwebsuk.com/scoastfc/

agreed, thank you!

uhhh, the counter is to track matches generated, not page views!! In the first month of this year's version of the match generator, 10,000 matches were generated... Also, could you please try and stick to the questions and not drift away to your own personal doubts. I posted to get some help, not to be told that im lying. The page doesn't need a good SEO rating, just type into google "fifa random match" or "fifa random generator" im top...also my app is known on forums etc... thanks for you help...