Angelssin

Cheers for that. I agree, if it was a matter of simply tweaking something that already exists, I would be happier, but I'm creating a complete new skin from scratch. I reuse some code from previous projects but that only saves you so much time. To be honest content entry should be chargeable really because you're going out if your way to do something that time consuming, and in this industry time is money.

Hi there, it's been a while since I've last visited the site but I was wondering if you awesome people could help me out with a little predicament. My situation is this. I'm working for an agency and have a little experience developing ecommerce sites in joomla with virtuemart. If I'm honest I don't particularly like the system and would rather use something else but alas, it's what I'm being made to use. My problem is that they expect me to get an entire ecommerce site built within 3 days which I think is pretty unreasonable and nigh on impossible for the sites I'm being given. In my own opinion, I wouldn't like to work on an ecommerce site in less than 5 days otherwise it becomes a rush job. Just wanted a few opinions really. Am I being taken advantage of? And how long does it take you to develop an ecommerce site in the platform you use? Cheers, and as always any help is appreciated.

Personally it sounds little too custom for a CMS like WordPress or Joomla, I could be wrong though. I know there's social plugins out there but have you checked the WordPress plugin or Joomla extensions directory for any plugins that allow tagging?

You can also put overflow: hidden; in your css for the main wrapper. Of course if there's anything that pops out of that container, it won't be shown. It's a good solution for most cases and means less redundant HTML in your code. Sometimes it just doesn't cut it though and you do have to use the clear method above.

Hi, I'm having a bit of a problem getting something working in my wordpress theme. What I want is to get this working... http://www.gmarwaha.com/blog/2007/08/23/lavalamp-for-jquery-lovers/ It works fine in a static HTML file but as soon as I take it into wordpress, it fails to work. It's pretty obvious that wordpress is doing something to stop it and I need to find a way in which wordpress likes the way it is put in. I'll show you what my header code to include it looks like. <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/js/lavalamp_test.css" type="text/css" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/js/jquery-1.1.3.1.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/js/jquery.easing.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/js/jquery.lavalamp.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(function() { $("#a, #2, #3").lavaLamp({ fx: "backout", speed: 700, click: function(event, menuItem) { return false; } }); }); </script> Is there another way I should be doing this? Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers for the help. I think the client meetings thing was more of a cost since they want me to be there, I'm essentially working for them and being paid to be there, I could be wrong though. Thanks for your help, I'm glad a little bit of research into it paid off.

I've done a bit of calculation on this and settled for charging £15 per hour due to me not being experienced enough to be considered professional, but experienced enough to get the job done for good quality within the time limit. So at £15 per hour I've come up with what I will be doing and how long it will take me and a final price. Details below. Rate £15/hour Pages: 10-15 Client meetings/discussion – 2-3 hours Content writing – 3 hours Marking up content – 5-6 hours Marking up for CMS – 5-6 hours Javascript – 2 hours Styling the content – 8 hours Testing – 3 hours Total hours: around 31 Total pay: around £465 Because I've never actually timed myself doing work so this is mostly guess-work I'm doing here, but I've tried to be as realistic as possible and it looks like a fair price for a 10-15 page site with CMS behind it. What do you think? is it a fair price? am I charging too much? too little? Should I be taking more time things of less time on things? am I on the right lines here? Any help again is much much appreciated.

Hi, I've stumbled upon an opportunity for some freelance work. This is my first experience in not only freelance work but actually charging for a website. I had a meeting with my client yesterday and they will be sending me a brief early next week with the details, however I was wondering if the web designer forum could help me out in terms of how I should price my fee. From the meeting we had it seems as though they will be having 5 main pages of their site, with roughly 5 more sub pages deeper in so we're looking at around about a 10-15 page website. They want to be able to update it whenever they want so this will also require it to be CMS based. There is a girl currently working there who designs graphics and she will be handing down the design to me to code, so I will not be doing the graphics for the site. We agreed on a rough 6 weeks completion time (4 weeks to get it done and 2 for adjustments). Any help or useful links would be greatly appreciated. I want to give them a fair price and not really go amazingly over the top with it, but I still want to be paid a fair amount for it too.

It's all sorted now, my host said they were doing maintenance or something...It's just a bit annoying that they didn't tell me beforehand. If I was ecommerce, I'd have been losing money because of it.

Hi there. I woke up this morning to find my websites forum come up with an error saying that its having a problem with its style folder. I had been tinkering with that folder recently, or at least some files in it to make the forum look better as it was quite dull before. I looked up what might be the problem and someone suggested clearing the cache folder in my forum directory. I tried doing that and it won't let me delete any files in there, coming up with "cannot delete <insert file name and directory> Read-only file system. My initial thought was to try and change the permissions to a file in there and see if I could delete it then, but the same thing happened. I tried doing the same in other areas around my website and it seems like it's effected the whole of my website. I've assumed that since it says "file system" that it's something going on my servers side of things, so I have emailed my host what is going on. But while I wait I thought I should ask the experts here what might be the problem? Am I right in thinking its my hosts doing something to my server? For extra info, I'm with one.com hosting and the forum is running on phpbb3. If you need any more info, let me know. What do you think? Any help is as always very much appreciated.

I'm doing my final year project at university and my idea is to make a user driven website that allows them to sign up, have their own profile, add friends from their profiles and the main point is to be recommended series to watch (specifically for japanese animation but that doesn't matter at this point). I want the users to be able to find a series (each series will have its own profile with information such as synopsis, genre, a few screenshots and also an area for users to be able to review the series. I also want the users to be able to add the series from the series' page (kind of like the add friend thing on facebook) and it will appear on their profile as one that they have either watched, are currently watching or if it one of their favourites. I'm probably being a bit specific there though. So my question is which CMS is fit for completing such a task? to be able to have not only user profiles but profiles for series as well. I was thinking of using Wordpress MU or something but I'm not sure if it'd really work. Any suggestions would be massively appreciated!

Hi there, I really want something similar to what I've found on this website. http://www.animekon.com/ Where it says "trailers" you can hover over the images on the right side and the main image will change accordingly with all the right text relating to the selected trailer too. Does anyone know how to do this? or what exactly I should be searching for in terms of the kind of javascript program that will do this as I am no coder. Thanks

I thought exactly the same thing. If I hadn't read the thread title, I would have assumed you were designing a holiday website or something. Don't get me wrong though. I love the design, I just don't think it works as a portfolio site since it's a bit confusing.

I didn't want to start a new topic so I thought what I have to ask might be placed better in this post as I'm also curious about what happens when you start a job in the web industry. I was wondering if it is ok to tell an employer that you have knowledge in PHP but can't really write it from scratch. What I mean is that I can't code stuff in PHP, but I can understand code in lets say wordpress and edit bits to make it do what I want. While I can't code PHP from scratch, I can manipulate existing code to do what I want but I wouldn't want to give them the impression that I'm a super PHP coder that can code them a CMS from scratch or anything, but at the same time I want them to know I can understand it...if that makes sense? Letting them know I can manipulate code is better than saying I know no PHP at all right? Sorry if the question sounds dumb but I really worry about going to a job interview and not knowing how to explain what I can or can't do.

I take it you want to design a logo but don't know where to start? I read this article a little while ago. I think it might be useful to you. http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/06/12-essential-rules-to-follow-when-designing-a-logo/ I hope it helps EDIT: Verawolf, you should be able to edit your posts and insert images the the top post instead of posting again. So you want your opinion on logo's you've designed then or what? It's just you said you have little experience, so I assumed you wanted help designing one.

Hi there. I like the simplicity of your design (I'm a sucker for minimalist designs). I have a couple of suggestions, whether you agree with them or not I don't know. My first suggestion is the bit of text on the left side of the site with the instructions on how to use the site and then a bit about yourself. I think it's necessary to have that info there, but when you click to see your portfolio, it kind of overlaps it. While it takes your attention to the portfolio, I think it'd be better if you could still see the info. I'd suggest shortening the text about yourself or making the box it fits in a bit wider (since you have the space to do that) so it isn't so high. My only other problem is the portfolio box itself. I think that because you don't have a navigation menu, when you open up the portfolio slider it looks a bit like a navigation menu. I think it'd look better with some thumbnail images of your portfolio designs. Just one last thing. I think that while you can close the info panel and open it back up, I don't understand how that is useful. I think that's all from me I hope it helps!

Copying isn't always a bad thing, especially when you're learning. I think if you see a website you like, try to recreate its structure so that you can learn how that structure is made and also you'll have made the base of a site design you quite like so you'll be on the right tracks. I'd advise against looking at templates though. I hate looking at designers sites that look like a wordpress template they'd downloaded or something, it looks so cheap. Instead, look for inspiration in websites that have some great design. I just did a quick google search for "css designs" which comes up with loads of sites that are pretty well designed. This one seems pretty good. http://www.cssheaven.com/ Before I get attacked for saying "copy professional designers sites", I'm not suggesting completely ripping off good designs. I'm just saying to take inspiration and know what you like.

You are my wife now! lol Seriously though, welcome to the forums Dave

Hi there. I'm using wp_list_pages to display the sub pages on my portfolio page here. http://www.angelssin.co.uk/portfolio/ and when I click on the link it takes me to the sub page (the work in my portfolio that I clicked to go to) which for example would be here. http://www.angelssin.co.uk/portfolio/wolves-anime-club/ The code I'm using for the main portfolio page is <? wp_list_pages('title_li=&child_of='.$post->ID); ?> but won't work on the sub page because it has no child pages. So basically I want it to list all of the second level pages and none of the parent pages. I looked into excluding pages but that didn't work. Is there a way that I can display the current level pages and exclude the parent page at all? Any help is as always much appreciated

I pretty much want to create my own page rather than using the wordpress page system. I sort of understand what you mean about creating my own template file for each other page that I decide to have, but I'm not sure what needs to be in there. Would the template file need to be in the root directory or in my themes folder? I'm sorry for the questions but I'm normally used to making static websites where everything's in the same folder and stuff but I want to learn how to do it in wordpress because I think it'd be useful for making better websites.

Hey there. I've pretty much got my index page designed how I want it more or less (in firefox at least for now), but now I want to design my about page in its own file "about.php" rather than as a WordPress "Page". As a bit of a test, I renamed my index to about.php but as I tested it, it comes up with an "object not found!" error. So I guess that it might be trying to load it from the root directory rather than the /wp-content/themes/ folder. However, that didn't work either. I just want to design the rest of my pages the same as my index in their separate files sort of like if I was designing a static site, I'd put index.html, about.html etc in the same folder. Surely there has to be a way. Can anyone help?

Hi guys, I seem to have caused another problem by making my wrapper div's z-index higher than the rest of the divs. It's causing my links to become inactive, like I can't click them or even hover over and see that they are links. I understand that this is because the wrapper layer is above it, causing an invisible wall preventing access to the content inside of the wrapper, but there has to be some solution to get the clouds to look like they are ontop, and still be able to get my links to work. Anyone know anything that might help?

I posted up on CSSTricks.com and just found an answer that works. My problem was z-index which I'd never worked with before in CSS so I never actually knew what it did. Thanks alot for the input you guys have put in to help me, I really appreciate it!

Just uploaded it to my online site (I've been working with it offline) Here's the page http://angelssin.co.uk/WAC/ and the CSS file. The CSS is a bit messy at the moment, but it'll be fine once I get somewhere with this design. http://angelssin.co.uk/WAC/wp-content/them...ackup/style.css

At the moment I'm just getting this. http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c7/Angel...erheadernav.png Whenever I add padding to the wrapper div, nothing happens. I dont want to create the rest of it just yet until I've got it overlapping the header and navigation so I know it's at least working. The only way I can think of is actually including the image inside of every div (header, nav, content, footer) but then it wouldn't really be a background to the page and as it goes from div to div, the repeat would start and stop again in each div, making it look horrible rather than a continued pattern. There has to be some way to achieve this overlapping look, any more ideas?