John Fotios

Thank you for your feedback. The project so far has been to move the content from the old site onto a new template. We are talking with someone who specialises in marketing to improve the user flow and content. The products are very niche and the people they sell to know what they are looking for. I.e. they would only come on the site if they were looking for these particular products. The target audience is car manufactuers. I will take your opinions on board about the site looking dated too. Any tips for quick edits I could do to improve?

New site, looking for feedback http://fluidpowerinitiatives.co.uk/ Thanks Mostly a simple brochure website with a meet the team page. Custom responsive WordPress theme. If there's any tips on how to improve the mobile experience please let me know.

Not date ranges, literally just a couple of options as available dates. I will try this method and let you know how I get on! Thanks for all the ideas guys!

I'm not 100% sure where to post this. I'm not talking about a ul dropdown, but <select>: I have a dropdown for a selection of dates on an ecommerce website, the dates are written long hand, i.e. Monday 1st March 2016 - Friday 5th March 2016 Which is one <option>. As the options are long, they run off the edge of the screen when viewing on your phone, so you can't see the full date... Has anyone had this issue before or has a solution? You would assume the text would wordwrap... but isn't this part of the UI design for Android / iOS etc ???

Custom post type and custom fields How are the counties going to appear? On a map? What will the page look like before the pop ups appear? You write some custom php to return the list of counties, style them how you like, then write some js to get the pop ups to appear. I set up a very similar thing here: http://www.llandudnohockey.co.uk/team/mens-1sts/ (unfortunately not all the players have submitted their details yet...) You'll see how it works responsively, too. The pop ups just change to drop downs if you're on a mobile (which is just slideToggle().

I like it, seems very modern, with the flat design.

I have set up a simple website to sell stock photos. It's aimed mostly at my web clients and people who live in North Wales. http://www.stockphotosnorthwales.co.uk I am encouraging my clients to write their own blogs and keep on top of their own social media etc. I don't offer SEO services but instead want to provide North Wales businesses with the tools they need. Too often I hear that people don't want to blog because they don't know what to write and don't have any pictures. Well hopefully this website will help them... One of my business partners is a photographer and she has thousands of images stored on hard drives, so we're in the process of adding them to the site. Some are free to download - I want to have more free ones, to tempt people to sign up, then they will be more likely to pay for other images if they like them. Obviously competing with large stock photo websites isn't my intention, but to market this directly to my clients and other businesses in the region. It is a WordPress theme that I've barely edited, tbf, using woocommerce. I usually like writing my own WordPress themes, but with woocommerce generating loads of html etc it's difficult writing all the css. What are your thoughts on using themes for websites?

Nice and simple... maybe a bit too simple. Don't they have a proper logo?

Google penalizing non responsive website was the final push to force the web to be more accessible for mobile users. If we hesitate and keep designing for desktops, users will continue to use their browsers less and less and stick to apps. I think 'webapps' are the way to go for web designers, if we want to stay relevant. Sites which work hand in hand with social media - so people can post links to their blogs etc and flow naturally between apps like Facebook and the web. I am sick of clicking a link to website that you can't use on your phone. "Top 10" whatever articles that you struggle to navigate. When I am on my phone I am becoming less and less likely to click links to websites because they are always a bad experience, and I'm including the responsive sites in this - littered with ads and graphics etc that my S4 can't handle (it's due for upgrade but lots of people aren't on the latest devices). These websites are doing the web industry a disservice, making the web seem like one giant spammy piece of sh*t. My mum doesn't even know when she's in an app compared to being on the usual web, but she knows not to click those links without risking crashing Facebook. Keeping Google happy is not the approach to take. Keep your users happy and in turn Google will reward you.

I think the idea of starting mobile first is to remind web designers not to neglect mobile devices, at least that's how I think of it.

Because of the amount of content on that site, I'd suggest installed WP and using a responsive theme... depending on your timescale...

Thanks for your feedback, Climber. Our old website was far too complicated, it had lots of pages, individual pages about domain names, hosting, emails, plugins, photography, photography for websites, studio photography etc, so the plan here was to remove all the crap, and have a simple set up of Home, Web Design and Photography, with just a little overview showing that that's what we do - with a call to action in every box to try to get users to contact us. We changed this based on feedback from our users who said all they wanted to know was whether we do web design / photography and some examples of work. Our old website had pictures of servers on the homepage to represent hosting, which seemed to scare a lot of people. We haven't given much consideration to the layout from a marketing perspective, what would you suggest adding? Newsletter sign ups? More call to actions? It's definitely not a static website and I intend to move things around - the copy on the portfolio was added last minute, it has to be said... that'll definitely be changing!

Nice website. The navigation breaks slightly (goes below the logo) just before it changes to the mobile menu. I've only been doing responsive websites for about 12 months now (if that)...

Hi guys, I don't post here often, but I'd appreciate your feedback on our new company website! www.indever.co.uk Yes, we do web design anyway...

Hi Guys, I am trying to develop my website business. I use WordPress and have recently redesigned my website. www.indever.co.uk It's a work in progress, custom WordPress theme. Let me know your thoughts It's not responsive or anything yet - but I am working on a mobile version. I usually design 1 style for desktop and tablets, then a separate style for mobiles (using is_mobile(){} etc). I know it's nice to have a flexible design, but whatever! Edit: I just noticed I have 110 posts here... I haven't been on for so long! Obviously I quite enjoyed it here at some point... can't even remember The design was different... I know that much. Edit Edit: This is what I remember!!! http://web.archive.org/web/20110619135244/http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/public/style_images/wdf/custom/wrapper_top_bg.jpg

WordPress. Make a static site. Put about 2 lines of PHP in to make the page content editable with WP.

WordPress. One size does fit all

You'll never be 100% satisfied with what you produce. Especially when you make websites for clients, as they'll have their own opinions on how the site should look. I recommend learning how to get those html sites onto a Content Management System, that's when your designs will really change.

Your first site includes the <figure> tag. My first site included <table>.

If you're a beginner, just use #div { position:fixed; } in your CSS... It wont do anything fancy, but it'll make the div follow the screen.

I'm becoming a regular.

Use Nivoslider. <div id="laptop_bg"> <div id="slider_position"> <?php if (function_exists('simple_nivo_slider')) simple_nivo_slider(); ?> <!-- or something --> </div> </div> Make the #laptop_bg a laptop, and position the #slider_position over the screen.

WordPress ftw.

Every first site I've ever seen (including my own) has "I will offer tutorials on web design" or something similar on it. The site is different. I quite like it. It's a tad basic but it works perfectly

http://hiddentechsecrets.com/2011/09/06/hello-world-2/ Leg. Did you design the theme?