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Ok, so this is the new direction I am going: http://tinyurl.com/ygka85o It's not ANYWHERE near complete as I still have to fix some colors and position stuff but is my direction a little better than my last one?

Thanks for the suggestions! I'm going to keep working on it and I'll post a new link.

Heh, what's funny is I got my color scheme from 3 schemes on kuler. You are the 2nd person out of I think like 12 that didn't like the colors. Don't feel harsh on it I'm posting it for honest feedback I'm going to keep seeking feedback so I can see what the overall opinion is and go from there. Actually got a client the other day when I showed him the site. He liked the style he said haha. But again I can see why it might not work for you, I knew the risk going into a design like this keep the feedback coming though!

I am in the process of making my new home on the web. Please take a look and let me know what you think! Please don't directly link to it here for SEO purposes. What do you think so far? (please ignore obvious flaws, it's not done yet just a work in progress when I find the time between projects) Thanks for the feedback! http://tinyurl.com/ycoq8qj

totally agree. The menu is a nice design but too small. And give a background color to the submit button on the contact form.

ehhh you can control the content, add pages, install addons just like a CMS. It is a CMS with a blog already incorporated Yeah it's based heavily around being a blog software but it allows you to do many if not all of the same functions as drupal, joomla, modx etc etc.

It depends what you use. If your website is based on a CMS (Content management system, which is an advanced and usually free software) you can install a forum on that so when users login to the site they are also logged into the forum. One database for user membership. Several CMS software groups support this: ModX WordPress Joomla Drupal Picking between those will be based on your needs. Depending on your needs wordpress is fairly often a good solution! It's a blog software but if the site template is designed correctly it doesn't have to look like a blog. If your site is already done though and you don't want to convert it over to one of those CMS, you can check out phpbb3 which is a damn decent free forum software that does the job well.

If your site is too static it has nothing to do with the CSS Static means it doesn't change like say this forum and how it is constantly changing as we post stuff. And the site looks good but I have to say, I'm on a 26" monitor running 1920x1080 and that "Buy" menu drop goes down further than my screen can display, unless I scroll down a tad. Which requiring users to do this is not good user interface practice. Maybe find a way to consolidate the menu drop down a tad bit? Perhaps a lifestyle category and put women/kids/health and a couple others in there?

hmm, any sources you can link? I am not a programmer by any means. CSS/XHTML with studies in JS haha.

Ultimately I am just designing a custom template to go around the CMS software. No special plugins at all. Just a site with about 5 pages that I will initially create and insert the content in plus some custom photography from my friend (she's charging about £120). It MIGHT have a gallery module installed at most to display events they host. Also some custom graphics but very few that are hardly worth mentioning. I'm thinking about £850 total, that includes the photography costs. My friend who is a designer in New York City thinks I am grossly under pricing the job. He thinks I should be charging about £1400. Not sure if that makes sense, although there seems to be quite a few hours involved in this. Thoughts?

Is there an API code to stream a PayPal shopping cart onto your page? I have a basic site for a custom with about 10 products that don't change so I wanted to setup a basic PayPal store using the HTML add to cart buttons but now I need a link that brings a customer to view their cart, and I'd prefer it to keep website users on the website and not routed to PayPal. Can this be done? Cheers!

the color choices are superb!

ive never really messed with Joomla, but ultimately the hardest part im sure would be designing the template. I'm thinking about just downloading a free template and playing with it to see how it all works. Anyway what would you charge for a Joomla site with no special additions? They simply just want to be able to edit the pages and their content. Also I noticed you are using modx gaz545, you must like it i assume. Is that a route I should check out for CMS stuff?

I have a client who wants a CMS site, completely custom design but nothing too advanced. No store or anything. They mainly just want the ability to manage the content hence using a CMS. What would you have charged for something like that? This price should include hiring someone for custom photography (only about 20 photos at the most) and some custom graphics.. I quoted $1400 USD so about £850. Did I undercut myself? I have a feeling I did.

Awesome! thanks so much guys!

Hey I'm trying to help a photographer friend out with a site and and she wants to be able to upload her photos to flickr then have her site automatically display those photos. Anyone do anything like this before or know of a way to make this happen?

You're wonderful. I would have never thought of that. Thank you so much.

hey there, I am working on this site, and if you look at the menu in internet explorer you'll see the "t" in contact being cut off. does anyone have any thoughts as to why it's doing this? here's some code: XHTML: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>General Organics - Nutrition for your plant life.</title> <meta name="keywords" content="" /> <meta name="description" content="" /> <link href="default.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="lavalamp_test.css" type="text/css" media="screen"> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.2.3.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.easing.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.lavalamp.min.js"></script> </head> <body> <div id="wrapper"> <!-- start header --> <div id="header"> <div id="menu"> <ul class="lavaLamp"> <li><a href="index.html" class="current">Home</a></li> <li><a href="products.html">Products</a></li> <li><a href="store.html">Store</a></li> <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <!-- end header --> <!-- start page --> <div id="page"> <!-- start content --> <div id="content"> <div class="post"> <div class="entry"> <p> <img src="images/text.png" height="590" width="600" /> </p> </div> </div> </div> <!-- end content --> </div> </div> <!-- end page --> <div id="footer"> <p>©2009 General Organics All Rights Reserved. | Creative by <a href="http://www.gregsarpy.net/">GSD</a></p> </div> </body> </html> CSS: body { margin: 0; padding: 0; font-size: 13px; color: #8C8C8C; background-color: #659a00; background-image: url(images/body-bg.png); background-position: top left; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; } body, th, td, input, textarea, select, option { font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 90%; } h1, h2, h3 { font-weight: normal; color: #F8FBEC; } h1 { letter-spacing: -2px; font-size: 1.5em; } h2 { letter-spacing: -1px; font-size: 2em; } h3 { font-size: 1em; } p, ul, ol { line-height: 120%; } blockquote { padding-left: 1em; } blockquote p, blockquote ul, blockquote ol { line-height: normal; font-style: italic; } a:hover { text-decoration: none; color: #E6B715; } #wrapper { background-image: url(images/wrapper-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-y; width: 870px; margin: 0 auto; } /* Header */ #menu { float: right; width: 350px; } #menu a{ color: #7a2220; } #header { width: 850px; height: 392px; margin: 0 auto; background: #fff url(images/grass-header.png) top center; background-repeat: no-repeat; } #header h1, #header p { margin: 0; color: #9CBC1E; } #header h1 { padding: 100px 0 0 70px; } #header p { padding-left: 73px; margin-top: -10px; } #header a { color: #7a2220; } /* Page */ #page { width: 870px; margin: 0 auto; background-color: #533300; } /* Content */ #content { float: right; width: 870px; margin: 0; background-color: #533300; background-image: url(images/wrapper-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-y; margin: 0 auto; } .entry { width: 600px; padding: 15px; margin:0 auto; font-size: 131%; line-height: 1.18em; color: #fff; font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Helvetica','Arial',sans-serif; } .post { padding: 0 0 20px 0; } .menu { margin: 0; padding-bottom: 5px; border-bottom: 2px solid #B7D24D; } .byline { margin: 0; color: #646464; } .meta { text-align: left; color: #646464; padding: 10px 10px; height: 48px; background: url(images/img06.gif) no-repeat left top; } .meta .more { padding-left: 20px; } .meta .comments { padding-left: 20px; } .meta a { color: #003300; } /* Sidebar */ #sidebar { float: left; width: 230px; } #sidebar ul { margin: 0; padding: 0; list-style: none; } #sidebar li { } #sidebar li ul { padding: 15px 15px; } #sidebar li li { border-bottom: 1px dotted #000000; padding-left: 15px; } #sidebar h2 { margin: 0; padding: 10px 0 0 40px; height: 40px; background: url(images/img04.gif) no-repeat left 60%; } #sidebar a { text-decoration: none; } #sidebar a:hover { } /* Footer */ #footer { clear: both; width: 860px; height: 60px; margin: 0 auto; padding-top: 10px; background: url(images/footer.png) no-repeat left top; text-align: center; font-size: smaller; color: #52640A; } #footer a { color: #003300; text-transform: none; } /* Styles for the entire LavaLamp menu */ .lavaLamp { position: relative; height: 29px; width: 321px; padding: 15px; margin: 10px 0; overflow: hidden; } /* Force the list to flow horizontally */ .lavaLamp li { float: left; list-style: none; } /* Represents the background of the highlighted menu-item. */ .lavaLamp li.back { background: url("lava.gif") no-repeat right -30px; width: 9px; height: 30px; z-index: 8; position: absolute; } .lavaLamp li.back .left { background: url("lava.gif") no-repeat top left; height: 30px; margin-right: 9px; } /* Styles for each menu-item. */ .lavaLamp li a { position: relative; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; font: bold 14px arial; color: #7a2220; outline: none; text-align: center; height: 30px; top: 7px; z-index: 10; letter-spacing: 0; float: left; display: block; margin: auto 10px; } Thanks for any help. BTW it appears to display just fine in Firefox, Safari, and Opera.

With that said, how can one company offer that same guarantee to 20-30 of the same type of business? haha it would essentially be fighting it's own guarantee by having that guarantee. it's a paradox!

http://tinyurl.com/l2epwy This is a project I am currently working on. I am very happy with the direction so far, but when I look at the font in the main content area I can't help but feel like it looks very generic and is lacking a clean style. Does anyone have any suggestions for how I should style the content text right there? Thanks guys!

No I'm talking about just everyone compiling anything worth sharing. Cool shortcuts, tools, guides, concepts, inspiration whatever. Unless of course you meant in addition to what I posted there's more awesomeness haha. then in which case ignore my last post.

So I thought it would be cool (assuming there isn't already a thread like this) to have a thread with a collection of stuff anyone finds cool, useful, inspiring etc etc. I will start with a few links: http://buildinternet.com/live/boxes/ http://css-tricks.com/examples/MovingBoxes/ I love those, you can see more about those in this SM link: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/23/50-useful-new-jquery-techniques/

I think the header looks terrible now. I liked how it was the same width as the content. Overall though the facebook interface/layout KILLS the myspace setup. I don't know how anyone still uses myspace, everyday it tries its hardest to copy facebook's style.

Haha, so I pretty much told the client we need to go in different directions as I am not the best choice for him right now. I just have too much going on. So I will more than likely direct him to someone on here if anyone is interested in working with a nice American guy.