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There are loads of recourses online but would recommend the tutsplus and treehouse which is mentioned above. I have both of these myself and use them regularly. They are really easy to follow and worth every penny.

For learning code from scratch. Frameworks speed up development time considerably, but many are designed more for rapid prototyping and contain a lot of bloat. We've built our own framework that is loosely based on Bootstrap.
There is no one size fits all though, learn how to code from scratch then find a framework that suits your development needs and patterns and if needed you can build your own, A developer who codes from scratch every time is really not using their time effectively.

Fancybox has an Ajax call which would work better. You could easily pull just the content off of the page that you are looking for.
 
$('.click-this').fancybox({ 'type': 'ajax', 'ajax': { dataFilter: function(data) { return $(data).find('#yourTargetID .orYourTargetClass'); } } });

I agree with Blue, they should learn enough so they can understand the "web market", at the same time i think its good to learn some of the concepts of the marketer.
 
And i hate it when I someone brings up the "fold", there is no fold on a website. I usually like to respond with something like:

I would love nothing more to put everything "above the fold" on the site, but to to this is impossible. what makes it imposible is that not everyone will view the site at the same screen size. some will use a small monitor, some with their phones. and because of this the fold is never on the same place. so instead lets focus on making a better user experiance so people will scroll to see and explore the site. besides have you ever heard anyone say "I hate it when i have to scroll on a website"

PIE will help you.

You are right. That code is code is completely unmaintainable and not modular. Modular, or OOCSS, should definitely be best practice nowadays. IMO, the most selectors you should use in a row (e.g. .wrapper article h3 {) should be 3 at max. If you mark up content in a reusable way you shouldn't ever need more.
 
In the other direction, CSS like in your example is just bad. Not only is it more to write, which in a large stylesheet could really add up, but its lack of modularity will increase the amount of writing even more, needing entirely new declarations on things that could have shared common modules of CSS. It also introduces specificity problems. What if a 'section' in that chain was changed to an 'article' in one page. You would have to write an entirely new declaration for that one box.
 
SMACCS by Jonathan Snook is a nice little book on this subject, or I'm sure there are plenty articles to read online.

*yawn* - Most cross browser issues are down to poor coding, not the browser.

There isn't a way to style pulldowns consistently across browsers and platforms. There will always be slight differences, especially when you get to OSX/mobile devices.
 
You'll have to do some kind of replacement like:
http://harvesthq.github.com/chosen/
 
Or just deal with the differences in the native controls. It's a huge pain to redesign them (and if you mess it up your users will hate you) but it's worth it if you can provide an excellent user experience across all devices.

this line:

var widgetid = jQuery(".star-dropdown").parent().children(".star-widget-id").val();
 
should be:

var widgetid = jQuery(this).parent().children(".star-widget-id").val();
 
In your original code,in the event handler, you're finding all of the selects with a class of 'blah'. Simply put, it means you're working with the first select on the page(no matter what select has changed) You don't want all of the selects with a class of blah, just the one that has the change event fired.
jQuery(this) inside an event handler will refer to the element that was 'clicked', 'changed' etc. This means that when the function traverses the DOM to find the parent etc, it will start from the relevant select, not from the first one on the page.

I wouldn't be surprised that she is an SEO expert too

You can maybe try this.

ol { counter-reset: item; } li.heading{ margin-bottom:20px; } ol li{ font-weight:bold; text-transform:uppercase; list-style-position:outside; } ol li:before{ content: counters(item,".") ". "; counter-increment: item; display:marker; } ol li ol li{ font-weight:normal; text-transform:none; } ol li ol li ol li{ margin-left:2.5em; list-style-type:lower-alpha; } ol li ol li ol li:before{ content:none; } ol li ol li ol li ol li{ list-style-type:lower-roman; }
 
Is this what you want?
 
Should work - http://jsfiddle.net/...nHegarty/VNSK5/
 
Its not without problems though. If you have a lot of text in those sub li's so that it spans two lines or more the text on the second line will align underneath the higher level li.
 
Source: http://webmasters.st...with-subclauses

You can change to numbers by changing

list-style-type:lower-roman;
to

list-style-type: upper-number;
but that only gives you 1 instead of 1.1 in the nested ordered list. I'm not sure how to get 1.1
 
except by doing a terrible fudge

<ol> <li> first list item <ol> <li><span>1 bla bla bla</span></li> <li><span>2 bl abl abl some more</span></li> <li><span>3 bl abl abl less</span></li> </ol> </li>
CSS

ol { list-style-type: decimal; padding-left: 25px; color: #272673; } ol > li { margin-bottom: 35px; } ol > li > ol { margin-top: 13px; } ol > li > ol > li { padding-left: 16px; margin: 0; list-style-type: upper-number; } ol > li > ol > li span { margin-left: -22px; }

Everybody is (or should be) coding in HTML5 now. So yes, learn it, and learn it well. The same goes for CSS3.
 
 
You can go to University and get a degree, but there are two points here. The first is you don't need to. The second is you shouldn't do the degree in web design/development. Why? Because the technology moves so fast, by the time you're in year 2 or 3 of your course the material is 2/3 years out of date. You're better off doing a degree in something more design related or business related. A design degree will make you a better web designer, a business degree will give you a better grounding to work as a freelancer.
 
 
You're getting front end and back end development confused. CSS/HTML/JavaScript are front end technologies, PHP is back end code. You tend to do one or the other, not both. There's no harm in learning PHP, it may prove valuable and you'll certainly see it at some point, but if you want a front end role I think you're better off being really good at the front end technologies first.
 
As for when you should start looking for a job, right now you're best off not thinking about this in career terms. You're still starting out and it still may not be the right career for you. I'd just concentrate on spending a few months learning everything you need to know, and building up experience and a portfolio by doing websites for friends, family and small local businesses in return for other favours, beer, cash in hand etc. You need to bare in mind there are some very good designers and developers already out there struggling for work, including quite a few on this forum, so to break through and make a career out of this you have to work extremely hard and be very good at what you do.

Random sales calls are annoying, even the annoying sales people hate annoying sales people.
 
So you can try different methods to get rid of them.
 
1. Before they get a chance to go through their product with you ask them if they have a website. Get the website up and tell them a couple of things that can be done to improve the website. Basically try and sell them a website. Yes they are not the correct person to talk to but one of two things are going to happen. A, they will put the phone down and you can carry on with your day B, you will get better at explaining your services wich could be helpfull when you are the phone with a potential client ( practice )
 
2. Put them on hold, they will eventually hang up. Or if your feeling bored you could always see how long you can keep them on hold for, my personal best is 1hour till they gave up and hung up.

Thanks for all your input and advice,
 
I finely managed to speak to the right person at the hosting company and well now I have to put together some proof to show that they stole the site (like its not obvious).
 
I also noticed they even copied our Google analytics's tracking id code.
 
Thanks again Renaissance-Design for your posts, I still don't know much about the law, but I was able to Google it and use the info to make me sound like I knew what I was talking about. Got me to the rite person.

A host in the US is even easier. Google around for the correct form of words for a DMCA takedown notice. Again, they either comply with the copyright holder or make themselves equally liable with the infringer.

I can't remember who came up with this clearfix, but it's the one I tend to use. I don't test in IE6 anymore, but if IE6 support is needed, the class will need something that sets hasLayout.
 

/* Sets hasLayout for IE7. */ .l-group { min-height: 0; } .l-group:before, .l-group:after { content: '.'; display: block; height: 0; overflow: hidden; } .l-group:after { clear: both; }

I tried to put it in a jsfiddle this is far as I got
 
maybe this can help a little.
 
(I'm not allowed to fiddle during working hours)

I tried to put it in a jsfiddle this is far as I got
 
maybe this can help a little.
 
(I'm not allowed to fiddle during working hours)

Ive never heard of .my i even looked on 123-reg.co.uk/godaddy.com and didn't find anything. Then i googled it and .my is a malaysia domain extension which could be why its not listed on any UK/US sites. Its also expensive from what i saw on a site. Do you plan to launch a site in malaysia? Could be worth looking for a web host in malaysia and see if they offer domains.

I'm guessing you're looking to register a vanity domain like taxider.my?
 
Best advice is: don't bother. Look at all the sites/services that have launched with vanity domains (del.icio.us, bit.ly etc) - they've all discovered the hard way that people will misremember or mistype the domain because it doesn't conform to their expectations, which is why we have delicious.com and bitly.com.

see here

When I was in year 6 I had a huge crush on this girl at school and one day during class I was admiring her as usual when suddenly sticky thread came out my boy parts. It was shocking and I had no idea what was going on, panicking I decided to wipe it on the back of this kids head that was in front of me to which he he turned round and looked at me with a glare that pierced my very soul then came the fatal words "MISSSSS".
 
I knew I was in trouble so I ran to the cloak room and hid under some coats knowing full well that adults wouldn't be able to find me because I was invisible and started to cry, unfortunately even though my hiding skills were freaking legendary I forgot that adults had very acute hearing and it wasn't very long before she stumbled onto my hiding place and sent me to the head teacher.
 
Sitting outside I was nervous and scared, wondering what kind of creature the head teacher was. I looked round for anything that could be used as a weapon but alas there was nothing. The door to her office opened with a slow creek as this blonde chick with huge cans emerged from her den of evil. She asked me what I did and I explained to her that the sticky thread was the cause of the problem we then went on to have sex in her office and I lost my V at age 11.
 
The moral of this story? Sticky threads get you laidddddddd.

It depends.
 
If you're building a site from scratch, it's down to you (or the client) if they choose to support older browsers.
 
If it's an existing site, go check the analytics to find out what browsers current visitors are using. If a significant amount of them are using an old browser like IE7 then support it.