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I can only see half of Add to cart -button. The other half gets cut off because of your .separator div. I'm on latest version of FF

Dude, how do you know SO MUCH and still have time to post here o_O

Very sexy. Are my eyes getting bad or is there a slight mistake on your logo? Where the speech bubble -curve joins the ball I see something that looks like a brightness & contrast adjustment edge.

Hi Luke, I had a very similar project a while back. Maybe you can get some inspiration Although I only did the code, the design was by client. http://ismailjamaludin.com/

Valuable tips I believe. Thanks for taking the time to write this up. I need start looking for work soon and other peoples stories always help understand the process better

If I try to access the images directly I get a page like this: http://podcastingireland.ie/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/athena-reversed1.gif Perhaps this is your problem?

Looks pretty sexy to me Well done. Things I'm not such a big fan of: - green list arrows - text size on contact page could be a tad smaller

5 years of experience, really? I'm sorry to say this but neither your website or your portfolio reflect that. Your home-link is on the wrong side of the navigation. This is just something users are accustomed to, don't try to fight it as it will only result in a bad user experience. The clouds are kinda cool although badly executed and I don't see a purpose for them other than showing off your jquery skills (which is not a bad idea). But unless you incorporate the moving clouds idea into your design better, they're just another flaming skull.gif Photoshop grass brush, really? Your CSS... you've got your fon't family which is always the same (Arial,sans-serif;) declared like 5 times. On the other hand your navigation has no font-family declaration whatsoever so it uses the system default. Also, put your javascript in your footer.

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I'd recommend you'll position the text inside the using either relative positioning or floats. For example: div img { float: left; margin: 0 20px 5px 0; } Now your text should flow next to the image. I think this is a usability mistake since many users like to highlight the text while reading. Also, I can't think of a way to do this with CSS alone. EDIT: Actually it is possible. Altough you need to use absolute positioning to achieve this. I'd still recommend you to avoid this but if you insist on having the text show when floating only on images let me know and i'll write you the code here.

Interesting! From the pictures it looks like firefox displays the font thicker. Could it be that you have a font-weight declaration that firefox reads but chrome ignores? Perhaps try with: h1 { font-weight: 400!important; }

I think either you or me need to re-calibrate our monitor if that looks like baby poo colour to you

Here's an updated version http://pekkahiltunen.net/chiminanew/index2.html You can still see the original at http://pekkahiltunen.net/chiminanew/index.html I'd like to know if you guys find the new version better or worse. I'd say it's better but perhaps the navigation stands out too much at the moment with the current- and hover- states? I'm so bad at logo design but I thought to give it a chance anyway. Is the heraldry OK, or am I better off just removing it? Also changed the font for the logo. I'm not quite sure on the amount of blur on the background. I'm thinking it's a good concept but perhaps could be done better? I used gaussian blur in PS but it doesn't quite look like the camera out-of-focus effect I was after Oh, I just noticed that there's an issue with the Book a room -button showing through the nav bar.

That seems like a hard way of doing this. If I understood correctly you could just have those silhouettes positioned inside a div. Then in the same div you would add a paragraph element that has the text you want to display. Then you'd just add something like this to your stylesheet: div p { visibility: hidden; } div:hover p{ visibility: visible; } What this code does (should do, haven't tested) is to have your text hidden untill the user hovers over the div.

Looks pretty sexy, I like the yellow. Things to look at: Text colour when hovering on the navigation should be brighter The font on the "The Team" and "Latest News" seems to be different. Would be better to do the headline in html, pretty sure you can achieve that same background gradient with css3 too. The Team -button should propably have a hover-state Your comment form looks pretty neat too but it doesn't have a close-button, also there's quite a bit of empty space at the top before the fields, is this intentional? Also, the comment-box should cover the entire article behind it, now it's a bit disturbing that a few of the first letters of each sentence still show up. Hope this helps

Thanks, you've made some excellent points! I quite liked your idea about integrating the the slider and bg and I'm already working on this. Will post back here later with an updated version.

At the moment the site is just a .jpg image centered on a html page. That's why the facebook faceroll is duplicated as I just wanted to see how it'd align with the columns once I'm able to set the dimensions. I'll have to see what I can do to make the background image less intruding, perhaps the white filter would work. Thanks for the feedback guys!

I'm trying to help a friend out by designing a website for a hotel he has. It's a smallish hotel in a beautiful Romanian city. I thought I was happy with the layout until a collegue commented on it, calling it messy, which it might infact be. What does WDF think? http://pekkahiltunen.net/chiminanew/ and here's a subpage: http://pekkahiltunen.net/chiminanew/contact.html

Contact form 7 has a addon plugin called "Contact Form to DB Extension" which allows you to save submissions into a database, perhaps it would be useful.

Hi David! Have you got any experience in graphic design? I'm asking coz you said you'd like the website to look very attractive but to my experience most websites designed by developers look pretty awful. If Photoshop/Fireworks/etc isn't your natural habitat I'd recommend trying to find a designer to collaborate with. It shouldn't be that difficult to find someone willing to work for such a good cause. I usually develop my sites in WordPress but unfortunately I haven't got any experience with sites where visitors provide the content (anyone should be able to post, right?). At one point however, I did have such a project in mind and I remember finding some related plugins with a quick google search that allowed this. Good luck with your project!

Okay so I think I got this solved. Thanks all for the help! The solution I found was to disable index in folders. Now my own site at mydomain.com works fine, and if I try to go to a subfolder I will get a 404 not found error as defined in the .htaccess file. Options -Indexes DirectoryIndex index.html index.php /404.php I also made a public folder with a separate .htaccess file with the line: Options +Indexes

I'm guessing that there's something interfering with my code. The .htaccess I'm using now is from the boilerplate template with the default settings. Also there's another .htaccess file in the client-side folder itself which has the following lines: # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^clientsite\.mydomain\.net$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.clientsite\.mydomain\.net$ RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/clientsite\.net\/" [R=301,L] The .htaccess in the root folder is pretty long but I can post that too if you think it might be helpful. I'm kinda happy with how things are now but at the same time I'm interested in finding a solution and understanding how these things work.

Thanks for your patience Andy. I added the code to my .htaccess file but it didn't help, mydomain.com/client-site still didn't redirect to client-site.com Then I noticed that there might be something fishy going on with one of the top level links (congress) having the same name as the folder (congress). And whenever going to mydomain.com/congress I wouldn't get the homepage but I'd end up at the congress page. So, I changed the folder name and my addon domain home folder name to something else. Now going to mydomain.com/client-site (the new folder name) gives me a 404 not found page. While going to mydomain.com/congress redirects me to www.congress.com and I have no idea how that got in the mix. Anyhow, thanks for the help!

So from what I've gathered you need to escape symbols with \ right? RewriteRule ^(mydomain\.com\/client-site\/)\/?(.*)$ http://www.$1.com/$2 [QSA,R=301,L] Could someone confirm if this is the correct syntax? I'm getting really worried about the directory showing up in Google search results >_<

Hi Jack, One thing you could add in your style sheet is to set highlighted text to have no text-shadow property as currently it looks very messy when highlighted. If i remember correctly the syntax is selection { text-shadow: none; } moz-selection { text-shadow: none; } Oh, and also make the send-button into a sprite, currently there's a flicker when hovering. Also, I believe the white background is a part of the WordPress logo, you propably shouldn't remove that.