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Could also be worthwhile sorting out the red rating which WOT has applied to the site. https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/elitechandelier.com Nice new logo or not having that pop up when landing on the site might mean many just move straight on elsewhere. In regards to the logo it looks as if it has tipped over to one side TBH. I would rotate the outer ring clockwise so the lettering is in a more horizontal plane.

Well you could simply delete it. Alternatively you could set it to display:none; using CSS. If you only want it to be visible to screen readers then set it to have a margin-left value of -9999px. What exactly is the intention of making the link invisible?

In most cases the option to view a 'full site' is only available where the site has been created in multiple versions, one for use in mobile devices and another for use with desktop/laptop machines. For example the desktop version will have a fixed page width of 960px or greater and will be accessed via something like http://example.com while the mobile will be 320px wide and accessed via http://m.example.com This is one way of coping with multiple devices but in general it is a bad one. It means that multiple sites need to be maintained and updated and worse there is a temptation to use the mobile site as a needless stepping stone to the full glory desktop site, which is the site the designer really wants them to see. Some WYSIWYG editors like to use this two site approach as they are only in effect DTP programs set to output basic HTML and CSS. However you say that your site is set up to be responsive so I don't see why you need to consider this. Is there a marked difference in content between what is displayed in mobile devices and large devices?

I would suggest that you stop using it as you are developing a stress injury. Find a mouse that suits you. As we all have slightly different physical characteristics what suits me might not suit you. One thing to do is to see if you can adjust the mouse settings so you don't need to move as much when using the 24" display. Also consider getting one of those rests so your hand or wrist isn't resting on a sharp or cold edge or surface which could put pressure on nerves and blood vessels. I get the problem in the winter when the top of this desk gets as cold as a mortuary slab.

I did wonder so I refrained from saying, 'Don't talk b0ll0cks'. It's surprising however that some people do think that paper printing will die out eventually. In fact I remember once listening to a teacher burbling on about how kids would no longer need to read and write as they now all had a computer. How would they understand what was on the screen and would they know how to type in words. In another thread here someone was on about video tutorials. Perhaps it's a generational thing but I just don't get on with them. I prefer a printed page to read. This means if I am having difficulty getting something into me noggin I can, as a last resort, print it out on an A4 which generally does the trick. One nice thing about following a tutorial on paper is that you can't copy and paste, you have to follow the code and type it in which I think gives you a better understanding and feel for it.

Well you would need to do more than that. Though I wouldn't advise going in and roundly criticising the company from top to bottom just blindly brown nosing isn't likely to cut it in most places either. You need to consider what the employer is likely to be looking for and research the company or organisation first. In some cases, particularly for an engineer it might be an idea to work out a list of things you could perhaps improve on if given the job. In other words make them feel that they will be losing out by not employing you. Where interviews are concerned there are no hard and fast rules and you need to do some research and make your best judgement based on what you think they will want from candidates. This could vary from company to company so you might need to tailor a few interview strategies in the same way you tailor applications depending on the company and position applied for. Essentially you have to show the interviewer what you can bring to them if they give you the job.

Until you reply you won't know how important the email might be, and if you leave it too long you might miss a one time chance in life. If you run your own business you have to make certain sacrifices, especially when getting off the ground, and I'm sorry to say a personal life is one of them. If you can't put in that level of commitment then you need to work for someone who can.

Unfortunately you only really find out how good a host actually is is when you have a major problem with them. The only host I would advise staying well clear of is Easyspace.

Yes.

How exactly do you think a programmer 'thinks'? All programmers think differently and have different approaches. There are certain procedures and practises that they might all follow for the purposes on convention and portability but they don't all have some sort of common, cloned way of thinking. Indeed just as in any other occupation or trade some programmers might be able to get by without having to have a single thought. I know several engineers and tradesmen who have made a successful career out of not thinking. What exactly do you want to do, be a web designer/developer of be a programmer? As with most things there are no set ways of doing something and almost anything can be done in a variety of ways and methods. Each has its pro's and con's depending on purpose and the application it is to be put. If it is just a basic web site function that isn't going to change on a regular basis then a simple vanilla JS function might suffice. If the web site is intended to grow and functionality is highly likely to be extended it might be as well to start off from the basis of using more complex code that can be extended without having to rewrite the whole shebang each time. I get the feeling you are just trying to jump in too deep from the outset. When I started my apprenticeship the first job was to make a simple little piece from a bit of 2" x 1/4" strip which just involved using files, hacksaws and a pedestal drill. The piece served no practical purpose and simply served to teach you how to use basic hand tools and how to use squares and measuring and marking out tools. You have to ensure you understand the basics before you can move on to the more complex aspects.

One other possibility is that something on the other pages, script or plug in, is causing a CSS issue which breaks the font-family CSS.

Can't find the deferring thread, it wasn't on any of the regular forums I use. However I found a link to this little article which indicates that a bug in iOS means that only two variants of a font not included in iOS can be loaded. http://www.pixeldock.com/blog/uifont-problem-when-using-more-than-2-custom-fonts-of-the-same-font-family/

Most things will die eventually, it's called evolution. Everything is affected by it not just organic life forms because organic life forms have created so much of the global and environmental infrastructure. Paper print won't die because it is far too useful. It can be used where there is no power supply or where any form of power supply is banned on safety or security grounds. It is also cheap and convenient. If you were mounting a leaflet campaign it would become a little expensive if the leaflet was delivered on an iPad rather than a piece of A5.

I notice that the theme uses deferred web font loading and I remember seeing a similar issue to this with iPhones somewhere else. I'll see if I can dig it out later. IIRC however it had something to do with maximum JS execution time being exceeded, but don't hold me to it.

Hmm, right. What colour is the moon then? That might be a tad difficult so let's make it easier, what colour is the sea? Or even easier what colour is milk? I haven't seen a lot of incorrect information on W3Schools recently. You seem to have some weird bee in you bonnet about the site. There were problems with it some years ago but most seem to have been rectified now. W3Schools is not holy writ, it serves as a basic, quick reference for those getting into the world of web design and development. The only misinformation is your constant regurgitation that it is full of errors when it clearly isn't any more. One of the most cited resources on the web is Wikipedia yet that is riddled with errors, misinformation and often outright lies. If you spot an error, report it to them and help make it a better resource. I found an issue on the MDN page for CSS Calc some time ago which wasn't an error as such but was somewhat ambiguous when you got further down the page. Reported it and it was fixed. If you were teaching children to read what would you start them off with as a basic primer, Jack and Jill or The Brothers Karamazov.

I said much of the content not all of it. I'm not going to find specific pages but if you compare the pages on MDN on the HTML elements and the the corresponding pages on W3Schools you will find that the content is similar and in some cases identical. The same is true for many other pages. I know that a couple of years ago much of the content on W3Schools was outdated and some actually erroneous which gave rise to W3Fools. However the site has since been overhauled and is now fairly decent as a quick reference and basic information source. It states quite clearly on the site: MDN states: On sites of the size of these, MDN is available for download as a 1.8GB tarball, and the amount of content contained in them it is always possible that there might be the odd error or mistake here and there. If you find one report it.

What are they hoping to achieve here? In most cases of data retrieval and storage using a SQL database of some form is by far the better option. As regards W3Schools they provide a useful basic primer just to get the drift and see how things actually work. The Try-it Editor function is really quite useful as you can edit and run the code again. I often sit here taking wild random guesses and running them just to see if they work or not. As much of the content on W3Schools is actually scraped directly from MDN if you say that W3Schools is ****e and wrong then you are, by implication, saying MDN is ****e and wrong. It's a useful 'get you started' resource and the site does state that code examples are only intended for demonstration purposes and are not really fit for full scale production work.

The use of z-index shouldn't raise any flags, it's only likely to happen if you have two elements sharing the same x and y co-ordinates with one deliberately placed above the other. Using absolute positioning you don't even need the z-index, something like the following will also hide keyword stuffing: <div style="position:absolute;top:200px;left:200px;width:480px;height:360px;"> <p class="no-margin">Lots of lovely keywords packing the box to the rafters</p> </div> <img src="images/cute-puppy.jpg" alt="cute puppy hiding keywords" title="puppy" style="position:absolute;top:200px;left:200px;width:480px;height:360px;"> In this instance the natural ordering of the content will display the image over the top of the text element.

Using z-index to hide one element below another is tantamount to 'off-screen'. If Google can see that lots of keywords are being hidden behind images then they could well knock the site down the rankings. Often used to see this on another forum which was based around a site builder program. Also used to see some hideous attitudes to accessibility there as well.

When we board a plane we're highly unlikely to be flying it ourselves, unless you're going by Easyjet.. I remember back in the 60's that it was often said that by the end of the century every household would have its own personal helicopter. Yeah right, the average mug can barely cope with forward, backward, left and right, chuck up and down into the equation and you could just picture the school flight carnage every morning. It's the same with travelling by train. You don't expect to stand around drawing lots among the passengers on the platform to see who is driving it. However in the early days of flight they did learn by trial and error and lots of people died doing it. There were even more people killed in the early days of electrical engineering and the death rate in the early days of steam and pressure vessels was astounding. This was due to there being no standards and very little known science or theory so they were working very much on the basis of best guess. This resulted in loss of life in incidents such as the London Beer Flood and the Boston Treacle Disaster.

It could be of course that the items being sold are hardly mass market products like DVD players. Once anyone who wants them has bought a set why would they buy more and why would anyone without a dog that they show want them? They're products that will reach a point where sales will drop as they're not every day shopping items and perhaps that point has simply coincided with the change in the web site.

Well from the replies in this thread it confirms my belief that there is no single ideal way of either learning or teaching something. Everybody has their own preferences and ways of learning, particularly when it comes to self learning. I've always found it odd that people are allowed to jump into a metal box weighing perhaps two tonnes that can reach speeds of maybe 130-140mph all topped of with perhaps 40 gallons of highly combustible liquid petroleum without having the faintest idea how the thing works. This is where I find learning by doing is much better, we learn more from what we get wrong than from what we get right. People are inherently lazy bastards and therefore if something works we tend to take it for granted and sit back in the sun preening rather than to analyse why it went right. If it goes wrong then we will pick over he debris and analyse why it went wrong.

Some years ago I worked on installing the new turbine blade electro-plating line at GE Nantgarw. There the engine fitters were trained specifically to be an expert in doing one single task on an overhaul. They would perform just that single task and would never be involved in any other part of the process. The logic was that it was better to have someone who was an expert in, for example, fitting a compressor stage thrust bearing and nothing else than have 'jack-of-all-trades' bodging about at a bit of everything. The reasons were that (i) they were less likely to have failures due to low quality workmanship, a definite problem when the low quality workmanship manifests itself at take off over a densely populated area or at 30,000 feet, and (ii) if the worker only understood a tiny part of the process they couldn't be poached by a rival and thereby be used in a competitive role as they wouldn't have a broad enough knowledge of the process. I also installed a couple of new machines in the Intelligent Metals section of the R&D and testing department. They were at the time working on a process of 'growing' turbine blades in moulds from a single crystal of metal. The idea was that it would remove the possibility of blades shattering in service due to casting and forging defects.

Well by turning off CSS and images in Firefox the actual content flow seems to be OK. In many cases when you see elements like <div id="wb_productinfoText18" style="position:absolute;left:660px;top:1090px;width:178px;height:56px;z-index:26;text-align:left;"> <span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Cost: $69.99<br>+ $19.99 Local S&H<br></strong></span> </div> alarm bells can start to ring as the actual content is often just a random series of lines of text in no logical order. Would really need to compare the new site against the original site and see if anything is significantly different between them.

The OP was originally talking about basic coding in this thread. A novice is hardly likely to be jumping into React, Angular or anything similar. All the novice needs is to do is learn the basic syntax from somewhere like HTMLDog or even W3 Schools and then just have a pop at it. The main problem with learning from videos et al is that you also learn any deficiencies or shortcomings of the person who made the video. A problem that can be much more difficult to unlearn than it was to learn in the first place. It strikes me as being very similar to trying to learn to play the guitar from watching videos or copying from albums. Seems good at first and there can be quick results in the short term, however there is a can of worms that will soon open itself up a little further down the line. Which can very often lead to more drop outs than if they had learned 'organically'.