nfc212
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The content is the most important aspect of the site. The site should be designed around the content, not the content cut, carved and hammered into the design.
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Don't forget however that by owning a percentage of a business you share not only the profits but also the debts. So if it all goes wrong and the business cashes owing huge sums to the Revenue, banks and suppliers the shaven headed bailiffs and the Channel 5 camera crew will be in your house merrily carting your life out of the door for auction. Always check out anyone you consider going into business with thoroughly.
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Easy, start again.
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If there is an educational or technology based aspect to this you could try any local or national bodies who might be able to help with funding. As it isn't clear where you are based it is difficult to advise exactly on this but you could try Kickstarter which is a crowd funding site for projects. https://www.kickstarter.com/
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What changing backgrounds in Javascript? Without a full description of what you want to happen, seeing your mark up and knowing what DTD it is difficult to advise you. If you want this as the background to an element that scrolls up and out of view it might be better to use an element displayed as a CSS table
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If the background is to be fixed the easiest way is to use an <div> to hold the background. <body> <div class="someclass"></div> <div class="container"> <div class="wrapper"> <p>Put content in here</p> </div> </div> </body> The extra <div> has the following CSS .someclass { position:fixed; background:#e0e0e0; top:5%; left:0; right:0; bottom:5%; } The important thing to remember here is that the container <div> must have position other than static, which is the default position applied by the browser. So use the following .container { position:relative; } If no position is applied to the container element the fixed position <div> will be displayed above it.
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Hmm, weird. The only thing I can think is that the preload scripts are treating the window almost like a frameset. After visiting about six pages all that shows in the Firefox history is the Google SERPS page the Home page and the page I'm currently on archive.html.
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Why not just access the server using your FTP client and rename the folder in which the images are stored?
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Do you mean move or copy? If you move the images to another directory then if they are statically linked in the HTML page they will not appear on the page as the link paths will be broken. Is this some sort of online function for users to break the pages or something else?
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The body tag has class="cp_storyboard" attached to it. If you added a second class to that e.g. class="cp_storyboard gallery" The sidebar is id="sidebar-a" and the main content area is id="content" then use the following CSS #sidebar-a { float: right; line-height: 21px; padding: 70px 15px 15px; width: 220px; } .gallery #sidebar-a { display:none; } #content { line-height: 18px; margin-right: 220px; padding: 25px 25px 5px; } .gallery #content { margin-right:0; } That should open up the content area to display five columns of thumbs instead of the current three columns. Also agree about the blur on hover it's horrible. Simple change of thumbnail border or outline colour would be better.
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Other than just be able to log in and out what else would the members be able to do or access? Would they be able to upload files or images? Would there be varying levels of membership? Depending on your requirement have a look what your web host has to offer. Most have various free add on scripts that can perform some of these functions and can be activated quite easily.
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Well there were 8 web design businesses within a rock's throw when I moved here two years ago. They have all folded, the last was the PC repair shop and they withdrew their web design service just after Christmas. There are quite a few positions available but as you say they're at the top end of the market so it is going to be very difficult to get a foot in without any top level experience. Experience is of course the difficult thing to get. As always it is difficult to get a job without the experience and even more difficult to get the experience without the job. The eternal, the chicken or the egg scenario.
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I've just noticed the word Stoat is in the top left corner of this reply box, WTF is that all about?
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Why the f**k were you working for less than minimum wage, were you there on a self-employed basis? Something I learned years ago, do bugger all until you're asked to do it. If they find a willing horse they'll flog it to death. As far as web design in the UK is concerned it is definitely a rapidly contracting part of the economy. Businesses now monitor every penny and the plethora of 'DIY WYSIWYG drag it 'n' drop it' web building programs and online apps means any bugger with a laptop is now a web designer. Everybody is on the lookout for anything cheap. Unfortunate consequence of electing self-servatives. If you have problems interacting with others then perhaps self-employment is the best option. However think about that long and hard and ensure you understand all the pitfalls and problems. If you have a tendency to depression then being self-employed can often be a very dark and lonely place especially when starting out and sweating on the bills. Don't forget in the UK there is no safety net for those self-employed. If it all goes wrong shaven headed, fat bailiffs will be picking your life over looking for anything they can auction, while you're trying to find a dry doorway to sleep in. If you believe you are suffering from depression get yourself down the doctor's and ask for some Sertraline or Fluoxetine. They will also in probability refer you to a stress management course.
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Well think about what you would search for if looking for a property. Say you want to buy not rent, a house not a flat, with 3 bedrooms priced between £150,000 and £300,000 in Grimsby. So the query string might look something like ?location=grimsby&prop_type=house&beds=3&min_price=100000&max_price=300000 So your search query might be something like "SELECT * FROM properties WHERE location = 'grimsby' AND prop_type = 'house' AND status = 'sale' AND beds = 3 and price BETWEEN 100000 AND 300000" Depending of course on the complexity of the tables in use. Which can be quite complex as it needs to account for a very wide range of data to comply with legislation. This is why a lot of estate agents turn this side over to Zoopla, Rightmove and similar services.
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Well a search for - west midlands web designer, returns 701,000 results in Google. Google no longer takes the meta keyword tag into account so it will be down to your content. Without seeing the content it is difficult to tell how relevant that search term is to the content of your pages.
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It would help to see the HTML as well. It would help more to actually see the site. If you have wrapped <div id="cd">....</div> around the rest of the HTML it will mean then that the whole page is fixed. Without seeing the rest we're just working in the dark. There is also a stray semi colon ; in the middle of that CSS which might not be helping.
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It would help enormously to see what it is you are trying to do. If possible post a link to what you have so far or do a graphic of what you want to do.
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Get onto the hosts and take no **** Alternatively Find hosting that isn't in Sofia, the card skimming capital of Europe.
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Your server IP is 37.60.227.209 https://whois.domaintools.com/37.60.227.209 This doesn't look too good. https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/37.60.227.209/information/
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Google Safe Search flags up an invalid security certificate
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The amount of time taken to download a few hundred extra bytes of data in what is essentially plain text is negligible even for a 2G connection. Images and HTTP requests are the killers where download times are concerned. Using GZip on the HTML, CSS and Javascript resources will reduce their size by up to 80%
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Hmm, do you actually think the handful of bytes are going to cause that big a performance hit? If your pages are so bloated that you need to start worrying about a few bytes of text/html and text/css you need to rethink your design strategies. The method of using a single class on each element of the nav means you need to have as many versions of the nav as you have pages. Alright if you have four pages but it becomes a riddle if you have perhaps 16 pages. Another benefit is that it can be called dynamically as an include and will work in each page. So you can have a simple page call nav.php or whatever you want that just contains <ul class="nav"> <li><a class="news" href="news.html">News</a></li> <li><a class="greet" href="greetings.html">Greetings</a></li> <li><a class="music" href="music.html">Music</a></li> <li><a class="media" href="media.html">Media</a></li> <li><a class="blog" href="http://www.lylechristine.com/blog">Blog</a></li> <li><a class="links" href="links.html">Links</a></li> </ul> Then include it in the page where required. Plus if it's good enough for Eric Meyer it's good enough for me.
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Give this a whirl On the News page add an ID to the <body> tag <body id="news"> Add a class to the <a> element in the nav <li><a class="news" href="news.html">News</a></li> Now add the following CSS #news .news { background: lightgreen; border-bottom: 2px solid #fff; color: #000; font-weight: 700; } Now add an id to each page body tag eg:<body id="greet">, and a class to each link in the nav <ul class="nav"> <li><a class="news" href="news.html">News</a></li> <li><a class="greet" href="greetings.html">Greetings</a></li> <li><a class="music" href="music.html">Music</a></li> <li><a class="media" href="media.html">Media</a></li> <li><a class="blog" href="http://www.lylechristine.com/blog">Blog</a></li> <li><a class="links" href="links.html">Links</a></li> </ul> Then add the following CSS #news .news, #greet .greet, #music .music, #media .media, #blog .blog, #links .links { background: lightgreen; border-bottom: 2px solid #fff; color: #000; font-weight: 700; } Adding the above styles to the focus event also adds a quite nice effect .nav li a:focus {font-weight:700;background:lightgreen;color:#000;border-bottom:2px solid #fff;} The CSS for the nav should then be like this .nav { list-style-type: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; overflow: hidden; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; background-color: #000000; } .nav li {display: inline;} .nav a:link { display: inline-block; width: 120px; font-weight: lighter; color: #FFFFFF; background-color: #000000; text-align: center; padding: 4px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; transition: 0.5s; } .nav li a:focus {font-weight:700;background:lightgreen;color:#000;border-bottom:2px solid #fff;} .nav a:hover {background-color: #222222;} #news .news, #greet .greet, #music .music, #media .media, #blog .blog, #links .links {font-weight:700;background:lightgreen;color:#000;border-bottom:2px solid #fff;} If you then want to add another page say a contact.html page. Just add id="contact" to the body tag. Add the <li> and link with class="contact" and then add the ID/Class pair to the CSS.
