Mody

Thanks Aaron, that's very interesting. I myself would not use it but it can be useful to others. (PS: Your website is beautiful. Great work!)

Hi Thomas. I just decided not to use it. Calibri is actually readable down to 12px in my opinion (I misused the word readable in my first post), but to my liking it looks good at 14px. However, it is certainly smaller than fonts like Arial at similar sizes. Way smaller actually. This is not an issue for me anymore. I learned to live with it. It would be interesting to know if there is a method to do it though.

Thanks sipaul, and don't worry about the spelling. I am not a native speaker so anything that looks like English passes for me. I will check the site out. Thanks again.

Thanks bigdog. I do know how to code it and my only problem was creating a similar image. My GF has Firworks so I will check it out. Thank you for your help.

Hey TJ, I agree with Rob and Subhajit. You need to raise the left and right padding of the content area. I personally would give it a minimum of 20px or the equivalent. You also need to do something with the title. It looks too out of place and the space above it is too large. And please remove the valid XHTML & CSS badge. I know it is a trend, but it is totally useless and not necessary. If someone wants to check your code, they will. Most won't even know what that is though. Good luck!

Thanks a lot Subhajit, I will check it out. Meanwhile if anyone else has any recommendations, please let me know. Any help is much appreciated.

Sorry about the (very) late reply, I have completely forgotten this thread. I do know of sIFR, but as you said, it is only useful for headings and small blocks of text. I was hoping that it could be done with CSS but there is no way. Thanks for trying to help and sorry again for the very late reply.

Thank you very much Mike, Rob, and Subhajit. I do know basic Photoshop (I use Flash and illustrator for most things and I am just a beginner). I know how to tile patters in Flash but not in Photoshop. Ill be trying to figure that out. The real ''problem'' I'm having is how to fade the edges of the image into the background. I've found a few tutorials but none was clear. Can anyone please guide me in the right direction? Is there any image fading tutorial you can recommend? Thank you very much. I really appreciate it.

Hi everybody, I hope you are having a great day. Can anyone please let me know how make a background like the one found at http://mancub.net/? (http://www.mancub.net/wp-content/themes/ribbons/images/bg2.jpg) I would really like to know how to make the the image fade on the edges and how to add a pattern just like the one found there. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

So it's official now. Thanks for the quick reply Thomas, I really appreciate it. Have a great day!

Hi everybody, I hope you are doing great. I am really liking the the new Calibri font that comes with Windows Vista and I wanted to know if it is possible to set a different font size depending on the font to be displayed. Calibri looks good and readable in my opinion at 14px, but Arial (my second choice) is just too large at 14px. Calibri at any smaller size than 14px is too small and is not readable. Is there anyway I can set 14px for those who have Calibri installed and a different font size for those who have Arial in my CSS? I don't think it exists but I thought I can ask. Thanks for your help.

Good start buddy! Your site is better than at least 80% of the websites I see on a daily basis, so don't feel bad about it. It's pretty good. I can see that you have style that with time and practice will make you a great designer. I love the way you're thinking about clients and expectations, but you really are not bad. You're not great yet but you're pretty good. Not a designer for Sony-like corporations, but pretty good for the Pizza shop in front of your house and the likes. Experience is gained with work. Take small projects for now to develop your skills and I'm sure you'll do great. Good luck!

Hi there, We all have to start somewhere. The website is honestly far from being usable (very old-looking graphics, suffers from serious accessibility issues, the now-dead ''Best viewed with X browser'' feature, multiple scrollbars in places where they shouldn't be). But it takes time and practice to produce professional websites that are both good looking and accessible. Don't go the Flash route now. That's not a very wise advice to follow. Flash is wonderful when used for things it's meant to be used for, but it can be evil in the hands of an unexperienced person with little knowledge of accessibility and the web environment in general. Listen to Rachael. Check out websites like http://w3schools.com, http://www.alistpart.com, and http://www.htmldog.com to learn about XHTML, CSS, and accessibility. Start with these things and don't even think about Flash for now. XHTML & CSS are easier to learn and are used for most things web-related. I am a beginner too and I've got to learn a lot in three months. Read as much as you can and ask in forums like this when you're not sure about something. There are many wonderful people who are willing to help (they helped me a lot). Good luck!

Thanks again PHP Penguin, I have figured it out. Really appreciate your time and help.

Thanks a lot buddy, I really appreciate your time and help. I am a beginner so even basic things take me a lot of time to absorb. I will try your suggestions and get back to you later on in the day. Cheers!

Hi everybody, I hope you are having a great day. I would really appreciate it if someone can help me with this. I am just starting with web development and I have made a page that retrieves content using Javascript (the jQuery library) without a page a refresh. The problem I'm having is the browsers' content caching. Clicking on any of my menu's tabs triggers the loading indicator and the called content is displayed. However, when you ask for it once, it gets cached. I don't want this to happen. I want to call for it as if it were a new page no matter how many times it was previously clicked. My code looks like this: <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- $(document).ready(function(){ $("#menu a").click(function() { $("#welcomecontent").empty(); $('#welcomecontent').append("<div class='loading'><img src='images/loading.gif'/><"+"/div>") $("#welcomecontent").load(this.rel); return false; }); }); --> </script> I know there is a way to disable content caching in jQuery but I simply don't know how or where it should be added for it to work. Any help or advice would be really appreciated. I am sorry for the rather vague explanation, I did not know how to put it better. Looking forward for your replies!

It's not about being nice or not. People like number one shouldn't be working in this field. It's not their thing. I have been learning web design for 2 months and while I am still learning and just starting out, I can design sites 100 times better than the ones in this list. This suggests: 1) They are extremely lazy. It only takes a second to search Google for the latest trends. It takes a second to search for free standards-compliant templates if you want to go that route. Having a site this annoying, this ugly, and charging people for such a ****ty service is unexplainable and wrong. 2) They simply have no idea about what they are doing (seems to be the case). In this case they'd be better off doing something else both for the clients and people like you and me who have been working hard to develop their skills. It is unfair that these guys get a project when there are many hungry designers (at least better than them) who need work. It is a wake up call for them. Let them spend a day or two learning a few things or just leave this for the more qualified.

Thanks for sharing, it is very nice. However, it seems like it is still not stable. I had the same glitch when I clicked my first image, it did not load. And the code does not validate. But very nice indeed. It is similar to the ones found at http://digitarald.de/playground/remooz.html (CSS isn't valid, but it only takes changing the zoom symbol to a supported CSS one to validate), and http://www.phatfusion.net/multibox/. Have a good day everybody.

Thanks again, It worked well. Filters >Texture> Grain also worked nice. Thanks for helping Thomas!

Thanks Thomas, I really appreciate the reply. I will try it now.

Hello everybody, I hope all of you are doing great. This is my first post here and I'm looking forward to being part of this lively community. I am just beginning with web design and development and I would really appreciate any help regarding this subject. I would like to produce a background ''noise'' similar to the background image at http://virb.com/fancyprofiles ( http://kumquat.quickshareit.com/share/bg57657.gif ). Can any of you please let me know where can I learn how to do produce a similar background? I am hoping to be able to do it with with Photoshop, Illustrator, or Flash. Thank you very much for your time, I really appreciate it. Mody