Pete Prosper

Hello! In short, you need to use literals when assigning a default value to a class property outside the constructor. In English, you'd need to use simple fixed values---no calculations, functions, or anything of a similar nature. For example: private $laziness_level = 9001; // this will work private $laziness_level = "Too lazy to get up for the remote"; // this will work too private $laziness_level = 100*100*100*100*100; // this will NOT work because it involves computation private $laziness_level = getRemote()->getFatigue(); // this Will NOT work. Functions involved. Save fancy computations and function references for the constructor or methods in general. Regards!

There are tons of slideshow plugins. Assuming you're familiar with Javascript and JQuery, the following is what I usually use. http://www.slidesjs.com/ Though if that doesn't fulfill your needs, have a look here: http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/web-development/jquery-slideshow/ Regards

So I'll go ahead and contribute a design idea. Don't laugh, I'm genuinely trying to be creative here Category: Website & Logo Company Name: Addison Architecture Slogan: "Redesigning the world" Description: A new and small business located in suburban area within France needs a new website and brand. Founded in 2003, the company focuses on the construction of small houses and condominiums. Color Preference: N/A Design Requirements: None. Be completely free in the development of this page

Need ideas for a personal practice project? Why not create a WDF topic full of them? Many designers who are entering the field of web design often ask for project ideas and concepts they can use to build a portfolio. I know that I personally am always looking for concepts I could use to create new designs and add to a portfolio and I'm sure I'm not alone, so.... Post random creative ideas and challenges in this thread for practice. If everyone contributes just one idea in each post, it should grow fairly quickly. Furthermore, if any one actually designs a website based on an idea posted by a user, they can upload it to these forums for show and tell in this thread or in the "critiques & feedback" section. I'll start with a new post below as an example. Maybe actually implementing these ideas can become a game and add some fun to these forums.

Yea, there have been several threads about it here. I've seen constant debates between PC and Mac and honestly, I think this is just another thing that's completely up to your personal choice as a web designer. And then you have me..... a designer / developer who uses Linux as his primary OS. I actually enjoy surprising people when I tell them this. Whatever gets the job done. I have a spare Windows laptop just in case I need it for anything, but haven't touched it in months.

I personally always require a down payment before starting to work on a website. It's usually 50% unless the project is extremely massive and expensive in which case I'll lower it to something affordable. In any case, I've heard of too many situations where clients have basically gotten a free website because there was no down payment and they had no intention of paying the end price. Be careful and make sure that doesn't happen to you. As for edits, everyone has their own method. Teodora would rather focus on one design for her personal reasons while others take Terix's approach and present multiple designs. I've read many arguments over which course of action is more ideal and honestly..... you should pick whichever works the best for you or whichever you feel works best for the client. Though giving the client multiple options has it's positives, I personally choose to focus all my efforts on one single design. (My motives for this choice may be dictated by laziness, but who knows ) Anyway, hope I helped PS: About how many edits they get..... well I charge for the amount of time I invest in the project. They can get as many edits as they want, but that's more time I'd have to work. Having said that, I may choose to be lenient if they don't like the first and ask for a second.

Well here's a portion of my own process... Personally, before I design a website I go through an "interview phase". I ask my clients a decent amount of questions to get a feel of what their idea of the end product is. From those questions I extrapolate what colors to use, how to layout the website, where content should be, what style etc etc. After that I take a look at other websites in the same field as my client and take note of content in their page. The goal isn't plagiarism, but to learn "what other people did" and use it as a resource for creating something original; use it to create something with an amazing "wow factor". Only then will I jump in and start designing. PS: I learned these steps from reading a book named "The Principles of Beautiful Web Design". Then I tweaked the process described by the author into a way that worked best for me personally.

Welcome to the forums!

You could always try google web fonts if you could find the fonts you want: http://www.google.com/fonts/ I hate to ask this, but your last post just made me curious. Have you downloaded and uploaded the fonts you're attempting to use from fontsquirrel. In other words, are the fonts that you want to use actually on your server? I remember once replying to a person on these forums who used a fontface generator, but didn't actually get the fonts. Just trying to cover all bases and make sure this isn't what's going on here. Edit: you edited your post while I was typing this one. Didn't see the changes

The fonts are 404ing. The server can't find the fonts which could mean that they're misplaced or their paths are incorrect. I took a peak into your css file and it was auto-generated by font squirrel. Are you sure the src url values for each of those fonts are correct?

Allo and congrats on it being your final year. At least, I assume you're happy about it Welcome

Welcome to the forum!

Which browser are you using? I'm using Chromium and Firefox and it seems your images aren't loading (at least for me). Will poke around some more on your page, but right now I can only ask the standard "did you check your image paths and are they correct" question.

You are very welcome. Love show and tell, so looking forward to whatever you have to share. Honestly I should start doing the same.... Anyway, enjoy!

Unfortunately, no. HTML and CSS would only bring you halfway in that they would allow you to establish your forms, but there's no way to properly process that information....... well Well what I stated above is half correct. You could use "mailto" in an html form (and you wouldn't need a language like php)...... but I seriously wouldn't suggest that you do. It requires actually hardcoding your email address into your html file which can cause issues. Nevertheless, read the following (the first especially): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8239782/how-to-create-an-email-form-that-can-send-email-using-html http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp (some mailto examples on this page for use with links) http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp (links on bottom with mailto examples for use with forms). I honestly don't believe you'll find mailto as a viable solution. Regards.

That actually doesn't sound complicated at all, but accomplishing the task depends on what skills and resources you have available to you. For example, this could easily be designed with a server-side language like PHP to accomplish the mailing / form portion of the project. If your knowledge is limited to only html/css/js, that may be a problem though. Assuming you do know php, there is a pretty simple mail() function available (provided the server is configured correctly) to you and other tools if it doesn't satisfy your needs: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3874918/send-php-email-with-out-mail-function If a language like PHP is foreign to you, then you may have to rely on some other obscure means to accomplish this project. I admit, I haven't the slightest idea of how you would.

None of you have realized yet that this was posted in 2007. This is amusing

I tested this and it's only half a fix as it makes the navigation dots disappear. Assuming you want them to be visible, your issue is just a simple matter of overflowing content. Increase the height of #Banner to 450px (as an example) to accommodate the slider and your two divs should no longer overlap. (in addition to applying the above float) #banner { width: 962px; height: 450px; float: left; }

This isn't an answer to your question, as you're looking for software, but I have to say.... As a single developer I was taught to simply gather and document all information concerning the website in a file(s) prior to actually designing the website. Any additional information the client provides could be simply appended to the file. The way I see it, whether it's a file, or a piece of paper, or a program, you'll be responsible for organizing yourself and the tasks you need to accomplish. I mean, that's all it really is, right? Organization. I personally see no reason why you would need software to fulfill your personal needs. (especially since you working on this project on your own as opposed to being on a team or a large business). That's not to say that I'm against organization tools in general, but only when they're unnecessary. Anyway, just my opinion.

Responsive Web Design. In addition to what what the previous user posted, have a look at the following: http://alistapart.com/article/fluidgrids Intimidating at first, but not so difficult once you wrap your head around it.

Have you tried adding class or id attributes to the html within the script? That way, you can style the tags by using class or id selectors in your css? It's currently 7am and I haven't slept yet, so sorry if I'm missing something.

I'm not sure what that question even means. If you're asking how to make the website without coding it, then you should read the post above mine and then work on the design solely. If you're asking us how to make the website look good, this would be incredibly difficult to answer as you haven't given us anything to look at thus far. If you're asking how to accomplish this website properly without the "advanced stuff" then I'm here to tell you that it's impossible.... unless you deliver a static .html mediocre website to your client with no CMS or database management... in which case you'd be setting them up for failure because then they'd have to understand your code in order to edit their own website (or they'd have to hire someone).

Not trying to be rude, but I hope your client isn't paying you a substantial amount of money for this project. There is no way you can properly learn the required skills for this website during the duration of it's development and attempting to do so will probably result in an insecure and horribly coded website... if you even succeed in creating one (seeing "index.html" in your link above is not convincing). I really hope you understand that taking on this project could not only be a potential problem for your client, but for you (and your reputation) as well.

Not a fan of all text being all caps... at least, not as it is right now. If you insist on using those fonts, then you'll need some additional letter spacing (just a bit). Also, the right-hand upper section in the body portion of your page could use some extra line height.

+1 to this. Sher90, you seem to be under the impression that the website you've shown us, though relatively small and simple, is something you'll be able to accomplish after reading a couple guides on how to use a program that somehow produces this website miraculously. If you are not a web designer / developer, hire one. If you seriously are considering becoming a web designer and/or developer, then learn the languages Leonvv listed above. You'll also probably need some experience in a raster graphics program (like Photoshop or GIMP) and in a vector graphics program (like Illustrator or Inkscape). Kind Regards