Fran Haselden

Being a student myself, I've found that allowing yourself to be exploited is really just par for the course. I don't think I would be where I am now if I hadn't spent months working for nothing. It's sad that we've got to this stage but there isn't really any way around it

I can't seem to use your contact form at all as it won't let me enter my email address in the box. Other than that this site is looking really good for a newbie site. Well done.

I like the layout but I think it is a little squeezed in, could possibly expand it out a little to give a bit more space between all the content areas. Also in some places the padding is tight, for example on the footer, and could be increased. It feels a little squished together. Why is the testimonial an image? Should be text. Also, your About Me has several spelling mistake and grammatical errors. I'm confused as on your homepage you are a 'we' and on your about you are 'me'. Should keep it in-line across the site. To be honest, I think you should cut the text on your site in half. Reduce everything to half the word count. It's unnecessary and usability tests show time and time again that people simply don't read much text. An example of one section I've cut down: You could reduce this: To this: Essentially the above, why are you telling people that you'll offer them high quality work to the deadline? It's already expected of you that you'll offer to the deadline, you shouldn't need to state it. The quality of the images on the site shows that your work is high quality. Go through the site and consider where stuff is stating the obvious and where it is actually useful for SEO purposes. People are unlikely to read the text, especially as the font size is pretty small, they want to see the photographs you take and that is what will sell. The rest if just SEO fodder. Also now I want prawns.

I'm interested as to why you consider MySQL to be 'the most important thing' considering a lot of web development can happen without it.

"An SEO expert walks into a bar, bars, beer garden, hangout, lounge, night club, mini bar, bar stool, tavern, pub, beer, wine, whiskey..."

Ha! This is great. I'm glad they took my advice to go back to the drawing board, perhaps a little further than I expected though? If you say his name three times does he appear? Adam Godsall, Adam Godsall are you there Adam Godsall?

I have to say I love Android, have you considered the S3, or if your budget is lower the S2? (Still a fantastic phone.) As much as I can see the iPhone is a good phone, it is still behind in many ways. I also don't really see the point of the iPhone 5, I don't think it brought enough to the table. I can see why Apple is slowly losing out.

So you mean you've hired web designers you don't want to pay, yeah? Well if they don't care and you want to make the changes yourself then fair enough. You don't need to use Sublime to connect. You simply download your files, edit them in Sublime, then push them up using your FTP client. And if they advertised something they didn't offer, check your contract and pull them up on it.

Hopefully they'll come back with something nice! I think a lot of people just dive into code far too quickly. I've been guilty of it too. But a good design should be signed off and completely polished before the code starts.

If you're just changing text, why don't you just email them your text changes?

Well it looks like your index page is there, albeit without a lot of supplementary files and such. Also, just for note "FTP server" is not the correct term. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. FileZilla is a File Transfer Protocol client. Essentially it means an application that allows you to transfer files to your server. Looking through your file, you're also linking to a few files locally. For example your CSS is referenced as: file:///C|/Users/Orion/Desktop/test.css" That won't work. It's looking for a file on the C:/ drive. It's not going to find that inside your httpdocs folder. If your .css file is in the root - i.e it's in the same folder as index.html, then you can simply reference it as test.css. If you want to keep it somewhere more organised, for instance you want to keep it in a css folder, then you can reference it as css/test.css. The same problem is happening with some images in your file. For example: (file://///HUB/Ghyll/ArtWork/JohnPeel/Final%20BTW%20Logo.jpg); It's looking for something on a drive that doesn't exist. Also, don't use spaces in file names ever. That is what all the %20's are. Your file should be named and references as finalBTWlogo.jpg for example.

No, you should be able to double click on the httpdocs and enter the folder just like if you were browsing your files on your machine. I suggest emailing your host and explain you can't access the folder.

What do you mean 'connect to the site'? Yuou don't connect to any site with Sublime.

It's nothing to do with your design. Essentially, Filezilla is a tool that lets you put any file onto your space on the web. It doesn't matter what it is, or if the files are broken or whatever, you're just putting them in a box somewhere in the ether. You then access these files via your domain (which is linked to your hosting space.) That's when it starts to matter what your files are like. Visiting www.mywebsite.com will look for an index.html file within the space associated to it. Open up FIlezilla, enter your server details, find the httpdocs folder on the server, and drag your files across. It should upload and all be happy with no critcal error messages. The messages you're getting are probably more something to do with how you 'signed in' so to speak using Filezilla. Review the details you entered when you access your hosting space and see if anything is up.

For someone who is selling professional web design and graphic design, you seem to have little ability in both.. graphic design and web design. For a start, your style is entirely confused. You've got a grungy logo with grungy style text, followed by a sleek square mono-colour menu. Then you've got a colourful stitched feature panel. All of this screams back to the drawing board. Entirely. Start again. Find your style, create your mockups based on this style. Don't just pull in cool things from here and there, consider how they fit in with your design. More whitespace, less words, less gimmicks, more thought.