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Hi matey, i like the progress you have made hear, and you design look fab! I really like that orange in the old design though, have you tried experimenting with it in the new design but not using it as heavily? Also the link text is a little hard on the eyes atm.

Mate you obviously do have a designers eye because you can see the fault Rest assured we all get hurdles in websites we make Keep going!

Hey again paul! I see you have been busy over night. I like the new navigation, looks a lot cleaner than the old images you were using, and its good to see the purple following through in the heading neatly. My only real problem with the site now is that i think the pink and purple clash. I think maybe you should tweak the colours to get a happy medium between the purple and the pink and use that throughout, maybe you could change the colours of the side blocks if this helps to accomadate for the new purple pink.

To me this looks like a punk rock site! If you took away the logo that in my opinion doesn't site too well there, then It wouldn't be imediately obvious that it was a site of creative nature, it looks like a band bio site (maybe thats just cos a lot of band bios use that "punk rock pink" but i dont know).

Looks like an old fashioned blog style site in my opinion, needs some character.

Agree with most of what has been said. I don't know about fonts though, in my opinion the fonts need to be a lot smaller as well as a different typeface. Keep going though matey.

Nice looking site mate, I would try and align it a bit better though, for examples the navigation text would look better aligned with the header in my opinion. And while looking at it again, I am wondering weather the key+handle image is a bit overused? Maybe a picture of a house in the same sort of style...?

But what I am getting at here mate, is why are they images? they are just text yes? It would be clearer, lighter (file size) and more accessible as just text with a CSS hover in my opinion, thats just how I have been bought up to do it Sorry if I wasn't clearer before. Not sure if this helps now, but here is the image I was trying to upload: Something like this would generate the same feel: CSS #nav { height: 30px; list-style: none; line-height: 30px; text-align: center; } #nav li { float: left; display: block; width: 100px; } #nav li a { float: left; display: block; width: 100px; } .links { color: #333333; } .links:hover { color:#9013E0; } HTML <ul id="nav"> <li><a href="#" title="Link 1" class="links">link1</a></li> <li><a href="#" title="Link 2" class="links">link2</a></li> <li><a href="#" title="Link 3" class="links">link3</a></li> <li><a href="#" title="Link 4" class="links">link4</a></li> </ul> Hope this makes sense, with tweaking of the height attribute it allows the hover affect to appear like a blocked button. There is an example of this on the nav bar on my site.

Hmm a popular colour dilemna ey? Its not the headings i said were images matey, but the navigation bar just under the banner, they look good and they look like text but me (with a dodgey internet connection this morning) noticed that that they were images... I tried uploading an image, but my connection is so bad right now i cant ftp. I'll show you in your source code <ul class="menu"> <li class="menhome"><a href="http://development.paulboreham.co.uk/page/1/home/"><img src="http://development.paulboreham.co.uk/images/menu_home.png" alt="Website Home" name="home" id="home" title="Website Home" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('home','','http://development.paulboreham.co.uk/images/menu_home2.png',1)" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" border="0"></a><img src="http://development.paulboreham.co.uk/images/arrow.gif" class="arrow" alt=""></li> <li class="menservices"><a href="http://development.paulboreham.co.uk/page/2/my-services/"><img src="http://development.paulboreham.co.uk/images/menu_services.png" alt="My Services" name="services" id="services" title="My Services" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('services','','http://development.paulboreham.co.uk/images/menu_services2.png',1)" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" border="0"></a></li> <li class="menabout"><a href="http://development.paulboreham.co.uk/page/3/about-me/"><img src="http://development.paulboreham.co.uk/images/menu_aboutme.png" alt="About Me" name="aboutme" id="aboutme" title="About Me" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('aboutme','','http://development.paulboreham.co.uk/images/menu_aboutme2.png',1)" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" border="0"></a></li> <li class="menportfolio"><a href="http://development.paulboreham.co.uk/page/4/portfolio/"><img src="http://development.paulboreham.co.uk/images/menu_portfolio.png" alt="Portfolio" name="potfolio" id="potfolio" title="Portfolio" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('potfolio','','http://development.paulboreham.co.uk/images/menu_portfolio2.png',1)" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" border="0"></a></li> <li class="menfaqs"><a href="http://development.paulboreham.co.uk/page/5/faqs/"><img src="http://development.paulboreham.co.uk/images/menu_faqs.png" alt="Frequently Asked Questions" name="faqs" id="faqs" title="Frequently Asked Questions" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('faqs','','http://development.paulboreham.co.uk/images/menu_faqs2.png',1)" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" border="0"></a></li> <li class="mencontact"><a href="http://development.paulboreham.co.uk/page/6/contact-me/"><img src="http://development.paulboreham.co.uk/images/menu_contact.png" alt="Contact Me" name="contact" id="contact" title="Contact Me" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('contact','','http://development.paulboreham.co.uk/images/menu_contact2.png',1)" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" border="0"></a></li> </ul> Do these really need to be images? can't you use a simple hover CSS property to output the same display

Nice looking site matey. I would consider saving space by making the navigation text instead of images, use a list to order it to keep the "block" properties. I really like the greys and the pink is used really nicely to bring things out, however if it were me I would use the pink a little bit more for extra headings etc. I think it would give it more life. Nice site though, keep up the good work

Nice overall blog feel to this, I think it needs something to break the content from the page background though. I am using a widescreen and the whitespace either side makes the site look a little dazzling, some visual borders should be used here, instead of the implied border that sort of carries down from the banner. I was also exploring, and i found your contact page here, this actually hurts my eyes, no jokes!

Without wanting to scare people off, I was thinking of adding a photo of myself on there. I do understand what you mean though, it is lacking character and WOW factors, at the momment it is just a pleasant site imo. Thanks for the advice

I like the overall design a lot! Very modern and appealing, my only concern is it is very dark, the whole site reminds me in some way of chocolate, in fact, you have made me hungry Other than the darkness its v nice. I would suggest throwing another colour in the mix, maybe a blue similar to that in the sky on the photo in the banner... just a thought

Nice tip. I previously toyed with the idea of a striped background but upon trial it looked tacky and demmanded attention from the eyes. I have used a faded out background that is quite blurred to get the eye to disregard it as out of focus. I think it really brings the site 'box' to life, makes it jump out at you. Thanks for that tip

Ok I have added some color to the banner, and made it look a little more lively. hopefully it does not look as "square" now. Using that term loosely of course Gief Feedback plx0rs!

No it doesn't mate, and likewise, i didn't mean my response to be cocky of stiff-spined in anyways. I am going to tweak the design a bit more. Thanks. Keep the comments coming in

I may change the logo a bit but i looked at you site (Seed Design) and as for the comment "The design doesn't look like a designer's site. If you blocked out the bit that says 'web design', it could be about anything." is that not true for yours too? I was thinking of taking some sharpness out of the site because at the momment it is very blocky, but I am anxious about where to start. Thanks for the tips though.

Ha yes indeed it is, but that is NOT my doing. It is an old site somebody else designed, that i just maintain, its clunky and like you said uses tables. It doesn't validate with anything, but the college has just outsourced the site to a company so it will be changing soon i think (hopefully for the better). Sharp eye though, well done for spotting it. On a portfolio note, I have updated the padding and also changed the hover state on the nav bar. Open to ideas about images to insert on the page here.

I do like the silhouette but equally i understand what you mean, and i have been thinking about what sorts of other images i could include to 'spice it up' a lil. Going to have a go at the padding today, I'll keep you 'posted' (crap pun there sorry ). Thanks for the feedback so far.

Hi guys, I have redesigned my portfolio. I went for a padding formal blocked style. Let me know what you think: www.matthewfreeman.co.uk Thanks

Thanks for the feedback so far, I am curious tho: Where is the lack of padding, sorry if I am missing the obvious here...

Hi guys n gals! I will keep this brief. I have recently got a little tired of my old portfolio site, so I thought I would redesign a new site. Please take a look at both and tell me which you prefer. Version 1: http://www.matthewfreeman.co.uk Version 2: http://www.matthewfreeman.co.uk/development Thanks. Note: Only the home page has been designed on the 2nd version.

It looks very Joomla-out-of-box to be honest. I would recomment using a different theme that you really like and just modify it untill you are happy. I think for something like the olympics, the News should be a lot more 'in your face' as it were, meaning it hits you ask you visit the site. Padding is great and larger text on headings Good Luck!

Solved it, nevermind. $sql = "CREATE TABLE `matthusele5`.`$name` (`id` INT NOT NULL, `title` TEXT NOT NULL, `department` TEXT NOT NULL, `tutor` TEXT NOT NULL, `students` TEXT NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`id`)) ENGINE = MyISAM"; This seemed to work, gotta love PHP MyAdmin

Hi guys, Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong here, or maybe suggest an easier way to do it...? Below are some different coding formats i have already tried. Number 1 $query2 = "CREATE TABLE '$course_id'( '. 'id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, '. 'title VARCHAR(40) NOT NULL, '. 'department VARCHAR(40) NOT NULL, '. 'tutor VARCHAR(40) NOT NULL, '. 'students VARCHAR(500) NOT NULL, '. 'PRIMARY KEY(id))"; Number 2 $query2 = 'CREATE TABLE' . $course_id . '( '. 'id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, '. 'title VARCHAR(40) NOT NULL, '. 'department VARCHAR(40) NOT NULL, '. 'tutor VARCHAR(40) NOT NULL, '. 'students VARCHAR(500) NOT NULL, '. 'PRIMARY KEY(id))'; Number 3 $query2 = "CREATE TABLE $course_id '( '. 'id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, '. 'title VARCHAR(40) NOT NULL, '. 'department VARCHAR(40) NOT NULL, '. 'tutor VARCHAR(40) NOT NULL, '. 'students VARCHAR(500) NOT NULL, '. 'PRIMARY KEY(id))"; At the end of EVERY try of this is the following statement: $result2 = mysql_query($query2); I am also running another query with some of the same fields but that shouldn't matter right? I have run 2 queries before. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.