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damn thats a nice amount of links!

1and1 are pretty cheap

@cibgraphics much agreed mate!

LOL! love how this thread has turned! Good to see alot of us have similar interests in games. I guess most web designers/developers have some inner nerd That peter griffin vid actually had me lmao! Gotta love a bit of family guy haha

Good shout on the Gimp front! Worth asking around also i managed to get my legit copy from my mates dad who is a photographer. He got his copy of CS5 bundled with an expensive camera. Already had CS4 so said i could have it. Result!

Thanks for all the welcomes all! No links anymore for those sites as with most clans they sorta disappeared after a couple of years Some went as far back as jedi knight 2, quake and counter-strike! More recently was world of warcraft but then we switched to guild-launch because of all the plugins... nevermind. Its a shame really i wish i kept them going (mostly on crappy hosts). Could of used them now for my portfolio a couple were very good. u'll have to take my word for it for now but i'm sure there will be another soon! hehe

I tried loads of different CMS' and in the end i went with joomla. It started out difficult but now im glad i put the effort in at the beginning

Don't forget youtube mate! literally 1000's of tutorials at all levels! keep an eye on which version they're using though!

Alluziion makes a good point dude! Have a go first then we can discuss from there

looks great

To be honest I like #1 its clear Clean You can see what it says without trying to figure it out. Logos are great but for me it depends how the rest of the website fits around it. Find the one that suits your website first then think about all the branding stuff later (business cards, letterheads etc) p.s Little tip also the colour contrast in some area makes the content hard to read. edit: Just realised your local competition! Disregard all of the above lol

Bookmarked for sure! will be using this

PC all day every day. I don't care about the looks of my casing and keyboard. I only care about what i produce on the screen itself.

Thank you! I did try a review site once. Looked great but then i realised id never have to time to keep it up to date with original content, would need squadron on writers! So i stuck with the fan stuff for friends. Various PC games a few clan websites etc. Fun to make but they never last!

Hi Everyone, Slowly building up my 'on the side' web design company and thought i better get signed up here to keep up to date and hopefully branch out properly in the future. I've been making various websites over the years mostly of the gaming variety (computer games not gambling). Looking to expand on my SEO knowledge so i will be spending a lot of time learning in that side of the forum. So yeah hello and thanks for having me Dave