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Can't see any template copyrights, although that's no absolute indication I suppose. I think the navigation effect is quite unique and funky, but let down by the discreet colour of the on:hover effect. Perhaps make it a more profound colour, like a lighter shade of the active blue colour? Also, no responsiveness?

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Great effort, nice use of purple colours, not often seen on many web portfolio sites. Just a heads up, the top navigation breaks on tablet/large smartphone view. Just need to downsize and/or move it.

Cheers stalker.

I ****ing love you, citypaul. I've never had a stalker like you.

Browser Stack (http://www.browserstack.com) is pretty good, although I don't think it's free. It's useful for rendering sites, live or on localhost, to ancient versions of IE (if you care to serve such users).

I'm glad Dreamweaver is possibly less tolerated in the States than it is over here, although admittedly I use it at work because the code editing side to it is pretty good... but the rest is terrible, especially the server file manager.

Sorry, but not really. 'CSS is the design' (or 'skin') is such an outdated observation. CSS is now critical to managing the construction of a site; if HTML is the 'bones', then CSS is the string holding all those bones together. CSS attributes like float, position, overflow, padding and margins all play a factor in sowing the building blocks of a site together. In fact, without CSS floating and overflow, HTML would suffer dearly. And then there are media queries leading to responsive design - let's not get started there! So really, CSS is the skin in the sense that it houses the HTML bones, but most certainly not the skin in terms of mere appearance.

Gamers here will be familiar with the term 'rage-quit', which means leaving a game prematurely due to stress and frustration. This term can be applied to web browsing too, which is rather sad given modern website standards and expectations. Check this article out: https://www.changesciences.com/trending/web-design-infographic It's a scientific in-depth analysis of how, why and when your average user will 'give up' on (or 'rage-quit') a website. Variables of browsing a site, such as how simple the layout is, how easy the navigation is to follow, how many clicks are required to do tasks, locating key content and more, all play a role in how stressful a website can be to use. Team that with the average competence of your web user and suddenly web design becomes more routinely psychological. Personally, since going professional, I've been trained to be pedantic about every little block of a website, especially the navigation, responsive design and navigation on a responsive design. Designing a site where you pop your cheeks in the user's driving seat is more crucial than ever to fluid user experience. I just hope all us UX designers are aware of all these factors that contribute to poor web browsing. Just thought I'd share with y'all.

Study basic HTML5 semantic construction coding, along with a bit of CSS3 to aid in the flow of your site's layout (floating, positioning etc), find a text editor - any text editor, and you've found the latest and best way to build a site.

Tell me about it! Thanks guys. I decided to turn down the interview (possibly foolish, I know), because I realistically don't see myself splitting away from my current company at its current development level. If I hated my job, I'd jump. But for now, I'll stay put.

Seems you've gathered lots of information, but I'll chuck in a bit more. How many hours do you work per day? (e.g. 9am-5pm). Do you work Monday-Friday? Precisely - 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. No weekends. How many people work in your office and how many in your company overall? Just three, but I'm not sure how any answer to this could help. Web designers can be employed into just-launched companies as well as companies bigger than Microsoft. Can you work from home, in addition to working in the office? Software is software, if you can access the files and use the same software, it's certain possible. What software do you use (e.g. Dreamweaver, Photoshop, etc…) Dreamweaver for coding, Photoshop for PSDs, Wireframe Sketcher for wireframes, Github, CodeKit, FileZilla, as well as various browser and mobile compatibility online programs. Do you get to have a summer (or winter) vacation, and if yes, how long does it last? No such thing, I don't think... I get 5 weeks paid holiday + bank holidays, plus my birthday off. What is the salary range for the graphic designers and for the developers in your company (e.g. £30,000 – £35,000 per annum)? Typically web designers start somewhere over £20k, £25+ for well established places. Junior developers can expect £18k onwards. What was required of you to get this particular job? Current designing skills - Photoshop and front-end coding (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) with a good portfolio and professional experience if possible. When you don't have experience, it's a pain in the arse let me tell you. You just have to be relentless with employers to prove your passion with the absence of experience. Where is your web design company located (e.g. London, UK; Los Angeles, US, etc…) Norwich, Norfolk, UK. Typically companies tend to set up in London, but a huge chunk are found in other southern cities. Can't account for northern places.

Eeeek. >_< I'll mock up an emergency one... Congrats on 2k posts, by the way.

Thanks for your tips guys, you've been good. I'm slightly annoyed. This casual coffee meet-up has very subtly and quickly manifested into a job interview at their company place... less than 24 hours away. So that's 24 hours to prepare... wonderful. Aside from the guilt of abandoning my boss on his start-up company venture (sad, right?), this is the only thing really causing this dilemma. I could make senior developer in the coming years, but that's based on the company doing well and turning a profit (and, without going into detail, we getting source our projects from the my boss's associates...) and whether or not I want to climb the ranks of this company. As you said though, it's better to have senior developer on your resume, regardless of which company, than not to. I think I'll definitely go to the interview, since there's no harm in exploring my options. I'm struggling to see myself leave this company though, despite the drawbacks I listed before. :/

Hi dudes, In a bit of a dilemma as it stands, wondering if anyone could give me some advice. I'm currently working for a start-up company consisting of 3 people, including the boss. For a bit of fun, when a local recruiter rang me and asked if I'd be interested in applying for this web developer position with a well established company, I said yes, for giggles mostly. An hour later, the recruiter informed me they want to have a coffee (informal chat) about it, and seemed quite keen. Obviously nothing is concrete right now, but I'm torn. The benefits to working for a start-up company are abundant, such as seeing the company growth and probably rising to lead/senior web developer in the coming years. The sort of projects this company gets involved with though, mostly sustainability and corporate responsibility companies, bore me to death - the only fun I get from the job is the process of designing and coding itself, not the projects themselves. This established company want someone who's keen on mobile design, which I am, are offering higher salary and the prospect of working with a grown company, as opposed to being in a 3 man group, does tickle me. Any thoughts? Am I missing anything? Thanks.

Such an inspirational start to such a topic, haha. Me, errr, online gaming and driving. Done.

This has been circulating lately and I had to share it. These boys need a hobby slightly less endangering... As you can see they have no equipment - one of them isn't even wearing any kind of gloves to speak of. Nearing the end of the fourth minute in, it starts to get seriously terrifying. Almost makes Felix Baumgartner's jump seem pedestrian...

Indeed. I don't think Adobe ever intended Photoshop to instigate a revolution where the web was built with only design aesthetics in mind as opposed to functionality or browse-ability, but that's definitely what happened! Flash too.

I agree that they both mean the same thing, but only now. I believe that, in web design's developmental years post-millennium, the friendliness and ease-of-use of websites was overshadowed by the sheer need for a website in the first place. Thus meaning that web design meant the pure creation of a site and UX referred to the psychological side of it, but the two never really conjoined. In recent years though, UX design has begun to fall back under the same definition as web design, simply because modern web design carries strict standards and expectations. So creating a good UX design becomes a default process of the web design. I also think it's necessary to give yourself both titles (assuming you're good at both ), because clients need to be made aware that web design isn't about displaying content any which way, and that the psychology of their site will play a huge factor in the overall design.

You know what - I kid you not, I've had so much of the, "uhh, yeaaahhh, it's nice... but can we have blue instead...?" treatment at work lately I think it's rubbing off on me. One client turned down a really slick coal-black and maroon red combo I mocked up, because they wanted to be totally corporate-like and have white and blue. Ugh.

Hi Freddie. Your site looks good for a beginner's effort, much better than what I could churn out in your shoes. Here are my thoughts. Firstly, your code. You've used mostly divs - a non-semantic attribute, to construct your sections as opposed to HTML5 tags. This is called 'vanilla coding' or 'vanilla HTML'. I'm not sure if your tutorials alerted you to modern HTML5 attributes, but I'd look into them - chiefly the <section>, <aside>, <article> and <footer> ones. Don't worry too much - I'm pretty sure my own site still uses a div instead of a footer and in other places, it's easy to lose track. I really need to change that, heh... The '#999900' colour is a little off-putting and doesn't accurately reflect your creative design skills; it looks like the colour of a rotting pear if I'm honest, heh. If you've got Photoshop, crack it upon and just fiddle around with the colour palette, go for a more upbeat, conservative colour. I'm guessing you haven't had time to look at JavaScript or jQuery just yet, which is absolutely fine, a site doesn't need it to work well. But when you do, it can transform your navigation function into something more fluid; right now, upon nav link click, it darts to the corresponding section further down, whereas with a very simple jQuery script (no more than 2-3 lines), it can be smoother, more interactive and pleasing. Lastly, and I don't mean to push you in any directions while you're learning, but I would strongly look at responsive design. It may sound daunting, but incorporating it with your current learning would be highly beneficial, as opposed to going back to it. It's just about using percentage widths and CSS media queries (Google that!) to adjust page elements to look nicer on different screen sizes. It's an excellent effort for only some weeks work, you're definitely heading in the right direction. Hope my tips helped a bit.

The reason it doesn't work when you manually shrink your browser window down is because the jQuery doesn't dynamically respond to window widths - the functions you've declared in your script are concrete for that page load. So when you load the page, jQuery is told to show() the div, and when you shrink the window down, it's still being told to show(). Thus when you try to toggle the content, it's being told to show() something that's already occurred. That's why if you shrink the page below 600px and then refresh, it works, but if you keep the page over 600px width and refresh, it doesn't work. jQuery isn't dynamic like CSS is. So, basically, don't worry about this, it's not an issue.

Hi Trish, Modify the following code: Modify the padding for #maincontent to this: padding: 10px 0 0 10px; Modify the width for both span_1_of_2 divs to this: width: 50%; Remove the following from the CSS of .col: margin: 1% 0 1% 1.6%; Remove this from #right_div: margin-left: 1%; That'll fix your problem. Also, in your HTML, you have this error: <div id:="containerR" Remove the ':' and your div will align to the right as you desire. You'll need to weak the responsive styling to reflect the changes I've advised.

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