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If by "development" you mean coding and content, design always, in I'd say 99% of situations, comes first. You can't have content without a structure, and you can't have a structure without a design. Just out of curiosity, do you mean the development side of the project when you say "internals"?

https://www.google.co.uk/#q=Wordpress Welcome aboard, Matrix.

I've done this before, works out quite nicely. Always have the larger screen as the secondary.

Welcome aboard Shaun, good luck getting all techy and whatnot.

A lot of clients tend to be foolish, especially those who are looking to renovate their existing website, which was designed by an Indian company. They got their site for 10p in 3 days and expect the same cost and time parameters, but produce a much better result. I fear that in the future freelancers, who have been approached to re-design an existing site, may feel strongly inclined to examine the current website to see who made it and, if it were done by an Indian company, inform the client before anything else: "I'm a British developer. We can produce far better results, but for a much dearer price." Would be interesting to see what ratio of clients actually continue with that in-mind.

Ahoy new sailors, welcome aboard!

Welcome aboard, sir.

1&1 are, for lack of a better word, c*cks all round, in my experience. They sent me a letter once last year threatening to have my house repossessed for not paying a £5 domain on time. What would they take, my cookie jar? (Needless to say, after that, they stopped getting my money completely, late or on-time).

Greetings northerner, welcome aboard.

Kind of like Ebuyer's sub-menu solution?: http://www.ebuyer.com/

In all honesty though, this new-blue look for Gov.uk is long overdue; the previous orangey and white site was absolutely dreadful in terms of design, look, user-friendliness and crucially navigation. The hardest part of getting my student loan was finding my way around.

Good to hear you fixed it, but in future don't offer to keep paying money. Experienced developers come here to help voluntarily and never expect a fee, that would be morbid. Just ask in future.

I don't want the $10 bud, I'm here to help and not to make cash, especially for a 30 second fix. Can you be more specific and perhaps show me where on your site that is? I couldn't see it in the source.

Change your .menu class to this: .menu{ margin: auto; display: table; } $10 please.

Can we see your one? Having an example one that seems to work doesn't help much.

Make sure the generic input style is either erased or commented-out, then just remove 'input' from your custom styling, like so: .pink-button {background-color:#d1d1d1; text-indent:0px; display:inline-block; color:#FFF !important; font-family:arial; font-size:15px !important; font-style:normal; height:30px; line-height:30px; width:110px; text-decoration:none; text-align:center; margin-top:20px;} .pink-button:hover {background-color:#ed1e79; -webkit-transition-duration: 1s; -moz-transition-duration: 1s; -ms-transition-duration: 1s; -o-transition-duration: 1s; transition-duration: 1s; color:#FFF !important;} .pink-button:active {position:relative; top:1px;} If you want all submit buttons on your site (if there are multiples) to share this custom styling, then just add 'pink-button' as the class to each one. Keeping 'input .pink-button' would mean that it would style all input buttons as well as adding in the custom styling for pink-button.

Hi folks (not sure why he's there, ahem...) My boss and I recently discussed the latest trends with navigation menus on conventional websites, sparked by an article posted by this site: http://www.bowencraggs.com/best-practice/commentaries/338. I don't expect people to read it, so here's the gist: this fellow, who seems fanatical towards left-sided navigation menus as evidenced by the loooonggg menu on that page, argues that horizontal, top-of-the-page based nav menus spoil the integrity of some websites content, particularly sites you wouldn't use very often and therefore cannot become familiar with. He suggests things like company sites selling products shouldn't bury their product pages in amongst various sub-pages due to a restrictive horizontal menu. In essence, he seems to believe left-sided vertical menus are more user-friendly and horizontal menus with only a few links are too design-biased. Personally, I see this guy's point, but I don't think reverting back to classic left-sided menus is the answer. They can easily intrude on the main content (and it's all about content nowadays, and rightfully so) and only work on certain sites - sites that don't necessarily require a lot of room for content, whereas horizontal menus above the content work universally. Additionally, horizontal top menus work well nested at the top whilst scrolling down the page, so you always have the nav with you. Ultimately, I think this guy has a point about sites making it difficult to access content with a restrictive top menu, but returning to the old days when left-sided menus were in fashion wouldn't necessarily coincide with current design trends, especially with responsive designs. So what's your view? It's an interesting matter since navigation menus can often be sidelined as a minor aspect of a modern site in order for the main content to take priority.

Howdy partner, welcome aboard.

For a moment there I thought the eyes were following my mouse cursor. Morning freak out.

Sorry to bring up an ageing topic, but I thought I should mention that I'm officially going to Handheld in Cardiff on the 27th November. My boss invited me along and paid for the transport, hotels and the ticket itself, pretty sweet. So yeah, if anyone here is going, I might bump into you.

Ditch the books, head to w3schools.com or codecademy.com and learn online for free, step by step. Also, forget tables, they're so 2005.

When you say "add a picture", do you mean it's some kind of click-and-drag thing in a web design program? I'm guessing you didn't type the code for it since you're asking what the code is. Either way, the universal HTML for an image is: <img src="/my-image.jpg" alt="Some description" title="Some description"> The title pretty much acts the same way as the alt in the sense that it adds a title, but if the image breaks then the alt description will appear, not the title. So use both, I'd say, plus it's more browser-friendly.

It's difficult to advise, people have different takes on how readable a website is. I did, however, find that adjusting the line-height from 18px (it's current state) to 24px spaced the text out a bit and somewhat helped. I honestly believe it's the font choice though (teamed with the slightly-hard-to-digest Swedish squiggly text ). I know you wished to keep the main font, but just try experimenting. After all, your font choice should aid in maximising the readability as well as fitting the theme of the website. Try Helvetica Neue and Museo-Sans - that last one is similar to your current font but easier to read.

Good luck with that! Welcome aboard.

Hi Simon, welcome aboard.