WilliamsGraphics

I think for what you're hoping to get out of your site, it looks absolutely fine. If you're looking to make some changes to the typefaces and don't want a whole lot of hassle, you can check out a great library of free, easy to use and high-quality typefaces over at https://www.google.com/fonts. Integrating them into your site should be an easy task. As for which typefaces to use, you can use one, or two (one for headings and one for body). I like Lato and Merriweather, but for you, you may be best to go with something like Roboto Slab and Roboto.

The typeface is Roboto from Google. You can get it for free on Google Fonts. You can find out all the information you need by using any code inspector built into most browsers.

Some site designs have great success using very minimalist layouts with their typography. Walls of text don't need to be boring. I think the problem you're having at the moment is that you have a very old-fashioned way of laying out your text. The solution I have may not be perfect for your site, but it may be a starting point for you. It looks like this, with my solution on top and yours below: p{ font-size:120%; letter-spacing:0.1px; line-height:1.5em; width:75%; }

For what you're after, wordpress is what I would recommend. I don't get where this annoying misconception keeps coming from that wordpress strips you of all control and design freedom in exchange for a CMS framework, it simply isn't true. Wordpress will only limit you as much as your knowledge of how it works and your own design skills. My website is built on wordpress, for example. You will need to look into the best solution for you, but if you're just a novice, does programming your own php login and MySQL database sound like something you'll want to attempt? You're right, wordpress isn't great for everything, and I'm sure lots of snooty web developers will come along and let you know how bloated it is and how its category system sucks, but generally speaking, you wont find any better support or wealth of plugins to quickly achieve what you're after (in my opinion) than with wordpress as your CMS.

A .co.uk domain name will only run you about £3 a year, and website hosting can be as cheap as £2.50 per month. Unfortunately for you, you won't get any good domain names for free I don't think. Total investment for hosting for an entire year would be about £30.

You could use Adobe Kuler. That's a good place to start.

Ok, well I'm not sure of what it does specifically. A search around on Google gives a few different plugins that all claim to be Post Loop in some way or another, and I can only assume you're using Wordpress at this point. Regardless, the best way to add in the widget at the bottom of every page is simple. You'll need to add in a widget hook into your functions file on your wordpress installation: /** * Register WG sidebars and widgetized areas. * */ function williamsgraphics_widgets_init() { register_sidebar( array( 'name' => 'WG Footer', 'id' => 'wg-footer-widget', 'before_widget' => '<div>', 'after_widget' => '</div>', 'before_title' => '<h2>', 'after_title' => '</h2>', ) ); } add_action( 'widgets_init', 'williamsgraphics_widgets_init' ); and then in your theme, call in where you want your hook to be: <?php dynamic_sidebar('wg-footer-widget'); ?> Once you've got that far, simply add in your widget as normal. Put your hook in your footer.php file in the appropriate place to have it appear on every page.

What is a postloop widget?

When you say you're working in dreamweaver, are you coding it yourself? Or using the visual editor.. because you may have to write some CSS and Javascript for what you're after. Your best bet (in my opinion) is javascript where you can prehaps look up "hover on one div class change another" or something. Then you can just apply different background image overrides to your sidebar image container when you hover over certain menu items. That's where I'd start at least...

1. Responsive images would be handled (in this case) through css. You could define your image container class width for different viewports, or just use a percentage, then simply have your images adapt to the size of that box. .my-container{ width:50%; margin:1em auto 1.5em; } .my-container img{ width:100%; height:auto; } 2. If you're using PHP, just use a PHP include and have the contents at the bottom as a separate file. <?php include 'your-footer-contents.php'; ?> And have 'your-footer-contents.php' in the same directory as your page file.

CSS has (almost) nothing to do with the functionality of your website, just how it looks. What you're asking for is possible and can be quite easy depending on the circumstances, though it's not really for beginners. Ideally you need a database to run this from, so the easiest solution would be running a wordpress install with a login plugin which can manage users and dish out codes or whatever it is you are after. You can probably get a good wordpress theme for free which would support this functionality.

Sounds like you may be able to do it yourself. If you've got the skills, there is a very handy plugin (Advance Custom Fields 5 PRO) that makes the nitty-gritty of custom fields an absolute joy to work with. This may help you manage if you've build your site with this in mind from the beginning. Depending on how professional you'll want to seem though, a wordpress login panel isn't going to look the best for customers to be logged in to. It seems like you may need to look into creating a whole account panel for users to submit to the database which is a little above my expertise.

I don't feel like wordpress is all too difficult. My advice is to built your site like any other, then reverse engineer the wordpress workings into it. You'll quickly be able to take sections of code from the wordpress codex and figure it out. When you're good enough, you can build sites without having to add in the CMS parts at the end, and instead do it as you go.

Try Bootstrap. Popular and easy to use with a basic understanding of HTML and a quick read through the documentation and examples provided. This covers your responsive aspect too. Use Adobe Kuler to pick a colourscheme your like. For web fonts, use Google Web Fonts and just pick the one you like the look of. Again, easy to do if you have a basic understanding of HTML and CSS. Shouldn't take more than a few hours for you to build something decent looking. Or use the templates bootstrap provides if you're really stuck and modify that way.

Paypal will charge you a 2.8% fee + 20p per transaction (at least in the UK). You can set it up quite easily to have a link that people click on for an item and it will go directly to paypal for them to pay securely. Wordpress has plenty of plugins for that too.