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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.

If you're programming responsively, use percentages. If you're fixed width, just use pixels. I use a prebuilt framework called Bootstrap which does all the calculations for me so I can focus on the design, not fighting with the code.

Hi elibou, I took a look at your site with firefox and chrome and I could see the red facebook logo. What I would say though is that you seem to be loading full resolution images into the size of a tiny thumbnail which is making your site take massively longer to load than it should. What's curious is that you've got two different jpegs, one called "whatever_thumbs" and the other "fullsize", but they're both actually full resolution images, you've just told the browser to scale the image down. Your facebook logo will load quicker if you display images in a more efficient way.

I always find that you'll have more success if you get more focused on a particular area. Saying he does all those things is fine, but what is the main thing... if you can decide that first and foremost he is a gardener then you'll have an easy time. Otherwise, just go typographic instead and be generic.

I recommend the ACF plugin, or, advanced custom fields plugin. Maybe not directly for what you're using where you can perhaps just use wordpress' built in functionality, but if you have more advanced requirements, ACF is a great tool to help display custom data for post types without getting messy. You'll find it more flexible and powerful that vanilla wordpress.

Round, outlined shapes are coming in I think. By that I mean, we're transitioning through what I believe to be the "flat-and-square" design trend into more rounded rectangles and transparent elements. And you could take a look at modern 2015 colour pallets: http://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/color/2015-pantone-color-of-year#slide-17 They're a bit of self-fulfilling prophecy since they just say "this is what is going to be in next year", and because they do it a few months in advance and most people will be interested in being fashionable, the colours generally do tend to show up.

They're probably just after an image of the redesign. If your clients are into a more advanced workflow maybe they'll want a photoshop document so they can break down the emelents themselves and even export some css from it, otherwise, a jpeg would probably do the job. For best quality you could send a png.

Content Management System. For large sites like BBC News for example, they don't have an individual html page for every single piece of news. They'll have 1 template for a news story and then (presumably) they write the news into the content management system. This in turn populates the rest of the site too. Or would a better example be a blog. When you write a blog, you're not creating entirely new web pages, you're just writing the blog and the rest of the site creates itself around it. Maybe I'm not explaining so good, but you can look up the advantages of a CMS online somewhere.

Given how photographic the web is becoming, and how dependent a large portion of my designs are on great and relevant source material, I tend not to use placeholders and instead try to get material from the client before I start the design, even if I have to change them later. It ensures a better design workflow for me, though not everyone will work that way.

Use a CMS. There are plenty out there and should be very easy to integrate into your site, depending which one you go for. Unfortunately for you I don't have any recommendations for what you're after since anything I could suggest would be massive overkill just to change some tables. Search for a lightweight CMS that dosen't rely on a database (I feel like I've seen one somewhere before) and then follow the documentation to integrate it to your designs.

Quite impressive. Nothing too modern in your design but I don't think you need to be doing anything outlandish on an e-commerce site. If I was being overly critical, I'd say the heart-pattern background is too strong and could be toned down, simply because there are areas on the site (such as your product pages) where your text dosen't have a white background and can be slightly harder to read. And that's me being really picky.