jpeters8889

If the input element is a direct child of the wrapping div, then there's no need for any javascript or complex css rules, you can just target it using the :has() modifier
Just quickly did this in a couple of minutes as an example (May need to copy the link into a new tab) https://codepen.io/jpeters8889/pen/yyLLOwW

If the input element is a direct child of the wrapping div, then there's no need for any javascript or complex css rules, you can just target it using the :has() modifier
Just quickly did this in a couple of minutes as an example (May need to copy the link into a new tab) https://codepen.io/jpeters8889/pen/yyLLOwW

You said you're using PHP and MySQL, could you not have a table to store these customisations /settings/variables in as JSON, perhaps with an UUID as the PK, a text or json column type for the settings, and a created_at and updated_at timestamps.
That way you can just keep the UUID in the users session, and then in PHP you can get the settings out of the table, run them through json_decode() and you've got all your settings to use server side and pass to the view layer for the customer.
You could then have a task running on the server regularly to delete settings that are older than X hours to keep the table size low and also avoid storing data any longer than you need to.

sFTP is still widely used, more than you probably think!
Granted when you work for a large company or agency you're more likely to use some sort of version control because you're professional coders who know how to use them.
For the average person who just wants to get a web site up things like Git are way over their heads so sFTP provides them with a relatively easy way to upload and download their sites files.
 

I’m sure one of your colleagues will be along soon to spam the forum

Photoshop is nowhere near as expensive as it used to be, years ago and when I was younger I couldn't afford the massive price for Photoshop and pirated it, I think I pirated every version from Photoshop 6 back in the early 2000s up until probably around 2015 when I switched to Ubuntu for a few years and Adobe don't make products for Linux.
During that time though I found https://www.photopea.com/ which is basically Photoshop but built in the browser, very powerful, and can open and save PSD files.
These days I'm on Mac and pay I think £10 a month for Photoshop and Lightroom, which is barely anything, but mainly for photography purposes rather than web design like when I was younger, but if it was still £500 or whatever it was, I'd struggle.

When you do the console.log you're adding the JSON object to the string of Axios Response, so the JSON object is being converted to a string, hence the object Object.
If you do it as two seperate lines, like
console.log('Axios Response'); console.log(response.data); Then it will be outputted as the actual object.
With it being an HTTP Request though, rather than outputting it into the console, what I'd do is open the Network tab of the browser development tools, and select the XHR tab, and then the request will appear in there and you can inspect the full response body there without having to log it.

When you do the console.log you're adding the JSON object to the string of Axios Response, so the JSON object is being converted to a string, hence the object Object.
If you do it as two seperate lines, like
console.log('Axios Response'); console.log(response.data); Then it will be outputted as the actual object.
With it being an HTTP Request though, rather than outputting it into the console, what I'd do is open the Network tab of the browser development tools, and select the XHR tab, and then the request will appear in there and you can inspect the full response body there without having to log it.

Thank you for a great answer that's exactly what I was trying to understand ☺️

I've always put any JavaScript right before the closing </body> tag, I'm not 100% sure on the reasoning but I think its because if you JS alters any of the HTML or the DOM, then if its in the head then the JS is downloaded and potentially executed before the HTML has actually rendered, and then the JS will have no effect.
Saying that though there has been situations where I've had to put a JS file in the <head> but its rare.

I work 8:30 - 4:30 on days I get the train to work, and 8-4 on days I drive, so with travel time I've out of the house from about 7:30 - 5, when I get home from work I have my dinner (Which is usually ready) then get a shower, then from about 6pm, maybe a little before I'm working on personal development projects usually for 2, 2 and a half hours, then I go upstairs to bed with my partner and we'll watch a film or a couple of episodes of a tv show, then after that for me its either read, play on the xbox, play on my phone, watch youtube, or some combination for an hour or so, then in bed at 11ish, and do it all again the next day when my alarm goes of at 7pm!
I have a subscription to Laracasts through work, so when there's a new video posted on there I watch that, usually at night in bed on my phone.
Weekends it varies, I could go out for the day, or just a few hours, or I could spend the vast majority working on personal projects like I did this past weekend.

I'm the lead developer of a public facing JSON API at the company I work for, this API is currently having new endpoints and functionality added for an App we are developing for our customers, one of the new features is for our customers to upload videos to the app, these then goes through to our API, and we then send the videos to YouTube, and finally, we send an email or text to our customers customer informing them they've been sent a video, which is hosted on a page on the the customers website.
When I saw the brief, and even now when I'm writing the technical requirements for the endpoints, the format, body etc, I'm sat here thinking how the hell am I going to do this? I've got absolutley zero experience with processing videos though uploads, especially from a mobile device, chunking the video, loss of signal, very long (time wise) requests, but rather than saying to my manager I can't do this, I'm researching, creating proof of concepts, experimenting, until I'm comfortable I can do it, and I can do it right.

I'm the lead developer of a public facing JSON API at the company I work for, this API is currently having new endpoints and functionality added for an App we are developing for our customers, one of the new features is for our customers to upload videos to the app, these then goes through to our API, and we then send the videos to YouTube, and finally, we send an email or text to our customers customer informing them they've been sent a video, which is hosted on a page on the the customers website.
When I saw the brief, and even now when I'm writing the technical requirements for the endpoints, the format, body etc, I'm sat here thinking how the hell am I going to do this? I've got absolutley zero experience with processing videos though uploads, especially from a mobile device, chunking the video, loss of signal, very long (time wise) requests, but rather than saying to my manager I can't do this, I'm researching, creating proof of concepts, experimenting, until I'm comfortable I can do it, and I can do it right.

I'm the lead developer of a public facing JSON API at the company I work for, this API is currently having new endpoints and functionality added for an App we are developing for our customers, one of the new features is for our customers to upload videos to the app, these then goes through to our API, and we then send the videos to YouTube, and finally, we send an email or text to our customers customer informing them they've been sent a video, which is hosted on a page on the the customers website.
When I saw the brief, and even now when I'm writing the technical requirements for the endpoints, the format, body etc, I'm sat here thinking how the hell am I going to do this? I've got absolutley zero experience with processing videos though uploads, especially from a mobile device, chunking the video, loss of signal, very long (time wise) requests, but rather than saying to my manager I can't do this, I'm researching, creating proof of concepts, experimenting, until I'm comfortable I can do it, and I can do it right.

I'm the lead developer of a public facing JSON API at the company I work for, this API is currently having new endpoints and functionality added for an App we are developing for our customers, one of the new features is for our customers to upload videos to the app, these then goes through to our API, and we then send the videos to YouTube, and finally, we send an email or text to our customers customer informing them they've been sent a video, which is hosted on a page on the the customers website.
When I saw the brief, and even now when I'm writing the technical requirements for the endpoints, the format, body etc, I'm sat here thinking how the hell am I going to do this? I've got absolutley zero experience with processing videos though uploads, especially from a mobile device, chunking the video, loss of signal, very long (time wise) requests, but rather than saying to my manager I can't do this, I'm researching, creating proof of concepts, experimenting, until I'm comfortable I can do it, and I can do it right.

Its not Wordpress, but on custom build I'm working on, for getting assets I've got all my 'critical' / 'above the fold' CSS in the head of my site, and then all the other CSS in an external file, all minified and tidied up with webpack obviously.
For Javascript I've got a vendor.js that contains any code used by external modules (NPM) which is heavily cached, then a core.js file which contains custom built side wide code used extensively, which also includes a custom built router and library loader written in Typescript which loads a page specific js file only when needed, it does result in having a fair few compiled Javascript files, but then the contact page for example doesn't have a load of code it doesn't need from a checkout page for example. I've also got FontAwesome loaded in by NPM but using a custom icon set so it only pulls in the dozen or so icons I actually use rather than the entire library, and then on the client side it converts them all to SVGs when loaded in the browser.
From an image point of view, my larger 'header' images, such as a blog header image, I've got them using a 'resizable' class, which then I've got a bit of Typescript that hooks onto them and loads the correctly sized image for the viewport using a predefined set of image widths, starting at the smallest size first, then on my image server the image will be resized and cached at run time by a PHP script, so there's only one large 'master' image on the server, but the PHP script will serve and cache the image returned at 300px width for example for mobile screens to save loading a 1200px image.
All of my assets are also stored on a CDN server on the network which again is heavily cached during deployment unless a files hash has changed at which point the cache for that single file is busted.
The site is still a WIP but is nearing completion and I have noticed a speed increase from the current version using more 'traditional' CSS/JS/Image management on both local development and on the external development server.

An elements ID attribute should be unique per page, you should never have more than one element on the page with the same ID.
You could use the class name and add event listeners on that, for example (just written quickly, not tested)
document.querySelectorAll('.readMessage_trigger').forEach((trigger) => { trigger.addEventListener('click', () => { $.ajax({ url: "ajax/updateReadMessage.php", type: "post", dataType: "json", data: { msgID: trigger.value() }, success:function(result){ console.log(result.abc); } }); }); }); Which gets all of the elements with a class of readMessage_trigger, then for each one assigns that element to the 'trigger' variable, then adds the click event listener.

An elements ID attribute should be unique per page, you should never have more than one element on the page with the same ID.
You could use the class name and add event listeners on that, for example (just written quickly, not tested)
document.querySelectorAll('.readMessage_trigger').forEach((trigger) => { trigger.addEventListener('click', () => { $.ajax({ url: "ajax/updateReadMessage.php", type: "post", dataType: "json", data: { msgID: trigger.value() }, success:function(result){ console.log(result.abc); } }); }); }); Which gets all of the elements with a class of readMessage_trigger, then for each one assigns that element to the 'trigger' variable, then adds the click event listener.

I've been into web design since I was 13 (I'm 29 later this year) and completely self taught, I went from just messing about with HTML and CSS as a teenager to learning PHP and MySQL in my late teens and in the past few years teaching myself Javascript, and OOP PHP, but until just a couple of months ago, I didn't actually have a job in the field I love.
After I left college in 2009 I got a job in marketing, but got made redundant just under a year later and struggled to get another job, I was wanting to turn my hobby of web design into a career, after a couple of years of suffering depression, applying for jobs and never hearing back, boredom after leaving college, I eventually lost touch with web design and when I finally came back into it a couple of years later in 2013 I was miles behind, I didn't know a thing about responsiveness, mobile first, the methods I'd always used were out of date, software no longer seen as industry standard, so I spent a few months learning to get back in the game, taught myself responsiveness and mobile first even if it seemed backwards to start with, I started looking for work around my local area, but due to lack of experience and not being able to drive most of the jobs were a good hour to an hour and a half away on public transport, and despite getting a few interviews, I never got a job.
In the end, after encouragement from my family and partner I decided to go self employed, and I learned loads even if in the end it didn't pay off, over the course of 2 and half years I had about 10 customers, sure on pay day it was more money then I'd ever seen before, but in between that I was living on tax credits from the government, fortunately I still lived at home at this point or with my future in-laws.
Fast forward to this past November, me and my fiancee were talking about how we want to get our own place, but one of us would need a full time job, and logically it made sense for me to look for work, as from both of our self employment ventures, I was more likely to get into work, and my business learnt less than hers.
After spending a week or so putting a brand new up to date CV together, and making a portfolio website showcasing my work I started applying for jobs, in the first week I applied for a dozen around where I'm living now plus a couple further afield, and heard back from one, a market leading company based in Manchester, its actually one I didn't expect to hear from, but I had a telephone interview, followed by a Skype interview, then a face to face interview was arranged for the week before Christmas, unfortunately due to an accident on the M6 I never got there, but fortunately they rearranged it for the first week of 2018.
I went to the interview, and it went well, but a week later I got an email saying I was unsuccessful, and after talking to them over the phone it was lack of experience that let me down.
Later that day I applied for half a dozen more jobs, and that afternoon I got a telephone from one of the recruitment agencies I applied for just over an hour before asking for more information, and he arranged an interview with the company the following week.
I went to the interview, and I should add I applied for a front end role, and it went really well, and they were very impressed with the work I'd done through self employment, after getting home I contacted the recruitment agency about my thoughts on the interview and how well it seemed to go, and he said the feedback he'd recieved and been the same, they were very impressed, and they'd asked if I'd be open to a PHP developer role rather than front end, it'd be for more money, I said I only applied for front end as I wasn't sure my PHP would be up to spec, but I'd be open for it.
I had an interview with the PHP team leader the week after (now about 10 days after I first applied for the job), which went really well, and by the time I'd got back home I'd been offered the job, this was a Thursday, and I would be starting the  coming Monday.
I've now been here just under 2 months, earning more money than I've ever seen before, I've learnt so much (More OOP, Gulp, Automatic deployment to name a few which I've put into practice on the website I made for my fiancee's business) and wouldn't change a thing for the world.
Bit of a long post, but I hope it helps, even for someone who has always loved web design I originally found getting my foot in the hard till I went self employed and started doing work commercially and learning more, rather than random short lived projects for myself.
The job I applied for in Manchester might have been more money than I'm getting now, but honestly I feel better here, its a lot closer to home than Manchester, its only a 20 minute train ride (Its right near the station) rather than an hour or more on the M6 in rush hour traffic, and I've already started saving for when me and my fiancee can get our own place, I loved self employment, but I loved being employed, doing something I love every day, even more.

Change your <ol> to <ol style="list-style-type:lower-roman;"> or create a class in the CSS for your <ol> and place the css there.
<ol class="roman-ol">
Then in your CSS
ol.roman-ol {
list-style-type:lower-roman;
}

I've got a windows 10 acer laptop at home, and at work all but three of the 12 people on the development team use windows 10 (The rest use Mac) but in the design team most if not all of them use Mac's.
I've got a Samsung S6, but when my contract is up later this year I'm considering moving to Google Pixel 2, but I need to research it and compare properly closer too!
Personally, I'm not a fan of Apple products, I've used iPhones, iPads and Mac's for testing things, and I've not liked them at all, from the UI to to the feel to the functionality, I didn't like anything about them!

I've been into web design since I was 13 (I'm 29 later this year) and completely self taught, I went from just messing about with HTML and CSS as a teenager to learning PHP and MySQL in my late teens and in the past few years teaching myself Javascript, and OOP PHP, but until just a couple of months ago, I didn't actually have a job in the field I love.
After I left college in 2009 I got a job in marketing, but got made redundant just under a year later and struggled to get another job, I was wanting to turn my hobby of web design into a career, after a couple of years of suffering depression, applying for jobs and never hearing back, boredom after leaving college, I eventually lost touch with web design and when I finally came back into it a couple of years later in 2013 I was miles behind, I didn't know a thing about responsiveness, mobile first, the methods I'd always used were out of date, software no longer seen as industry standard, so I spent a few months learning to get back in the game, taught myself responsiveness and mobile first even if it seemed backwards to start with, I started looking for work around my local area, but due to lack of experience and not being able to drive most of the jobs were a good hour to an hour and a half away on public transport, and despite getting a few interviews, I never got a job.
In the end, after encouragement from my family and partner I decided to go self employed, and I learned loads even if in the end it didn't pay off, over the course of 2 and half years I had about 10 customers, sure on pay day it was more money then I'd ever seen before, but in between that I was living on tax credits from the government, fortunately I still lived at home at this point or with my future in-laws.
Fast forward to this past November, me and my fiancee were talking about how we want to get our own place, but one of us would need a full time job, and logically it made sense for me to look for work, as from both of our self employment ventures, I was more likely to get into work, and my business learnt less than hers.
After spending a week or so putting a brand new up to date CV together, and making a portfolio website showcasing my work I started applying for jobs, in the first week I applied for a dozen around where I'm living now plus a couple further afield, and heard back from one, a market leading company based in Manchester, its actually one I didn't expect to hear from, but I had a telephone interview, followed by a Skype interview, then a face to face interview was arranged for the week before Christmas, unfortunately due to an accident on the M6 I never got there, but fortunately they rearranged it for the first week of 2018.
I went to the interview, and it went well, but a week later I got an email saying I was unsuccessful, and after talking to them over the phone it was lack of experience that let me down.
Later that day I applied for half a dozen more jobs, and that afternoon I got a telephone from one of the recruitment agencies I applied for just over an hour before asking for more information, and he arranged an interview with the company the following week.
I went to the interview, and I should add I applied for a front end role, and it went really well, and they were very impressed with the work I'd done through self employment, after getting home I contacted the recruitment agency about my thoughts on the interview and how well it seemed to go, and he said the feedback he'd recieved and been the same, they were very impressed, and they'd asked if I'd be open to a PHP developer role rather than front end, it'd be for more money, I said I only applied for front end as I wasn't sure my PHP would be up to spec, but I'd be open for it.
I had an interview with the PHP team leader the week after (now about 10 days after I first applied for the job), which went really well, and by the time I'd got back home I'd been offered the job, this was a Thursday, and I would be starting the  coming Monday.
I've now been here just under 2 months, earning more money than I've ever seen before, I've learnt so much (More OOP, Gulp, Automatic deployment to name a few which I've put into practice on the website I made for my fiancee's business) and wouldn't change a thing for the world.
Bit of a long post, but I hope it helps, even for someone who has always loved web design I originally found getting my foot in the hard till I went self employed and started doing work commercially and learning more, rather than random short lived projects for myself.
The job I applied for in Manchester might have been more money than I'm getting now, but honestly I feel better here, its a lot closer to home than Manchester, its only a 20 minute train ride (Its right near the station) rather than an hour or more on the M6 in rush hour traffic, and I've already started saving for when me and my fiancee can get our own place, I loved self employment, but I loved being employed, doing something I love every day, even more.

I've been into web design since I was 13 (I'm 29 later this year) and completely self taught, I went from just messing about with HTML and CSS as a teenager to learning PHP and MySQL in my late teens and in the past few years teaching myself Javascript, and OOP PHP, but until just a couple of months ago, I didn't actually have a job in the field I love.
After I left college in 2009 I got a job in marketing, but got made redundant just under a year later and struggled to get another job, I was wanting to turn my hobby of web design into a career, after a couple of years of suffering depression, applying for jobs and never hearing back, boredom after leaving college, I eventually lost touch with web design and when I finally came back into it a couple of years later in 2013 I was miles behind, I didn't know a thing about responsiveness, mobile first, the methods I'd always used were out of date, software no longer seen as industry standard, so I spent a few months learning to get back in the game, taught myself responsiveness and mobile first even if it seemed backwards to start with, I started looking for work around my local area, but due to lack of experience and not being able to drive most of the jobs were a good hour to an hour and a half away on public transport, and despite getting a few interviews, I never got a job.
In the end, after encouragement from my family and partner I decided to go self employed, and I learned loads even if in the end it didn't pay off, over the course of 2 and half years I had about 10 customers, sure on pay day it was more money then I'd ever seen before, but in between that I was living on tax credits from the government, fortunately I still lived at home at this point or with my future in-laws.
Fast forward to this past November, me and my fiancee were talking about how we want to get our own place, but one of us would need a full time job, and logically it made sense for me to look for work, as from both of our self employment ventures, I was more likely to get into work, and my business learnt less than hers.
After spending a week or so putting a brand new up to date CV together, and making a portfolio website showcasing my work I started applying for jobs, in the first week I applied for a dozen around where I'm living now plus a couple further afield, and heard back from one, a market leading company based in Manchester, its actually one I didn't expect to hear from, but I had a telephone interview, followed by a Skype interview, then a face to face interview was arranged for the week before Christmas, unfortunately due to an accident on the M6 I never got there, but fortunately they rearranged it for the first week of 2018.
I went to the interview, and it went well, but a week later I got an email saying I was unsuccessful, and after talking to them over the phone it was lack of experience that let me down.
Later that day I applied for half a dozen more jobs, and that afternoon I got a telephone from one of the recruitment agencies I applied for just over an hour before asking for more information, and he arranged an interview with the company the following week.
I went to the interview, and I should add I applied for a front end role, and it went really well, and they were very impressed with the work I'd done through self employment, after getting home I contacted the recruitment agency about my thoughts on the interview and how well it seemed to go, and he said the feedback he'd recieved and been the same, they were very impressed, and they'd asked if I'd be open to a PHP developer role rather than front end, it'd be for more money, I said I only applied for front end as I wasn't sure my PHP would be up to spec, but I'd be open for it.
I had an interview with the PHP team leader the week after (now about 10 days after I first applied for the job), which went really well, and by the time I'd got back home I'd been offered the job, this was a Thursday, and I would be starting the  coming Monday.
I've now been here just under 2 months, earning more money than I've ever seen before, I've learnt so much (More OOP, Gulp, Automatic deployment to name a few which I've put into practice on the website I made for my fiancee's business) and wouldn't change a thing for the world.
Bit of a long post, but I hope it helps, even for someone who has always loved web design I originally found getting my foot in the hard till I went self employed and started doing work commercially and learning more, rather than random short lived projects for myself.
The job I applied for in Manchester might have been more money than I'm getting now, but honestly I feel better here, its a lot closer to home than Manchester, its only a 20 minute train ride (Its right near the station) rather than an hour or more on the M6 in rush hour traffic, and I've already started saving for when me and my fiancee can get our own place, I loved self employment, but I loved being employed, doing something I love every day, even more.

@jpeters8889 - know the feeling, was made redundant in 2000 from my junior role and ended up on self employed, tax credits and delivering pizza in the evening as I had a family to support. Glad you're happy in your role, my wife is always nagging me, essentially saying "get a real job". I will agree, would never swap time served self employed for a text book "better job", I have learnt so much having to be full stack, some of the crazy "out there" ideas that more than pulled off would have been lost without the freedom to discover. I have even now had the chance to consult for others, and the mad bit iss 99% of the time it's because the left hand assumes the right hand knows what it's doing

I've been into web design since I was 13 (I'm 29 later this year) and completely self taught, I went from just messing about with HTML and CSS as a teenager to learning PHP and MySQL in my late teens and in the past few years teaching myself Javascript, and OOP PHP, but until just a couple of months ago, I didn't actually have a job in the field I love.
After I left college in 2009 I got a job in marketing, but got made redundant just under a year later and struggled to get another job, I was wanting to turn my hobby of web design into a career, after a couple of years of suffering depression, applying for jobs and never hearing back, boredom after leaving college, I eventually lost touch with web design and when I finally came back into it a couple of years later in 2013 I was miles behind, I didn't know a thing about responsiveness, mobile first, the methods I'd always used were out of date, software no longer seen as industry standard, so I spent a few months learning to get back in the game, taught myself responsiveness and mobile first even if it seemed backwards to start with, I started looking for work around my local area, but due to lack of experience and not being able to drive most of the jobs were a good hour to an hour and a half away on public transport, and despite getting a few interviews, I never got a job.
In the end, after encouragement from my family and partner I decided to go self employed, and I learned loads even if in the end it didn't pay off, over the course of 2 and half years I had about 10 customers, sure on pay day it was more money then I'd ever seen before, but in between that I was living on tax credits from the government, fortunately I still lived at home at this point or with my future in-laws.
Fast forward to this past November, me and my fiancee were talking about how we want to get our own place, but one of us would need a full time job, and logically it made sense for me to look for work, as from both of our self employment ventures, I was more likely to get into work, and my business learnt less than hers.
After spending a week or so putting a brand new up to date CV together, and making a portfolio website showcasing my work I started applying for jobs, in the first week I applied for a dozen around where I'm living now plus a couple further afield, and heard back from one, a market leading company based in Manchester, its actually one I didn't expect to hear from, but I had a telephone interview, followed by a Skype interview, then a face to face interview was arranged for the week before Christmas, unfortunately due to an accident on the M6 I never got there, but fortunately they rearranged it for the first week of 2018.
I went to the interview, and it went well, but a week later I got an email saying I was unsuccessful, and after talking to them over the phone it was lack of experience that let me down.
Later that day I applied for half a dozen more jobs, and that afternoon I got a telephone from one of the recruitment agencies I applied for just over an hour before asking for more information, and he arranged an interview with the company the following week.
I went to the interview, and I should add I applied for a front end role, and it went really well, and they were very impressed with the work I'd done through self employment, after getting home I contacted the recruitment agency about my thoughts on the interview and how well it seemed to go, and he said the feedback he'd recieved and been the same, they were very impressed, and they'd asked if I'd be open to a PHP developer role rather than front end, it'd be for more money, I said I only applied for front end as I wasn't sure my PHP would be up to spec, but I'd be open for it.
I had an interview with the PHP team leader the week after (now about 10 days after I first applied for the job), which went really well, and by the time I'd got back home I'd been offered the job, this was a Thursday, and I would be starting the  coming Monday.
I've now been here just under 2 months, earning more money than I've ever seen before, I've learnt so much (More OOP, Gulp, Automatic deployment to name a few which I've put into practice on the website I made for my fiancee's business) and wouldn't change a thing for the world.
Bit of a long post, but I hope it helps, even for someone who has always loved web design I originally found getting my foot in the hard till I went self employed and started doing work commercially and learning more, rather than random short lived projects for myself.
The job I applied for in Manchester might have been more money than I'm getting now, but honestly I feel better here, its a lot closer to home than Manchester, its only a 20 minute train ride (Its right near the station) rather than an hour or more on the M6 in rush hour traffic, and I've already started saving for when me and my fiancee can get our own place, I loved self employment, but I loved being employed, doing something I love every day, even more.