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If you see anything with a curve on a website it's done using an image, or it's in flash.

1. Pulp Fiction 2. Reservoir Dogs 3. The Usual Suspects

Very true. One thing that always amuses me at work is when we get a customer ringing up and their question is... "I'm after a website making, how much do you charge?" It's like going into an estate agent and saying "I'm after a house, how much are they?"

What? Pink and fluffy?

Hehehe a few of those are pretty funny

You seem to have 2 different CSS files with conflicting border rules: pricing2.css (line 7) table { border-collapse:collapse; } html.css (line 165) table { border-collapse:separate; border-spacing:2px; text-indent:0; } this could be the problem?

I think they can work well and be nice and original when there's lots of imagery, like a portfolio website for example. Also with my lovely new mac mouse i can scroll horizontally using the scroll ball which makes them even more accessible.

I know that for a site like this I would be hoping to get around the £500 mark, not knowing exactly what kind of work needs to go in to e-commerce section (if it's just a simple header to tie it in with the site it could be less). If you're at the stage where you're wanting to build up your portfolio (as i am) you may wish to cheapen it off just to ensure you got the work. Really its up to you and how much time you think you'll need to spend on it. If you haven't got any other work to be getting on with you can be generous with your time on this project. I do know that if you took this brief to a larger web design agency they would more than likely be asking for a 4 figure sum.

When I started out learning HTML and CSS I used the Adobe resources a fair bit, just going through the tutorials helped a lot, and because they show you the best practice, and how to stick to web standards, you don't pick up bad habits that will plague you in future. http://www.adobe.com/support/

Just because a larger company will charge more for the job doesn't necessarily mean they will do a better job, or that the person offering this deal is going to do a bad job. If I were to take on a job like this I would probably ask for about the same money, and I know I would do a good job. So don't be put off just because other people say it's too cheap!

The last film I watched was "Funny Games" on DVD. It wasn't quite what we expected, lots of suspense throughout but pretty odd really, and quite disturbing!

I'm thinking of creating a website which will have one standard layout but a few different CSS 'skins'. I was thinking the best way was to have one CSS file with all the div/layout stuff, and then have a few different CSS files with the colours, font sizes, images etc. Can anyone let me in on a little secret how to incorporate a button that changes the CSS file a website looks at without having to actually make 3 or more individual sites? Hope that makes sense. Matt FLY3

Create a replacement gif for all the horrble internet users that dont update their browser, and then use an exception rule (like !important) to show a lovely transparent png file to those who install their updates.

I'm liking it so far, looks nice and clean, and launches a lot quicker. I'm on OSX 10.5.4.

This is a great tip I learned not so long ago, seems simple now really. There's just one thing you need to watch out for and that's when you set font sizes in em's when you have nested div's, you can end up with them doubling up and getting completely the wrong size, that's usually blatantly obvious though when you look at your site.

Maybe you should try making it a bit more glossy/web2, I mean I know that kind of look has been done to death recently but if you're a web design company it could be what people are looking for? I knocked this one up quickly to try and show you what I mean.

Thanks for the comments. I thought I would be OK using flash for the navigation as I have also included a secondary text navigation in the footer, are you struggling to use this because it's at the bottom of the page? How do you mean you can barely see a thing without flash? I have HTML coded all the body text of the site, the only things that are flash are the header, main navigation and a couple of prices on the home page, which i also duplicate in my body text. Lugosi : I've just used simple form HTML code and then styled it with CSS, nothing that fancy really.

All these scandals about how much the government pay for logo's are generally a bit miss-informed though. Like the 2012 olympics... I actually like the logo, but it's not just that that cost £400K, that will be for the complete branding of the olympic games, including lots of layouts for advertising material, logo placement guidelines etc. These tend to be thick guide booklets that do take a lot of time to put together. I know £400K is a huge sum, but then it's the olympic games, and if you were the influence of how the whole games were going to be promoted you'd want a fair amount for it.

To be honest I think you need to take into account the kind of users that will be going to the website your designing. For instance I did work for a building trade firm recently and their customer base was run of the mill builders/contractors. They told me that most of these customers were on old 15" monitors and 1024x768 resolution was as good as it would get, so I made sure the site looked nice at this resolution and would accommodate people still on 800x600 (I think i made it about 770px wide). With sites that you think there will be a lot of people in the design industry, you can expect they will be on 1280x1024 at least, so you can afford to make a nice wide site, if this is the case I usually go for around 975px wide. In my opinion nice wide sites look great, especially if you have loads of lovely content to fill them with! Mind you if you are struggling for content you might want to make the site narrower otherwise it can just look really empty.

Hi everyone, I'm new to the forum, i'm currently looking for extra work as a web designer, so i've launched this website. I'm basically trying to look as professional as i can, but just looking for some nice easy website work I can do from home to make a little extra cash! I currently work as a designer, and that's my main expertise, but i've also been building websites for a couple of years. www.fly3.co.uk Let me know what you think of my site! Thanks Matt FLY3

Hi everyone, Just saying a quick hello. I'm a designer/web designer, and i'm currently starting out my own web design service. I've joined to forum to get some tips and also maybe give a few tips! See you around Matt, Fly3 www.fly3.co.uk

Yes, when you get an obvious problem like this you can be looking at your code for ages scratching your head, the first thing you should do is check for any spelling mistakes or syntax errors, as this usually tends to be the case!