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Thank you Sir!

Hey, Thanks for the reply! Aye, the UI/UX designer is on my radar, but since these are personal projects and likely never going to be commercial (unless i'm lucky!) I'd like to avoid paying someone to design for me. Though, I do see the time / frustration saving benefit in this approach! As for dribble and code canyon, this is a good shout! I shall give this a try! Thanks again! T

Hello ladies and Gentlemen! I am very much interested in your thoughts and assistance on the following. Over the last few months I've come up with a few ideas that i'd like to translate into websites, and i've been down this road before. I find I run into the same issues each time! I am just pants at making things 'look good'. My coding skills are average, nothing special. but i am comfortable with it. My issue is I lack any creativity! I am hoping this is a skill (design) that can be learnt! I've tried wireframing, but it looks like a 2 year old did it! Any resources you guys would suggest?

Hi Attila! adding to the above post, i would look for a measure of interactivity. For example, what is the user clicking on? (maybe an image, expecting it to be a link?) how long they're on the page, what journey is the customer taking. What pages is no one visiting? Do some pages have a higher bounce rate than others? Also, if the interactivity confusing for the user or am I leading them well enough with my design? I am sure there are solutions out there that do this, hotjar maybe? one that jumps to mind. Might be worth having a look at existing solutions and seeing how you can improve as well as adding value! Good luck!

I'm happy to do some pair coding with you, if you'd prefer to learn while doing? as for courses, if thats the route you prefer, Udemy has some really good ones.

maybe not such an easy fix after all..

Hi Guys I've come up with a bit of an issue. I am adding WP to a sub directory. I am trying to carry over a bootstrap theme (learning as I go) One issue that I've come up with; I feel should be simple to fix put for the life of me I can't work it out. So my root directory looks something like this : css, js, fonts, images, blog (folders) WP is installed to the blog directory. The directory of my theme that I'm making is /blog/wp-content/themes/bootstrap. This is also where the index.php is. I am finding it difficult to link to the root directory resources, for example; i want to pull an image from the root directory for index.php using /images/background.jpg from what I gather, what this is actually doing is looking for the images folder in themes/bootstrap/images/ I am also having the same issue with the CSS files, having to duplicate them and add them to the theme folder rather than look them up from the root directory.. What is it I am clearly missing? Thanks

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Hi Guys, Can you help me out please. www.poweredbysolutions.co.uk at the very top of the page there is a rogue '<' I've looked and looked and looked and I can't find the extra character in the HTML. It's starting to annoy me now. I'm hoping a fresh set of eyes can spot it for me. Thanks

Hey, I implemented the changes; about the shadow, do you mean on the 3 floating icons or the powered by solutions logo? spell check complete One more thing - rather than start a new thread, I was hoping you could help with something. on the 'contact us' page (i know its horrid) I have social icons. One of the icons on hover goes green. I can't make the rest do it. Can you suggest what I can do to fix this please? Thanks.

That's a great resource! thank you! I've bookmarked that for later. I'll drop the shadow Thanks for the input, I'll give it a try n see what I come up with

Thanks for checking. No, I don't need it there. I will probably replace it with company address and registration number shortly, I was just playing around to see if volume of text was messing with the alignment. On my laptop, the whole left column seems to be shunted down a little but if you say it looks good, I'll put it down to my eyes On a phone, do you see the 3 circles that you were helping me out with earlier? one of them seems to be oval, any ideas why? They're all the same in the HTML. Thanks,

Hello again, Can someone help me fix the alignment of the footer please? www.poweredbysolutions.co.uk the left column with the logo in seems to be too low. I've tried margins and padding but I just make it worse rather than better. Can someone tell me where I'm going wrong please? Thank you.

Thanks Guys, the div included within the link fixed it. Thanks for the help

Hi, Can you give me an example? I'm not quite sure what you mean. I'm kinda newbie.

Hi Everyone, I hope you had a fantastic Christmas! I'm trying to get my website finished this week, or the first draft of anyway. I'm having some technical issue with some DIV containers that I want as HTML links. if you goto www.poweredbysolutions.co.uk - if you scroll down about half way you will find 3 circles. As you mouse over them, you will notice they get bigger and have a little icon on them. What I am trying to do is make the entire clickable area a link. So far, I've only managed to make the text a link. from a user experience point of view, this will be confusing and poor. Any help will be appreciated. Please note, I've not optimised the images yet, apologise for the load time

Thanks for the input! I understand what you're saying. This is very much just a temp site; I just need a website up and now, this was the fastest way I could do it until I have a final design idea. As for the slider, I think you're right. I will remove it. This was very much just a learning experience, to see where the gaps in my understanding are. There are lots! I tried to build a site from scratch, but it looked like something I'd have done in front page express when I was in my teens. Bootstrap seemed to take all the heavy lifting whilst promising to let me edit and more importantly learn. I simply don't have the time to learn all the linking technologies in the time frame I have to get this website finished. What I am finding though, is it's much easier to trouble shoot when you know what you've written, trying to troubleshoot someone else's mistakes is hard work. Alas, this is the route I am on now, I will think about the page structure and the overall intent of the website. It is only half finished at the moment, if that so there will hopefully be less issue over the next week or two. Thank you for taking the time to help me, it is hugely appreciated. Regards, p.s. if you care to make any suggestions on how I can better myself with the current project in mind, I'd love your input. Until then, I will keep tinkering

Thank you Fisicx, You have no idea how frustrating that was! I don't suppose you can help me with one more issue? In the footer, left side, my words are breaking mid word. I've tried word wrap, in the CSS and word break, neither seem to fix it. Last one for today, promise Thank you.

Hi Guys, I'm looking for a bit of help. I have two pictures next to two boxes with text in them, which is not aligning to the pictures. I've changed the CSS which I think is controlling it, but nothing changes. I've revisited this a few times to see if different elements are controlling it; now I'm just getting frustrated! Firstly, you guys have been helpful in the past when I've needed help however, I know some of you have a hatred towards bootstrap. Please don't slate me for using it, I'm very new to this and bootstrap is a great help to learn with. That being said, I am having issues so if anyone can help me i'd be grateful! Website is: www.poweredbysolutions.co.uk It's on the index page, right down at the bottom by the news articles. If you need to me attach any of the CSS let me know. Thanks,

Hello Guys, Wonder if you can offer some advice. I have a theme for an energy website. I am trying to make a company blog. This theme was purchased to save some time and as a project to learn as I work kind thing. I've ran into a brick wall. I want to use a blog with the website, It looks like the theme creator has added this as part of the template. Due to my lack of experience I have no idea where to start. Can you kindly have a look at the link and give me some pointers are what I need to do? Only way I can think of doing it would to be either: Add all the page as static HTML and customise each entry on the blog page (hell this would be long winded) Or; Install wordpress as a backend CMS in a sub directory - How would I keep the theme design if this was the case? Any help would be great. you can find the blog grid at http://www.poweredbysolutions.co.uk/blog-grid.html and the post template : http://www.poweredbysolutions.co.uk/blog-detail.html Thank you.

Looks like you're trying to open the document in a program that doesnt support the file format. when you say you're trying to 'open it' what are you trying to open? index.html should be opened with a web browser. If I was to hazard a guess, you might be trying to open a configuration file in like, myfile.js in something like MS WORD. I used to do something similar in my school days to get out of homework haha. memories...

I might be a good programmer.. I give my wife clear instructions in a clear order and she executes them flawlessly. Does this count?

Hi, I asked a similar question in the introduction question. I'd suggest reading that thread and looking at some of the advice offered. Theres some great ideas there and a lot of detailed information. Though, if you don't feel the design element is 'up your street' Get a web designer to do the visual parts. you can pay a small about of money for freelancers to generate concepts and pick the one you like. Or, consider being a backend developer? Good luck

The concept is a good one. However, I agree with what rbrtsmith says above. I've already invested quite a bit of capital into self learning and it works two ways. Firstly, it allows you to appreciate the value of what you're learning. Free stuff is easily disregarded as worthless. secondly, financial commitment also drives a wish to succeed. After all, you don't want to waste all that money! I am very new to this world, though I don't find it hugely difficult to learn new things, I'd not expect it for free. Udemy offer some nice introduction course's into coding for free and some for paid depending on your current level. That being said, I do like your idea of pair programming and I know this works well in the commercial world. I have a few projects that I am currently working on. If you want some experience with a end goal in sight, I am more than happy for you to work with me.. I currently have a just above basic understanding of JS Java HTML CSS PHP MYSQL. Feel free to send me a message if you're interested.

I liked it, I spent a little time looking over the site and some of the puzzles. I would have loved to offer some advice, but It looks like most points have been covered above. Good luck for the future..