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I have never seen anything like this before.
Every item is position on the page with top, bottom, left and or right. No floats, no flex...
I had googled and it seems to be rare.
Is this something that was done many years ago, does anyone have experience / opinions on this?

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Hello, everyone
I hope 2025 is off to a fantastic start for you all!
You'll see a new menu item called Resources.

This page has links to a ton of tools, software and other useful resources that will help with your web design adventures. I've put them into categories to make things easier to find:
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Hi Web Designers! Hope everyone is good. I have decided to create an account on this website to learn from you guys and hopefully become proficient in web design. I have dabbled in creating websites several times before in the past, but never took it any further to an experienced level. Recently I have decided to learn something worthwhile and interesting. I have set my mind to becoming a web designer. My goal is to become proficient and creative. At the moment I am amateur level, but slowly learning bit by bit.

I know the basics of HTML and CSS, and getting better the more I practice. I have begun learning Javascript as well, but at the moment my script knowledge is not so good. I would like to be able to code some awesome and interactive effects for web. I'm doing this mainly because I have creative ideas in my mind which I would like to experiment with and see for real. I know a little bit of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, so hopefully with time I'll get better with these programs too as I will be using them to help me with my web design. 

The reason I have decided on this is because I would like to change career one day. My current job is extremely boring and within a few years it will probably become obsolete due to all the robots out there. Hopefully Ai will not kill off the web design industry before I get good at coding, haha!

I have registered myself a website - RonKolos.com - and I am using it to play around with various styles and features. I have a web design tab on my website where I will be experimenting with creating various websites for dummy businesses. There's not a great deal on there at the moment, but it will grow. 

Let me know what you think and if you have any good ideas or suggestions for me to improve. 

Thanks!

Hello. Here is my website. Do you like my layout?
 
http://duckinformation.awardspace.info

Not sure what you want us to review.
It's a simple HTML site. Nothing wrong with that but it's got almost zero content and it's not responsive.
Is this just something you have coded to practice writing HTML/CSS?

Welcome to WDF gemini!
I hope you've got more about you than that bloody awful pop duo of the same name who came last in the eurovision!

I'm not sure what you're trying to do but it sounds like it would better to use an SVG image.

Does the image have a transparent background?
Have you tried different settings:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/shape-outside

have you looked also at css tricks https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/s/shape-outside/ 

also forking css tricks example and using own image seems to work 
don't know much about this cos never used it but remember it has to float (i think) and the for images you need to specify it in the shape-outside path so  in the css so it uses the alpha channel to flow around
https://codepen.io/dp/pen/WNQJoGp?editors=1100

I don't write in low-level languages so I'm not 100% sure, but it's possibly a pointer to the place in memory where that code is stored.

You point the client here: https://wordpress.org/themes/
And ask them to pick one they like. Or you just pick one yourself. They all work with WordPress blocks.
Yes, you give them free access to their site. You set it all up and let them do whatever they want.
If you are using an off the shelf theme you leave the CSS alone (or use the customizer). Or you create a child theme and make all your changes there.

Java or JavaScript?

You will also in time learn that WordPress is garbage and there are much better alternatives.  If you get half decent at JavaScript and learn a bit of React then you'll never need to go near WordPress or even PHP again!
If you want to build brochure sites like what best suits WordPress then Gatsby is a much, much better alternative.  Your content could be stored in Markdown, or another CMS like Contentful and if a client insists you can even use WordPress and get it to output JSON data via a REST endpoint (although the former two are better in my opinion).

Some of main pitfalls:
1. Truly awful code
2. You will be locked in to their model forever
3. Switching themes becomes so much more complicated
4. its mostly unnecessary
5. The UX on small screens is very poor.

There is no HTML6. There never will be HTML6. It’s just HTML.
Canvas is just a container for the graphics. You need JS to create the actual image. JS is not HTML.

Create two sites. One for each language. That way you can ensure the nuances of each language are properly translated.
I’ve been working with a Swiss client for a while now and they have a language switcher. The translations are dire. So bad that they now have set up independent sites.

Using elementor is considered bad practice.
Delete the horrible thing and just use the standard Wordpress blocks.

If that’s the case they need to pay full price.
Have you asked them why they want it? Have you pointed out all the pitfalls?

What a very interesting list, @Stephen18.
However a recurring theme of "mistakes programmers make" YouTube videos is that new programmers worry too much about what there is to learn next or still to learn, as opposed to concentrating on the here and now. You should make use of what you have - concentrate on building the best possible page with just HTML and CSS first, for example. And when learning Vanilla JS learn it well before you even thinking about which framework or stack. This makes you learn what you are currently learning well, and resourceful with the building blocks you currently have. You will often realise that you do not need that WordPress plug in when you can add a few lines of CSS to achieve the same thing, or that your current theme can already do it for you. You will often realise that you do not need to import that JS library or add that framework because Vanilla JS will do the exact same thing,
There is also the point that you do not know what to learn next because what you are currently learning might interest you so much and set you off in a completely different direction for your next step.
Living in the moment is healthy, the unknown is exciting, and resourcefulness and problem solving is exactly what you were built to do - because you are a designer and a programmer, here and now, no matter how much you have to learn yet because you will always be learning and that is also a wonderful thing.
'Til death we learn, 'til death we create.

Hahaha I call it old school because before multiple backgrounds we used to have to stack containers. Have you live code of what you have or could you set up a fiddle so I can see?
Edit: Also look at css filters, a good example here. Normally the answer comes with a mix of ways to achieve things.

Any kind of automated detection is typically error prone. When you start getting into things like IP and language detection you should always have a fallback.
When I enter navigator.language I get en-US, which isn't technically true even though I'm English speaking. You could probably use it for some base level detection, but I would always have a flag or language switcher just in case it's not correct. For a simple site I wouldn't bother with any detection. I would default to English and have a visible language switcher.
After a few months you can take a look at your analytics to see if this needs amending based on where people are visiting, how often, and what the bounce rate is for certain countries. It might be that it makes sense to try and detect location, or it could be that it wouldn't make much difference because you rarely get visits outside of the UK anyway.