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Hi everyone, Its been a while since ive used this forum, but it has always helped me out in the past, so here i am again. My wife has recently started a new forum, and installed it using PHPBB3 ( http://www.kingdomsofsimir.com/ ) but i am unable to find out how i am able to add extra toolbars to the left, like her old site: http://simir.b1.jcink.com/ Is this possible in PHPBB3? If so, how do you go about doing it? is it a plug in? al we want to do is add the ability to link to static pages/galleries, and also add in a Cbox. Thankyou for your time in reading this, Any help is much appreciated. Karl

Hello and welcome to the forum. if you want to ask any questions, or jsut get a general chat, feel free to drop me a PM. Karl

Ive also recommending getting some experience in some of the software that is about - particularly ecommerce ones - as alot of clients will be looking for that too. Have you got any portfolio or anything similar already done?

Hi Dap, Thanks for the help. The underlining is not my decision, trust me. Didnt realise about the spanish set either, probably because this is only the 2nd site ive done in spanish. Karl

How stupid of me not to include it. http://www.reaperwebdesign.co.uk/allignmenttest/producttest1.htm There is also a header etc, but as this is just in testing, i havnt included that all yet. Need to sort the table problem first. http://www.reaperwebdesign.co.uk/allignmenttest/producttest2.htm That is the one i did using divs, and it worked fine at one point for IE but not FF, and then when i used a different version of IE it also didnt work. I think tables may be the better option (it is fairly tabular data after all) but i just need to get it to allign the text at the top. thanks

Hi everyone, I am currently doing a site for a friend, and its hit a snag. I am trying to allign some images and a set of text to go next to it. Ideally, i want the information to sit with the top line in line with the image, leavinga blank space next to the bottom of the image (where the images are too long). So far ive tried to do it using both a table (and it put the text in the middle next to the image) - can this be modified to tell the table i want the text at the top? Ive also tried to do it using floats and divs but IE and FF have decided they hate me, adn dont want to work cross browser. Any help is appreciated, thanks Reaper

Need to pay income tax on money earned, VAT is paid on items/services purchased.

Hi Roadster, welcome to the forums. I will try to help out as best i can to answer your questions. I see it from the other side, as i am a xhtml/css and SEO specialist, but dont do any graphic design. If i was in your position, i would try to get a portfolio together, and send it out to anybody that is interested (even if just to people like me that outsource graphic design work). For the courses, there arent really many around, with alot of them just giving you a certificate in the end. If you can find someone to take you under their wing, then the experience will be worth far more than the courses. Where do you stand if you had to do some voluntary work? Most juniors would earn around £6/hour, so depending on your current situation, you may actually take a drop in income whilst you start out (particularly if you start out voluntarily whilst you build up your contacts) Hope this has given you something to think about, Feel free to drop me a PM if you want to discuss anything in particular. Reaper

Yea, it is great, but ive still not worked out how to make it show more than 1 notification.

BUT if you are regularly earning money on the side, then you need to register as self employed as well as the day job, like i am. Reaper

I would recommend speaking to your tax office too. The exemption (wether its £5k or £6.5k) will apply to your joint income. So your fulltime job is more than likely taking all of the exemption allowance up, meaning you should be paying tax and NI on ALL of your webdesign earnings.

Thanks for the help guys. Its been really useful. Greg - thats a great piece of code, is there a way to use that, but so it shows 3 or 4 different types?

Hi everyone, Ive been playing around with a few things recently, and one of them is Twitter. Does anyone know any good guides online to add a twitter feed onto a basic xhtml site? thanks Reaper

Hello, I was wondering if anyone on here has experience of this, and would be able to give some advice. Someone very close to me was on anti-depressents for a long time (prozac for 8 years and venlafaxine for 2 years). They were effectively completely emotionally numb about 50% of the time, with them constantly feeling really rough, with mood swings, so the doctors lowered the dose and took them off it about 6 months ago. In the last month, the mood swings have been back, so our local doctor recommended councilling, to try and get to the heart of the problem causing the depression. Here is where the problems start, it took 2 weeks to get an "assessment" with someone who speaks practically no english, and their "solution" was to "go back onto the tablets" which cause the problems, but to then add to it, theyve changed it to something stronger, that is causing them to fall asleep 1 hour after taking them. She has been told that she will need to take these tablets for 6 weeks, continuing to gradually increase the dose for the next 4 weeks, but the only thing that has happened so far, is that she falls asleep just after she takes them. After the 6 weeks, she can have another "assessment" to decide if the medicine is working. It appears that counselling is just a false promise that will never happen, and i know she doesnt intend to spend the next 30 years of her life getting up for work, going to work, getting home, eating, taking a tablet and falling asleep by 9pm. Is there anything we can do/anyone we can go to to ensure that we get the counselling to fix the problem, rather than just let it go on in a never ending cycle of tablets that will eventually just make her worse? Any help is appreciated, thanks Karl

Do you have the name already sorted? do you have any previous clients willing to refer you to friends? How are you intending to generate business. you will need to definately look at this if you are going to quit another job. Karl

@cavKing - Do you already have a portfolio? if so, can you post a link? If you decided to change careers, would you have to quit another job? if you did, would you be able to last 3-6 months without any extra work coming in? (this will likely depend on what you already get) - These are all things to consider. Alot of people will take the step from hobbyist to freelancer fairly quickly, just setting up a portfolio site and building the sites in their own time. If you have the drive to move forward, a freelance partnership is normally the best step to take from hobbyist,as between the 2 people, the work can be split and done faster for the client, giving a better customer service that is more likely to result in future referrals. @Dynamic - Is your site finished? (i am guessing so as you felt the need to add it to the thread as advertising - do you realise this site is nofollow?) A few errors in the page, and a few bits that i feel would put me off buying from you "Your ad here" on the main page, etc. Also, out of curiosity, how would you guarantee me on the top page of google for a search term of my choice. Say i wanted to be on the top for "Bournemouth WebDesign" - and i dont want it via paid ads or PPC. Reaper

Hi Hawkpie, I know alot of agencies that already do this. you could offer it as a service, but what are your other skills (coding etc) like, as you will likely need to be able to do this for some of your own stuff? Maybe you would be better off (if you do design and code) marketing yourself using the added value of the extra services in comparison to some freelancers who just kick out half finished templates? Reaper

What would you get for the 2-3k? Do they do the design as well for £1k, or does that have to be a different graphic designer? How flexible is the sofware and how does it affect the design? (if it is all blocks, how do you differ from any other competition/directory? Is the support worth the extra £250 a year in hosting? If you choose to part with them, do you have any rights to use the site on another hosting? (more than likely not, so if you have a dispute with them 8 months down the line, you have to pay again for a new site) These are all questions i would be asking before i spent any money. I cant really give any real specifics to your project as you havnt said the niche. Hope it helps, Karl

Do you know what functionality you need? Will it be exactly the same? It could vary alot, depending on exactly how you envision it to work, both what the customer sees and the backend. Without the extra information all prices would be at best, a shot in the dark, so be careful of the "i can do this for XXXX" that will no doubt appear. Karl

Ive only got a handful of files i could do with saving, but if i try and transfer them to a memory stick, isnt there a good chance that it'll also transfer the virus? Karl

Right, i need some advice. My laptop is currently at the point im about to throw it out the window.... Its somehow got a virus asking me to buy some antivirus software called "AV security suite" from them. Ive tried to get rid of it with malwarebytes anti-virus, but everytime it is found during the scan, the laptop resets. The only way i can now get it to boot up, is using safemode, as at the moment it keeps giving me a 'failure to load interface' error. any help is appreciated. Karl

Thought i'd ask here, as im running out of places to look. Does anyone know of any affordable wedding venues in the new forest? We dont really want to use a church (as were not really religious at all) and think that a registry office in the middle of town wont be that good for wedding photos, so we are looking in the new forest. Any help is appreciated. It can either be just for the ceremony, or ideally have space for a buffet (and pissup ) etc afterwards Karl

Hi Killer, I look forward to seeing your portfolio. Payment is fine no matter how it is taken, as long as it finds its way onto your accounts. I use a mix of paypal, and bank transfers. If you arent going to be handling alot of cheques, it would probably be easier to just get yourself another personal current account with a bank and then you wont pay for it. Karl

Hi Simon, What sort of experience do you have? Your lifestory may not be needed, but abit of info here would likely help. Registering with HMRC is fairly simple, just make sure you do it within 3 months or taking on the first payment (double check with HMRC, it may have changed slightly since i did it) and you will be fine. An accountant isnt really 100% necessary, as unless you are taking enough money to make it worthwhile, you will likely find they cost you more than you get back. VAT is also not a necessity, until your earning over the threshold (its around the 65k mark last time i checked) Karl

Hi everyone, Recently, there have been problems outside where i live, ranging from a group of teenagers shouting at each other until 3-4 am, a pair of boy racers with their cars and loud music up until 11pm racing each other up and down the street, and even had a fair few where they are kicking footballs at the local shop windows and buses. Now my question, Where in the eyes of the law does it stop being harmless fun, and start becoming anti-social behaviour? As it would be so much better if we could just get rid of them all really. Reaper