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starting out and need some help…

Hi All it is my first publish here and With regards to you all might help me. I am looking for ways to my own server adjusted right now thus this will take some time. On this server I begin having a website site/ forum with regard to European cars and my very own personal site intended for my auto designs. First on the particular euro car site I will be putting information regarding all euro cars similar to how yahoo is focused up. And subsequently a forum for instance vdubaddiction. com separated by make/ product. In terms of my other site I begin running Ive already been having problems finding good layouts in addition to coloring. Any help are going to be killer. Thanks many The easiest way to get tips on these forums is always to ask specific queries. This is a huge task to take on, especially if you are not very web adept. Read some host reviews inside our Hosting Reviews segment. After you obtain some hosting, you will have to design your website. Hopefully you are aware of photoshop, or one more graphics application. If you would like make this web page large and energetic, … Continue reading

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Tables Help Please…

Howdy, We have never really grasped tables and layouts in Dreamweaver (Advanced). I’ve made a rectangle which has a border around that in Fireworks MX, for text and stuff to go in. In Dreamweaver i attended layout view, made one Layout Table for any Banner, as their just an photo, and another for any content box. When i make a layout cell from the layout table and also drag the written content box into of which layout cell, it seems ok, but its for Image. I want and therefore add content to the present box, and i don’t want to use tiers. Someone told me thought about to change the actual BG or a thing, but it just lets me perform colour. Please Help. Many thanks. You will be able to type into any table/cell okay, I dont understand what this has to do with the bg Absolutely no, the problem i’m having is i develop a new box in Fireworks MX (orange fram, white centre), I and then save, import in Dreamweaver, go to be able to layout view, create a table, make a Layout Cell as Table, put the Box, Imported out of Fireworks into in which cell, … Continue reading

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Trying to sell services (not an ad)

I work with a local laptop or computer company, and we do web page design. It is not only a huge part involving our business, but I am the one who seem to makes the web-sites, talks directly towards customers etc.. So I have a certain amount of experience as a long way as that is going. Right now, we only help to make sites for nearby businesses etc.. and I am wanting to start off offering services average joe. As to certainly not conflict, it are not any local firms, only through the online world. It will not be a challenge seperating the not one but two. Now I understand I cannot (and would not want to) add some sites I devised for ‘work’ in an affordable portfolio. What I do can do is start my own , personal portfolio, but starting certainly is the trickiest part. I never have sold any web services outside my company.. so my question is usually, Is it okay to just get started churning out layouts to set up a portfolio While it would display a variety of styles etc.. it could not be a true portfolio.. but seems like it would no … Continue reading

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Database design – Necessary?

I will be starting up like a freelance web designer (soon I may become a business, but not until I’m no less than 20), but I will be wondering, is database development necessary for people to want one to do jobs with regard to them. I know may well help (and We are learning it), but would it be necessary in the start off Can most sites will need databases, or can people create perfectly beneficial sites without them I simply need someone to shed an amount of light on this kind of subject… aranoid: Its essentially the difference concerning static and makeup sites. I think you can do fine without these people, especially as you begin, but it certainly not hurts to how to use them at some time. Standard business and also personal sites (that you should not sell online) generally won’t ever have the requirement of a database. Models that sell on the web usually will (shopping cart systems etc.. ) CMS (content administration system) based sites are essentially always database influenced. These are websites that someome typically can log into (directly with the browser) and enter information.. either as a blog, or a variable user system … Continue reading

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Who is a Coder who is Not and Why?

I will be doing this to view where this neighborhood members come from. What software would you use and Why would you use it Keep it clean… ————————————————————— MY PARTNER AND I use HTML Equipment running Windows 2K Regarding flash i employ Macromedia Flash involving course and all my work is coded manually. i do this because i favor the control as well as the simplicity of your language. i like to know what is going on, no funky company unless i induce it myself, that we do at occasions. HTML CSS and PHP will be in pretty much my pages that i make these days. … yes where would all of us be without illustrator… Win98SE is usually my OS, because I’m too cheap to acquire a new one. Photoshop for that layouts, Homesite/ASP Express for that coding, and intended for image manipulation both Photoshop, Corel Draw (which certainly sucks but one among my clients has it) along with a really cool photo optimizer called DeBabelizer Seasoned. Oh yeah, and an online browser too. Coding: Dreamweaver MX Notepad Photographs: Fireworks MX Pen MX Freehand 10 Illustrator Pro 7. 0 Illustrator UnFEEZ my partner and i use paint…. Nah, my … Continue reading

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Struggling for ideas on design

We would just like to learn what some of you choose to do to get creative and think of ideas for web site designs I struggle on this a lot, I’m more of the left brain programmer variety, but would really like to get into design. I like to see photography, and see how I can take a picture and change it into a banner for any site, and then let the form take off after that. A lot of people prefer to visit Template Enormous to view several different designs and gain inspiration from there. I’ve realised not to ever under-estimate Mind Roadmaps… one thought ends up in another. " Finaly there’s nothing new, almost everything we create is done before only in a very different way. " – Don’t always expect to set-up a revolutionaty layout concept etc. ie, All layouts are composed of grids consisting of columns and rows, it just depends the way you structure, define plus shape them. Go look into it your 5 most liked websites (in stipulations of design) exactly what makes them very good and why, then impliment some of the people ideas in your personal work. Nevertheless, just a start out. … Continue reading

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W3C validation

I became wondering how the majority of you make in force W3C websites. I did a search by using yahoo for internet site design and I cecked the initial 10 companies detailed and none of these are W3C legitimate. How important it really is that the web pages you create are usually W3C valid All my sites comform towards the W3C specifications. I think it is significant more people start designing their web sites with web standards. Although I do not believe that it is vital that that they " vailidate" for the W3C validator. When you have attempted to get near it then sometimes that could be well enough. The validator is merely to check as a result of your work. It doesn’t detect everything. If your webblog validates it doesn’t mean your site conforms to the online standrds. For example We’ve designed a internet site with tables to support present the system, something which may be known as a big no no in lots of web standard advocate’s eye balls, and still got it to confirm. You are advised not to do so having tables and use then only for tabular data. People not prepared change from utilizing … Continue reading

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Becoming a better designer

Definitely people. I have been recently a coder in the past 6 years or perhaps so, but We have not really took an enormous step into the earth of graphics, that’s why when my (or someones) website is finished, you will discover normally no layouts, and if you will discover graphics, they usually are not of the best value. I advertise regionally and work is sorts of starting to arrive around, so I would appreciate any guidance/tips on the way to create visually appealing sites, as POST only produce simple, text based. Many thanks guys Set yourself some sort of target to learn some of the principles that apply to Graphic Design. You make attractive pages through the use of basic things similar to: Alignment, Space, Proximity, Colour, Repeating page elements etc. These will affect how user-friendly and uncomplicated and ‘attractive’ some sort of page will how it looks look. The good thing is you don’t even need the graphics package to begin with using these issues. All you need to do is scan some of the websites featured in the " How’s my site" forum here in WDF to see that a lot of people have this mindset that … Continue reading

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Designer’s Block

Ok well I’d like to make some sort of portfolio site nevertheless I’m stuck on ideas and also the ideas that MY PARTNER AND I do have WE may like while i first develop them but before long I end upward not liking all of them. It’s like WE can’t pick some thing or stay very pleased of it. Anyone have any tips which could help me Very vague question… Types of portfolio… photos, visuals, drawings Give us some sort of link to a few of the ideas you’ve already tried. Give us links to a few of the " items" you are putting in the portfolio. Actually I was playing around having photoshop and There’s no doubt that I am up on a layout i may actually including. Oh yea I might post the strategies but I type of don’t have them anymore lol however as for the kind of stuff I would certainly put up it will be mostly graphics we have done throughout school and/or the spare time just like posters, logos, journal layouts, ads, and so forth. Mainly things similar to those type connected with stuff. The world wide web is an thought databank. Be aware … Continue reading

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div instead of frame

Hello guys, I must have my left column regarding my site being updated all the time, so instead of getting to redo every single page of our site, I thought i would add a style, but I forgot how " bad" eyeglass frames are, so You want to add a new div, can somebody give me the code please Bless you. isnt it just a div align left " whatever pixels". I dont know, thats exactly why Im asking. Ive been doing a full time encoding job so website design knowledge continues to be pushed out regarding my head subsequently. I:: feel:: " align left" will affect the text inside the box NOT the exact positioning of this box, but Im just learning CSS intended for layouts. Instead you would want to position: left=0 pixels. < might be wrong> Additionally, the rest with the layout will most likely be affected by the area on the quit, so those houses will also must be affected. Quick: you could try a table and place a div with the left part into the cell (to steer clear of converting the rest of the layout). It are often helpful to see what it really … Continue reading

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