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I would use Joomla with the Allvideos plugin. Then use something like K2 or Flexicontent to handle the user uploading and voting aspect. Quite a big project!

Definitely confusing. Especially for people on smaller monitors - they might not even notice the page has changed.

Hi, not sure exactly which website you mean? This is what google throws up but the menu doesn't slide or bounce as far as I can see! http://www.apple.com/mac/

This debate was won long ago. Use tables if you want to display a table, for everything else use divs.

The main tools I use are: Notepad++ Gimp inkscape Filezilla Firefox with firebug

I upload the site onto a folder on my server. It's extremely unlikely that client will go through the hassle of pretending to be a client just to steal your code!

I've used Wordpress and Joomla quite extensively. Wordpress has cheap templates and it is probably less buggy so is probably better choice for blogs and small business brochure style websites. Joomla is more flexible and probably better for sites with a greater scope (social networking...

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Maybe use a gif animation which is associated with the :hover css

If it's a fairly well established site you should add 301 redirects from the main areas/pages of the old site to corresponding areas of the new site. This will help prevent a fall in search engine ranking.

How big are these images? Will jpg compression not do the job?

Templates are fine, there are only so many ways to design a website after all :) But if you are professionally web designing then you will need to make modifications to any templates, which can be harder than designing the thing from scratch.

Given that you want a blog, I would also suggest Wordpress as the simplest way to get going. That said, it will take you dozens of hours to get it working, and you could get it set up professionally for around $300 so it does depend somewhat on how much you value your time.