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    Hey all - New to web design.... can you review my site?

    I don't care to comment on a template design. However I have an issue with the lack of clarity of the purpose of the site. It's an online shop ok. The only indicators that this is a shop and the products are for sale is the "view basket" link in the top right, and the opening paragraph under...
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    Trying to create a gradient background

    Get Gimp if you can't afford photoshop then. The bg gradient code you're using will only work in IE, so don't use it.
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    Hey all - New to web design.... can you review my site?

    What I think is that you shouldn't try to pass off someone else's work as your own. So you installed wordpress and purchased the On Demand theme from http://www.press75.com. Big deal! Did you design the logo at least?
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    HTML vs CSS ??

    HTML can be used for structure and style. CSS is only style, not structure. CSS was introduced to separate style from structure with ideal of leaving HTML for purely semantic mark-up. "...but if you start with design before the basics, you begin to post problems in our forum", what rubbish...
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    HTML vs CSS ??

    Mate - that's ridiculous and I couldn't think of a worse way to recommend. Technologies that are used together should be learnt together. Restricting yourself to html only will teach you bad habits and waste your time. By learning css at the same time as html, you get a better understanding...
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    Working from home Web Design

    Average income varies depending on the country you operate in and whether you're metro or regional. In metro Australia, the average was 63K a year about 5 years ago when I paid for an industry report. Today it would be slightly higher, around 65K. A web designer worth their salt shouldn't have...
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    As a web designer, should I use Adobe Fireworks? :/

    Fireworks is ideal for simple designs. It's a bit limiting if you need to do anything advanced though. Fireworks is an essential part of the development process in my company. Photoshop designs are exported as PNG files, then sliced and diced in Fireworks. Photoshop can also slice and export...
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    Website Design Question

    You can maintain the todo list with cookies or server sessions. Preferably sessions. So the list is purely a dump of the session/cookie values put into context by the webpage. For eg. User loads the site, session is set with blank todo list. User clicks a thumb and an id, or whatever, is stored...
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    Resources for Learning Web Design

    w3c is already on the list
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    beginning PHP help

    A good slug of learning how to do php sites is understanding the technology and step 1 is learning how php/apache or iis/mysql is installed and configured manually. Good on you for attempting a manual install - you'll be a better php programmer for it. The three lines need to be at the top of...
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    Photography website revamp

    Take a look at other photographers sites. Check out their solutions. I would suggest a dhtml gallery, something like Galleria: http://galleria.aino.se/ Good move on dumping the splash. I didn't like the design at all, in fact I strongly disliked it.
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    Web Design Site

    Homepage: Content background for copy area needs a tad less alpha to make the text easier to read. Centre alignment? Try right aligning the text and use <br /> tags to break the lines at points that vaguely follow the line of the rider's leg/boot. A tad more white-space is needed around the top...
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    Link showing up as missing image.... Joomla's fault?

    It's not showing up fine in any browser. IE just displays the broken img path as a blocked out area. FF displays the alt text. The reason is because the facebook link is wrapped around images that are 404. The src is currently set to (spaces added so forum wont parse the link):- h t t p://w w...
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    Question about google search

    2 choices; 1) place a blank index.html file in all of your image folders or 2) use a .htaccess file in the root folder of your website to block indexes. If you already have one there, add the following line:- Options -Indexes
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    Is W3C Validation important for SEO?

    A webpage with a lot of 404 links can be perfectly valid html, but very very bad for seo. Or as smoovo indicates, rel="nofollow" on important links can be a costly boo-boo, as well as <meta name="robots" content="noindex" />. Using javascript 'links' is perfectly valid html, but most search...
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    Is W3C Validation important for SEO?

    Having your page pass the validation test at w3c does not improve your rankings for that page. Is that clear enough for you to understand dave? If you have a few ampersands in the copy, or missing a few closing span tags, your site wont pass w3c validation; but more importantly, you wont be...
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    Is W3C Validation important for SEO?

    The topic isn't "Does Valid HTML help SEO" and you can't have "some" W3C validity. The page is either W3C valid, or invalid. W3C validation isn't the same as using valid enough code for the search engines to index the site. Having a bright shiny W3C Valid logo on your footer doesn't get you...
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    Is W3C Validation important for SEO?

    No, not at all. As long as the markup of the page/site is valid enough to be indexed properly, that's all that matters. A webpage doesn't get a rank increase if it validates with W3C.
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    Resources for Learning Web Design

    I hope to trawl through the hundreds of 'new to web design' threads and add links to well received sites. I've also got a tonne of bookmarks to check, so ya - will so soon.
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    Go Daddy hosting

    It's not an email script. It writes the form values to a file on the server at /../data/gdform_[date]
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