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    Site Banners and Liquid Layouts

    One way of handling a banner is to fade it out to a solid colour at the right, then lay it over the same solid colour.
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    Website too big for screen!

    Try here for some bulletproof CSS layouts.
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    Website too big for screen!

    First thing to do is restructure your code a bit and make sure it validates. It's much easier to track down these issues if it passes validation. Most of the problems seem to be caused by the incorrect position of your favicon link, which should be within your <head>.
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    Website too big for screen!

    It's hard to say what's wrong ...without being able to see it. Could you post a link?
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    Popularity of Dreamweaver

    Dreamweaver's ok... But a bit bloated, in my opinion. It tries to do everything and to some degree it succeeds, but at the expense of not doing any one thing particularly well. Nobody who's serious about knowing their stuff uses Design View, because it outputs bloated, table-based layouts...
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    Am I charging too little?

    Bear in mind that people (by which I mean prospective clients) will to some degree prejudge the quality of your work by how much you charge. You're providing a professional service and the amount you charge should have nothing to do with your experience, only your skill. Where experience comes...
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    Feedback on the easiest ecommerce software for designers

    I'm very put off by the mystery meat navigation. People like ecommerce sites that behave in a way they are used to; familiarity breeds confidence. You seem to have no spiderable text about your demo products, which would make it difficult for a site to get search engine rankings for its products.
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    Site Maps for a website

    You're talking about sitemaps for very different purposes. An HTML sitemap is purely for your visitors, whereas an XML sitemap is for search engines. To be honest, unless you have a large, complicated site (for which you should really be using a CMS which can automatically generate site maps)...
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    Mukltilingual site

    This may be overkill, but Textpattern has a very good plugin for managing multilanguage sites - in the admin, there's a table showing which pieces of content have been assigned to which admin user for translation and which languages they've been translated into. If you're creating a static site...
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    Review capitalwestadvisors.com - old vs new

    Original site: The main graphic is very strong and punchy, but takes up a bit too much vertical space and the perspective of the text on the pieces of paper is obviously, jarringly wrong. The home page could be seen to be a bit content-poor and is really more of a splash page. There's no...
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    Plz Review Benstephan.com Portfolio and Blog Website

    Hi Ben, First off, I want to congratulate you on a 99% well-designed site. I like it, the colours are subtle, it's got a strong grid and for the most part good typography. Now for the constructive criticism: I dislike the way your container shrinks from the home page to the interior pages and...
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    Which one is suitable for me. PHP or ASP

    I'd go one step further - you can't compare PHP to .NET directly. PHP is directly comparable to Classic ASP, but for a truly apples-to-apples comparison you need to specify a PHP framework. Cake and Symfony are both popular, but the future of web app coding in PHP is the Zend Framework. You...
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    Please help with PHP alignment problem?

    For God's sake don't advise the use of tables for layout - we've worked for years to try to eliminate that, don't take a step backward. The only difference I can recall off the top of my head is that older versions of IE (and therefore newer versions in "quirks mode", so validate your markup)...
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    CSS Reset

    A good place to start is Eric Meyer's reset stylesheet. It's not designed as the be-all and end-all, but it does reset literally everything so you can then go through it and remove the resets for elements (such as form elements) which you don't want reset. Alternatively, since all the major...
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    Shopping cart software

    There's only one choice It's got a bit of a steep learning curve, but Magento leaves OSCommerce and Zen Cart standing. It's got a feature set you'd traditionally have to pay huge wads of cash for, but the Community Edition is completely free. It's very well architected, completely modular...
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