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[!--quoteo--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--] Also, I seem to have forgotten to metion this before, but get rid of that font you're using on the home page for content-it's very hard to read and fairly uncommon. [/quote] I will redo the font. Aren't there some situations you would want to use other fonts. I always liked fonts that were less used but still supported by browsers, and I had some other fonts in there including old times roman as a backup for browsers that didn't have anything else, I will work on the whole look and feel of that, but I still want a font, primary font, that is rarely used and rarely seen, probably something with an old english tint to it. [!--quoteo--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--] The banner image is fixed width... and it's stretched to all hell so it looks like garbage. [/quote] I will see what I can do about that, but I want to try and keep the image that long, so I can have it match with the rest of the stuff on the page, I will mess around with it, see if I can strink it some and reposition some stuff to look better and as for the javascript, someone told me about that yesterday, so I changed all the javascript to title="" and it worked out a lot better.

so if some browsers don't support .png then I need to avoid those as well.

logo looks really good.

I don't much care for the bottom navigation to tell you the truth I love the above navigational structure, the flash area looks great, and the login thing is set up good. I HONESTLY, think that you should take all that css and kick it into an external style sheet, and link it that way. Other than that everything looks great to me except the small issue, the alignment of the bullets for Welcome and announcements, arent' completely even. Everything else looks great.

I appreciate it, and I have changed them all now to that, and it seems to look much better, thanks I appreciate it.

Is that xml, I never saw that tag anywhere, but it works, I will work on that tomorrow, you were right thanks for tha advice, where does that tag originate. I don't think it's xhtml, is it xml.

what do you mean. [!--quoteo--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--] using the title attribute in the href tag is what enhances the user experience AND enhances accessibility AND doesn't rely on javascript AND leaves the user's browser alone [/quote] What did you mean by that part, that is something worth listening too, if it makes sense to me after you explain it then I will probably scrap the javascript on teh status bars.

That was what I was thinking about the color scheme, I will redo the link coloring and things, tomorrow when I start on it again, I think I will go for more standard colors, less colorful, just to get the point that they are links.

[!--quoteo--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]sigh Accessibility is not about 'enhancing' the user experience. [a href=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#link-text\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#link-text[/a] [a href=\"http://www.digital-web.com/articles/optimi..._accessibility/\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.digital-web.com/articles/optimi..._accessibility/[/a] [/quote] I missread that part, I know all about accessibility. Using javascript to change around the status bar, does not necessarily impair the ability of someone seeing your site, or disabled people. [!--quoteo--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--] So if you think you're using javascript to enhance the user experience and users are entitled to have control over their browsers you recommend they 'de-enhance' your work??? Spend a few minutes learning about accessibility before you force your preferences on users. Your sites will be better if you follow a few simple guidelines (well-documented at the URLs above). Nevertheless, it's your web site to do with as you see fit. I just think that if someone claims expertise, then it ought to be self-evident from their work. [/quote] yes I am still starting out, but I feel like I have a large amount of expertise. 1. Because I care about what I do. 2. Because I have ethics and morals when it comes to web design, coding, programming. 3. I love this business and I care about everything related to it. I have studied vastly about accessibilities, I still have trouble with some of the more strict standards on bobby. But for the most part everything is accessible, using javascript with oop, to change around the message in teh status bar, doesn't even get picked up by bobby as an error message. I am not saying you are wrong, I am saying by my own belief system, javascript has it's uses, I think a good usage are little things like these.

what exactly were you asking for though.

Thank you for the advice. [!--quoteo--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]#1 - leave the status window alone - it's part of my browser not part of your [/quote] This is true to some extent, but for someone to regain control of there status bar, they simply have to cut off there javascript [!--quoteo--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]#2 - avoid using javascript for pointless 'tricks'[/quote] When I see a lot of websites, they have url's at the bottom on the status menu. Some of those url's depending on the site point to a huge url, that can't even fit, leaving the person wondering where it goes. I choose by default to add this to any website I create because I find it "nicer" to simply tell someone in plain english where they are going to go, adn when a link point to a website, I sometimes opt to leave the url when it is self explanatory, when it's off in nowhere I opt to explain the site a little. [!--quoteo--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]#3 - code for accessibility[/quote] This is one of my main principles of web design, using javascript to enhance user experience, there is only so much javascript can do, when I have the opprotunity to use it, I think whether it helps the site at all, whether it hurts the site at all, or whether it is just an addition, this didn't hurt it, it was an addition so i went with it, and if someone doesn't have javascript enabled they lose nothing from the experience.

[a href=\"http://www.freelancebusinessman.com\" target=\"_blank\"]www.freelancebusinessman.com[/a]

post source codes.

Email cbare1208@hotmail.com and ask him, he will help, but it will probably cost something, the only reason I responded to this is it was not responded to yet, I don't know enough about frames, because I am completely against them, and I haven't read up much on iframes lately.

I wonder, is there a way to turn this into a function, and call it in the link. [code] <a href="specialfeatures.php" class="mainnav" onMouseover="window.status='This will take you to the Special Features page!'; return true" onMouseout="window.status=' '; return true">Special Features</a> [/code] I am referring to the onmouseover and onmouseout I am seeking a different way, and yes I am getting rid of those uppercase m

Does anyone see a cleaner way to do any of this, some of the components I had to style within the same page, because the positions are going to change for each page. I have the site up on critique, but I had a couple of questions I wanted to ask before I went to bed. [code] <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="freelancebusinessman.css" /> <title>Freelance Businessman</title> </head> <body> <!-- Logo begin --> <a href="index.php" onMouseover="window.status='This will take you to the home page!'; return true" onMouseout="window.status=' '; return true"> <img src="images/logo.jpg" alt="Freelance Logo" class="logo" width="700" height="200" /> </a> <!-- Logo End --> <!-- Begin Main navigational structure, All main nav links are set with class in external css --> <ol class="mainlinklist"> <li><a href="aboutme.php" class="mainnav" onMouseover="window.status='This will take you to the About Me page!'; return true" onMouseout="window.status=' '; return true">About Me</a></li> <li><a href="webdesignethics.php" class="mainnav" onMouseover="window.status='This will take you to the Web Design Ethics page!'; return true" onMouseout="window.status=' '; return true">Web Design Ethics</a></li> <li><a href="webcodingethics.php" class="mainnav" onMouseover="window.status='This will take you to the Web Coding Ethics page!'; return true" onMouseout="window.status=' '; return true">Web Coding Ethics</a></li> <li><a href="webprogrammingethics.php" class="mainnav" onMouseover="window.status='This will take you to the Web Programming Ethics page!'; return true" onMouseout="window.status=' '; return true">Web Programming Ethics</a></li> <li><a href="otherwebsiterelatedethics.php" class="mainnav" onMouseover="window.status='This will take you to the Other Website Related Ethics page!'; return true" onMouseout="window.status=' '; return true">Other Website Related Ethics</a></li> <li><a href="skillsandservices.php" class="mainnav" onMouseover="window.status='This will take you to the Skills and Services page!'; return true" onMouseout="window.status=' '; return true">Skills and Services</a></li> <li><a href="portfolio.php" class="mainnav" onMouseover="window.status='This will take you to the Portfolio page!'; return true" onMouseout="window.status=' '; return true">Portfolio</a></li><br /> <li><a href="extrainformation.php" class="mainnav" onMouseover="window.status='This will take you to the Extra Information page!'; return true" onMouseout="window.status=' '; return true">Extra Information</a></li> <li><a href="advancedforms.php" class="mainnav" onMouseover="window.status='This will take you to the Advanced Forms page!'; return true" onMouseout="window.status=' '; return true">Advanced Forms</a></li> <li><a href="specialfeatures.php" class="mainnav" onMouseover="window.status='This will take you to the Special Features page!'; return true" onMouseout="window.status=' '; return true">Special Features</a></li> <li><a href="freeresourcesandlinks.php" class="mainnav" onMouseover="window.status='This will take you to the Free Resources and Links page!'; return true" onMouseout="window.status=' '; return true">Free Resources and links</a></li> <li><a href="recentupdates.php" class="mainnav" onMouseover="window.status='This will take you to the Recent Updates page!'; return true" onMouseout="window.status=' '; return true">Recent Updates</a></li> </ol> <!-- End main navigational structure --> <!-- Begin Bottom Navigation --> <ol id="bottomnav" style="position:absolute; top:1300px; left:300px;"> <li><a href="privacypolicy" onMouseover="window.status='This will take you to the Privacy Policy page!'; return true" onMouseout="window.status=' '; return true">Privacy Policy</a></li> <li><a href="copyrightnotice" onMouseover="window.status='This will take you to the Copyright Notice page!'; return true" onMouseout="window.status=' '; return true">Copyright Notice</a></li> <li><a href="basiccontactpage" onMouseover="window.status='This will take you to the Basic Contact page!'; return true" onMouseout="window.status=' '; return true">Basic Contact Page</a></li> <li><a href="basiclinkexchange" onMouseover="window.status='This will take you to the Basic Link Exchange page!'; return true" onMouseout="window.status=' '; return true">Basic Link Exchange</a></li> </ol> <!-- End Bottom Navigation --> <!-- Begin Main Body of Text --> <div class="maintext"> <h3>Welcome to Freelance Businessman</h3> <p>I want to welcome you and thank you to the website.  I offer a variety of things on this site.  More than what you would probably expect.  I am a web designer, coder, programmer, and I also have services relating to web hosting and promotion.</p><br /> <p>My main purpose for this website, is to give you a list of what services I offer, what skills I possess, and a good variety of ways to contact me to inform me about various types of project information.  However after carefull consideration, and quite a bit of research, I decided to make it into much more than that.</p><br /> <p>There is something here for everyone, so I would ask everyone to stick around and here what I have to say, you will probably find something you can find useful.  First I would like to address any potential clients, if you have anything you need done with a website, please pour over my skills, services, and about me page to find out about me, my business, and about everything I do and believe that has to do with website.  All of my beliefs and practices when relating to design/coding/programming/promotion/hosting/other are all listed neatly under there specific areas.  Those pages will give you an idea of who you will be hiring, and who will be taking on your projects if you decide to come to me with your project information.</p><br /> <p>To potential web designers/developers/programmers, and all the way down to hardcore experts you will find something here that you can use.  I have a huge list of links under specific sections leading to huge lists of resources that took me a long time compile, I also have a few special projects in the undertaking to help freelancers be able to find work better.  I have full specifications for what I require under the correct sections.</p><br /> <p>There is another reason behind this website as well.  Something aside from trying to get projects, and somethign aside from helping other developers/programmers/coders.  I am wanting to start a new revolution in the field of websites.  I want to start spreading the ideals of good web design/coding/programming.  Everything from clean, well commented code, all the way down to deep theological misconceptions that plague the world of web sites today.  There are many misconceptions, and false rumors, and even some that are true that aren't as big of a deal as percieved.  I am here to not only information people of these rumors, but to also try and help everyone get over those minor problems understanding some of the basic concepts, and ideas that a lot of people fight with when first starting, and even some people who have been in this field a long time.</p><br /> <p>I would also like to apologize for the length of this homepage, I wanted everyone to see what there was to offer on this site, feel free to look around at your leisure.  If you are a potential client, then it would be better to refer to the Advanced Forms page for contacting me about projects, as the communication between me and you will go alot smoother.</p> </div> <!-- End Main Body of Text --> </body> </html> [/code] Here is the css code, is there some other ways to clean this up, any suggestions. To tidy up here and there, or techniques I don't know about. [code] /* Body styling begin */ body { background-color:#CCCCCC; margin-left:100px; margin-right:100px; } /* Body styling ended */ /* Sets overall logo style */ /* removes logo border, and sets it's position */ .logo { border:none; position:relative; left:50px; bottom:20px; } /* end main logo styling */ /* begin main list of links */ /* This removes the numbered bullets, and sets the position */ ol.mainlinklist { list-style:none; position:absolute; top:200px; left:110px; } /* End main link list */ /* Begin main link list link structure and design */ /* Everything in this section sets the colors and styles of all the links in the main nav */ a.mainnav:link { color:#999900; background-color:#000066; } a.mainnav:visited { color:#0000FF; background-color:#999999; } a.mainnav:hover { color:#FF3300; background-color:#660000; } a.mainnav:active { color:#33FFCC; background-color:#333333; } /* End main link list link structure and design */ /* Begin Bottom list styling */ /* This is going to set the bottom links to go verticle and to remove the numbered bullets */ /* End bottom list styling /* Begin bottom navigational structure */ /* Everything in this section will set the way the bottom links look, and are styled */ #bottomnav li { display: inline; list-style-type: none; } #bottomnav a:link { color:#999900; background-color:#000066; } #bottomnav a:visited { color:#0000FF; background-color:#999999; } #bottomnav a:hover { color:#FF3300; background-color:#660000; } #bottomnav a:active { color:#33FFCC; background-color:#333333; } /* End bottom navigational structure */ /* Begin General styles of texts, headers, and various div and span positions */ .maintext { position:absolute; top:200px; left:400px; } h3 { font-family:GulimChe, "Gloucester MT Extra Condensed", Gigi, "Freestyle Script", "Times New Roman"; font-size:16px; } p { font-family:GulimChe, "Gloucester MT Extra Condensed", Gigi, "Freestyle Script", "Times New Roman"; font-size:14px; } /* End General styles of texts, headers, and various div and span positions */ [/code]

This will be the final time I need criticism, Especially ober, hopefully he will read this too, he has been helping me through this whole process, I am starting another thread, basically I got a logo, i just want criticism on the entire homepage, I already put in some of the javascript, all that's left is some css, and if I come up with any other pages, I am just wondering what do you think of the basic color scheme, especially for the links. And the general positioning of everything, and the concept, it hasn't been error checked or proofread I will do that tomorrow. www.freelancebusinessman.com

Why can't I get any vector based images to appear on the website. I try to use any extension(other than flash files), and none of them work, including the direct photoshop extensions, it allways shows a big X until I switch them over to jpg.

I am wanting to get complete critique one time on the homepage, because after that I am going to build the entire site off of it.

I am stepping away for awhile, I was hoping to get some advice on the website. I know 100% that I am keeping the logo now, and I decided to do a lot more than i was originally considering. I am going to have my ethics on website programming, coding, design, and other things. I am going to have a section with free resources, like links to all the websites I have that are free, that I use as resources. Possibly I will be accepting submissions after it's up and running for tutorials, and how to's but, and I don'tknow what all else, I am a little worried about losing business, but I may be considering a section on advertising, where people can post ads when they need something done, not just web design related, but the bad thing is, I may lose a lot of business that way I am unsure whether I want to do that or not. Right now I just wanted advice on the main navs coloring theme. I am going to put status bar messages in there with javascript, and preload the image, I am also going to do something major with php on each page, I am just thinking about what. I will most definitely be accepting submissions from other designers about there ethics, and morals when it comes to coding, design, programming, and other website related fields. I am unsure of this too as it could also pose a problem getting business coming in, but I will do a lot as I intend to pour back a couple of thousand dollars in advertising once I finish my first few products. I am adding in meta tags, and optimizing the keywords after I finish the home page, www.freelancebusinessman.com

I tried playing with theme some but the overall size seemed bigger than jpg That is why I opted to jpg, and when they are optimized I still see the same results.

That was extremely helpful, it's too late on those images, I loaded them up already, and already optimized them in photoshop, I but I extremely thankful for this tip, this will help me a lot, if you have any more advice, tips I would appreciate it, that is somethign I would not have realized for a few months,.

Thanks then, I am going ot keep the pen, because I am going to base the rest of the website around it, I am going to try an old scroll, type look for the div tags. I will work on all of that, and put the link back here again.

what do you mean by cd. What do you suggest as a "logo" because I see a lot of people use a lot of different things. Some people just use pictures, some people have words, what is a good definition of what is defined as "good" and "bad". I am thinking of a few ideas. I am no graphic designer, so it's hard for me to put those ideas into action, I am also about to take that idea, about getting a piece of paper, and a pencil, and creating a basic layout, and try to go from there. But I am still confused on the basic stepping stones. Those are the weak points I still have, I am trying to figure out, I have built websites before. For clients, not many but a few, and overall they seem to come together well, I know for one, when I looked at myself, I am weak in css, I thought I was better than that at css, so I was reevaluating some material on css, I was having difficulty doing something so simple as putting a picture into a div tag, and have the text look like it's being put onto the backgroundimage. I am readoing my css training some, then I am going to sit down with some paper, come up with a theme, and what other elements I am going to try and work with see, what all I can creaet. and about the last post maybe I should sit around and thinka bout what I am going to do, it's easier for a client. But I need to create a plan, and try to build it after that, I will try and start on that today.

How does it look now www.freelancebusinessman.com I redid the logo, but can't get what I am trying to figure out to work, I am trying to set an old looking page as a background for the div tag with the main text, but I don't think it's possible I set it, but it doesn't stretch to match the words, I can't resize the image that much or it explodes, I am going to try something else, how does the logo look now though.