Ninjakreborn

yes, but the format is like this. Yours [code]<?php // ... all your validation stuff goes here // ... if any errors, redirect code goes here // ... include your header here // ... body here // ... footer here ?>[/code] What I thought [code]<?php // ... validation // ... record validation errors // ... display errors if there are any // ... if there are not then do database (file) work // ... if the work fails, return errors // ... if the work succeeds, he wants it to redirect back to the homepage so they can see // ... the results for himself. ?>[/code] Or is there something specific I am overlooking.

It's giving me a header's already sent error. I know it's suppose to, because I have a bunch of validation before it, plus my config include. In lot's of posts I heard people say, if you need something to redirect, after something was outputted, use some combination of obflush and some other stuff, I just don't know how.

Ok, I ran into another problem, here is the CSS [code]/* Joyel Puryear / Master Configuration System The Freelance Businessman http://www.freelancebusinessman.com Copyright Joyel Puryear 2006 &copy;Master Framework Global CSS file, used with the master framework */ #frontend { background-color: #000000; color: #000000; text-align: center; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin-top: 0; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } #frontendwrap { padding-top: 25px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #000000; width: 700px; height:700px; margin-top: 0; } #frontendheader { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 600px; height: 100px; background-color: #9b9292; color: #bdbcbb; margin-bottom: 20px; } #frontendheader h1 { margin: 0 0 0 5px; padding-top: 10px; text-align: left; } #frontendheader ul { list-style: none; margin: 0; padding: 5px 10px 10px 0; text-align: right; } #frontendheader li { display: inline; } #frontendheader a:link { color: #FFFFFF; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; } #frontendheader a:visited { color: #FFFFFF; } #frontendheader a:hover { color: #FFFFFF; } #frontendbodycontent { width: 700px; height: 500px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } #frontendleftcol { background-color: #acb4b5; width: 400px; height: 560px; float: left; margin-left:50px; } #frontendrightcol { background-color: #e3ebea; width: 184px; height: 560px; margin-left:15px; float: left; }[/code] Firefox - perfect Internet Explorer - left aligned instead of centered aligned If someone can help me now find out what's causing this, I would appreciate it.

craigslist -> your state(city) -> Postad -> services offered (computer)

Any overflow other than scroll, also leaving overflow default, the layout is only so tall.  Since there are a display of 50 results, within the scrollbar, the other 40 go flying off the layout, where you can't even read them.  So is there an alternative way to set this up without the scroll bars, and without major alterations to the current layout.

A lot of the time's I use redirect quite a bit, to do little things, like if there not logged in, redirect them to the homepage.  I am having troubles with it, and I also know why, I have a form, if it's successfully it redirects them back to the homepage, or so the client wants.  I originally took the easy way out, they submit it, then message say insert successfully, click here to return home.  Well he comes back and wants a redirect, but I don't know how. What do I have to do with this flush I have heard about, in order to be able to get a successfully redirection.

http://www.secretefeedback.com/index.php Ok, see how I am doing the scroll, how can I make the layout, expand to this, without the scroll bar.  He wants 50 view per showing, then pagination, that's all fine, but it's the length of hte layout, any advice? Or would a scroll bar be best in this situation?

Php is something I know better than I know any other language, meaning I know it better than I know other languages, because it's mostly what Ido.  But I would have loved to have some of this when I first started, some of these samples would have taught me a lot. It would be for a limited audience ,you have to have to way of learning to be able to benefit from it, but my personal opinion.  The examples are great, and I could still probably learn a little from them, the tutorial is well laid out, and the navigation isn't bad. Just opinions.

Thanks wildteen. This will fix a majority of my issues, from here I can shape it into the proper layout, it got me past a major problem, and fixed up a few more I was going to encounter. Thanks again.

this [code] /* Joyel Puryear / Master Configuration System        The Freelance Businessman http://www.freelancebusinessman.com Copyright Joyel Puryear 2006 &copy;Master Framework Global CSS file, used with the master framework */ #frontend { background-color: #000000; color: #000000; text-align: center; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin-top: 0; } #frontendwrap { padding-top: 25px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #000000; width: 700px; height:700px; margin-top: 0; } #frontendheader { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 600px; height: 100px; background-color: #9b9292; color: #bdbcbb; } #frontendheader h1 { float: left; margin-top: 50px; margin-left: 5px; } #frontendheader ul { list-style: none; margin-left: 0; padding-left: 0; float: right; } #frontendheader li { display: inline; } #frontendheader a:link { color: #FFFFFF; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; } #frontendheader a:visited { color: #FFFFFF; } #frontendheader a:hover { color: #FFFFFF; } #frontendbodycontent { width: 700px; height: 500px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } #frontendleftcol { background-color: #acb4b5; width: 320px; height: 400px; } #frontendrightcol { background-color: #e3ebea; width: 140px; height: 400px; } [/code] and this [code]<?php require_once("./master/config/config.php"); ?> <!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> <?php require_once($docroot . "/master/includes/meta.inc.php"); ?> </head> <body id="frontend"> <div id="frontendwrap"> <div id="frontendheader"> <ul> <li><a href="index.php" title="Home">Home</a></li> <li>&nbsp;</li> <li><a href="postsecret.php" title="Post Secret">Post Secret</a></li> <li>&nbsp;</li> <li><a href="about.php" title="About">About</a></li> </ul> <h1></h1> </div> <div id="frontendbodycontent"> <div id="frontendleftcol"> <h1>Display Information</h1> <p>Here is some content</p> </div> <div id="frontendrightcol"> <p>Here is somemore content for the right side.</p> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html> [/code] Give me this It's suppose to be the same all the way down. You see hte header is centered. Then directly (and evenly) below the header should be the left column, right colum.  With some spacing on the left and right, and in between each element, liek the head is.  There should be a little space in between the header and the otehr 2 elemtns, but when I try to throw a float:left on the leftcol, and rightcol, the leftcol flys over to the right, and the right col goes funny. Any advice on what might be causing this?

Thanks. Now with my current site, should I go ahead now, since people told me it could be alot better, what should I do from here, shoudl I go ahead, and remove the whole site, and rebuild it, let my graphic designer get me some more layouts, and redo it even better, with more learning. Or should I keep the current, and expand upon it with programming, usability, graphics, and try to make it even better from here on out.

Now that I have proven I can follow advice.  Now that I have changed enough to be able tolisten to what other people have to say, I want personal criticism right now. What should I do for my business, for a better image, my own site's, my clients, client relations, things I should do differently.  regular advice.

I redid the footer, redid the navigation.  Went ahead and restructured the skills/services page, threw away anything that I was studying, I only left stuff I actually know.  All those languages that I just knew some basics on, I didn't feel were real experience, so I went ahead and took those off.  If someone asks, I will tell them I have been playing with it. As for the grammer, I am about to do 2 things. 1. Run everything I have through a word doc spell checker (grammer, spelling), and then see from there.  I write stories, fantasy, bio-modified), other not-real stories, so most of my creativity goes into those, I guess I need to work on my web-writing too.  THe way I end up working, is the first time, I write a block, or page of text, it's never real good. Later when I am in a specific mood, I rewrite it, it's always better with each rewrite, but with stories, I am drawn away, and concentrate, so my writing abilities come out. They don't do very well in web writing, so I have him do my content, he just hasn't had itme, I will have him rewrite everything, he had done content writing for 7 years, so I try to leave any content writing for the web, up to him at the end.  So I will see if he can get on that, and get that to me, he is a friend, and we have a sliding scale relationship (payment) so that is even better. I will probably go with red's advice on the logo, thank you for your opinion though. jcombs_31 - I will be putting that link back as soon as my link pages goes up. The only thing, is I can't let it interfere with clients, so I have to look at your site, I think you do web development, believe me, it doesn't mean I don't appreciate the help, I really do, in fact I will even send you money to cover it, after I am a little more financially set, clients are starting to pop up even more, because of my new advertising system.  So I will make sure I make it up to you, whether it's a link back, or monetary compensation, or sending you a couple of projects your way, when I have some extra, either way I will pay you back for the logo. Also steelman, I am very happy with your help, it was very helpful, thanks again. Mark - thanks for all the advice. Thanks again everybody, from here, after I catch up some projects, I will go ahead and take care of some rewrites, I will have him rewrite it, and start adding in some graphics, any other advice that pops up thanks, thanks again for all the help.

Yes, I keep this post bookmarked, tomorrow, when I start working again, after getting projects done, and started up, when I work on my site again, I will do that with the footer, do another couple of rewrites on the content (still weeding out trash, and other stuff).  I finally learnt the secret to web development (be willing to shut up and take people's advice), when I swallowed my pride, and realized other people know more than me, it finally got me somewhere.  After I organize the content a little more, and rewrite it a few time's, and do some functionality (userfriendly), type features, like redo the portfolio, and some stuff, then I will post back in this post tomorrow for another critique, if anyone ahs any advice until then, go for it. Thanks for all the help so far.

[quote]DONT ADJUST THE LAYOUT ANY MORE. I RECKON YOU'VE NAILED IT Smiley[/quote] Ok, I did change the few things he suggested, as far as the background color on the leftnav, is that good, or should I go back to what I had before changing it?  I will also go ahead and do your other suggestions now.

Ok I went ahead and implemented your ideas, anymore, and anyone else. Thanks.

Perfect, you are so damn helpful. Thanks to you, red, and zanus, (and everyone else that offered advice) things are looking better, today, I will go througha nd do everything you suggested, and a few more rewrites on some of the content, then I will post back again here, if any passer byers want to throw out any more advice, I would appreciate that too, thanks steelmanronald06

I honestly like the more info popup's, to me it feels like a better addition to the layout. I am very surprised with your design abilities, Your organization of the layout really get's my attention I do agree about the scrollbar, that was a little annoying, but that's just my opinion, I would have like they said, 2-3 of the most recent, and have a link going to the rest on another page.

You mean a basic template I created.  Yes it started with a box layout,a nd it wasn't that good, I revamped it a few time's, I think what you mentioned just now, was when I was testing, the coloring was changing a lot earlier. Right now, after about 4 hours, of sitting down, I stripped all the color out, I redid the color scheme, I looked at color wheels, though about what it was I was looking at. I noticed that when I looked at some color combinations, it made it hard for me to focus, on, I looked at the left nav, for about 15 minutes, I realized it was hard on the eye's, so I kept looking at it, as I changed the color scheme, until I noticed a color setup for the left nav, that made my eyes feel at home, then I moved to the footer, and noticed it was giving me the same affect, so I noticed 1. It wasn't the right color matching 2. It didn't go well with the left nav. So I did the same thing with it, until I had something that looked good to the eye, looking over the site a few time's, the whole thing looks like the color scheme is worked out, the links within the content, I copied the leftnav link coloring into, and it still looking good on the eyes. Now let me see what you think ?

See the thing I am having difficulty understanding, is I heard a lot of people hate whitespace, so I thought background color's were important.  But I think I understand what you are saying, I am going to try removing all the background color's, and thinking about what might look the best, as I go, and then see what I come up with after a few minutes of thinking. Add it to what need's it, or what might look good with a background color.

Zanus, I am a little confused, can you explain a little better. I thought there suggestions was to make it more colorful, but with matching color's, the blue/green combination, I looked for, the logo had green tint in the text, so I used the green for the side color, and blue for my main color, can you be a little more specific.  Also I want to hear red's opinions too, before I do that, but most of it's because I think I am misunderstanding what you are saying, could you re-explain it.

red, I went ahead and 1. Added the divider between the header and content, like he suggested 2. CHanged the font size, and type like you suggested 3. Tried my best to redo the navigation coloring 4. Removed the matrix affect at the bottom, and made it the same green as the green in the lettering of the logo 5. Removed that huge blue box at the top, ANy other advice, or thoughts, on coloring or anything

I am getting better at it, it takes hard work, and patience.  I don't generally have a problem on other projects, if I do, I have a graphic designer work with me on my other projects, I am using my own site, and learning, slowly.  That element of web development.

I know. What do you all think of this, http://www.freelancebusinessman.com/ I have 1. Rewritten all the content 2. Reorganized all the content (almost all of that followed steelman's advice, I listened to a lot of things he said) 3. Centered it, 800 px (like redbullmarky said) 4. Redid the color scheme, but I am not done with the color scheme yet, I am wondering if everything is heading in the right direction?

This wasn't a critique this was for advice, any advice for the coloring for my website?