Hey guys.

I've recently started designing websites for companies and just wanted a little feedback on one I've created before I show them.

http://curtaincare.leadhoster.com
or
http://curtaincare.co.cc

They really didn't give me a lot, but wanted me to design a logo, website and strapline, and literally all I had was a name and a few colours and fonts ideas.

If anybody fancied having a little snoop and check the links to pages, adverts, email's etc in different browsers... I'd appreciate it

Thanks guys

http://curtaincare.leadhoster.com
or
http://curtaincare.co.cc

My firewall detects a Phisher...

Ayeee, mine did the same!

While we are on the topic of website design, has anybody any tips for me?

Im experimenting with the whole code writing etc etc... just to see if I could create anything resembling a website.

I spent so much time critising peoples websites on a daily basis so I said I would try make one before critisising too much

Only real advice would be learn HTML & CSS.

im working off fairly basic HTML at the moment. When I get more time I will do some more detailed research.

Possibly something to do with the web address? Facebook doesn't allow .co.cc's to be advertised anywhere, due to the abuse that some of these websites contain (they are free domains that can relocate to any site and just acts as a cloak)

I can assure you that there is nothing malicious on the website - pop over to funkypool and I've had feedback there, plus, I'm a moderator so hardly likely to post anything harmful.

echo - to me it's all been about taking the time to practice time and time again. I've learnt I know through online tutorials and examples.
However, with the right software, you can create simple websites without any knowledge at all, you just need to be creative.

Very nice stueyy

I've studied web design at college for 3 years and found the following resources a big help for learning web design and also improving my exsisting skills.

Learning Programming Languages:

- Your local library is always a good place to start. They will have books for all levels, from the "For Dummies" series, right up to more advanced levels.

- http://www.w3schools.com is a tutorial website created by W3C. It is primarily aimed at people wanting to get into web design. They have loads of different programming languages to learn, such as HTML, CSS and PHP.


Software:

- http://www.kompozer.net is an Open Source web design software package. Closest you'll get to Dreamweaver for free.

- Other good programmes include GIMP (alternative to Photoshop), and Inkscape (alternative to CorelDraw). All Open Source software can be found here - http://www.osalt.com

Edited at 10:47 Tue 01/03/11 (GMT)

The only programming languages you need to no for webdesign are:

Javascript - With this you can add little qwerky bits to the website

HTML - You only need Notepad and honestly it's so easy to learn you will be able learn it within a week or 2 (not 100% fluent but enough)

CSS - Makes life so much easier as you can set code throughout the whole website for example you can make 5 different arears of a site colour Blue font Verdanna and instead of changing individually you can just go back to the code change Blue to whatever you want and same with the font.

PHP - Every website should be made out of this now a days it's so under used because people don't like to put the extra effort in to learn it and it's wrong as it's so good to use as a language!

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Also a few tips don't use PHPBB It's boring write the code to your own forum ask Nick or anybody else it's not hard it's better to look at and it's yours you won't be using the same templates as 1billlion otherwebsites!

Also when you don't have to remember everything you learn just keep the websites and the code you have used so you can always copy and paste when you will need it in the future.

Better off coding your own templates & themes rather than actually coding your own forum software. It's actually extremely difficult to do, especially for someone with little coding experience.

The rest I agree with though.

Also Notepad++ is a must have tool.

Yeah I will give you that about the forum and also it does depend what you want aswell from a website aswell that should determine what you should do forum wise

Also we are saying notepad and to me and you thats proberbly most important thing you need lol

But for beginners I would get Dreamweaver (obviously we can't condone not paying for it but get a cracked version from torrent ) that way you can code and see your work come alive so you don't need to worry to much about mistakes

Also I like inner frames makes things so much easier Inner Frame is where only the middle of the website changes but the rest stays the same and dreamweaver doesnt really like these so frontpage pro would be best to have if you wanted these on your website.

In my opinion, Kompozer and NVU are just as good as Dreamweaver and FrontPage. They are both free too, so you won't be using illegal pirate software.

There is also a portable version of Dreamweaver, which I've found very handy for doing projects for people who don't have Dreamweaver. It can be installed on a USB pen drive and run on any PC, or installed directly onto a PC.

Im using MS Expression.

Its good from the point of view that you can get a preview of your site on any browser at any time you want to see how your site is coming along.

All the coding has to be done yourself though even though there is a few templates. I dont really want to use a template though bar it giving me examples of how things are coded properly in HTML. The whole purpose of my experiment was to see if I could create a website from scratch

The "Developers Tools" on IE8 are a great way to see how this whole site (and any others) are coded!

Most browsers have a 'view source' option, as far as I'm aware.

This does the same thing I believe

IE is the worst possible browser you could use...

In my opinion, Opera is the best for web dev. Although I don't use it for anything else.

See I like to test my websites on a few different browsers, as sometimes things are out of place on different ones also I tend to get different people with larger/smaller monitors because I have had the problem of buttons overlapping and espicially when I want it accessable to everybody

I would hope that everybody does a test on a few different browsers, as it's just common sense.

But when actually coding a website, I find Opera the best solution for me.

Yeah Opera is good for testing I wouldnt recomend IE but people usually stick to their roots what they use first they seem to never change.

Yep. Right click on a webpage and select View Source Code and it will open up in note pad. This won't show Server-side Scripts like PHP though.