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I would like some ideas on how I could make the site more interactive or attractive. message boards etc.
thanks

What’s the URL, Tony?

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I’m looking for various websites to find what I like about their designs. I work for a financial advisor at the moment and I’m hoping some of you have some good ideas of professional website designs.

Thanks in advance.

I viewed several different sites I found by looking up some top wealth management firms. Here is one that caught my eye…it may be just suited to my taste, but looks great to me (and is simple, yet informative). With our B/D they say we must use their approved vendors for a site, but we could reach out to our OSJ to request to use a different design.

http://filamentadvisors.com/index.html

I have a small web design business and I’m a web designer and developer, but I don’t know how to market myself. Can anyone give me some strategies to do marketing for my web design?

Thanks

I would try to find a niche- the smaller the better. From there, find the places on the web that those people ‘hang out’ Join the conversation.

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Offer good, free advice and you will start to receive business in return.

What courses do I need to take to become a Web Designer for High School and University ?

Your best strategy is to get a flexible 4yr degree in Computer Engineering Technology, or alternately "Computer Technology". Anything less, and you risk being stuck in a low level, low pay job.

San Jose State has a good program for the latter.

and i mean by that if i had a company in India what would a professional web designer earn monthly?

it depends on which company you are working for and what exp you have. For a fresher its between 2-4 laks.

For 2-5 years its between 4-8 lakhs. And more then 5 you might get 8+ lakh.

Hope this helps
Sach

I need to build an e-commerce website and I have absolutely zero web design skills. I dont even know how to upload a file using dream weaver. I needed help changing my nameservers. However, despite my limitations, I still need an e-commerce site.

I need a site that is affordable. I dont want to pay more than a few hundred dollars, including hosting.
I need paypal integration.
I need to be able to upload my own graphic backgrounds, not just use ready made templates, unless those templates allow me to use my own photos for background images.
I need to be able to categorize my items by type and size, and put 1 item into multiple categories.
I need to be able to stock items by attribute. 1 item may be available in multiple sizes. I dont want to have to create multiple listings for the same item in different sizes, and I want my inventory to stock by size and attribute as well.
I want it to be simple and affordable.

Is there anything out there that is up to my specifications?

If you want all this done you will probably need to hire a web programmer, which, by the looks of it, could cost a few hundred dollars.
From what i can see, you have sorting items, you would be using a database.
look into databases with MySQL and also look into PHP

I had a website designed by a company and paid for that design. My account with them is due I didn’t pay for the renewal and they took my site down. They are holding my domain name and the design is gone. Can they do that? Isn’t that website design mine and if so how do I get it? Can they hold my domain name? They are costing me loss of money here what do I do? I don’t want to renew with them because they are overcharging me for the domain name and the webhosting.

Well how much are they overcharging? ….Most of these companies are very competative so I can’t see the difference in price between them and other companies being very much…and in that case if your talking $20 or $30 WHO CARES!

If you sue them..the cost of that event will be monumentally greater than the difference of your other hosting service….times ten. So..thats really not a logical option.

Get your site up and focus on making more money with actual sales, not by penny pinching expenses.

For now I would pay the bill for the next year….and during that time, have your domain ownership registration transferred to you personally. Obtain the website on CD in HTML format and the raw design format (The actual files from whatever design software was used to create the pages)

Until you do those things, they have you by the *alls

Good Luck

I am way into web design, it’s my hobby.
I downloaded a few fonts and they have to be unzipped. :[
To unzip them, I have to use the program WinZip. Even though it is an "award winning" program [that's what the website says], will it still give me a virus from downloading the trial? That usually happens with other programs but still.. the "award winning-ness" is making me ask the question. Please help! Thanks.

winzip will not give you a virus, however if the file you unzip has a virus in it you could get infected.

I designed my website in Microsoft Publisher. Now I have learned that my site suffers from "code bloat", a common MS Publisher problem, which may be negatively impacting on my site’s performance and SEO.

To the best of my limited knowledge in this area, the only solution is to use some other website design program.

Which program should I use? And IS it possible to import an existing website without redoing the entire site from scratch?

Thanks in advance.

Hey don’t worry victoria , its easy .all your web sites are saved in html or aspx or php , formats right ? simply open it with other programs it will let you regain acess to edit it .
i personally use adobe Dreamweaver , its simple and easy to use , more than that u can directly ftp the whole site to your server .
just right click the html and open it with dreamweaver or run dreamweaver and open file .
for beginners and professionals , dream weaver is the best i can reccon ..
go for it .
chaos

Note: I am referring to FIXED width only. Not FLUID.

I appreciate that it’ll be too wide for older monitors but a lot of popular sites seem to be ignoring compliance. I’m not so much concerned with compliance as I am concerned with fashion. What width is in fashion for contemporary web design right now? Is a 1000 pixel fixed width alright for website?

I reckon building a website with 950 or 960 px page width. This way it shows up well with a 1024 px width screen. I appreciate many desktops and macs come with wider screens, but you also need to factor in the fact that net books and smart phones now have smaller screens. Fashion is about design, not width and you could easily add a theme or background in the margins of the main site that can make the site look very cool.