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@ramonmulti

Is there anythinng wrong with you? Is it so hard for someone to behave well in a chat room/public forum?

You come in warning Sweet T to stop spreading anxiety but do you profer any relevant information? No.

You just go ahead to hijack the topic and post about your stupid club.

@Seun

Did you see the advert that was on a sports newspaper where the owners alerted the public about a scam on Nairaland. It seems some people are doing a gameshow or something and are using the sports company's name.

I think the starter of this topic knows what she is talking about.

Also , people are getting wise to the tricks of these banks. Read this article here :

http://businessdayonline.com/National/1063.html

Masala gal:
@ salvage
many people r under the misconception that bb is some sort of mouth piece for africa,even if ofu won that wasn't going to make no difference what so eva to women abuse etc etc in africa.
bb is just a game nothing more nothing less.you want to preach values,women rights etc etc go to the UN,oprah or the oau.

@Masala girl, If BB is not a mouth piece for all those , why do they keep inviting and identifying with those organisations?
Why do they dedicate tasks and projects to Fight against AIDS , child abuse and the whole project of safe sex and responsible behaviour?

Its just double standards and hypocrecy . BB should be clear as to their objectives and let everyone know what they are about, SLEAZE

@Masala girl,

My initial favourite was Max. I stopped watching after I saw the perversion and decided it wasnt good for my mind.

If Offu was not Nigerian and was left with the other two, I would have wanted her to win. Although I have my reservations about her on somethings in the house but definitely if I was to choose between her and Richiana, it would be her.

Now your *Off the hook* is an issue cause I don't know how much more off the hook you want the show to be.

If their is someone else who likes cleanliness and wants to tidy the house in the next episode(If there is going to be any in a long while), I don't see why it should be a problem for you.

I said ealier that Richards fans are mostly females, in their teens , twenties and early thirties.These are the people who actually vote and stay glued to the show.
Its a sad issue cause people who are there fighting against disrespect and abuse of women don't know that these females really want what they are getting. Its a shame.

From your id, it shows you are female.

Am not angry . I knew it would happen. Am a little disappointed cause I was hoping a miracle would happen or that the organisers would look at the bigger picture and consider the message a Richard victory would be passing to these misguided girls.

Masala gal:
i'm soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo happy becoz now i know the next big brother is going to be off the hook, no more cleaners.

@Masala girl, by *Off the hook*, I suppose you mean more sex, and maybe marathon orgies and some more unclothedness, maybe finally some homosexual or lesbian action right?

If this one was not *Off the hook* enough for you, I wonder why you need BB. Just go get some porn videos .

I knew it !

I said earlier that it would be a miracle for Offu to win and that the only other way was if the sponsors resolved to choose a better *model* as winner(apparently, they didnt feel that way).

I saw how the southern block and eastern block of Africa decided to vote Richard because he is closer home to them.

Secondly, the hatred for Nigeria, took away the remaining chances that Offu had. People were impersonating Nigerians and making trouble in the forums and being altogether obnoxious causing other people to decide to purnish Offu for the conduct of her fellow naijas. So myopic.

Like someone said, sex and immorality have been elevated to another level in our society. Like Kanya West said in the song, he can talk about anything from sex to drugs and violence but when he talks about Jesus, his records dont get played.

The sad fact is that even with all the cry about abuse of women and all that, Richards fans are mostly females.

They can come in and shout and screem why he had to win but secretly their eyes were glued to Richards body and all the things he was doing.

There was a little exercise that was carried out and Richards fans(from interviews) are teenage girls and girls in their twenties and early thirties. The few men that claimed to be Richards fans were the typical pimply kind and therefore there was no surprise.

When you watch the music videos that are on TV these days, what do you see? From Nigeria to New york to south Africa, you see females in little or no clothing dancing suggestively. Those girls go in to do those things with their eyes wide open. Sometimes its not even about the money. Its just what they want to do.

We can say those men that make those videos dont respect women but what about the girls and women who willingly participate? They are not forced to do that.

The same way Tartiana entered that sordid affair with eyes wide open and Offu invited trouble by sleeping in their bed always when there was no need for it. A slip up that put paid to all her good works(very sad).

I hate the fact that Richard won but there are many other things to look at in this issue

Just go to that office for goodness sake.

I dont want to believe that everyone on that Ikeja repeater is not viewing hitv.

There would have been much more noise and trouble made concerning it and the competition would have hinted that in some of their adverts.

If everyone facing that repeater station is having the problems then its sad

@my2cents

Its becoming childish. Good. I take all you say. Also, please you are definitely not an expert on designs. Your sites show so.

As for all the web standards and semantic and all, pls go to http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ , and check the site http://topcommng.com for css validation .

Also go to http://validator.w3.org/ to check the http://topcommng.com for XHTML validation .

Those sites are the official validating sites.

Afam:
@my2cents,

If the Salvage feels that you are insulting his design and/or person, clarify yourself and continue with the review or say bye bye.

Personally, Nigerians like advising others but never like to take advice.

As a reviewer I have been misunderstood.

As someone asking for reviews I have also been misunderstood because I refuse to accept insults as criticisms.

As they say clever people know how to solve problems, wise people know how to avoid problems. I have chosen to be wise as time spent solving avoidable problems could as well be used making progress elsewhere.

Great!

If I review or comment on anyones site, I know not to make a statement like poorly designed cause then, the next requirement would be for the person making the comment to show his designs.

I would have swallowed my spittle if I had looked at his designs to see really great designs.

People can always advice and comment on site reviews but its condescending and contemptous for someone to just label it poorly designed if the person hasnt got an impressive array himself. Thats the only thing that gives you the bragging rights.


If you read from top, I was shown some things that I overlooked of which am greatful but then he went another way

mdsocks:
@poster
my2cents is very correct
The 4 images at the top should be like a flash video ,scrolling around
first thing when i got to the site was to click it as a link but i got the opposite

@mdsocks

Thanks.
You mean when you got to the site you tried clicking on the images as link?

the flash video scrolling around ? how do you mean?

Is it just ok for the images to be scrolling around and nothing else?
Would like to be clear on what u mean .

Thanks

bros, I dont know if u like repeating urself. I said just before you posted this last one that you were actually doing good. Till you started alluding to the fact that the sites are *poorly designed*.

Now is that an issue? No.

But if you say that and I see really great site designs, that you have, I wouldnt bother but my issue is that if you make such a statement, let your designs be real good.

Am I saying my designs are great ? No. But I expect to see a great design from you if you say its poorly designed. Thats all.

If I thought the sites were great, I would have posted the title as *My great designs please look*

Thanks

Yes you were doing something good till you posted something like poorly designed site .

And please if you make such a statement, then your websites must really be something.

Thats really why I was surprised at you.

Your ealier comments that you made, I actually thanked you for pointing out some things that were overlooked.

As for the part where you say only two of your sites are *as bad*, I think you really overestimate your sites.

Let others be the judge of that.

Also to add that truth is not bitter. Criticsms or comments or downright knock downs.
Its not bitter. Its good to sift out comments that are laced with undertones.

Thanks

my2cents:
#4 really has nothing to do with viewing source. I was only curious to see how you implemented it - either as a frame or overflowed div
What I mean here is, if I were you, for consistency (which is something visitors will likely notice), either you should hv all your content in that portion of the pages have an overflow or they shdnt. Compare "services" page to "about us" page. If you still don't get it, let me know.

Who says services page must be structured the same way as about us page?

By the way, just because users don't view source, it doesn't mean you are to use it as an excuse for poorly structured code/design. That's like saying, "well, drivers don't disassemble the brake set so why should I bother adding .001mm more of brake pad?" Always, develop all your sites such that they conform to web standards. If you take this into account early on in the project (research shows that 90% of your time should be spent at the beginning and only 10% spent coding), you don't have to worry about refactoring.

There you go sounding like the best designer on Nairaland . Poorly structured code and design? Please dont let me start. You were doing well before now. Let other ppl judge your own designs and then you can know if you can call any other person's poorly designed.

For #7, I am not saying you should make your fonts bolder. Let's take a look at your CSS for this section (focus on the bolded text):

[size=8pt]#ourvisiontext p {
 font: 11px/13px Tahoma;
 margin: 0px;
 text-align: left;
}[/size]

All I am saying is increase the 11px to, say, 13px or 14px. By the way, I just noticed that when I increased it on my end, the text went over the footer portion of your page. Why did you set a fixed height? Let the page flow naturally.

Like I said, dont like large fonts. Doesnt make for good design on websites. I saw some sites you made from your portfolio. Lokk how attractive they are with those large fonts.

Finally, rather than assign a bunch of divs with font sizes, put all that within the CSS declaration for your body tag. Then, if you must have 1 or 2 variations, you apply it to the "p" tags. The way you have it now, it doesn't account for reusability. In other words, if I asked you to make one section 12px and 3 sections 14px, you would have to modify a bunch of CSS declarations.

I hope this helps.

This is the only good comment in this ur last post. The rest made in bad taste. Really am wondering just how good you believe ur designs are?

Great! Knew could count on you to fish em out.

number 3) yes, I will need to change the on hover state of the text button links.

number 5) thanks will update that link

number 4) not too sure what you are referring to. Is it so much of a problem? Its only when you start looking at source files that u notice. Web visitors just view website and dont always go to source.


You are a programmer and thats why u go there

number 7) I really have a problem with  very bold fonts. Really isnt attractive on websites.

Thanks once again

don't want to open another thread

@my2cents

thanks.

People are not used to clicking images but buttons.

Those buttons under the images(eventManagement, publicRelations, etc) are what I believe people would try to click first and thats why there is the rollover/popup javascript events added to them.

I was not banking on people clicking the header images but the buttons under them. Guess thats how you found out about the things under right?

To add *click here to learn more* to the images would require click leading the person to another page right?
Well, like I said, there isnt much point having a full different page for displaying like five words of services, is there?

Thanks though for the tips.

I see what you mean concerning the contact form.

I guess I was so interested in keeping the site compact.

Will have to elongate that page to contain it all now.

my2cents:
Finally a site that was coded with FF in mind. Yay!!

Anyways, here are my 2 cents:

1) The 4 images at the top: I thought they were just header images until I mistakenly hovered over one of them. I noticed what appeared to be menu items and so I proceeded to click on one of them. For where? No response. I assume those are just features under each image. I would probably revisit the design of that area. It was kind of confusing to me as you can probably tell from my comments.

2) y do i have to scroll down on your "contact" page to see the "send" button? Just let the form flow freely. Again, it wasn't that intuitive to me that I had to scroll to the bottom. Also, the way you have the "services" form element is bad from an accessibility and usability stand point. Consider making it a regular drop down. If you want the user to be able to select more than one, consider using check boxes.

3) Apply javascript in addition to the php (or whatever) backend validation. I shouldn't hv to hit "send" before realizing that I didn't fill out a form.


4) The 4 images at the top: 3 of the 4 seem to be composed of 2 words which you have joined to form 1 word. What's worse is that the 2nd one has text that is so long that i it touching the edges of the black box. I would consider setting a max length for that. Same applies to the "Mission Statement" header.

5) On "portfolio" and "services" pages, the "creative excellence" header in the rightmost column is a little higher than the other 2. In other words, all 3 don't line up and in my opinion, should.

6) Under "jobs we have done (portfolio page)", it would be nice to have the URLs for the sites and/or a whitepaper explaining what you did in detail

7) Looking at the source code, your pages seem to be suffering from "divitis (too many divs)". Also, referring to your code from #6 above, rather than use "P" and "BR" tags, y not use "LI" tags (better for SEO and web standards (semantic markup) purposes)? You could then use CSS to style the list as necessary.

I hope these help.

@my2cents

Thanks for the review.

for number 1) comment above, they are supposed to be header images that reveal a bit about the key services (the concatenated words). The popup you see when you rollover the words are just a summary of the services rendered under each category.

Its just a way of making a site attractive and making use of small design real estate(space).
There was no point creating a whole different page that would just have a 5 line list of subservices.
And no, they are not supposed to lead you to any page.

on number 6) comment, Its the clients prerogative to have a link back to their clients websites and jobs done and not mine. If they asked for that and gave me links, would have done that.

Will look at the creative excellence header to see how it should line up

Please review this site: www.topcommng.com .

It seems it behaves better in firefox cause of the popup .

What do you think?

adechuks:
Are you trying to say she reminds you of Meryl.
Beautiful, Daring, Smart, Uninhibited.

@adechuks

at this rate, its we the guys that should be wearing iron-pan underwears with metal padlocks(keys to padlock left at home) to the reunion.

oluwanisol:
Hi guys, ve not bin in the office to reply all your post, but now am back to the office sha.
@ salsera
do u think 3 men are too small or what abi y u com dey say mmmmm or u want come join.
@ Lawyerchap,
which one is your hand no dey? r u scared or u can't perform which one of then?
Adechuks, Spora and Lawyerchap, do we agree on next weekend? because i bet u after that weekend u people will be begging me for more am telling u.

As for the reunion, I can't wait.

@oluwanisol

I actually thought it was a joke when I read ur post but ur subsequent affairmations are beginning to make me wonder at u oo

Its sad but from feelers am getting, it would be a miracle if OFFu wins. Dont know how ppl of africa can be such perverts in mind to even think of voting richard to win but it seems the southern block of africa(all the countries) plus the eastern(kenya, etc) have resolved to vote for Richard.

The only other way would be if BB and its sponsors decide to choose a better model as winner

Ndi:
I had this particular discussion with my colleagues at the office yesterday some said something was added to the drink to make them act that way and the prime target was Ofunneka ! well i don't want to believe that Biggy could go that extra mile.

Five shots of Vodka is already too much for an experienced drinker talk less of a female.

It was just irresponsible drinking  coupled with the pent-up emotions in OFFU.

Like everyone has said, I hope this does not bring her down cause the fans of Tarty and the Roach
are playing this card like an ACE.

@SPORA

At the BB website, there are the faces of the Three remaining housemates very bold and clear with another large Text saying

" Vote for your winner"

They would have added those other faces if they were real contenders for the money.

And I think in BBNigeria, it was only one housemate that had left before Katung and the other Lady was brought in(am not too sure though)

Nice Try

@Lawyerchap

Yes Richard needs to be sent away even without an eviction vote.

BB should make an exception to the rule at this time.

Am not watching again but Offu caused the issue because she was following the two nasty people around(don't know if she has stopped). Even choosing to sleep in their bed when there was no scarcity of bedspace.

If she continues that, she will lose . People hate hypocretes.

You can't make believe that you are something else just to change over night under a little pressure.

People would rather give it to someone who had remained a certain way all through.

I hate Tarty Tart's conduct with The Roach and have been voting them all the time people had been voting others(untouchables).
but she may likely win it if Offu doesnt stop following them around in such an inexplicable way.

Maybe Offu is thinking that since they survived so many evictions, that they are crowd's favourites.
But even that shouldnt make her change into something else

Now peppi can see why I said the thinbs I said earlier.

Before that thing happened, something told me Offunneka was going to mess up and put a slap on our faces.

And I said it here.

Why did I have that feeling? Offunneka had been following Tarty Tart and Richard allover the place with her eyes.

Tarty seems to me like someone who wont mind sleeping with a female on tv and she noticed something in Offu and flirted with her putting her under her spell.

PPL, it would have been worse cause Offu would have slept with TARTY, a woman as time went on and so this will maybe poor some cold water on her.

Its a disaster. Yes she was drunk but why couldnt she stop drinking like maureen did?

She just exposed something she has been keeping down.

Now for those who will keep watching. Will Offu mind her own after this and stop following Tarty and Richard around?

I think not

sorry, u wont be seeing any porn flicks on hitv

@peppi

I don't know what is happening in the last hour or two since I dont want to know again but if you knew what was happening,

You would know that you should throw away the patriotism nonsense.

They are all a disgrace .

including offuneka

she has confirmed the fears I had about her.

My goodness!

It has happened!

Maureen wins BB and thats for sure now.

Rubbish

PPL will probably say am afraid for what OFFU might do in the house but its time to reflect and see if there is any worthwhile thing to Gain from this show BIG BROTHER.

It seems to be all about Lewdity *entertainment*.

Imagine a big brother getting everyone drunk every hour?

BB is a demented pervert.

We all know what alcohol can do.

This show is a shame and I cease to watch or follow it from now on.

Good luck all of you with viewin and those of you with kids, please protect your kids.

This is not good for their development

uche1:
Have been saying for days Ofu is under Tati spell. Something more, she has got a crush on tati, she follows her everywhere. I don't really know why, can someone plz tell me ooo?

You are Right and thats one of the reasons why Tarty must leave now.

Something tells me Ofunneka is about to mess up big time very.

God forbid but if she does, it will be a big slap on our faces.

Tarty seems to me like someone who can even tempt a female to do nasty things with her and from what am seeing with Ofunneka now, I am afraid for her. She keeps looking at her and seems to be envying Richiana

and yes, am expecting some slack from ppl for this my post.

Its the truth , Offu is about to lose it.