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@Yawa, it's like you were on leave when this story was very hot here.

https://www.nairaland.com/1262866/boy-14-launches-social-networking-website

What you called a mobile website is not in any way a mobile website. Mobile website is not making the width of a webpage wrapper to be smaller. Mobile website is a website that a user will not have to zoom or navigate horizontally to see webpage contents. Mobile website will just naturally take the width of any mobile device.

Here is my advice:
Make this: http://www.drlloyds.co.uk/m your main website and forget about the flash based one. Dont go and startb creating another webpages for a mobile devices. There are several mobile devices that people use to access the internet these days. Which one are you going to target in your mobile version? Here is the solution. Use css3 @media query to target different device screen width. The flash website will seriously have a negative impact on the traffic of that website. Open this website in desktop: http://www.starbucks.com. Do you see the mega menu? Now open it in your mobile phone. You will not have to zoom or navigate left and right. That's media query at work. One website targeting many devices.

Just layout your website with basic html and css and add necessary interactivity with js/jquery. I want you to work on: http://www.drlloyds.co.uk/m and make it your main website.

But why use flash at all? These days, flash is usually reserved for wedding and celebrities websites.
Most of the things flash can do (unless very complex animation), jquery can easily do them. And it's lighter.

I dont see a reason why this type of your website should be done with flash. What you have there are just collection of images (flash are images), which robots cannot crawl. It is sites that dont need seo to get traffic that are usually designed with flash. This is like an online clinic, and how will you expect a patient to be waiting for the flash to finish loading. Flash is heavy anytime. Unless you are using super-fast internet connection, which is not even available to 95% of your clients. Again, what if the user didnt have flash plugin installed?

Again, jQuery is a lot easier to maintain than Flash as Flash requires recompilation before changes can be published.

You cant register now. When am done, I will provide a default username and password for webmasters to help me test it and spot out possible bugs.

I didn't set either get or post. Both my action and method have '#'. Am working on the back-end now. Wil launch on 1st August.

Who is Senu?

@funky-medina, you can always do ctrl+u and see the html code. Then click on the style.css to grab the css code and play around with it.

Good job at yorme. Well done. I tried taking another approach.
Check: http://www.ctrlshiftstudios.com/fold

Thank you yorme. You are the winner.

I want someone who can code the effect in the image below.
It's like a folded card.
Who can do it with pure css?
Image is not required. Only css
If you can, let's give it a shot.

@[4:0] belongs to Mark Zukerberg.

@[1:0]
@[2:0]
@[3:0] are no longer available. They were used during testing period. So they belong to nobody. So Mark Zukerberg took number 4.

Why do you start from css then to html?

I have wanted a situation where I can chat with my family, close friends, clients and staff without using YM, facebook or any of the chatting app. So I decided to develop a customized one for myself. I will create it from scratch using html, css, javascript, ajax, php/mysql.

The first version will have just two features. Text chatting and an option to upload a picture into the chatting window. The website will be securely encrypted.

Basically, when you one is typing, the person at the other end will know. Again, one will be able to chat with more than one person. Each person will have his own chat window.

I will be launching it on 1st of August for webmasters here to help me test it and to spot out bugs.

Meanwhile, you can take a look at the home page: http://www.ctrlshiftstudios.com/chatroom

Keep eyes on this thread.

Nobody is been threatened. It's u that will be tired of doing 15k website. In fact for more publicity, I want u to place an advert on NL and national dailies telling people that u have come to bridge a gap by offering 15k website. Sure, u will get lots of interested clients. Goodluck.

Yawa.

greenmouse: @graphic plus, your design looks similar most times, try to change your design concept.

Ok sir.

I just finished this in photoshop now. Will code it next week. How do you see it? This will be the home page.

Good job. This is my first time of seeing a neat, beautiful and responsive Nigerian website. This is what we want.
But it seems your contact form is not working. I filled a dummy data and sent, the browser just reloaded and landed me at 'Our Team' section. Maybe, it has not started working because there supposed to be a thank you message. Again, when you will fix it, try using ajax to submit the form so that the page will not have to reload to submit the form since the website is a one page website.

Well done.

manifest: Website design will fade away in couple of years from now. Web development and programming will take over. The sooner we get the message the better!

What's the difference between web designing and web development and programming?

You may need to know that desktop and laptop are going. More and more people are now using mobile devices to access the internet. And you said that only serious clients are those that browse with desktop. Funny. I am not talking about creating m.yourwebsite.com and then use a script to detect when the user is using moblie phone. Nobody is doing that again because you will have to do it to every single mobile devices in the world that keep having varying width, which is impossible. Open this website in your desktop: http://www.starbucks.com and see the mega menu. Then open it with your phone and see how responsive it is, yet you will not be redirected to a mobile site. Or check this one am working on: http://www.ctrlshiftstudios.com/learn. Open it in any device, it will respond properly without having a horizontal scroll bar and you will not been redirected anywhere. CSS media queries help you serve one website to your clients using any device without redirecting them.

But like you said, RWD is a personal choice. But it has become one of the parameters of checking whether a website is professional. That is why, most premium WP templates are responsive.

This is better.

http://virginhood.omshostnet.com/

Check again: http://ctrlshiftstudios.com/learn/

I think it's responsive now.

adewasco2k: So funny the first thing i checked was the responsiveness and woooo surprisingly its not well done...guess you still working on it...i tried to reduce the with of my browser and some of the images were responsive while some were not so the designed got messed up.

As i have said, i know you still working on it

Yah. Still working on it. To make it responsive will not take me more than 30 minutes.

manifest: We can help you out - At N15,000 only. Visit our Project website and place an order.

The link you provided here showed image of desktop, tablet and phone devices, but your website as simple as it is, you cant even make it to be responsive. No wonder you charge 15,000 Naira for a professional website. What exactly do you mean by a professional website? A website designed by a certain free template?

I dont think so. The user didnt come to look at the logo. First, we want him to read the phrase at header image. Then scroll up to read the sentence on white color on a dark bg. Then when the navbar sticks, it will draw his attention and he will see 'Sign Up' standing out and begging to be clicked.

nollyj: Why is the featured banner above the logo? It think it will make more sense to leave the logo at the top then you can leave your navigation bar where users can easily spot it.

Did you check the site again? Scroll. The navbar will stick. At first before a user scroll, i think the header images will not distract him from seeing the logo and the three nav links at the right because the header image is not cluttered. Just one sentence. And you can see that 'Sign Up' is in bold which is meant to draw attention of new users.

This is the screenshot.

[quote author=yawa-ti-de]Did I miss something? All I see is a CSS-less version of the page (all text, no styles applied) [/quote]@Yawa, check again. I did some correction and re-uploaded. Maybe you just entered when the style.css was still uploading.
Funny.

nollyj: The reason 5 thumb-up icon does not have a smooth outline

Yes. I noticed it. I was hoping the icons will land on a white background, but later it turned out that the background will no longer be white. But I have changed it. I also changed the location of the nav bar and added small jquery effect to it.

Talking about #ff5000 been too shouty, check this website: http://www.plstudios.com/

What matters is how does the colors blend. Is there a color riot?

Every youth should read this. Thank you Prof. Soyinka.

Thank u. But the site is not over-colorful. In UI design, we have hot and cool colors. None of the two is bad. What I did here is just combining hot and cool colors. If u notice, I used only two colors. #ff5000 and #111111. I hardly use more than two colors in my works. My websites are similar? How? Well, most of my websites are based on minimalism and flat ui for now.

Stop making caricature of the web design industry in Nigeria. Pls.

It's not true in every situation. Check the three images in the url below and tell me the difference. The first is in png (488KB), the second is in jpg with 60% (48KB). The third is in jpg with 100% (191KB). So even at 100%, jpg is still lighter than png. Look, png is not meant for big and complex images unless the big images demand transparent background. Jpg is for complex and big images and photographs. If you save a tiny image in jpg, the quality will not be fine. That is where png comes in. Png saves small images, yet they will still look sharp. You save icons, logos, vectors, etc in png format.

http://www.ctrlshiftstudios.com/afols

Sorry, NL doesn't allow more than 200KB.

Pay attention to see the one that will open last.

A client wants to set up an online video web design tutorials. He asked me to do the website front end for him.
I just finished the homepage now. Check and tell me what you think.

http://www.ctrlshiftstudios.com/learn