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Yes. This is great. The name is just classic and a brand already.
This is not naming a social network 'LagBook' in order to sound like facebook.

Google doesnt bring visitors to a website.

What do u mean that Google can be frustrating and disappointing in this area? Do u know how google search engine work? Do think if u type in anything in google, u must see a desired result? Google search engine is not a magician. Search engines give information based on what webmasters and seo experts have optimized in their websites.

Anyway, if u want images that doesnt have watermarks, u hav to keep searching. But if u ar a little bit good wit photoshop, u can stil perfectly remove the shutterstock watermark on any photo.

You may have to know that there is a universal way of pronouncing z. Zee.
There are universal basics of html.

Compare these.

It looks bulky. Fashion logo should look simple and elegant.

I dont get u. Pls for your information, it's wrong to use templates for your web design. You said one should not use popular templates so that he will not run into problem of seeing another person using same template. Quite funny. The point is that if the template is not popular, then it's not creative and elegant. People should by all means avoid using free templates or low cost templates for their business website. Find a webmaster that can create a customized site for u. Customized in the sense that u cant be having a sleepless nite again thinking that someone will use the same template somewhere.

If you must buy a template, then you will have to go for the premium ones that sell between 500 USD and 1,500 USD. If you have money to spend, go for that one becos once they sell it to u, they remove it permanently from their shop. But if you buy the one of 10 USD, they will still sell it to another person to another person to another person and the loop continues. Check: www.themeforest.net.

To avoid this, you either learn how to craft a website or u pay someone to craft a custom site for u. Using templates doesnt save any time and effort. If you are a webmaster, designing a normal company or blog website will not take you more than a week.

Thank u.

Even if u are just knowing about image tag today, the issue remains that there are html basics every webmaster must know. I dont claim to know everything. But I know I know the basics of html. That is the first thing u learn in html. Every child that attended nursery school can read the alphabet. The point is that if the child grows, attended university and graduated and now working. Then all of a sudden, he start telling us that he just learned the alphabet today. Everybody will turn and look at him twice.

For instance, any webmaster that knows about css border knows that its not only solid that border has. Dashed, dotted and so on are there, but not usually used. It's not because webmasters dont know about them, but becos solid has been widely preferred.

It's like telling us that u have coded with php for 20 years and you are hearing about 'print' function today. Somebody close to u may want to knock ur head.

Let us debate till eternity, the point remains that the OP's post is irrelevant. Justify align is NOT the most powerful and it DOES NOT make a paragraph look professional.

Two things, one is involved. If u learned html by urself or u were taught by an incompetent html tutor, then it's true u didnt know about justify. Justify, left, right and center align ar taught when a tutor start teaching about p tag. It's like telling me that u only know about a:link, that u dont know or hav heard about :hover. Funny. If u ar knowing about justify today and u hav been coding, then u really missed some html fundamentals. U will need to go back to the drawing board. If OP was talking about one of the html5 elements, i will agree, but to tell me we should start jumping up becos one newbie lectured us about the most powerful (according him) p align property. What makes justify most powerful. Just go to blogs, websites and investigate the one widely used. People dont use left align becos they dont know about the other three. They know, but they deliberately use left align becos is generally accepted and it's more professional. Using justify causes tracking problem even in some cases where u hav large text in a small container.

bakenda: The "align" attribute is no longer used in HTML5.

It's still used. It's just text-align: center used for centering other elements that they removed.

pisolution: Everything is not free in life. I know people like you love free things and that's why you are saying that.

Good. That means u are not charging for the ebooks for browsing. U are hustling.

My mind may be too small to comprehend it, but it's big enough to know that u dont need to read 35 ebooks to learn hacking.

Charging for browsing? Ok.
You teach for free at Abeokuta. Why didnt you charge them for your bike money?

The issue my brother is that most webmasters in Nigeria dont want to be tough on themselves. Nobody is ready to bend down and code. Everybody is waiting for one framework or another. Most webmasters just keep downloading web templates from templatemo.com and modify for their clients and collect their money. Nobody is ready to have a web template online shop where newbies and unprofessional professional webmaster can download free templates or buy premium templates. Everybody is putting jquery slide in his website, but nobody wants to write his own custom jquery slide effects and even sell them. Everybody is copying and pasting javascript and php form validation codes, but nobody is ready to learn why those codes are doing what they are doing. We must step up our game. We must start designing beautiful, industry standard, creative and responsive websites. We must innovate and lead Africa.

annahussy: I suggest you to use w3school that the best tutorial to learn programming language.

Pls dont say this loud. I hope u know that w3school and w3c are nor the same.
For your information, w3school is not competent in handling the courses they claim to teach and their certification exams are not recognized. For more information, check this out: http://w3fools.com/

35 ebooks for one subject called 'Hacking'.
This is serious.
If the ebooks are comprehensive, why 35 ebooks?
I can give you a website where you can legitimately download free ebooks on any programming course.
People like u start selling these ebooks after downloading them free.
Even if you bought yours, did the authors gave you the right to sell these ebooks?

This thread should be closed.
Are we trying to make ridicule of Seun?
Have u ever seen where a facebook user will update his status asking his friends to suggest innovative features for Mark?
Seun has his team of leaders and I believe they do have brainstorming sessions.
Again, several things have been suggested by some NL users, but the suggestions were brushed aside.

What you can do is to suggest how a particular section on NL can be more lively like BrandNew has already posted a thread like that on this webmasters section. If Seun needs our input on improving NL generally, I believe he knows how to go about it.

I know u can use <p align="justify"></p> in ur html. But since the advent of css, it is no longer required.
What if u have 100 paragraphs?

Justify doesnt make paragraph look professional.
It only makes it align equally on both sides.

@Yawatide, I bet you, there are things every web designer must know.
And all text-align properties are among them.
It's like asking me whether I know about positioning and box-model.

I dont believe you never heard about justify.
You said you encountered the problem some years back and solved it, but u cant remember how u solved it.
Pls there is no other way in web design and development to align text equally on both sides without using text-align: justify.

@Yawatide, there is no other way to make a paragraph justify both in html and css.
I wonder why you didnt know about justify for the past 14 years.
Does that mean u never typed anything in MS Word, cdr, psd, ai or indd?
If u hav typed, i believe you must have used justify at one point.
If u have used it, I want to believe that for the last 14 years, u must have wondered how to achieve the same on the web.
And if u have wondered, u must have known about justify before now.
But if u didnt know before now, and the OP has educated you. Then, u ar lucky to have learned new thing today.

My point is that text-align:justify is not the professional way of aligning paragraph according to OP.
If someone want to post a tutorial-like stuff, he should do justice to it. And not writing as if justify is another big thing in web design.

Text alignment is not taught in html. It's in css. We dont do styling with html. Any webmaster or graphics designer that do book layout that does not know about justify should be examined. That u just knew about it yesterday does not mean it's worth sharing. U claimed that justify is the professional way of aligning text. Go and tell that to elementary school pupils. Justify is mostly used by baby webmaster who enjoy seeing a clean left and right edge of a paragraph. They thought that the jagged one edge of left align makes it unprofessional. Pls stop styling ur paragraph like this. <p align ="justify">paragraph</p>. Html is not used for styling.

You should go with the one that suits you. All of them have basically the same features. However, if you want to use a framework been used right now by developers, then you must go for Laravel.

It's not appropriate to review an edited free template.
But anyway, you can change the text color.
There is a rule: light color on dark bg.
Solid color on light bg.

Thank u.

Do you just want visitors to visit your site or you just want to teach what you know nothing about?
Who taught you that justify is the professional text-alignment style?
For your information, left align is the professional way to align your text.
Have you ever heard about text tracking and text-align: justify problem?
When you dont have enough text in some cases and you apply justify, you will force the text to add extra word spacing in order to fill every available gap horizontally and thereby making the text to look unprofessional.
Left align is always preferred by professional authors and webmasters.

Thank u.

greenmouse: very busy, will return when am less busy.



You know your talk, you are only promoting me here sincerely speaking @graphicplus, u can't run me down....

I am not running you down. I don't even know you and we are not competitors. I am not even in Lagos. I have never bid any job with you. I just gave you a simple criticism. Sorry if my review sounded as if i was out to run you down. Run you down for what? Are we struggling over anything?

AFOLSNETWORKS: @graphic plus, what did u say dat made ur post hidden?

I said you should first implement the reviews we have earlier suggested before asking for more.
I visited the website this morning and nothing has changed.

Talking about w3c validation, we must know that the validator is just a web application, which is not even up to date with modern web codes. For instance, facebook use such code as Open Graph Meta, and OAuth, which w3c validator doesn't validate at the moment. They are currently working on improving the validator to accommodate some modern code. Again w3c doesn't understand facebook sharing title: <meta property="og:title" content="Recording Service/>".

Guys, it is web development sin to just put a bunch of texts inside your html document without enclosing them in a <p> tag. That's still dwelling on the elementary part of web development. Every web page must have one <h1> tag for SEO purposes, then other headings can have multiple <h2> tag. For instance, if you have three headings that you want to give the same size of font, just give one a <h1> tag and put the other two inside <h2> tag, then use css to make their font-size to be same.

I know GreenMouse is trying, but he needs to try more. All of us are learning every day. Do you know that sometimes, I will just go to SitePoint and StackOveflow forums and just be reading comments on website reviews? I have learned a lot from those comments both mild and harsh ones.

To even design a website without declaring a document type, modern browsers will not have problem with that. As in just starting your html document like this:
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
The website will still run and will still be beautiful as you designed it, but it's a bad practice.

Let's get this, every paragraph MUST be between <p> tag. Every heading MUST be between <h1> to <h6> tag. Do u know u can achieve a list in html by doing this:?
First List<br/>
Second List<br/>
Third List<br/>
Fourth List<br/>
Fifth List<br/>

OR

1. &nbsp;&nbsp;First List<br/>
2. &nbsp;&nbsp;Second List<br/>
3. &nbsp;&nbsp;Third List<br/>
4. &nbsp;&nbsp;Fourth List<br/>
5. &nbsp;&nbsp;Fifth List<br/>

You can, but it's wrong. You MUST use <ul><ol><li> tag. These are stages I believe we should have passed. We should be taking about designing beautiful and RESPONSIVE websites right now. Most of our websites are not even responsive.

Ok. So u deliberately chose to not to use p and h1 tags? I can see.

so reviewing a website is now a crime on nl? even greenmouse said he wil not 'talk bad to me' until he sees my website. so i did a bad thing by reviewing a website he requested us to review? does he expect me to just pat him on the back? this is immaturity.

guys, just wait patiently until the day i wil ask for a website review. no amount of pressure wil make me show u any website now. i wil do that at my own time. just relax. i cant be cajoled.

greenmouse: my fresh Job Part 2

www.hybrid-hse.com

Well, you tried, but I know u know that the css doesn't belong to u. Adobe spry. It's ok.

The links are jerking when hovered. Unless it's part of the style. If it's not part of the style, then add a hidden border-top to the link, so that when hovered, the border-top on hover will be smooth. You may also add a css3 transition.

Again, the drop down menu of Services is delaying even when mouse is not on it. You have to make it such a way that it will wrap up immediately upon mouseout.

Again, when the Services drop down menu drops, and you hover on the first item on the list, you will still see the dark gray background color. Find a way to make it in such a way that the orange color will cover it so that it will blend with the background orange color of the nav bar.

The nav links should come down and logo and login inputs should move up.

Try to power your gallery with jquery lightbox.

Thank u.

You tried.
Why not bring the logo up and nav links down?

Your nav links codes look somehow unprofessional.
There is no need putting a <div> and an <ul> inside an <a href>.
Just do like this:


<ul>
<li><a class="...">Home</a></li>
<li><a class="...">Home</a></li>
<li><a class="...">Home</a></li>
</ul>


Instead of using lots <p> tag to break the address info, why not simply use <br/>?

Your images have no alt descriptions.

The color of 'OUR EXPERTISE' list of links on the homepage is dull. Again you applied transition effect on the a:link, but not also on the a:hover. Apply in both so that the transition will be more smooth.

You should advise them to redesign their logo. Law Firms are known for their classical logos.

Thank u.