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[size=16pt]Don't be in a haste to market yourself when you know your website is not yet ready.
This can cause more harm to your business than good.
How can you be looking for business when your website is half-baked?
Only your home page and about us page are working.
Others are 404 pages.

Again, there is no point creating meaningless nested lists.
Like in Web Design Link, when a user hovers on it, a drop down menu appears, this is good.
But adding 'Pricing Table' as a nested list to the drop down menu is uncalled for.
You should remove # from the links of the menu and when one clicks on any, it should take the user to a page that will provide more information about the service and the prices.

Again, I believe your website is a free framework you edited.
Again, why are you making unnecessary dubious claims, like: "We're not the only ones excited about Topserve Nigeria...
5,500 customers in 100 countries use Topserve Nigeria. Meet our customers."?
I can see you are just starting out, but you want to be known by all means.

Again, you need to work on SEO of your site.
Your company name is not even appearing on google.
I did a google search of your very name: TopServe, and i checked up to page 5 in google, yet your name is not found.
I did a google search on Topserve Nigeria, and I didn't find your name on the first page of 10 ranks. I saw it on page 2.

Get solid. Get prepared thoroughly. Than you will stand-out in this industry.

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Well, Mark Zukerberg was not born in 1985.
He was born on May 14, 1984.

[quote author=bosun.ng]Hello sir,

I tried what you said and the scripts you sent over.

You can view the website now and tell me if it works perfectly. www.numeris-ag.com

Thank you.[/quote]It's not yet responsive.
Download the attached file and see what I did.
You can just edit the anchors and add alt texts to the images, and you are good to go.
If you need further assistance, let us know.

There one or two things you need to know about image optimization.
Not every image should be saved as .png.

Take care.

If you really want to learn web designing and become a web designer, then you may have to stop looking for the easy way.
Here is my piece of advice:
1. Leave Dreamweaver and Wordpress alone at least for now.
2. Go to the Internet and download Notepad++ (it's free), it's a text editor.
3. Find an html/css book and read as you practice.
4. Go to http://www.htmldog.com and take their free tutorials of html/css beginner to advanced level.
5. Build your first website.
6. Go to http://www.html.net and learn more about html, css, javascript and php.
7. Practice, practice and practice.
8. Don't do drag and drop or copy and paste. Try to hand-code, so that it will enter you.
9. Join forums, and if you have problems ask on forums.
10. You don't need coreldraw for designing websites or doing exporting thing. Even if you design in photoshop and slice and save as images/html, photoshop will mark everything up with table. It has no power to code with css. Don't ever use table to design your websites.
11. If you have a little knowledge of photoshop (for editing and optimizing images) and illustrator or coreldraw (for designing logos), then you are good to go.

If you have any other question, feel free to ask them.
Thank you.

If you want to be a web designer then you should start learning online immediately.
I guess the ebook Afam4ever gave you may not be enough for you.
Again, if what you did is what you got from the book, then I can conclude that the book is not a good web design book.
Your website didn't meet certain laid down basic standards of designing a website.

You can begin from any of these sites:
1. www.tizag.com
2. www.echoecho.com
3. www.htmlgoodies.com
4. www.htmlcodetutorial.com

Since you are not a web designer, and i think u dont intend becoming one tomorrow, just go to templatemo.com and download a template and edit.

Do u mean the Afam4ever that claims to be a web designer helped you?

Good marketing.
But your own website is not professional at all.
Not responsive at all.
The color scheme and and the nav hover background too amateur.
Your logo is unprofessional.
The shadow is too shouty.
We are just still very far.

1. There is this saying, that when one learns new thing, he will still try to use it at once. That is immaturity.
Having said that, there is no need applying text-shadow to your navigation text links.

2. Your contact form is validating, although it's not professional, it's using window.alert. It should quietly highlight the compulsory fields with red color. Again, when one fills the form, it's not sending. It shows 404 error page.

3. Again, your codes have some mistakes.
You did something like this:

<ul>
<a href=""><li>...</li></a>
</ul>

This is wrong. Although it will work, but it's not the standard.
The anchor link should be the child of list, not the other way round.
The correct way should be:

<ul>
<li><a href="">...</a></li>
</ul>

4. Your images are not sharp enough.
You can take your own pictures or use photoshop or illustrator to design custom ones.
It's not always good downloading images from here and there online.

5. Color scheme. Since red is the dominant color in the website, your headings should have been in red color.

6. Logo. I think it's good to anchor your logo to your index page.

U want me to talk to u, i will not.

Again, u will need to add this:<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0">
to your html head.

[quote author=bosun.ng]I don't understand sir...[/quote]In order to make the website to fit perfectly in every screen resolution, you have to use @media query to do that.
I just did something, which u can look at. Your website currently has 5 rows, so i just developed a 5 row website for with @media query.
You can just add ur contents inside each container.
Even if you re-size ur browser window to the smallest resolution, horizontal scroll bar will never appear.
If you use a phone with just 240px screen to views it, it will appear perfectly without scrolling left and right.
It appears perfectly on iphone and ipad.

Download the attached file, unzip and look at the css @media query codes. u can play around with it.

Take care.

Look at how stupid some nigerians can be. So u ar just starting out and u hav the gut to criticize photo manipulation, which u no nothing about. Well, i dont blame u. I shouldnt hav bothered replying u.

If I got your question very well, you want a situation whereby if you open your website on ipad, iphone and other devices with small screen resolution, it wil display perfectly without having a horizontal scroll bar.

If this is what you want, you can either use javascript to achieve it or you use css3 @media query.
the later is better, because javascript may be disabled in some devices.

To achieve this, you have to markup @media query at the bottom of your stylesheet document.

You will do this for:
iPhone: 320px down.
Ipad: 480px (portrait).
Ipad: 740px (landscape).
Desktop and laptop with small screen: 740px-959px.
Then you do for 960px to 1200px for normal screens.
Then 1201px to 1800px for larger screens.

You can google about css @media query and read how to achieve this.

Good luck.

Custom icons for your web design projects.
Custom PSD templates.
Professional Logos.
Custom Tags.

Contact form not validated.
Thank you page, very funny.

Don't tell me you are a scammer.
Are you?

'boldchat' is the leader.

be inspired

BE INSPIRED

be inspired

let's make it 2k.

I don't claim to be the only professional web developer in Nigeria.
Web developers dont use free templates to design works.
Again, web developers dont use free templates to design works.
Just get it.

It is not a pointless error.
It's ok to use it like that.
But professionally, it's wrong.
Ask another person.

Again, if you want a car, you can go buy one off the shelf.
If you want to race it, you will have to make some modifications to the engine.
If you want a rocket, you will have to build it yourself from scratch.
Rocket is never sold.

I didn't say one should not use templates to design business websites.
I said let it not be free ones or the 10 Dollars premium ones at themeforest.
It should be the premium ones of 500 USD each.
Now if he cant afford to be giving themeforest 500 usd for every template, then hand-coding becomes the saviour.

Again i said, he should not address himself as a web developer, but as a web editor.

Talking about WP.
WordPress runs on PHP.
PHP is used by 77.9% of all the websites whose server-side programming language is known.
WordPress is used by 16.6% of all the websites in the world.
If you have a look at the top three CMSes, for the websites that use a monitored content management system:
Wordpress is first with 54.3%,
Joomla is second with 9.2%,
and Drupal is third with 6.8%.
These three products written in PHP.

Been able to edit contents of a website doesn't make you a web developer.
You just need a basic knowledge of html/css to do that.
Doing a drag and drop thing with dreamweaver will also not make you a web developer.

Lots of errors.
1. Your logo anchor is not correct. You set it as: www.citasz.com. It supposed to be http://www.www.citasz.com. If you click on the one you set, it will take you to listmasta.com, probably ur host and then will show a 404 error page. This anchor link mistake is on contact and about us pages.

2. Your page anchors are not professional. You just did this: <li><a href="index.php">Home</a></li>. It supposed to be <li><a href="http://www.citasz.com/index.php">Home</a></li>

3. Who is Tab Technologies? If he doesn't have website already, it is insulting to your visitors to have a link on your footer that leads to no where.

4. You committed a webdesign sin in your thank you message. I filled the form and sent and got a thank you message in a red color. Change the color to green. Or to the dominant color of ur site, which is orange.

5. Your image reference is not professional. It's: <img src="images/logo.png" alt="China International Travel Agencies"/>. It supposed to be: <img src="http://www.citasz.com/images/logo.png" alt="China International Travel Agencies"/></a>

6. Your stylesheet reference is not professional. It's: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/sliderman.css" />. It supposed to be: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.citasz.com/css/sliderman.css" />

@Mrkels, pls u can go on and be purchasing premium templates from themeforest.net, and let's see how far u will go. Themeforest sells a template for 10 USD, 1600 Naira u may say, but they wil stil sell that same template to several people. If u want them to sell only to u, then u wil hav to pay them 500 USD per template. Ok, keep spending 80k to get a premium template from themeforest, and let's see if you wil succeed. Themeforest is NOT for webmasters. It's for individuals who are not webmasters, but can do a basic template editing and add plugins. If u know ur game, I hope u know that themeforest wil be pursuing u to design templates for them, and they wil be paying u royalty. Search the net, and see webmasters doing awesome designs and even teaching through their blog how to achieve some cool and tricky designs. I can tell u authoritatively that there is a particular design u may want to achieve one day, but u can never find a free or premium template matching it.