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@Funky medina, if web design is no longer a big deal, what profession is a big deal? Is it medicine?

I can only tell u that web design and development is more than what u think. It's more than doing drag and drop or copy and paste thing.

Go on and be charging 10k, nobody cares. But for u to say that others should trivialize web design is not reasonable and should not be accepted.

I hope u know any person can take some free video tutorials online on 3d animation, so that animator will stop charging huge amount.

Let every businessman learn photoshop and illustrator so they can create their own logos and stop paying hundreds of dollars for logo design and branding.

When u grow up, u will understand.

I dont have problem using frameworks. In fact, it is good to use it when deadline is knocking on ur door. BUT I can't charge anyhow as u ar campaigning just because I used framework. Let every businessman in Nigeria learn how to use wordpress themes, I cannot develop a website for a peanut simply because it wil bring in other peanuts. If 10k is good for u, no issues. The last website (just static) I did was 60k. I can't go below that. 10k for 1yr domain name and hosting, 50k for myself.

As for u, there are chances that u wil get 10 clients a month multiplied by 10k, that's 100k for u.

But there are also chances for me to get 5 clients in a month multiplied by 60k, that's 300k for me.

Good luck.

@Webmonkey, the 10,000 naira i cited was for an example. i wanted to point out that what matters isnt the time spent to do a work, but the knowledge and skill involved.

@OP, using frameworks will never help any serious web developer. If u ar okay with editing and modifying templates, good for u. But as for me, I want to know what's going on in the hood. That guy saw a theme he liked, but very expensive. Quite funny. And theme was developed by a certain guy, nt a spirit.

Guy, u ar fighting a battle u cannot win. I want to be able to develop a framework. i want to develop a website where people like u can download hundreds of wordpress themes for free and place some ads in the websites. I want also to develop some premium wordpress themes for some dollars.

I can use wordpress themes for some simple personal blogs. But when I want to do something serious wit features that are nt even on these frameworks, i have to use a language to get it done.

My framework is notepad++.

Quite long, but no single point was made. Is it the high price some webmasters charge that is worrying u or u want to challenge some small business owners to learn how to design some simple websites for their business?

A man finished working for a client. he charged him 10,000 naira. The client shouted, 'this thing that took u 20 minutes!' The workman replied, no. The time i spent costs 500 naira. But knowing how to solve the problem costs 9,500 naira.

Dude, NL is not the best place to start ur relovution and campaign. Go and buy airtime on NTA, or buy a page on Vanguard or start a training center that wil train people on how to design websites on their own or tell them never to pay more than 10k to web developers.

Good luck.

You may need to clear your browser cache.

Or design something, maybe lorem ipsum kind of design and upload, then check again. Make sure to delete the default.html as u were told.

When u ar serious we wil know. It is only babies like u that wil hail and like this unprofessional post. I hope u know, wix.com is also making big money out of ur copy and paste lifestyle.

There is no serious business person that wil go to wix and edit a certain template for his business website.

Do u know that people pay millions for a logo design? Ok, tell them to stop paying and go to certain free logo creator framework and get their logos free.

I can tell u that most web developers out there don't use frameworks or templates. By the way, who developed such frameworks like cake php? It was people that know the code, not wix customers.

If u download a template from wix, what happens when u want to redesign ur website maybe to mark an anniversary, and u want a particular style, color and feel in the website, what wil u do? U wil start searching all the free templates to see the one that fits what u want? Or u hire a professional web developer to give u a customized design? The choice is urs.

^^ U ar right. but i went on to show those unicode icons becos the Poster wanted to know how those icons were achieved since they ar nt images. he was nt particularly asking about floating. so i tried to show him how to get some icons that ar nt images.

I dont know what you mean by reliable domain name. Just choose a name, probably your company name, then go to:
http://www.namecheap.com and register and maybe host it.

Thank u.

[quote author=dansmog++]thank you, google is not always my friend, please what site is better for css intermidiate tutorial[/quote]tizag.com
w3schools.com

Ok?

nairawall: What you just listed are special characters or symbols. They are not images.

The images on the layout the OP posted are not HTML special characters or symbols. It is very obvious they are not images.

If really the images you listed below are part of the CSS definition, I wouldn't mind learning about the attributes that generated them. Just listing some images and claiming they were generated in CSS is not enough.

Guy, you are really an amateur, but since you begged me to teach, let me teach you.
I knew you will think these icons are webdings typeface.
No. They are pure CSS.

Just copy these codes, save as .html and run in your browser.
Thank me later.


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
.container{float:left; display:inline; width:1200px; border:1px solid #00B88A; color:#00B88A;
margin-top:100px; font-size:60px;}

.add:before { content: "\271A"; float:left; margin:20px;}
.edit:before { content: "\270E"; float:left;margin:20px;}
.delete:before { content: "\2718"; float:left;margin:20px;}
.save:before { content: "\2714"; float:left;margin:20px;}
.email:before { content: "\2709"; float:left;margin:20px;}
.cross:before { content: "\2716"; float:left;margin:20px;}
like:before { content: "\2764"; float:left;margin:20px;}
.star:before { content: "\2605"; float:left;margin:20px;}
.spark:before { content: "\2737"; float:left;margin:20px;}
.play:before { content: "\25B6"; float:left;margin:20px;}
.skull:before { content: "\2620"; float:left;margin:20px;}
.blacksun:before { content: "\2600"; float:left;margin:20px;}
.cloud:before { content: "\2601"; float:left; margin:20px;}
.umbrella:before { content: "\2602"; float:left;margin:20px;}
.peace:before { content: "\262E"; float:left;margin:20px;}
.yingyang:before { content: "\262F"; float:left;margin:20px;}
.frowning_face:before { content: "\2639"; float:left;margin:20px;}
.smiling_face:before { content: "\263A"; float:left;margin:20px;}
.first_quarter_moon:before { content: "\263D"; float:left;margin:20px;}
.last_quarter_moon:before { content: "\263E"; float:left;margin:20px;}
.recycle:before { content: "\267D"; float:left;margin:20px;}


</style>
</head>

<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="add">
</div>
<div class="edit">
</div>
<div class="delete">
</div>
<div class="save">
</div>
<div class="email">
</div>
<div class="cross">
</div>
<div class="like">
</div>
<div class="star">
</div>
<div class="spark">
</div>
<div class="play">
</div>
<div class="skull">
</div>
<div class="peace">
</div>
<div class="blacksun">
</div>
<div class="cloud">
</div>
<div class="umbrella">
</div>
<div class="recycle">
</div>
<div class="last_quater_moon">
</div>
<div class="first_quater_moon">
</div>
<div class="frowning">
</div>
<div class="yingyang">
</div>

</div>
</body>
</html>

nairawall: You are really funny!!!

Guess you are new to CSS and HTML, if not can you please tell which HTML Tag or CSS attribute create light bulbs and others.

The interface is quite simple and straightforward.

Do you want the CSS written here?

Dude, you just exposed your ignorance and arrogance and they are quite smelling awfully.
I don't boast, but I can tell you that I have cut my teeth in HTML/HTML5-CSS/CSS3.

Now take a look at these icons.
None of them are images.

Thank you.

[quote author=yawa-ti-de]With HTML and CSS. There are 1001 ways to skin this cat. This is how I would do it:
1) 4 DIVs, each with a reusable CLASS attribute, floated left, with some left, right and bottom padding to boot
2) Each DIV gets another CLASS attribute named after the image to the left, which I would make a background image
3) H1 tag for the headers
4) P tag for the paragraphs

An easier way to figure out how the page was coded: View source

Good luck![/quote]2) Those icons are not images.

They are bunch of CSS3 "button icons without images".
There are codes responsible for those icons.
For instance, the bulb icon was generated with this:
.divclass::before {
content: '\2600';
{

Then the font-size was increased, and displayed as inline-block.
It's quite fun.

It's quite simple.
You can go through this: http://www.techydoor.com/how-to-add-custom-domain-to-blogger-com/

Take care.

It's not possible.

Website, quite very funny.

A lot of things have to be in place before installing the automatic mobile detection script.

Do these:
You have to redesign your website entirely.
Optimize your logo and don't make it to be more than 2kb.
Get rid of any flash or javascript in the mobile site.
Your css address should be like this: <link rel="stylesheet" href="handheld.css" type="text/css" media="handheld"/>
Use fluid layouts. Don't use pixels, use percentage or em. Instead of width:400px; use: width:100%; or width:1.0ems;
Then create a sub-domain of www.m.xyz.com

Thank you.

Is it this you want to achieve?

How?

design

designs

LIKE:
Pls what's the difference between 'like' and 'comment'? There is no single difference. Or is there? The former is just visual and the latter is audio. I have seen '@OP, thank u for this thread' comment on some meaningless threads. Cant one seek for the so called favour and friendship by commenting nicely on threads? What's the difference between hitting a 'like' button and writing 'i like ur thread' in the comment box?

Ur reason for not showing the person who likes who is absolute unreasonable. Believe me.

@Seun, believe me your two replies are not in any way satisfactory. You merely played on words.

LINK:
If one has to add an extra effort to open an advert in a new tab, it simply means that the one the person does without extra effort is more preferred. So if i want to open an advert in the same window, i wil just click but when i want it to open in another window i hav to either right click or hold ctl+shift before clicking. Now think about it.

If really u want to giv users choice, then u hav to cook up a jquery script that when a user clicks on any advert, a small box wil pop up asking the user to choose where and how he wants the advert to be opened. Simple.

Going by international standard and best practices, an external link should hav '_blank' as its target.

I discovered that when one clicks on a website url in any thread, the website will not jump out to open in another tab, it will rather force one to leave nairaland by opening in the parent window. This may not be good for nairaland.

Again, when you click on any of the advert banner, the same thing will happen. This is not a good way to set an external link in one's web page.
Take facebook for example, whenever you post a new status update, even if you added a website url, when a user clicks on it, it opens in another tab. The same thing applies to their adverts. Why? Facebook never want you to leave facebook.

I am aware Seun know what to do to make every url and advert link to be opening in a new tab.


Again, there is no point blocking one from posting an image as a thread without adding any text.
One mustn't write all the time.
I have tried posting an image as a thread, but I was blocked by some script telling me that body message is empty, and so the thread didn't scale through.

Again, one should be able to know who likes his comments. If one can't see who likes him, then the purpose of the 'like' is defeated.

Again, Nairaland should be refreshing automatically. For instance, when one post a thread and the person is still online and nairaland is still running, the person should get instant notification when someone comments on the thread. But in Nairaland, you have to refresh the page to see that 'yellow, new' notification.

Again, one should have power to permanently delete his thread and comments, but cannot delete other people's comments on his thread.

Layout

layout

Layouts

In action.

Check these two out, if you like any, let me know.

You should explore legal means to address this. Cant u drag afrisoft to court?

Ok. Understandable. But i hope u know amazon logo is simple but classisc. Did u see how that arrow neatly began at letter a and aligned very well under letter z? I wil use my spare time this weekend and design the logo for ur preview. Should I go ahead?