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friends, am in trouble. i need solutions urgently. am currently out of the country studying. the only contact i hav with nigeria in terms of getting money is my gtbank current account mastercard. my clients pay money into the account, i withdraw here with my card. but something happened this evening. i didnt know the card was inside my trouser pocket and i lied down with it. i just found out now that the card is has cracked. and the side that got cracked is the side that looks like SIM card.

i contacted gtbank and told them that i want my fiancee to come armed with answers to every security question including my 4 digit pin number, so that she wil collect a new card and send to me via dhl. but they said no that i must come in person. and i wont come to nigeria til october.

what wil i do? can someone help me wit solutions? am running mad here.

I think it's ok.
Let's keep learning.
Let's keep improving.
Let's keep working.
Let's keep earning.

@Dual Core, u ar really funny.

@Brandnew, why ar u adamant.

@Brandnew, u mean u who pays the professional web developers? Well those doctors and so on do this for fun and personal site. They just want to hav that fun and ego of having www.myname.com.

But when it comes to real business, my brother, they wil start looking for those that know the codes. I bet u, u cant use free template to design some serious, high profile jobs, it wil just be neck braeking. Instead of going through a hell of markups trying to figure out divs and other tags so that u can modify and add ur contents, it's better to do it urself.

The bane of nigeria is that 95% of schools that claim to teach web design and development end up teaching their students half-baked html/css and finally give them links of websites where they can download free templates. These students end up filling nigerian web space with garbage.

Friend, templates and copy and paste wil never help us. It's better to be a coder. U can even reach a level u can start selling templates, even cheaper than themeforest.net and make some dollars.

Well, using free templates is not bad if that's ur way of being a web developer. Bt someone somewhere wil stil use that same template. Even if u use premium templates of $10 from www.themeforest.net, someone somewhere wil stil use it. But if u want the one only u wil use, then u hav to part with $500, which is not less than 75,000 Naira. If u buy that one, how much wil ur client pay u?

Hand coding from the scratch is preached all over the world. Why? It gives u control to bring out ur inspiration. Templates hav a way of stereotyping one. U may nt be able to change the coder's style or u see urself spending hours trying to tidy a css file u hav tried to manipulate.

Templates are not for web developers. They ar for professionals like doctors, lawyers, bloggers, etc who can read small html/css tutorials and being able to edit the templates for blogs, 'just for fun' and wedding sites.

1. Yes. u can get ur domain name down even when the site is not yet ready. This is adviceable becos millions of people are registering domain names every day. i hav tried to register of tens of domain names, but all of them were nt available. Especially if u want a .com name. u can actually hav a domain name for 10yrs witout a website running in it. Although this is squatting.

2. Domain name registration is like buying a SIM card. Hosting is like buying a RECHARGE card. As recharge card works, u will keep paying for hosting every yr or every two yrs. but unlike buying a sim card which is a one time payment, domain name has to be paid for every yr or two yrs.

Some wil give u free domain name for the first one yr as far as u wil host wit them. but if u want only domain name, u will get about $10-$14 per yr. hosting is about $4 per month that is $48 per year. At the point of checking out, they wil automatically check some other services, which if u accept may skyrocket ur payment to hundreds of dollars. as a beginner, u may hav to stick to hosting cost only for now.

3. u can learn js, php and mysql at: www.w3schools.org and tutorialspoint.com

Good luck.

To get a full perfect background image that will cover the whole body, do this.

body {background:url(bg.jpg) no-repeat;
background-size: cover;}

But since 'background-size' is css3, u hav to debug it. So,
-moz-background-size:cover;
-webkit-background-size:cover;
background-size:cover;

When u are styling with @media queries, do this:

body {background:url(bg.jpg) no-repeat center center;
-moz-background-size:100%;
-webkit-background-size:100%;
background-size:100%;}

Make sure that u convert all ur pixels to percentage in @media query. change padding, margins and widths from px to %. Set heights to auto. Change ur font-size from px to em.

Go somewhere in ur css and do this:
img {max-width:100%;}
This will make ur images to render at whatever size they want, as long as they ar narrower than their containing element. But if they happen to be wider than their container, then the 'max-width:100%;' directive forces the images' widths to match the width of their container.

Are u sure?

Learn web designing in 6 hours? It's either u ar joking or u ar a fraudster.

Pls do. I cant imagine myself having another link in the footer of a website i did. the footer should contain the copyright of the owner and the anchored name of the designer.

If u hav not mastered html/css enough to hand code from the scratch, there are a whole lots of free templates out there that u can remove the links in the footer. But remember the owners wil always warn u not to remove it. Although no one has been caught for all these while, but i think it has legal implication using a free template and removing the owner's link.

Another reason why i wil never use a free template is becos someone somewhere can use it. In fact there is possibility that upto 10 persons in the world may be using it if the design is really nice.

As for designing ur layout in psd, i can do that for u. i wil give u an awesome design. i wil design 5 pages for u. Then u mark them up in html and style accordingly in css. It wil cost u 30,000 Naira only.

^What do u mean by important characters in css? Can u be more specific? Becos every thing in css seems to be important.

how?

erad: like seriously?

Meaning?

[quote
author=adewasco2k]Really thank you guys, you guys a re family! About
the = and : that was a mistake on my part here...I wouldn't actually do
that...I just practice using the tricka about and they seems to work
perfectly, after a couple of practice, I was able to understand how it
works..you you guys wouldn't mind again *wink* I would like to
understand positioning (relative, absolute and fixed) though I know
fixed well...but still struggling with relative and absolute. Thanks
Guys[/quote]Positioning can really be confusing to every beginner. Relative positioning simply takes its position from the parent container. But absolute positioning takes its position from your browser window. For instance, if you position something absolutely and do ctl -, u wil discover that the thing wil just jump out of the page and position itself at the edge of ur browser window.

So if u must use absolute positioning, then u must position the parent of that thing to relative.

With positioning, u can use-
top:2px;
bottom:2px;
or
right:2px;
left:2px;

U can use positioning to position your div, image or anything to any place in your web page.

Stop adding the height. Specify only the width. Then the div will continue to expand its height automatically as you add things inside it.

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just simple.

In 3weeks?
Why is it that most Nigerians are always in a hurry to make money?
Why not have patience and hone your skill, then you step out with confidence to offer solid training to people.
The bane of most Nigerian youths is that if one learned half-baked html and css, he will quickly start finding a way to train people and get some money.
I still wonder how one can learn solid html, css, javascript and php under 3weeks.
If you will be teaching only html and css, what happens when your graduates get websites that demand a contact form which when the user clicks the send button, the data will be sent to an email or a database?

The problem is that most people like this end up teaching people how to download free website templates and modify.

Check: 50kobo.com or aratext.com

Is this a business card or a billboard?

There are no shortcuts. You have to go back to the css file and recode it. Turning the px to % for widths, paddings and margins. Then turn the px to em for font-sizes. Then go at the bottom of you css file and markup your @media queries.

What then is the use of having an online presence when searching is not working?

Again, why not code the website from the scratch yourself and avoid having that funny link at the footer?

If it's just one website, it's better and more convenient to get ur domain name and hosting from one company.

But if u hav upto 4 websites, u can use two companies.

The best companies so far are: www.godaddy.com, www.siteground.com and www.domain.com

[quote author=yawa-ti-de]@mrsmithkay
Even your body is a template so I don't personally see anything wrong in using one. Perhaps the terms of agreement for the template says OP can't take out the notification? I've dealt with such templates before. Depending on the client a template, paid or free, can come in handy, depending on client's budget, what they want to accomplish and time constraints as well as the knowledgebase of both the client and the developer.

The important thing is that the client is happy with the work and that the developer not only take a template as-is but at least attempt to make certain changes to it, not only as a test of understanding but for the future as well.[/quote]Yaah. I got your point, but pls try html/css hand-coding most times. It gives you control of your work.

Why is the header and logo linked to your index file?
I don't think it's proper.
Make only the logo a link.

Have you learned how to style what is called 'mega drop down menu'?
A kind of drop down menu that has up to 5 columns with images in the columns.
Have you mastered Responsive design or fluid design?
Have you gotten a grip on positioning, z-index and stuff like which confuse lots of css students.?

[quote
author=Salmoneus]@GraphicsPlus
We know you are webinar (same ip address and everything) the more you
deny the sillier you look, just apologize for stealing peoples work and
maybe all can be forgiven.[/quote]Ur reply is even silly already.

[quote
author=Salmoneus]@GraphicsPlus
We know you are webinar (same ip address and everything) the more you
deny the sillier you look, just apologize for stealing peoples work and
maybe all can be forgiven.[/quote]U ar not serious. Are u?

ozaro: dude...u'r not even making sense.

It's u that is making sense becos u ar his lame disciple.