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The truth is, every site is different. Granted what you have above should be the bare minimum, more pages could be added (for which this would make this post very boring) depending on what you want.

Perhaps you should stop here or revise your thread to read, "pages you need for a newspaper site" for instance.

Anyone who isn't taking advantage of outsourcing, especially if they don't have the necessary skill set, IMHO, needs to rethink their strategy. I for one am not good with graphics so why deceive myself? I just outsource that part and concentrate on the actual code. Of course, in setting my price, I have to take what I pay my designer into consideration, so I can transfer that cost to the client

In setting your price, don't forget that you need the referrals that can come from this. Granted I am not saying you do the project for free, you might want to set the price such that you don't scare them so that if someone else sees it and asks, and you do a good job, they refer you to the person. I assume we are talking government money here so as capitalistic as I am, they probably have a lot to spare.

good luck!

could be any or all of the following:

1) You bid an amount that is too low per keyword and in order to help you save money, google is publishing your ads such that they are fairly distributed during the day.

2) Again, based on #1 above, just because you aren't seeing it doesn't mean that someone else isn't

3) Maybe there is a verification process where they want to ensure that the ad is legit before posting

I say the above because you said, "I just registered". When is "just" with respect to when you registered and posted your question on here?

webdezzi,

I could be wrong but such code is obfuscated per se, to keep it compact. Keeping it compact helps reduce file size. In a browser, this will result in quicker download times. In other words, the original source is readable. Again, I could be wrong but I go by personal/my professional experience. If this isn't the case with Zend or whom/whatever, I still insist it is wrong. As one poster has rightly put it, you do unto others as you want others to do unto you. If you don't want to take over code that is crap, then you yourself shouldn't write crap. Period!

with respect to includes, includes are good, don't get me wrong. What is wrong is includes that are unnecessarily deep. In other words, it takes me (and I say this again, based on experience), opening 6 different files just to make one tiny change and if you do an independent audit of the code, there was no legit reason to have that many includes. It stinks to high heavens of an immature coder.

@poster

I moved this post to the recycling bin when I shouldn't have, for which I apologize. It was originally posted in the webmaster section and it looked like spam.

While I will endeavor to move such posts the appropriate board in the future, please endeavor to post in the appropriate section.

Once again, I apologize.

Do you mean adding a favicon to the address bar? If yes, this might be helpful:
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-228608.0.html

Always remember to do a search for past posts. we have pretty much covered everything under the sun

Yes webdezzi, I will hunt you down and kill not only your body but your soul. Job security has been replaced by readability and maintainability

Another example of good coding: Not using include files unnecessarily. I don't know about you guys, but I have worked in places where, just when you managed to find one file, you open it, only to find out that it in itself contains only one line of code - an include to another file adn that file includes another file and so on and so forth. I have seen such that has gone 6 levels deep

If you must, just include something once.

dissbuzz: no comments - I don't comment on forums

lisaweds:
1) Is it the pap I drank this morning or is "send your wishes" totally invisible (in FF)?

2) I think the photo gallery would be better served if you used some kind of visual effects.  Think lightbox for instance.  I mean, you have flash on the home page, so it's not like you can't to it

3) If I stumbled upon this site via google search and I know these guys, how do I contact them, assuming i won't be able to attend but would still like to give them my best wishes? By the way, I don't think where you have that information now "send your wishes" is self-explanatory to that effect not to mention my #1 above.

4) Right side of http://www.lisaweds.com/wedding.html is empty

5) I think the bios should be separate or if you insist on one page, provide intra-links at the top, and "back to top" links after each bio.

6) On http://www.lisaweds.com/wishes.html , the bottom nav is messed up, to put it  mildly.

7) Maybe a little music playing in the background wouldn't hurt

I say do what I do - google for wedding websites (or better yet, Nigerian wedding websites), go through 20 of those suckers, glean what you like and throw away what you don't.  It might take a while but hey, it is the price to pay for quality work and your clients will love you for it.

good luck!

ade2kay,

If as you have said it is complex, then you might as well write it in such a way that if you drop dead today, the guy to take over can understand it. Put it this way, if I wrote such code and left the company and you took over, would you like it? Therein lies your answer. Gone are the days of C-coding in the 70s when memory was of the essence. If you doubt me, try timing your MS Vista boot up.

logica,
I will beg to differ with you on this one. I wouldn't necessary call $cookieToHoldLoginDetails a sensible variable name, as self-explanatory as it may sound. I am of the opinion that comments have their place, granted they must be sensible. For example, I like to write this comment in particular. "//connecting to database, ". Sure, if you see the code, it is self-explanatory, but to me, it doesn't hurt to know where the actual connection starts. I like to see it this way: MS powerpoint has a lot of bells and whistles. Having said that, you shouldn't make your entire presentation one that distracts from the message.

spadmin1,

I think we got you the first time you made this post a standalone one.

Let's strike a deal - you stop posting anything about softpay and I promise not to recommend you to the banning committee. Deal?

dhtml (obviously in a sane frame of mind) wrote:

I am looking for freelance website developers who work in lagos (especially Ikeja Network).

technocrus (who obviously doesn't understand english wrote:

hey i qualify but i do not live in lagos.

Based on techno's contact page, it appears technocrus only understands Ibo. Any one in the house who knows how to communicate in Ibo? Please help with this so as to help this forum get rid of unnecessary posts.

Thanks,

You might as well add the following to the list:

1) Use abstraction
2) If you use the same code more than once, better make it a function
3) Indentation
4) Not just testing but incremental (unit, integration and system) testing
5) Comment your code
6) Use sensible variable names
7) Write your code as though you were immediately handing it over to someone else who will have to decipher it.

ownedbyme,

So let me get this straight - I run my site out of tuvalu or some podunk country that neither you nor I hv heard of. Let's further add that I run my own servers and I rip your site content. Are you saying that you can use your lawyers to come after me and take my site content down? Are you furthermore saying that you can shut my site down, again using your lawyers on grounds of copyright violation?

I would like to see the above happen

alas, omnipotens is alive! Got worried about your going AWOL bro.

welcome back

Seems like u need an animated gif, not something driven by javascript. Any particular site you could show us for a better clue?

hmmm, zstyle if by posting URLs to former posts, thus preventing a re-invention of the wheel as well as saving a few bytes on Seun's end as new posts on an old issue aren't posted again, you don't regard that as help, I wonder how you define "help".

Hmmm

Your request seems vague. Perhaps a synopsis would help here. Link? Issue in more detail? The phrase "Javascript codes" always rubs me the wrong way for some reason.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-205982.0.html
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-213766.0.html
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-198245.0.html

Always use the "search" option before posting. You never know, the question you have now is a question someone else had way back when

ajax isn't the answer to all things. In particular, it works best with snippets of data, as opposed to chunks. If you want to update a portion of your page, that's what it's for. If you want to use it to update an entire page, though doable, is an effort in tasking your server. Besides, if users have javascript turned off and you don't use graceful degradation, your site is rendered useless.

Sam,

I was about to ask the same question. Unless you have highly paid lawyers and your site is protected by international copyright law, you are wasting your time.

Note: The internet allows for "benevolent plagiarism". Take it from me, I have seen sites that lifted 1001% off of my site and even contacted them. The webmasters even apologized and promised to remove my content from their site. One particular site hasn't done so in 2 years. Unless I can somehow hack into their site, which I don't intend to do, there is nothing I can do. My only consolation is that they can't lift my business logic.

You don't have to use javascript. efeboy, using even the code you pasted above, I could see my fonts increase and decrease in size. If they aren't responding on your end, perhaps you have some inline css styles that are forcing the fonts to stay where they are.

Please repaste your code, this time, put ur css as a page style in your html file.

Again, you don't have to use javascript. Besides, you don't want to use javascript for a solution just because you can. What if (big "if" i know) someone has javascript turned off?

yes u can!

But especially if you are getting paid to do it, you are better off developing a newspaper site using a CMS (Joomla comes to mind).

This makes it easier on you (you don't technically have to write a line of code) and easier on the client (all they have to do is upload news articles to the correct category/section). In the end, it's a win-win situation

Now, having said that, if you are on a quest to prove to the world that you can code in PHP7, go for it but for ppl like me who would rather code smart than hard, when I hear newspaper, I see CMS

Cool, so I have answered ur question then - set your font sizes in "em" units.

Sometimes, you get what you pay for.

These might help:
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-7814.0.html
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-48926.0.html
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-1117.0.html
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-185152.0.html

Next time, just look to the top of the page and look for the 3rd button, first row of buttons. It's labelled "search"

This might help: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-221583.0.html

Also, though I hvnt used FP since 2000 or so, I blv that there is a way for you to paste raw code via an insertion.  I used FP 2000 but I am sure the basics are still the same.  In other words, don't just paste it in design view, open up the actual code and paste it where you want it to go, assuming u can't find the "insert code" feature.

This is where knowing the actual code helps. If you are the type who survives by drawing things on the screen, u r SOL, aka OYO.

good luck!

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-221745.0.html
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-216409.0.html
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-179083.0.html
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-196700.0.html
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-196104.0.html
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-183727.0.html

If you look at the top of this page and at the first row of buttons, the 3rd one says, "search". Use it sometime

An acquisition of a skill set that will enable you, with the perfect combination of luck and an entrepreneurial spirit, to be self-employed and to be self-fulfilled.

Efeboy,

Making a layout fluid (as in if you expand the window, the layout expands with it, etc) and making fonts fluid (as in if a user increases font or vice versa, the fonts increase with it or vice versa) are 2 different things.

For font fluidity, use "em" instead of "px" or %" for ur font-size properties.  Never use "pt" as this is print font and will only work out well on paper. 

Also, look to indent your code as it aids in readability and debugging.  Finally, if you haven't already, install firefox and its web developer toolkit.  This will enable you to, among otehrs, view and edit your css on the fly so you can see ho a change you make will affect your layout before uploading same to your server.  I hope I answered your question.

To CSS ebook requestee - sorry but I will get it to you soonest.  I have been both busy at work and under the weather - deadly combination

To add to what cvibe has said, you also need money to attract the right talent. Don't go cheap otherwise, cheap is what you will get. I assume you don't want your site to just look like afrointroduction but to actually beat it.

good luck!