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  • Design Challenge- No Design required

    I agree with @stevendeeds. Rather than waste 1/3 to 1/2 of your screen real estate on three navigation elements over a globe/field background, why not shrink those to a small, functional nav and swap the generic eco-imagery with an area describing t…
    Comment by DboG July 2011 permalink
  • Why don't employees hire talented people?

    Like @Luminated said it's about dollars. In an ideal world the value of talented designers and programmers would be understood by all. But for some companies they have $X to spend, and whatever $X buys them will suffice. And while it's nic…
    Comment by DboG July 2011 permalink
  • Loading Issues

    It's normal that as a page loads, you may see an element unstyled for a moment before the relevant CSS loads. The lighter the page load, obviously, the less that's an issue. Your big issue is that you have a background image behind the co…
    Comment by DboG July 2011 permalink
  • PHP Help

    You're not going to be able to accomplish that with PHP. PHP is a server-side language, not client-side, so it runs before the user even sees the web page. You will need to use JavaScript.
    Comment by DboG June 2011 permalink
  • What to learn?

    Just by wanting to do it and persisting you've already done half the work. Have you worked with JavaScript before? If you haven't, it's probably a good idea to start there and learn the fundamentals. I know some folks who have tried …
    Comment by DboG June 2011 permalink
  • website critique please =)

    Not much there to gauge at the moment. The lighting/font effect I think is neat as a kind of programming exercise, but as a functional website I think it's over the top. Less is usually more, and personally I think great design complements the …
    Comment by DboG June 2011 permalink
  • Help a poor fellow out!

    If there's love going around, I still need votes on my Forrst app to get invited: http://forrst.com/i/5fc
    Comment by DboG June 2011 permalink
  • Good enough for a simple free site?

    Hard to complain about something that's free. By way of feedback, my biggest note would be the red background. Something lighter like an off-white or light blue might look better and cleaner, particularly for a health-related website. The dark…
    Comment by DboG June 2011 permalink
  • URL File Path

    Honestly as simple as your site is, you probably don't need to go through setting up a subdomain. If you physically move the "Rollerston" folder up one level in your site file structure, It will go from "http://www.harrythefish.c…
    Comment by DboG June 2011 permalink
  • Is This Possible?

    The coding's pretty involved, but you could use the preg_replace() function to search for a strings matching whatever and then output the matches in the format you want. The function description is here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.p…
    Comment by DboG June 2011 permalink
  • Link To CSS File With PHP

    The simplest solution would be to precede the CSS path with a /, which will always make the starting point the site root, regardless of where it's being called.
    Comment by DboG June 2011 permalink
  • Is my logo design any good?

    I disagree on the importance of text. If anything the graphic mark is secondary to the logotype. Some day you may be able to get the recognition of a Nike swoosh, but until then it's important to have a way to convey the name of your company. …
    Comment by DboG June 2011 permalink