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I dont know if you mean to cover story boarding with the preliminary sketches point but if not then you should definitely consider this. Story boarding even though I personally have not used them lately are a good way to clarify with your clients the process from start to finish. Your list above does cover almost all the processes that would be involved in web design but you may or may not need to use them all. Some projects may require more planning while others may not need them all. It depends on how formal you want to be with your client. Some client's wont even know what the process is so you will most likely end up having to lead, plan all processes. If you are building server side scripting and its very complex i.e more then just a hit counter then more planning is required. This is were software development experience is handy and will likely impact on whether the project is a success or failure. What helps a lot here is analysis and planning. If you don't plan well and you work on something then realise you got it wrong then you have just wasted that time building something that the client did not want.I think another thing your missing if your doing both web design and web development is a project proposal. When the client approaches you about a new website they require you gather up all the details and present it back to them as your proposal. You include what you intend to deliver to them for the project. This includes all designs and functionality, expected due dates for deliverable, what you require from the client, i.e meetings. Any hosting if required. There is a whole of of things you can include I'm just unable to think clearly about them right now but if you look up project proposals and what they include you may or may not find things that will help you. Also be clear about change request from the client. let them know in advance the impact it will have on cost and schedule. Once the client has reviewed the proposal they have to make the choice to go on. You have documented everything so later on when the client says no this is not what i wanted you can go to your documents and say yes you did here.. lol. I think you get the idea. I think what I listed above is still incomplete and there may be more useful methods, documents for helping the process. You still have to use your own discretion and decide if producing those documents and that planning is worth it. In a small project you wouldn't spend so much time right? if a site took one day to make then there is no point spending two days planning and documenting. Now if a site took more then 3 weeks then obviously planning is required. Good Luck.

Not bad skin there. I would suggest you create a better looking banner that fills the entire header. It looks unprofessional when you waste space like that. The header banner is just too small.

That doesn't make sense. If you have kepted your receipts and all then there should be no reason why you cannot get your money back. Paying into the wrong account is a common mistake and they will deal with it. I'm sure all banks have procedures for handling this common mistake. Good luck with getting your money back and don't give up just yet. Money is money and you shouldn't waste it.

There is too many of them to start creating specific forums for them. Maybe just one forum to group them all may work but I can see it getting messy still. I don't think there is enough active CMS users to warrant a forum for them to be honest. It will probably end up being empty or full of redundant questions already asked from their respective websites.

Hello MetalRev, Not a bad introduction you have there. I think once you get hosting you will agree that it is a great hosting scheme if not the best out there. You just post quality post to earn credits. What is the population of Venezuela? You guys play a lot of soccer there right? Anyway keep posting and earning credits and you'll have enough for you hosting in no time. CheersSone

I've worked in a team before to develop a ASP.net website with its own CMS for a small community based website enabling them to manage events and keep track of members details. It was horrible because we all were at different levels in skill in respects to the language (asp.net) and not to mention HTML, and there was no clear roles for all members (4 of us in total). We were all in the software development major but none of us had any experience in developing GOOD websites, some of us had never even touched HTML but were experienced in java, c++, or VB.

We did not even agree on what user stories were suppose to be in there and had totally different views on what entities should be on the ERD. Some of us did not even think about even having an ERD and went ahead to try and create tables and then having to alter them later because they forgot something. What was the point of doing all those database papers in the second year huh?

The idea of collaborative work is great and I'm not trying to shoot your idea down but be warned it is much more difficult to manage a team when everyone is so far away that face to face meetings are not possible. You need people who can work together and know their role and are willing to listen to others ideas. If you have someone who thinks they know everything and believes they are the only one who is right then you will have trouble.

I think for a small project it may be possible with a designer, developer combo but anything more complex or large and it will require much more effort. Everyone has to agree on the process of doing things from start to finish. In a larger project a project manager definitely needs to be competent enough and communicate effectively to all parties involved on the development team as well as the client. Because you are developing a website I think the most important role is a experienced Web Developer. The designer can design a really good website but in the end its the developer who has to build it. If the developer is not skilled and experienced enough you will end up with a really bad website with many bugs and missing functionality in the end.

The web is mostly rendered in HTML and CSS in the end. JavaScript is used to support them and add on more functionality. You are better off if you understand these three core elements for web. After that you may required server side scripting such as PHP, JSP, JSF, Asp, and any others. You may also need to learn databases along side these server side scripting. Understand the 3 core languages for web and how they all relate to each other. This will help you quickly determine what you need in order to complete a task. If you know where to look and what to look for you can do just about anything.

Oh yeah xbox does not have wireless network. I dont think it would work though because as far as I understand those 8 wires from the standard network cables are not designed to to power devices. They are purely wires for carrying signals and a wireless device would require power to draw and transmit.

wireless network cards already exist.. I don't know how your idea is any different to what already exists.

Oracle is very powerful and has many features. I have been using it for a few papers but we have barely touch on some of its features. The only downside to oracle is that it is very expensive and suited to medium or larger organizations. If you are building something small then MySql is probably more suited.

I would suggest netbeans for java because the IDE has been built for working with java, It can open other documents but the main focus of the IDE is to work with java. The website has many resources that can quickly get you up to speed to building different types of java applications. I am currently using eclipse IDE for php development but I have not tried building any java applications on it so I can not tell you how good it is for that. eclipse supports many languages compared to netbeans. I would suggest you try both and see which one is easier and more better.

Not bad. I think the horse's outline and the background seems a bit too solid. It looks like the horse has been crop and put there if you know what I mean. If you can somehow blend the horse into the background a bit more and make it look more natural the over picture would look much better in my opinion.

That menu with the gun fire hover sound effect is done in flash. The only way to remove it is to edit the flash file but I don't think you have the original fla. so there is not much you can do about it if you don't.

Do you have a link to a live version of the website so we can take a look? if no some source code may help.

In New Zealand for small to medium businesses I think MYOB http://cs01.myob.com/EXO/NZ/ is pretty popular. I have used it before for some of my earlier papers at university for some business related projects and it does seem to offer a vast list of features. We only just touched of some of them including things like automating certain common tasks. I do not know how good it is for larger businesses but I would imagine there would be more specialized systems out there that are more suited. as mentioned above the big names are Oracle and SAP

There is nothing weird about having more than one interest. The problem is it takes time and effort for one to be good at something unless you are lucky enough to be naturally talented in the thing you are doing. Only you can decide for your self what path you would like to pursue. This can be a long process of trying out things and then deciding on what you like best but over time you may even find that you like something else better so try and not limit your self to one particular area if you can.

GD is enabled. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ look under GD heading. I am also using automatic thumb nail generation for my site so its probably just some write permissions problem on your scripts or folder. what is the exact error you are getting?

objective C is basically C plus more functions built on top of it. You can use c functions as well and objective c functions. That is what a superset of c means.

It depends on what you intend to build I guess. I know objective C is used for programming on the OS X. You program OS X applications as well as iPhone applications on it. I have used objective c for a while but have no experience in C or C++ at all. They say Objective C is a superset of C meaning it has all the c functions plus its own.

I think there are only two options for this. 1. you write your own JavaScript function to gradually fade in the image by setting its opacity from 0-100 or you use and existing library such as jQuery and apply its .fadeIn method or other equivalent. If you need further help on which one you can request it but I cant say if I will be able to respond so maybe someone else may be able to help if I don't get around to it.

Hello fellow kiwi, Welcome to the forums it is indeed a great place to interact with others while at the same time get some good free quality host. PhD in computer vision? I have no idea what you do in that can you please explain.

I don't believe just throwing things in will make it better. Look at the overall design, it does not look professional (no offense) and its probably because your not a real designer. You are a programmer primary so its normal for us to lack design skills. I would suggest you find a friend who is very creative and talented in design and work along side them to come up with a design that is very functional and visually appealing. Do not resort to using pre-made CMS if you seek to be viewed as a programmer you should be expected to create your own no?Keep at it and you will get better. That is all I can think off for now but I would say its not a bad start what you have done so far.Good LuckSone.

My friend has a 5 year old who only started speaking recently. Even then he has trouble pronouncing words. He puts together very short sentences but again his vocabulary is very small. When he was around 3 and 4 he would only make grunting sounds. I'm not sure whats wrong with him but his dad blames it on the effect of his mothers genetics and the fact that she is a crack head. I think if your kid does not start speaking at an early age you should not wait on it and seek professional advice. If your child is handicapped in some way then at least you can find out early and plan to manage his learning accordingly.

Yeah it all depends on what type of layout and the elements in it that determine how you would create that effect. If you post your layout code and give suggestions to what you may or may not like we can maybe come up with a possible solution for you.

In theory it should be pretty straight forward but when you actually start building something like this you may find there are certain things you have omitted and will need to address. I think with anything its easy to underestimate the amount of actual work required. Not to mention the testing you need to do to ensure there are no bugs. Think about it we have a mycents script here done by a very experienced programmer and yet there are still bugs now most people are not even up to that level and talk about building it like it was easy as cake.