Its not finished, but....

[Vodstok]

I have been working on starting a web design and programming business for a while now, and i finally have the site up. it is 90% complete, i just have to incorporate the logo graphics and a spiffy background, but here is the URL:

http://darktreedesign.net/


its one more step towards indepandance. I have a "customer" of sorts right here in this very forum, but i am working pro bono, or more acurately, for our mutual benefit. (So its for free.) Because I need a portfolio.

I may be able to swing a similar deal for other folks, which is why i am posting this here. So far i have Scaredyet.org, and soon enough the other, but i could use a couple more. PM me if you are interested.

[Vodstok]

whats the cost on this ? my wife needs one for her art :)

the prices are listed on the site, but, the first several i am doing free of charge to build a portfolio.

If she doesnt already have one, it would cost for the domain name registration and purchasing the web hosting. i go through godaddy.com for that, so it would cost about $75.48 for a year of hosting a deluxe plan, and $8.95 for a .com domain.

if all she wanted was simple static content, it could go as low as $43.08 for a year of hosting.

Edit: I just noticed that the domain name registration is only $1.99 with a hosting plan, so the cheapest for a year would be $45.07

[Despare]

I was a webmaster for a company a while back, ranges from challenging to boring on a regular basis. Good luck!

[Vodstok]

economy site: $76.56 for 2 years of hosting, plus $1.99 for domain registration.
Deluxe site: $134.16 for 2 years.


No problem Dave. :)

I can use the references.

I was a webmaster for a company a while back, ranges from challenging to boring on a regular basis. Good luck!
No kidding. i have been working with web pages in one form or another for over 7 years. i have done some BORING work before.

[Despare]

No kidding. i have been working with web pages in one form or another for over 7 years. i have done some BORING work before.

I worked for a CD Importing company which was a great way to get some rare CDs but it was soooo boring. Before I started he didn't even take CCard orders online heh.

[Vodstok]

I worked for a CD Importing company which was a great way to get some rare CDs but it was soooo boring. Before I started he didn't even take CCard orders online heh.


this is from my about page:
My big break came in 2001 when I landed a job as a help desk analyst. Based on a knack for fixing computers and troubleshooting their issues, I became a quick consideration for the job, but it was knowing HTML that actually got me hired. At the company I worked for, the helpdesk maintained its own website, and it had been largely ignored for the previous 3 years. My new boss made a deal with me, if I could clean up the site, he would get me training.

It took 3 months of arduous work, but I managed to trim down a massive mess of a website (over 2 gigs space used, and close to 600 files), down to less than a tenth the size, and with a consistent look and feel.
I wanted to claw my eyes out by the time this was done.

[Vodstok]

can you work with her to use it as well ?
Are you asking if i would help your wife with designing and building the site? absolutely :)


Part of the "package" i will be selling will be a tool that will allow the people who own the site to update it themselves, in case they never want to deal with me again :)

[Despare]

Sounds like a chore but at least you had stuff to do, I would come in and do an hour of work then sit around for seven hours playing games and listening to music. Boring really.

[Vodstok]

Sounds like a chore but at least you had stuff to do, I would come in and do an hour of work then sit around for seven hours playing games and listening to music. Boring really.

It was endless hours (4 a day, i had to spend the other 4 answering tech support calls) mucking through thousands of lines of html in some cases, clearing out inline styles (most of the pages were made by saving word documents as web pages... uck) and reformatting everythign to use company standard css files, and tracking down which files were no longer used... it was awful, great experience though.

[Vodstok]

thanks for the info vod she will be home in three hours and ill tell her :)

no problem :)

[Vodstok]

Okay, i have added the cool background i wanted. the image grows or shrinks to fit your window. check it out. Should work just fine in IE, Firefox and Opera. if anyone is using any other browser, please let me know if you can see the background image (otherwise, it will be black)

[Vodstok]

Anyone? No one? Hello?


You know i wont let this go, so some feedback would be nice :)

[Vodstok]

Anyone? No one? Hello?


You know i wont let this go, so some feedback would be nice :)

I'm not kidding....:)

[Vodstok]

looked fine in IE ... thats all i use (sorry zwoti :p )

Thank you :)

I used to do everything just for IE. then i started getting complaints from peopel here using Opera that a lot of things didnt work, so now i make sure everything works in the big 3, mostly because i have no way to test any of the others (like safari for Mac)

[Vodstok]

i hate watching a grown man beg ..... thats your wife's job :p

I dont beg in either place... I just poke and annoy until i get my way :)


Hey, i was a little brother, its a skill i was born with.

[zwoti]

looked fine in IE ... thats all i use (sorry zwoti :p )

and i thought you knew something about pc's :mad:



looks fine in opera and worked fine eventually in firefox (after i allowed your scripts to run)

[Vodstok]

and i thought you knew something about pc's :mad:



looks fine in opera and worked fine eventually in firefox (after i allowed your scripts to run)

Had you shut off javascript? I suppose i should take that into account....

[zwoti]

Had you shut off javascript? I suppose i should take that into account....

by default, all javascript is forbidden unless i allow it (the extension in firefox for this is one of the most popular)



security and what not :o

[Vodstok]

by default, all javascript is forbidden unless i allow it

Makes you sound like a god :)

one of my biggest questions is about the background image. Is it subtle enough to stay in the background? I wanted it to be noticeable, but not interfere with any text in front of it.

[zwoti]

Makes you sound like a god :)

one of my biggest questions is about the background image. Is it subtle enough to stay in the background? I wanted it to be noticeable, but not interfere with any text in front of it.



http://nwocover.tripod.com/god-computer.jpg



the background image is fine

only thing i have noticed so far is the box in the services page is stretched with the corresponding text in the opposite box appearing below instead of level with (fine in IE7)

[Vodstok]

http://nwocover.tripod.com/god-computer.jpg



the background image is fine

only thing i have noticed so far is the box in the services page is stretched with the corresponding text in the opposite box appearing below instead of level with (fine in IE7)

i had notcied that too. IE and the other browsers use CSS much differently. thansk for pointing it out, i have been meaning to fix that.

[ferretchucker]

Like you I am yet to finish but here is a site I made for free.

www.ferretchucker.piczo.com

[zwoti]

those porn site pop ups can be a real bitch :D


my machine is clean :cool:




:o

[zwoti]

how's the keyboard hehehehehehe


i have no problemmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm



dammmmmmmmmmmn, i've got a stuck key :(

[ferretchucker]

*covers innocent young ears*

[Vodstok]

*covers innocent young ears*

you can hear typewritten words? Weird....

[ferretchucker]

not only that, but i can smell swear words.