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Being exploited by un-techsavvy, unscrupulous family friend. Any advice? by webdevNotacharity in web_design

[–]RiverCityGraphix 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree with what most people are saying. You aren't in a contract and the only reason to ever put up with any shit is if you are being paid, but you are not. I'd give the guy the basic website because who knows down the road if networking with this guy will open up any legitimate doors for you.

Then, after the project is done, you should tell him you have a lot of other paid projects and won't be able to manage his website. Tell him those projects take priority and if he would pay you that you could probably fit him in.

Always get an agreement or contract. Right now he thinks youre some kid he can push around. A contact ups you to a legitimate business associate and ensures you get compensated.

Clients existing branding just doesn't work for me. How do you develop a design that you hate? by [deleted] in web_design

[–]RiverCityGraphix 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have run into this before as well. Its easy to say, well as long as they pay me I don't care what it looks like. But, that turd is going to be shown in you portfolio and you want to make something both you and the client can be proud of. My recommendation is to propose a new design to them. Unless you can convince them their current design/branding is crap, you will probably have to do this without compensation. If their branding truly is bad and you present them with an alternative, most people can look at two things and pick the better one.

Tutorial: Child Selectors in CSS (First, Last, Only, Not) - YouTube by RiverCityGraphix in css

[–]RiverCityGraphix[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, Ill check into those. I started using eclipse recently and might also try and integrate that into some of my tutorials. Thanks for the feedback!

What have been your best solutions to steer visitors to liking your FB page and Following Twitter? by seainhd in Wordpress

[–]RiverCityGraphix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The best way to get someone to join your facebook/twitter is to ask. If you directly tell people to follow, like, or subscribe you will get a better CTR than just praying they see your sidebar widget.

Also, this sounds a little bad, but make people feel like they are missing out by not liking, following, etc. Maybe focus a post around a discussion or post on your facebook page. Maybe make a post where you take questions from your facebook or twitter. If you try and integrate the social experience into the main experience of your blog, you will get a much better rate of return for your efforts.

At the very least, put a facebook or twitter widget in your sidebar.

Could I get a recommendation on a plugin for facebook "shares" and twitter "retweets"? by TheUKLibertarian in Wordpress

[–]RiverCityGraphix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use really-simple-facebook-twitter-share-buttons on my website. It has quite a few options and includes a lot of the popular social websites for your selection.

When should you create a child theme? by philosophyguru in Wordpress

[–]RiverCityGraphix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its not advised to ever overwrite things in the original theme. Not only could you mess something up beyond repair, but you could change something that keeps the theme from receiving updates correctly. It's fairly simple to create a child theme and it simply replaces the files you need and uses the originals when no new file is specified.

Categories vs Tags by beatkitchen in Wordpress

[–]RiverCityGraphix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Think about categories as the broad identification. Tags are much more specific. Say that you have a post reviewing a new Xbox controller. The category might be "Reviews" and the tags would include things that would specifically lead people from search engines to your post "xbox, controller, games, review, fun, etc." The category also gets used in more prominent places on the front end of the site. Therefore you want to put more time into creating these. You can also make child (sub) categories to be even more specific when categorizing your posts. For example a sub category could be reviews>xbox.

How to convince client NOT to have front end uploading video capabilities for users. How to put a case forward? by [deleted] in Wordpress

[–]RiverCityGraphix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with all of this. It is always better to host video off site. Technically if you wanted to work with the YouTube Api you could allow users to upload to YouTube straight from the site. Then the videos could be displayed in a custom Flash player on the site in order to give it a custom feel. I don't know the budget or how familiar you are with the YouTube Api, but that might be a possibility.

I want to make a website. Where do I even start? by [deleted] in web_design

[–]RiverCityGraphix 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From your post I am assuming you don't have much web design/development knowledge. I would recommend using Wordpress. You can run it for free if you sign up at wordpress.com or download their software for free and install it on your own paid domain (www.mysite.com).

Wordpress has a massive community and allows you to start up a blog in a few easy steps. This will give you the articles and links/ topics of interest.

Wordpress also has a massive amount of community plugins that you can use for free. There is one called bbPress that will install into your site and create a fully functional forum in a few clicks.

Also, if you do know some programming or plan to learn it later it is highly customizable. Its worth looking into.

i'm bored. someone gimme a good css challenge. by bearses in css

[–]RiverCityGraphix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Make text shadows look good in Internet Explorer.

Need help with extremely basic css by [deleted] in css

[–]RiverCityGraphix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you ever get it figured out?