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    Moving web host while keeping domain without losing traffic.

    Yep, host should have very little effect, assuming you're not moving to some horrendous host in china and sharing with a load of spambot and scam sites.
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    Web Hosting - Recommendations?

    I use EUKhost at the moment and they're pretty good. Fairly cheap and quite easy to contact via live chat.
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    Web help.

    Yes, you need an HTML page and then you insert some code something like this, where /images/bannerflash.swf is the location/name of the swf: <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"...
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    A client coding the website themselves

    If you want to back-engineer a CMS into an existing website then that's going to be a fair bit of work? Or have you done the initial design and it now needs to be converted into HTML/CSS etc. If that's the case, then she will not be able to do this herself, it requires a web designer to...
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    Dreamweaver useful for coders?

    Great, thanks for the comments. It looks like I'm going to have to buy the web premium package so I'll definitely have a play around with using Dreamweaver as an editor/FTP client to replace the notepad++/filezilla combo.
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    Dreamweaver useful for coders?

    I'm interested in the opinions of people who can comfortably design and build websites just using a text editor, but still choose to use Dreamweaver for its added features. What sort of things can it do which improve your workflow? I'm thinking of possibly buying it as part of Adobe's web...
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    Web Design as a Career

    You'll need to be extremely competent technically and have a range of skills from html, css, php through to graphics design. It won't look good if a customer wants a small addition to the site that requires custom coding and you can't deliver it. On top of technical skills you need great...
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    Could I get my deposit back from a poor developer?

    Do they have any websites in their portfolio? From what you've said they sound like con artists to me because no professional web designer should have problems with the basic things you've described. If you PM me their website I'll take a look to see if their portfolio looks legitimate (it's...
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    A total numpty

    Yep, that link by squeezee is a good one. Just follow that carefully and you should be able to work out what to do. You'll be creating a line of code like this for each of the old pages you want to keep the google juice for: Redirect 301 oldPage.html http://www.symonds-design.co.uk/newPage.htm
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    feedback on my first draft for my artwork blog please

    I think you need to concentrate more on quality content. None of the articles have much text. First impression is that it looks a bit like an auto generated site, which is a real turn off.
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    web beginner questions

    I use good old Notepad++ for coding html/css
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    Wordpress Theme

    There's plenty out there, just google "wordpress theme horizontal scroll" ;)
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    What would be wrong with doing this?

    Only possible problem I can see is that hiding text like that might upset Google if you get reported. Not sure, I'd be interested to hear what people think about this.
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    wordpress??

    I'd forget about Dreamweaver for now. Get familiar with configuring Wordpress via the administration panel (yoursite.com/wp-admin). See what you can configure from there and what it's limitations are. Install some free themes and see what effect that has on the site. After that you could...
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    wordpress??

    I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do? Have you installed a php web server with SQL database on your Mac, so that you can then install wordpress?
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