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mitdralla said

Jar said

mitdralla said
Lynda.com I use it a lot. Lots of great tuorials on there. It is not free though.

That looks pretty professional, for sure. Can you vouch for the HTML/CSS/JS tutorials? I noticed you only have GraphicRiver items submitted. I’m mainly going to need it for the coding aspects.

Thank you mitdralla!

I do GR in my spare time. By day I am a software engineer focusing on PHP, HTML5 and CSS3. All their Wordpress stuff is great. PHP and HTML CSS.

http://www.lynda.com/search?q=html5&x=0&y=0 Ofcourse things can be really general starting off but these lessons get really indepth.

Thank you for the follow-up. Lynda.com is looking very appetizing right now. I’ve checked it out myself and they seem to have some solid courses for what I’d like, and at $25 a month and access to everything, I could definitely find time to learn even more! I’ll give myself a little bit more time to think about it, but this is looking like a much better alternative.

infuse01 said
While I agree on some point with Jar, I see nothing wrong to ask in the audiojungle community as well since those ARE musicians and producers. That’s also why I posted my question there and gathered feedback from there. Tenor: Pretty all want something simple to setup with good documentation. MP3 Player, Video Player, Photo Upload, and some wanted even a Booking Calendar – that’s it basically.

My bad, I didn’t follow your link and assumed it was asked in this section as it’s on the themeforest domain. That would definitely be another ideal place to ask.

My guess is this is associated with an automatic element closing feature rather than opening and closing the program/file. I don’t use Dreamweaver, but take a look at the settings and see if disabling that helps at all.

This could also be from your code not being valid, and as such the automatic element closing feature (or any other feature that adds anything) could be misinterpreting what you want to happen. Go ahead and run the page in question through http://validator.w3.org/ and see if you can spot the not.

If you are having issues with a theme, the best place to ask for support is on that item’s comments page, or the support forum if the author runs one.

Good luck

Is that to fix issues like this? (I use Chrome)

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a site that doesn’t have that unAA’d look when using non-native fonts.

Hey Lester, quick question: If you wanted to know how many bananas a monkey ate, would you just go up and ask the monkey? My point is, you’re on a web design forum asking for opinions from musicians! Now, I’m not saying we can’t be musical, but it’s unlikely we are able to allocate time to a ‘professional’ band and designing templates/websites.

Here are a couple of venues more suited for your question:

Bandnut.com
SputnikMusic.com

I can’t vouch for their communities, but I tried to pick a couple with an established vibe, and activity.

mitdralla said
Lynda.com I use it a lot. Lots of great tuorials on there. It is not free though.

That looks pretty professional, for sure. Can you vouch for the HTML/CSS/JS tutorials? I noticed you only have GraphicRiver items submitted. I’m mainly going to need it for the coding aspects.

Thank you mitdralla!

I’ve always been able to make websites, but the process takes so long because I never really got a full education on the system. (side effect of bad self-learning) My CSS and HTML is not very semantic, and I make very little use of everything but the basic elements CSS has to offer. I haven’t even touched HTML5 or CSS3, and really want to delve back into the web design & development scene. I have decided to focus solely on front-end design & development.

My question is, what resources do you know that are absolutely amazing and will help me build a solid foundation? (something I haven’t had at all)

I already obviously know about nettuts, but I do not know of a tutorial series that is appropriate for this; I want to note I would rather this be a very concise experience; I don’t want to be jumping from website to website learning bits and pieces. That is why I’m rather interested in literature instead; BOOKS!

Thank you, A fellow Envatian with a horrible record of inactivity

Edit: I forgot to mention I design using Fireworks, because that is what I started on (A beginner web class in high school, I almost wish I never took those courses. After the first one they started… Flash… Puke)

Should I allocate some time to learning Photoshop? Fireworks is great for quick mock-ups, but when it gets to making creative elements, it can be a strange process. Fireworks is great for layout, but not very good for real design. I almost hate saying that because I’ve always touted Fireworks as a great web design resource, but my designs pale in comparison to many designs here…

Edit2: Also, what would designers recommend for web design concepts? I’m really looking to expand my knowledge on all fronts here, and am willing to dedicate a lot of time to this endeavor.

crozer said
Perhaps this one. Alternatively, most politics/real-estate themes look like that.

I’ve noticed most of the real estate themes are more suited for things such as apartment rentals, etc, whereas this is for a building developer’s website. Also, I am not keeping the same color scheme as present on that one, sorry if that was what hung you up on the general theme political themes have. (red/blue)

I am looking for a theme that is similar only in the layout. I’ve been looking through the corporate HTML section, but most seem to be pretty barren in terms of image space, which is needed here.

I want to keep it with the same general layout, but just more sophisticated in terms of design elements.

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