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can you elaborate on what you mean by gaming site?if you mean a clan or rpg type site, it will need to have interaction between its visitors you will have to look into databases forums and suchor do you mean a flash game type site where visitors go to play online games.give us a rough plan of what the site will do and we can tell you what you need to do

no problem

i know Prateek i was just adding to what you had already explained

who are you hosting with vchris? (sorry if you mentioned earlier but there is 8 pages in this topic)im looking into moving webhost i had been considering the "Code Monster" plan at dreamhost

you could try and make all the pages short by moving the content onto more pages or you could force the scrollbar to appear on every page by giving the body a height above 100%

have a look at this thread. php includes are really easy to get the hang of and when you do you wont know how you ever did without them

using PNG-8's instead of GIFs will lower the filesizes of your images. you can have transparency and they are widely supported unlike PNG-24s

file -> save for web -> select gif, make sure transparency is ticked

By the way, I think I decided to go ahead and just let this first client pay whatever he wants.

no offense but to me that is absolute madness you should have decieded a fair price and asked for it. if you are unwilling to put a value on your work then people will assume you are not worth much. please trust me on that if you had of asked for a fair price the guy would have probably paid it. if not he would tell you that is too much and you could perhaps renegotiate. if he was unwilling to pay you a satisfactory amount then you dont do the job. anyway that said, this is your first job and you have already gone another route so i wish you the very best of luck with it.

what you charge should be based solely on your skill.

What Skemcin said here is spot on. i was just trying to make the point that you shouldnt undersell yourself and if the business you are dealing with are at all reputable they shouldn't mind paying you a fair wage. After all this work involves a certain level of proficiency. Try and estimate how long the job will take you and what a fair hourly wage would be for your skill level and charge that.

dont sell yourself short. if the business that hired you are professionals they wont mind paying you. $600 should be the absolute minimum you charge i would charge a lot more.

thing is, I want to spice up my page with unusual fonts

if thats the case look into sIFR a combination of javascript, CSS, and Flash. it sounds complicated but its actually easy enough to implement.

there is also sIFR. http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/

<table style="float: left; width: 80%"><tr><td align=right nowrap><input type="text" size="3" value="ee"></td></tr></table><div style="float: left;">testing</div>

probably would be better to put in an external style sheet and use class but you get the point

no that is not correct. A formal notice of copyright is not required on a webpage. it can be useful as a deterrent against infringements but the work is still protected by copyright law with or without notice.

no problem

but you dont save on markup its easier to have <hr> than <div class="hr"> </div>heres a few ways to style the hrhttp://www.sovavsiti.cz/css/hr.html

you can download php scripts that will spider your website and create search engine database for you http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_...ines/index.html

in your css putimg {border: 0;}or alternatively in your html<img src="blahdyblah.gif" border="0" />

instead of using absolute poistioning just float the button left of the search text boxmaybe just something like:

#go_search { float: left; width:142px; height:34px; backgro etc etc }

you will also have to float the previous text box

i think you would have to ask permission from the owner of the original site. try sending them an email and offering to put a link back to their site with the image

make sure when you go file -> new color mode should be set to RGB color and NOT grayscale

if you want to draw me i will attempt to draw you. it could be a laugh altough im quite busy this week so i cant promise it will be done quickly (or very well)

i think you are talking about different screen resolutions heres an article you may find usefulhttp://www.useit.com/alertbox/screen_resolution.html

you define the widths of the page elements in percentages rather than pixelsexample <div style="width:100%;"></div>