jonimueller

First of all, NEVER use IDs more than once on a page. Change #portblocks to .portblocks. Classes can be used any number of times on a pagesl IDs, never. That’s *basic* CSS. And if you are a web designer or aspiring to be one, I would expect you to know that. 🙂

I’d add this to .portblocks: vertical-align: middle

That ought to do it.

@saurus, you aren’t even talking about CMSs in your links, those are layouts and those are accomplished with CSS no matter what CMS you are using.

The big question you have to ask yourself is what you want your site to do. What features do you want now and what features do you contemplate for sometime down the road.

A lot of rather complicated CMSs exist (e.g., Joomla, Drupal, etc.), and quite a number are simply overkill for what most people need (and are willing to pay to have done).

My point above was that a LOT of business sites (or non-blogs if you will) are running WordPress fine and dandy. Some may be more complicated than others, but WordPress has so many plugins and such a large and helpful community/userbase that it’s pretty much the best choice for a small business or a novice web master who wants to be able to maintain the site himself .. or even setup and design the site himself .. without hiring an expensive web designer/web developer.

Very very nice, Sean. Great design that doesn’t detract from the delightful content. 🙂 Looks good in Firehog, Fatlady (Opera 9.24) and even IE!

Which theme?

Definitely. But you can access a subdomain via FTP. It will look like a folder, in your case, /blog, on your swanfungus.com domain. If you login to your FTP client with your site’s root account, you should be able to navigate right to it. Unix treats it like any other folder (subdirectory), but it behaves like a domain/subdomain.

And unless there’s going to be something else on that site (domain), I always install WP in the root or in a subdom. I cannot understand the reluctance to do that.

Not anymore. It was ripped apart when I stepped down as web master in late 2004. You know how it goes with clubs, every time the webmaster changes hands, the site is ripped up and started over. It was straight HTML when I got it, then I converted it to WordPress, then the new (and current) web master converted it to heaven knows what.

I like the clever use of categories in the second nav bar there (Featured designs, Our Clients, etc.). The logo seems at odds with the blue background, like it was put there as an afterthought. Maybe a colored 2px border around the logo to make it look deliberate? I don’t know, that’s just me.

Also, you should grab Oliver Seidel’s plugin cForms II and create a custom contact page rather than just a mailto: link; that’s SO 1990s. A contact page just looks a bit more professional. You can also put your email address there (be sure to use the Obfuscate Email plugin to hide the email addy from spambots).

Final step? Head over to http://welovewp.com and submit your site!