new and on the prowl....

hello to all the webforumz community!

im new to this whole web design world and currently building a website so expect to see my questions popping up everywhere! i see a lot of problems being solved here and hope that not only will i get help, but will be able to contribute somehow too. (but so far, i think i may only be able to help by offering my opinions )

i look forward to interacting with all the members!

take care everyone!
*belle

Welcome to the forums belle

Welcome to our forums belle!!

Hope you have a great time here and dont worry, you will learn lots here and we look forward to hearing your opinions!

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Hello Belle,

I am very excited to see new members coming in,
Welcome to our Forums, I am also new to these forums but i can help you out with the designs and even coding.

By profession i am a UI Developer in SAP India.
See you around!

Thanks & Regards

thanks for the warm welcome guys! i haven't gotten around to posting anything yet, but i will take time to try and help where i can before i ask for any. see you all around!

Hi belle,

Welcome to the forums. Could you be a bit more specific? What experience do you exactly have in web design? Are you a student, or professional? Have you started designing a website or graphic?

See you around,

Robert

hello robert!

i guess i should have included a little more in my introduction. im currently a second year pre-med student in the philippines. we had an introductory class to computers first sem of my first year, but the furthest we went in web design was using the design mode of frontpage -- and our professor was a frame addict! so where does web design come in right? haha!

well my dad has built some townhouses in our area and now we're trying to sell them. and thats how my dabbling in real web design began. the first site i made used inline frames. i didnt know any better. hehe.. then i started reading some articles on SEO and learned inline frames are a no no. so i learned about tables and re-did the whole site in a couple of days. THEN i learned about CSS and seperating structure from style. thats where i really got a headache. im talking major migraine here. (good thing im on my summer vacation though)

so far its not much, im going to change the basic structure this weekend and also do more on SEO.

when im done with that, i'll try to make it look more professional, hopefully with the help i can find here. but of course, i want to help some others first.

well, thats basically what im working on, why and how far i've come. i just want to help my parents out with selling these houses. and besides... if we dont, i can kiss med school goodbye...

*belle

EDIT: holy ****, we're not listed on google anymore. can someone tell me why??

How new is the site?

since my site has been listed on google, it has always been in the top 10 results for the keywords we target for. last night i did some mock searches with results that made me a very happy person. and now...... even when i search the URL, i get nothing! my site has officially disappeared. even form yahoo. is there something wrong with google? did I do something wrong? what do i do? what do i do? [IMG]http://forums.digitalpoint.com/images/smilies/frown.gif[/IMG]

(in case you haven't picked up on it yet, im very frantic at the moment... someone calm me down please...)

They sometimes drop so its np.

i have had some suggestions of paying for a domain name. i dont mind that. but do i have to pay for a domain name and for hosting too for google to take the site seriously? (aside from of course other factors like backlinks etc)

I think Rob can answer your problem better then us. Rob will u please ?