Are Web designers all this bad?!

englishpremier · 15 Oct 2009 at 14:38

Looks like he changed the Nameservers to his reseller hosting, but hasn't setup up your account. I'm curious as to the design, do you have a pic?

Russinating · 15 Oct 2009 at 14:44

suarve said:
Don't see how you can be complainig at all if it's been done for free. I mean it's hardly going to be at the top of his to do list is it? No offence intended here, but did you honestly expect updates and a fast turnaround from something your getting done for free?

And to answer your original question, no web designers aren't all this bad - especially paid web designers

Sorry to go off-topic, but WHY quote the entire OP?! Drives me mad! :mad:

Good luck with getting your site done, however you go about it.

mr tommo · 15 Oct 2009 at 14:51

englishpremier said:
This could be really quick and easy with Modx and maxigallery. If you already provided all the copy and the design it shouldn't take long at all. you have standards compliant code and the site would be scaleable.

I have no idea what either of those are. I will look it up though.

englishpremier said:
Looks like he changed the Nameservers to his reseller hosting, but hasn't setup up your account. I'm curious as to the design, do you have a pic?

Yeah somewhere, I'll have a look as Im at work atm... Its very average to be fair, not one of my proudest works

Found a version, not final though, think a few things were changed with fonts etc.

Russinating said:
Sorry to go off-topic, but WHY quote the entire OP?! Drives me mad!

Good luck with getting your site done, however you go about it.

Cheers

englishpremier · 15 Oct 2009 at 15:13

Should be quite simple if you have some HTML and CSS knowledge. Checkout www.modxcms.com - once you've got the template done you should be plain sailing.

I don't have much free time but give me shout if you need a hand.

mr tommo · 15 Oct 2009 at 15:47

Thanks mate will have a look now.

Ive got Photoshop cs3 and it seems they have merged imageready into it so its not as straight forward. Will let you know how Im getting on.

mr tommo · 15 Oct 2009 at 15:57

englishpremier said:
Looks like he changed the Nameservers to his reseller hosting, but hasn't setup up your account. I'm curious as to the design, do you have a pic?

I missed this bit, so how do I get it back?

Tripnologist · 15 Oct 2009 at 16:09

Change them back to your hosts name servers.

Funny your web guy couldn't find the time for that. I could do it in about 15-20mins.

mr tommo · 15 Oct 2009 at 16:24

Right ok... Ive just changed the nameserver to QIQ (who my hosting is with)
They also want me to change the IPS tag, Just want to check Im doing the right thing here?

I bought the domain from 123-reg with 1 email address. Ive set the email address up and I just access it from outlook on my computer at home.

My hosting is with QIQ.

Tripnologist · 15 Oct 2009 at 17:06

You don't need to do that.
What they're trying to get you to do is transfer the domain to them instead of 123-reg.

mr tommo · 15 Oct 2009 at 17:45

Tripnologist said:
You don't need to do that.
What they're trying to get you to do is transfer the domain to them instead of 123-reg.

Damn...Ive already changed the nameservers to QIQ. It said 24/48 hours.

What do I do with regards to the IPS now? leave it? Transfer it over? or change the name servers back to 123-reg in a couple of days?

Pho · 15 Oct 2009 at 18:08

Nameserver updates can take up to 48 hours to propagate around the web, but usually don't take that long. Your site goes to QiQ for me now.

Personally I would only use Imageready/Photoshop to slice up the images (i.e. your logo), then code the entire site in notepad (notepad++ of course, I'm not that sadistic!). it's the only way to get it to work perfectly without spending ages re-slicing the whole thing.

mr tommo · 15 Oct 2009 at 18:09

Oh yeah, so it does. So do I leave the IPS as it is with 123-reg? or do I need to change it to QIQ?

EDIT : Ive decided I dont want to mess with this anymore, I dont really know what Im doing and Im not really in a position to learn and do it myself as I don't have time at the moment. Im going to contact some designers. Don't particulalry want to pay a lot of money out at the moment and I wont have much choice other than to go with someone realtively cheap.

Tripnologist · 15 Oct 2009 at 18:21

Yes - Change the nameservers to your host. This points the domain to your hosting space.

No - You don't need to change IPS. This just changes your domain registrar. So when your domain comes up for renewal, they can charge you whatever price they've set to renew it.

mr tommo · 15 Oct 2009 at 18:23

Excellent, thanks for that

mr tommo · 16 Oct 2009 at 12:36

Guys, Since changing my nameservers from 123-red over to QIQ, My email address (with 123-reg), has stopped recieving emails. :confused:

EDIT : Just to add... It will still send emails from my outlook account.

englishpremier · 16 Oct 2009 at 14:29

mr tommo said:
Guys, Since changing my nameservers from 123-red over to QIQ, My email address (with 123-reg), has stopped recieving emails.

EDIT : Just to add... It will still send emails from my outlook account.

If your hosing is not with your domain registrar then you either need to:

A) set up the mail accounts on your hosting package
b) create was is known as a custom MX record

suarve · 17 Oct 2009 at 13:59

mr tommo said:
Right ok... Ive just changed the nameserver to QIQ (who my hosting is with)
They also want me to change the IPS tag, Just want to check Im doing the right thing here?

I bought the domain from 123-reg with 1 email address. Ive set the email address up and I just access it from outlook on my computer at home.

My hosting is with QIQ.

I hate hosts who try to force you to give them control of your domain, there's no need at all.