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That's a very good article, a good read! - Added to my post.

Slight necro here but does anybody want me to add more to this?

Hello, I have a customer I am currently doing some work for and he needs some design work doing, this would be a full site re-design and a few other small bits here and there, all the work is paid but have to be completed within deadlines. The website he currently wants re-designing is http://www.sellbike.co.uk , he also wants a new logo creating and there will be a lot of future work (he has around 130 website currently). I am not posting a budget as we will pay whoever we decide to go with whatever they are asking. Please post up a few examples of your work, timeframes and prices. Regards, Tom Mclean

Why ask people for their hourly rate when you specified you arnt paying per hour? :s make a list with a couple of mods you want doing and get people to say how much they would charge for each.

Post the files you have already done and if I get some time tomorrow or the day after I will put up the rest of it for you.

Nevermind, have it working now. So, how do I get the data from the database and put it into the JS? Im using PHP and mySQL for the rest of the script if that changes / help?

Sorry for highly noobish questions! using the first version and have downloaded and included jquery into it, still no countdown.

Okay, so i havn't looked at or used jQuery before, so how do I get that to take the input from the database as a timestamp? Also, can't seem to get it to countdown =S

Hey all, I am trying to get time to count down dynamically (no need to refresh page) instead of statically, but just can't figure it out for the life of me. Basically when somone adds something to the construction que it calculates the time to build it in seconds (lets say 3600 seconds) and put's it into the database: time()+3600 etc, then, when I use a function to turn this into hours mins seconds etc and display it on the construction page and it "counts down" but only when the user refreshes the page. Is there a way using JS or jQuery to make this dynamic? Just the displaying of the time? Hope I explained this well enough!

Aye, that's what I intend to do, give them a "first steps" play through that get's them to set up their first base correctly and is played through, again, something that will be in the beta. Any comments on the 2 layouts? Good, bad?

Noted, thanks for feedback, I will write up a small tutorial later this week once I have finished a few more things I am working on in the game to make it easier to understand.

Aye, alot of buildings take a long tiem but will drop dramatically when you build up other ones like metal mines and robotics factories. Yeah no tutorial yet (is alpha), and yeah is confusing if you havn't played this type of game before ^.^ will make more sense once I finish the basic features, enter beta and produce a tutorial. Thanks for reply =]

Hey all, just posting up my project to try and get some feedback. It is a space style RTS where you build up your empire, produce fleets and go to war etc. Is very similar to alot of games in this genre at this time as I am building the base of it before I start making it unique, is currently only in alpha: http://www.inspired-logic.info/imperium User: Demo Pass: Demo Let me know what you think and if you find and bugs! Will be needing help on a few things in the near future involving getting times to automatically count down instead of statically (construction que's) if anybody has any idea how to do this (java / ajax?) please lemme know!

My accountant costs me about £1500 a tax year and saves me about £7000 a tax year, expensive but way more than pays for himself =p

scorpiic venom - I don't mean this in the wrong way but you don't know what you are doing, I run my own company and know the level of work that is involved. For starters you have to register the company with companies house if you are in England or whom ever it is if you are in the USA, next, you will be employing people, you have to work out their salleries and even if things are going bad you still have to pay them that sallery. Also, you will be a national company and accepting payments world-wide, you need a specific type of bank account to do this and believe me, they charge a fortune for that service. Next, you have to abide by the laws of the country the person working for you resides in, for example if you hired somone from England you would have to pay their National Insurance (comes out at source). You also need to be able to calculate all your overheads and tax for the year and then pay an accountant to go over them, again, thats about £600 ($850), and then you have to pay your tax ontop of all that. You have posted here stating you are starting a company, have you registered it, chosen a name, secured a bank account, tax number, certificates of registration, stocks and shares certifications and market valuation, have you even decided whether to go limited or not? If not do you have assets to ofset against the company? Do you have a business plan, do you have the relevant skills to assess each coder you hire for each section to determine their skill level? Do you have the relevant skill to create a secure website like this? Do you understand the costs and complications of accepting over-seas payments and paying over-seas workers? Go down to your local lawyers firm and have a consultation with the accountant there, seriosly, if you do not know 100% what you are doing before you start you are going to enter a world of...poo. Starting a company is not something that should be done just on a whim, it has REAL consequences, go self employed for 6 months first, see if the website actually generates anything before you land yourself in thousands of pounds worth of debt and black listed from having a bank account due to bankrupcy.