Site uploaded after many days

**andymack** · 21 August 2012, 12:44 AM

Hi skech, I am sure you are totally savvy already, but after my own painful experiences, the main image you have used is a Getty image and they are suing thousands of domain owners for unpaid royalties. Just an FYI to anyone on these forums.

**Cloud** · 21 August 2012, 01:03 AM

Been doing this for the last 20 or so years, we have many image cds and dvds purchased from places like getty and subscriptions to various stock libraries, also images supplied by the client are used all the time, our terms and conditions has a section on copyright and clients are made aware that they must have copyright.

But you are right to be cautious. A while back (5 or 6 years ago) we created an advert for a beautician and she supplied us an image via email, we replied to the email and got her to clarify that she held the copyright or contacted the owner - we do this and always have terms and conditions signed regarding copyright. a month or so later she phoned us up to say that she had been contacted by the image owner (another beautician) who had contacted her via solicitors and she told us that she had passed on our details (obviously thinking she could pass the buck and put the blame on us) we duly contacted the solicitor with a copy of the email from the client and a signed order form with terms and conditions. They replied back to apologise and took it further with the customer, we never heard back from her after that.

I for one am glad that they are doing this, it's about time some one did, after all if we have to pay thousands of pounds every year to these guys why should the copy and paste brigade get away with it. We have even passed on details of printers who have reused our images for a customer; as an example a client had some printing done from us and then we found that they had used the same design for an advert in a local magazine, as you can imagine we were not happy bunnies, so we contacted shutterstock to tell them and left it at that.

**thomas** · 21 August 2012, 12:03 PM

I got a question sketch. the background picture of the 2 security guys on the startpage is completly in the middle. When i want an image to be my background, I first need to cut a vertical stroke from the left side and paste it on the right side next to the image to make the whole image centered in browsers. How do you center it without cutting and editing? because its a lot of work

**Cloud** · 21 August 2012, 01:20 PM

The best way to do this is:

Create your image/photo and save as a jpeg and name it 'back' make sure that the size of this jpeg is no more than 100k
create a rectangle and go to web properties and in links link it to file and select the jpeg you created earlier
create a placeholder (rectangle) and paste the following code into the <head> section, if you have webdesigner 6 or earlier name the rectangle <head> if you have 7 or mx then place in head section changing the url to your domain - change the green text only.

<style type="text/css">
html {
background: url(http://www.yoursite.com/index_htm_files/back.jpg) no-repeat center center
fixed;
-webkit-background-size: cover;
-moz-background-size: cover;
-o-background-size: cover;
background-size: cover;
background-color:#0C0E0D;
}
</style>
<style>
#xr_xr {
margin-top: 30px;
}
</style>

When you upload the site to the server xara will automatically upload the image named back.jpg to the index_htm_files folder.

This will automatically center the image.

**Big Frank** · 21 August 2012, 10:11 PM

nice design sketch

as an aside nothing to do with the design according to companies house, you cannot use the word "royal" in a company name word unless the cabinet office confirms that it has no objection.

considering this company provides no information other than a mobile phone number it's not likely they would get that approval

mind you its not even a limited company

looks like one man and his dog and a couple of mobile phones

**Cloud** · 21 August 2012, 10:29 PM

I am told that they are a two man band with 25 employees and quite a lot of vehicles and some dogs. As for the name I'm sure Liz won't mind.

**Miko** · 27 August 2012, 09:00 PM

The name and logo implies that they are connected in some way to security for the Royals. It would not surprise me to hear that someone has been beating their front door down!

**Big Frank** · 27 August 2012, 09:30 PM

Originally Posted by skech

As for the name I'm sure Liz won't mind.

i'm sure she won't, but the overpaid civil servants who look after such matters might well mind

**KeithH** · 28 August 2012, 05:22 AM

Hi Skech,

I really like your site. I like everything about.

I did find one grammatical typo (I think) that you may want to look at correcting. It is on the Services page, on the right column, under the Private Client Work section. The sentence in question is :

Royal Security encourage our clients to take a proactive approach to their security, so reducing the likelihood of unwanted incidents and sparing them physical, emotional and financial distress if they do occur.

I believe "Royal Security encourage our clients to take...." should be "Royal Security encourages....."

Anyways, look it over. Great site; I wish I could make one that looks that nice.

Sincerely,
KeithH

**Big Frank** · 28 August 2012, 07:47 AM

I would tell the client I believe his company name could be illegal AFTER i've been paid for the work and that my suggestion would be to check it out with his solicitor

that way you've covered yourself and eased your conscience

@angelize this may apply in canada as well since you're a commonwealth country but since you're not a professional web designer it may not apply to you personally, it does certainly however apply to all designers designing for clients in england and wales

for the record, a web designer, in matters of web design and domain nomenclature, is not deemed to be the average man in the street, he is deemed to have a level of expertise in such matters above and beyond that expected of "the reasonable man"

therefore i would hesitate before brushing off the suggestion that a web designer is innocent of any tort perpetrated by his client's website or domain name

ianol but i have been in the hot seat often enough not to be rash in these matters