Freelancers Forum Messages on Tuesday April 4th 2000
Credit card payment clearing
date posted 4th April 2000 22:36
FTAO Kif and all others on CC subject - you may be interested in the
following.
I am an Accredited Partner for the Worldpay Online clearing system - this is
not spam, I have been following the mail...
Re: FN-FORUM credit card acceptance
date posted 4th April 2000 22:22
My partner paints glass for a living, she's really quite good at it. At any
one time she may have between 10 - 20 different products for sale at
different prices ranging between 3 - 50 quid. I wanted...
Re: FN-FORUM credit card acceptance
date posted 4th April 2000 22:14
Well I appreciate martin's comments, but why should we leave it to the banks
to make all the money anyway? Barclays charge a bloody small fortune to set
up online C/C facilities... and I'm still sure...
Re: FN-FORUM credit card acceptance
date posted 4th April 2000 21:48
Martin's not entirely correct... I've just read thru' our agreement.
Certainly my company's responsible for anything that goes wrong, and the
procedure we need to follow is quite tight. However, I ca...
Re: FN-FORUM Freelancers meeting in the real world
date posted 4th April 2000 21:47
[On behalf of Shawn Seabrook, [EMAIL REMOVED]
I find myself doing more lurking than contributing at the moment, not
the lists fault, but my own so I would be really interested in a
meeting, preferra...
Contract Work
date posted 4th April 2000 21:46
[Edited on behalf of paul_hill, [EMAIL REMOVED]
> If anyone is short of work - do some contracting - the
> money is silly.
I would love to do contract work but maybe my approch is all wrong,
what s...
Re: FN-FORUM credit card acceptance
date posted 4th April 2000 21:16
Hmmm, I'm sure your right Martin, funny though, someone told me the very
same thing 3 YEARS AGO, lol
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From: Martin [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Re: FN-FORUM Freelance Rules etc. (UK)
date posted 4th April 2000 21:06
Chris Dillon wrote on 4/4/00 10:31 am
>and not have to
>open a business account (business charges for writing cheques etc.).
Depends. Some banks are pretty good to (very) small businesses, and
may...
Re: FN-FORUM credit card acceptance
date posted 4th April 2000 21:06
kif wrote on 4/4/00 3:41 pm
>I often have clients asking me about bureau services, there seems to be a
>very limited choice of these services available in the UK and many smaller
>businesses and fol...
Re: FN-FORUM Digest V1 #30
date posted 4th April 2000 21:06
Nic Smith wrote on 4/4/00 9:50 am
>There is nothing worse than seeing some HTML coding in an e-mail. Please
>send your e-mails in RTF.
PLAIN TEXT dammit. The only excuse if if you're working onsite...
Re: FN-FORUM credit card acceptance
date posted 4th April 2000 21:06
Tony Roberts wrote on 4/4/00 7:34 pm
>I'm curious about this. It seems too easy to do, but no-one's doing it!
>There may be some substantial risks of default, perhaps, but it would be
>possible to s...
Re: FN-FORUM Freelance Rules etc. (UK)
date posted 4th April 2000 21:06
Ryan Mawby wrote on 4/4/00 9:26 am
>1. Can a freelancer operate under a business name that is not registered,
>basically the same as a sole proprieter?
Yes, but life will be harder. Being a Ltd Comp...
Re: FN-FORUM Flash Help
date posted 4th April 2000 20:30
To create a flash intro you do it in the same scene, make it about 30 frames
long and in that 30 frames design the intro animation you want. You then
want to dump about 75% of your library items in a...
Re: FN-FORUM Freelance Rules etc. (UK)
date posted 4th April 2000 20:13
> Just make sure it's not been registered already - there are
> web-based directories you can use to check.
Check out:
http://www.companieshouse.co.uk/frame.cgi?OPT=free
They have a database of al...
Re: FN-FORUM Confirmation email
date posted 4th April 2000 19:58
> Can anyone tell me how to send a confirmation email to a user who
> just subscribed to a newsletter or such.
Here's how you could do it in Perl / CGI on *nix:
# Make sure the path is correct
op...
Re: FN-FORUM credit card acceptance
date posted 4th April 2000 19:46
Hi Kif... I thought it may have been you, but couldn't find the original.
I'm curious about this. It seems too easy to do, but no-one's doing it!
There may be some substantial risks of default, perh...
Confirmation email
date posted 4th April 2000 16:19
Can anyone tell me how to send a confirmation email to a user who just
subscribed to a newsletter or such.
Thanks again,
Ryan....
Re: FN-FORUM credit card acceptance
date posted 4th April 2000 15:47
I often have clients asking me about bureau services, there seems to be a
very limited choice of these services available in the UK and many smaller
businesses and folk wishing to sell items from the...
Re: FN-FORUM credit card acceptance
date posted 4th April 2000 15:28
I've got a currently unused but active credit card trader account.
A couple of weeks back, someone wrote to me saying:
>I would actually be quite interested in witing a bureau script. I have a
>sec...
RE: FN-FORUM HTML email
date posted 4th April 2000 13:47
Thanks Tony,
I went to download it, but, it is only for Windows (I'm using an iMac).
peter
http://www.avatarnets.com
>> Is there any solution? What kind of mail reader reads the
>> formatted text...
Re: FN-FORUM HTML email
date posted 4th April 2000 13:41
http://home.europa.com/~turoczy/flash_tut02.html
Regards
Phil Ward
Crescent Graphics
[EMAIL REMOVED]
www.crescent-graphics.co.uk
New Media Internet Visuals
Take a look at our latest site launch...
Re: FN-FORUM Flash Help
date posted 4th April 2000 13:32
I normally just make the animation the first scene and do an if frame loaded
on the last frame of the last scene.
Hope this helps
Richard Fuller
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From: Ryan Mawby [EMAIL R...
RE: FN-FORUM HTML email
date posted 4th April 2000 13:17
> Is there any solution? What kind of mail reader reads the
> formatted text
> properly?
Can't help with the mail reader, but there is a utility that will clean
up messages to make reading them easi...
Flash Help
date posted 4th April 2000 13:11
Hi,
Do you create a pre-loader anim for flash actually as the first scene of the
movie or as its own symbol and insert it into the new frame of the movie?
I had created a pre-loading anim as a new...
Re: FN-FORUM Freelance Rules etc. (UK)
date posted 4th April 2000 12:07
Ryan,
Yes ... and yes, in my experience.
I've been freelancing for nearly 7 years as a sole trader. Having a business
name (Fishbone) gives the opportunity for an interesting identity that is
memor...
Re: FN-FORUM
date posted 4th April 2000 11:49
I would like to help with contract work.
PAUL HILL
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From: "Paul Bradforth" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 12:17 AM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM...
Re: FN-FORUM Web Design
date posted 4th April 2000 11:45
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Re: FN-FORUM
date posted 4th April 2000 11:41
I would love to do contract work but maybe my approch is all wrong, what
should i be doing?
PAUL HILL
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From: "Paul Bradforth" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Tue...
Re: FN-FORUM Web Design
date posted 4th April 2000 11:25
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Re: FN-FORUM Web Design
date posted 4th April 2000 11:21
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Re: FN-FORUM Freelance Rules etc. (UK)
date posted 4th April 2000 11:12
Hi Ryan
1 Yes, you can operate under any name you like. Just make sure it's not
been registered already - there are web-based directories you can use to
check. There's nothing illegal about this,...
Re: FN-FORUM Freelancers meeting in the real world
date posted 4th April 2000 11:12
And also a great excuse to get legless....
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From: Peter Small [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 10:21 AM
Subject: FN-FORUM Freelancers me...
Re: FN-FORUM Web Design
date posted 4th April 2000 11:00
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Re: FN-FORUM Freelancers meeting in the real world
date posted 4th April 2000 10:41
I find myself doing more lurking than contributing at the moment, not the
lists fault, but my own so I would be really interested in a meeting,
preferrably London.
My £0.05
Shawn
> Real life meeti...
Re: FN-FORUM Digest V1 #30
date posted 4th April 2000 10:40
Nic,
> Part 1.2 Type: application/ms-tnef
> Encoding: base64
Don't take this personally but another annoying thing is attachments/e-cards
etc. re. above. You never know what's in th...
Re: FN-FORUM Freelance Rules etc. (UK)
date posted 4th April 2000 10:33
> 1. Can a freelancer operate under a business name that is not registered,
> basically the same as a sole proprieter?
Not entirely sure of the legalities, but I've been trading (unregistered) for 6...
Freelancers meeting in the real world
date posted 4th April 2000 10:26
"Peter McCormack" wrote:
>Anyway there is a reason for this message - I was
>thinking about this First Tuesday thing that happens every month and I was
>wondering is there any kind of gathering for...
Subject Headers Again
date posted 4th April 2000 10:17
Dear all,
One member of this list seems to be ignoring all pleas to use subject
headers.
You must have read the mails recently about this - is there a reason that
you won't use them?
Please use th...
Re: FN-FORUM Freelance Rules etc. (UK)
date posted 4th April 2000 10:04
Hi Ryan,
> Could someone help clear up these queries please as I am fairly new for to
> the freelance game. I am based in the UK.
>
> 1. Can a freelancer operate under a business name that is not re...
Web Design
date posted 4th April 2000 09:53
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Re: FN-FORUM Digest V1 #30
date posted 4th April 2000 09:52
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I agree with Dan's comments about HTML text e-mails and quotes.
There is nothing...
Freelance Rules etc. (UK)
date posted 4th April 2000 09:33
Hi,
Could someone help clear up these queries please as I am fairly new for to
the freelance game. I am based in the UK.
1. Can a freelancer operate under a business name that is not registered,
ba...
Re: FN-FORUM
date posted 4th April 2000 08:08
Unfortunately I am working at their premises as its different work
everyday - but I am hoping to convince them that I would be better working
from home.
Peter McCormack
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Re: FN-FORUM
date posted 4th April 2000 00:21
On 3/4/00 at 8:08 pm, Peter McCormack [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Anyway I have just done my first days contracting (I never realised I was
> worth so much). If anyone is short of work - do some contr...
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