Freelancers Forum Messages on Tuesday January 30th 2001
FN-FORUM Buying a Mac in the UK
date posted 30th January 2001 23:34
Macwarehouse is probably the most reasonable new but if you look at
www.macuser.co.uk (or buy the magazine) look in the classified and they do
some good secondhand macs that'll do the job.
--
Lind...
Re: FN-FORUM updateable pages
date posted 30th January 2001 22:49
Hi David
Out of interest, I saw that you mentioned a copy of Dreamweaver as one
solution. I assume that you meant just getting the client to buy a copy and
then providing them with training/templat...
Re: FN-FORUM updateable pages
date posted 30th January 2001 21:53
That's a tricky one as there are many solutions from a portal site through
to a copy of Dreamweaver. Personally I use the database approach but it
isn't suitable for everything. If you have an exampl...
Re: FN-FORUM Burning a Mac in the UK
date posted 30th January 2001 21:53
> only kidding
Jokes like that only work on the initiated .... ;-)
Steve...
Re: FN-FORUM Buying a Mac in the UK
date posted 30th January 2001 21:49
Garrett
> I bought mine through the Apple web site, however I'm not going to
> recommend them. Have a word with the guys over at http://www.shaye.co.uk/
> . It's a family run business over in Waltha...
Re: FN-FORUM Buying a Mac in the UK
date posted 30th January 2001 21:43
Hi Rick
> I am holding out for iFusion - a PPC Mac emulator - much cheaper
>
> Rick
I have searched numerous places and not found this anywhere.
Truthfully I don't fancy using an Emulator..... but...
Re: FN-FORUM Buying a Mac in the UK
date posted 30th January 2001 21:39
Ruth,
> Hmm, seems a bit extravagant - buying a Mac just to test stuff
> cross-platform...
Not if I want to remain productive in any way.
>
> Personally I'd go down the route of finding a mate wh...
Re: FN-FORUM updateable pages
date posted 30th January 2001 21:36
Jo
A few of our clients also requested a mechanism for updating the content on
their websites without requiring a knowledge of HTML. I have the following
links from our search for a solution:
http...
Re: FN-FORUM Burning a Mac in the UK
date posted 30th January 2001 21:35
only kidding
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From: Rick [Kitty5] [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Buying a Mac in the UK
>
>
> > No...
spell checker
date posted 30th January 2001 21:20
< Hanks Paul..
You are right about the spell checker. > Tee Hee......
If I've got a few mins tomorrow I'll check it over for you - css compliance
is still not what it should be. Cheers,
Paul
P J W...
Re: FN-FORUM Digest V1 #535
date posted 30th January 2001 21:16
On Tuesday, January 30, 2001, Chris Allen [EMAIL REMOVED] said:
>>"David Nye" [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>>I am still unclear whether it is inadvisable to use the URL format
>>http://domain.com as short...
RE: FN-FORUM ultradev shopping cart
date posted 30th January 2001 21:01
Hanks Paul..
You are right about the spell checker. Just wanted to see how the design
would come out first of all and then build from there
The logo bit at the top I am not sure why its got that bo...
Re: FN-FORUM Buying a Mac in the UK
date posted 30th January 2001 20:58
Ruth wrote:
>Hmm, seems a bit extravagant - buying a Mac just to test stuff
>cross-platform...
I'd have thought it essential for anyone, let alone a developer to have
both a PC and a Mac. I always...
Re: FN-FORUM Buying a Mac in the UK
date posted 30th January 2001 20:56
On Tuesday, January 30, 2001, "Steve Howard" [EMAIL REMOVED] said:
>Now that I am working for myself, it looks like I'm going to need to buy a
>Mac so I can test cross-platform stuff.
>
>Where's a...
Re: FN-FORUM ultradev shopping cart
date posted 30th January 2001 20:20
Welcome aboard, Mark. We just love to go off topic on this forum (as long as
it's not spam/blatant advertising, of course) and if that's your first site,
it's not bad. I'd just give it a thorough spe...
Re: FN-FORUM Access SQL Error
date posted 30th January 2001 20:00
Here's a long article on it.
HTH
Kathy
PSS ID Number: Q175168
Article last modified on 10-20-2000
WINDOWS:2.0,2.1,2.1 SP2,2.5,2.6; winnt:4.0,5.0
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Re: FN-FORUM TLDs
date posted 30th January 2001 20:00
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jo Hall" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 4:44 PM
Subject: FN-FORUM TLDs
> Does anyone know where I can get hold of a .ltd.uk...
Re: FN-FORUM Buying a Mac in the UK
date posted 30th January 2001 19:47
Hmm, seems a bit extravagant - buying a Mac just to test stuff
cross-platform...
Personally I'd go down the route of finding a mate who works on Macs and
then ask them nicely to check it for you......
Re: FN-FORUM Buying a Mac in the UK
date posted 30th January 2001 19:40
> Now that I am working for myself, it looks like I'm going to need to buy a
> Mac so I can test cross-platform stuff.
>
> Where's a good place to look for good prices on new and/or used Macs in
the...
ultradev shopping cart
date posted 30th January 2001 19:37
Hi all,
I'm newish to this community so please don't flame me in the event that this
message is off topic or something like that.
Basically I am creating my first commercial website called
www.comp...
Re: FN-FORUM E-commerce Shop requiring order templates from previous sessions
date posted 30th January 2001 19:27
Hi Steve,
If you have trouble tracking down a package that does exactly what you require, we have
produced an e-commerce product that we customise for clients. Please feel free to give
me a call if...
Buying a Mac in the UK
date posted 30th January 2001 19:14
Now that I am working for myself, it looks like I'm going to need to buy a
Mac so I can test cross-platform stuff.
Where's a good place to look for good prices on new and/or used Macs in the
UK - pr...
Re: FN-FORUM legal matters copy of my original email - for Morgan Richards
date posted 30th January 2001 18:39
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Re: FN-FORUM Access SQL Error
date posted 30th January 2001 18:27
David Nye wrote:
> For a start I would rename ID as CountryID and Name as CountryName, and
> ensure that CountryID is defined as primary key.
Doesn't make any difference. And yes, the initial field...
RE: FN-FORUM go to www
date posted 30th January 2001 18:18
At 17:50 30/01/01 , you wrote:
>I am still unclear whether it is inadvisable to use the URL format
>http://domain.com as shorthand, specifically for http://www.domain.com, in
>links, assuming that th...
Re: FN-FORUM TLDs
date posted 30th January 2001 18:16
From: "Jo Hall" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Does anyone know where I can get hold of a .ltd.uk tld?
Have a try at http://www.clicknames.net/
HTH
later
Martin Woollatt
Martin, Lincs, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1526 3...
RE: FN-FORUM go to www
date posted 30th January 2001 17:57
I am still unclear whether it is inadvisable to use the URL format
http://domain.com as shorthand, specifically for http://www.domain.com, in
links, assuming that the host supports it.
If the domain...
RE: FN-FORUM Access SQL Error
date posted 30th January 2001 17:57
For a start I would rename ID as CountryID and Name as CountryName, and
ensure that CountryID is defined as primary key.
David Nye
http://dnye.com
Business Systems, Database & Internet Applications...
Re: FN-FORUM TLDs
date posted 30th January 2001 17:45
> >...although not recommended for customer service etc etc etc!
>
> Hmmm, yes, I think I'll give them a miss. Any others?
You asked!............Oh and their total self indulgence in quoting number...
E-commerce Shop requiring order templates from previous sessions
date posted 30th January 2001 17:34
Can anyone help.
I have an existing client that wants an e-commerce site for 15,000 products.
Normally I would have used Actinic Business, but this doesn't do what he
requests and that is to keep tra...
RE: FN-FORUM TLDs
date posted 30th January 2001 17:27
>...although not recommended for customer service etc etc etc!
Hmmm, yes, I think I'll give them a miss. Any others?
I know I'm being lazy here, please indulge me!
Jo...
Re: FN-FORUM go to www
date posted 30th January 2001 17:24
On Tuesday, January 30, 2001, "David Nye" [EMAIL REMOVED] said:
>you can't be sure that the IP address for xxx.com and www.xxx.com will
>be the same in future.
>
>The safest bet is, no matter which...
Re: FN-FORUM TLDs
date posted 30th January 2001 17:20
> Does anyone know where I can get hold of a .ltd.uk tld?
http://uk2.net although not recommended for customer service etc etc etc!
J.C...
updateable pages
date posted 30th January 2001 17:14
I would like to start offering my clients a way of updating the content on
their web pages but I don't want to have to learn Perl/ASP/Java! Would
anyone be interested in this kind of work?
I have n...
RE: FN-FORUM Folder Creations
date posted 30th January 2001 16:56
I fully appreciate what you say. However, the point I was trying to make, is
that ASP's FSO is only reliable on 20% of current servers. The implication
being, that anyone running a non-IIS server who...
Re: FN-FORUM Folder Creations
date posted 30th January 2001 16:53
stephen, in addition to what you've already been told to get the full fso
abilities you'll need to get permissions set within your webspace, namely
the iwam and inetusr permissions.
i'll mail you an...
TLDs
date posted 30th January 2001 16:51
Does anyone know where I can get hold of a .ltd.uk tld?
Thanks
Jo Hall
Indigo Web Design
http://www.indigowebdesign.co.uk
Tel: 0118 9872911
Mb: 07740 864316...
RE: FN-FORUM Access SQL Error
date posted 30th January 2001 16:47
mark.
I have this problem on some of the ISPs not all. it has to do with write
permissions.
Duleep
At 04:20 PM 1/30/01 +0000, you wrote:
>mark,
>
>this means that the actuall mdb file has to hav...
RE: FN-FORUM Access SQL Error
date posted 30th January 2001 16:30
mark,
this means that the actuall mdb file has to have write permissions set, so
that it can write to the database file.
I doubt if this will get thru none of my other postings seem to! still c'est...
RE: FN-FORUM Folder Creations
date posted 30th January 2001 16:28
One thing about PHP is that it still has the stigma of being a
cheap/hobby language.
Compare the amount of PHP jobs (and the money they pay) to the
amount of ASP jobs (and likewise) and you'll get...
RE: FN-FORUM Folder Creations
date posted 30th January 2001 16:12
Cheers Andrew and David,
I shall read with intent and hopefully it shall all work. And David, just
because only 20% of servers are NT does not mean to say that there is only
20% distribution of asp...
Access SQL Error
date posted 30th January 2001 16:02
Anybody got any idea what this means...
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'
[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Operation must use an
updateable query.
This is the res...
RE: FN-FORUM Folder Creations
date posted 30th January 2001 15:34
I suspect it's contained within the file system object. However, please note
that it's OS-dependent... erm, that'd be Micro$oft dependent, actually!
http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/ASP/FSO/index.html...
Re: FN-FORUM Folder Creations
date posted 30th January 2001 15:25
Hi Stephen,
> I was wondering whether ASP is capable of running scripts that can create
> folders and files in a given directory on a server? Is this possible? If
so,
You need to look into the File...
Re: FN-FORUM strange happenings on puter
date posted 30th January 2001 15:11
Help files are fairly easy to do as long as you don't need to do
anything too clever. An understanding of rtf helps if you're doing
Winhelp, HTML help is more obvious. You can either buy a tool like...
Folder Creations
date posted 30th January 2001 15:08
Freelancers,
I was wondering whether ASP is capable of running scripts that can create
folders and files in a given directory on a server? Is this possible? If so,
where would be a good place of le...
RE: FN-FORUM pop up
date posted 30th January 2001 15:06
On 30 Jan 2001, at 14:05, Morgan Richards wrote:
> Who uses Macs here?
I use them as paperweights. Those little cubes are very handy in
draughty offices.
--
Tim....
RE: FN-FORUM Go to www
date posted 30th January 2001 14:55
you can't be sure that the IP address for xxx.com and www.xxx.com will
be
the same in future.
The safest bet is, no matter which way you do it, make sure the other
way
works as well.
So how do we r...
RE: FN-FORUM pop up
date posted 30th January 2001 14:39
> Morgan Richards asked....
>
> Who uses Macs here?
Only when it rains :-)
Marc...
RE: FN-FORUM pop up
date posted 30th January 2001 14:31
Who uses Macs here?...
Re: FN-FORUM legal matter
date posted 30th January 2001 14:26
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Re: FN-FORUM Go to www
date posted 30th January 2001 14:18
Hi David,
The use of prefixes provides flexibility for organisations and allows them to put
different services on different physical machines.
In theory, there's no reason why you couldn't just use...
Re: FN-FORUM Go to www
date posted 30th January 2001 14:15
On Tuesday, January 30, 2001, "BandWidth" [EMAIL REMOVED] said:
>Unfortunately, you still have to put them in if you them
>live in an email!
That all depends on the email client. The one I'm usin...
Re: FN-FORUM strange happenings on puter
date posted 30th January 2001 14:12
Sorry folks! It has been brought to my attention that I've inadvertantly
posted HTML email. I blame Microsoft for the whole situaution, as Outlook
has unilaterally decided it wanted a change! This in...
strange happenings on puter
date posted 30th January 2001 13:51
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pop up
date posted 30th January 2001 13:50
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othervision
date posted 30th January 2001 13:46
seems some people are having problems with othervisions site
I took a look and it opened straight away in a blank fullscreen page
also the site itself opens very smoothly - impressive site
graham...
RE: FN-FORUM legal matter
date posted 30th January 2001 13:30
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date posted 30th January 2001 13:30
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Re: FN-FORUM Go to www
date posted 30th January 2001 13:29
The simple answer though is that it works with some hosts and not with
others.
Regards
David
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Re: FN-FORUM Go to www
date posted 30th January 2001 13:17
Just asked my mate and he says the www. is the A record that forms part of
your domain name when it is set up across DNS servers. You can theoretically
set up loads of A records, ie: 'secure.yourdoma...
RE: FN-FORUM Go to www
date posted 30th January 2001 13:07
Simply because a it is a DOMAIN name. It can be more than one PC attached
so you could have websites running of multiple servers (running multiple
OSes, WWW servers, ect...).
So you may have macbet...
Re: FN-FORUM legal matter
date posted 30th January 2001 13:06
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RE: FN-FORUM Go to www
date posted 30th January 2001 13:04
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of David Nye
> Sent: 30 January 2001 12:39
> To: Freelancers General Forum
> Subject: FN-FORUM Go to www
>
>
> Are there...
RE: FN-FORUM freelance rates
date posted 30th January 2001 12:58
You have to trawl through I'm afraid. But I have been able to have 2 - 3
contracts going at the same time (at times), as long as the companies agree
to this.
from the desk of
Ray Baars.
Interne...
Re: FN-FORUM Go to www
date posted 30th January 2001 12:58
Unfortunately, you still have to put them in if you them
live in an email!
Ema
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RE: FN-FORUM freelance rates
date posted 30th January 2001 12:45
> there are also jobs posted that involve just 2 - 3 days per week, or even
> tele-working at Jobserve
How do you search for them? Or do you have to read each posting?
Apologies for not noticing my...
Go to www
date posted 30th January 2001 12:45
Are there any issues regarding the use of the www. prefix in site entry
points?
I always ensure that my domains work with or without, and generally
publicise, and link to, the shorter version. Are t...
RE: FN-FORUM freelance rates
date posted 30th January 2001 11:44
David,
there are also jobs posted that involve just 2 - 3 days per week, or even
tele-working at Jobserve, although there may have to be a commitment to
doing some days as 'bums on seats'.
from...
RE: FN-FORUM legal matter - please help
date posted 30th January 2001 11:09
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Re: FN-FORUM Crapscape 4.75 Test
date posted 30th January 2001 11:07
Hi Damian,
You probably just got to it after I fixed the border as Mark I think pointed
out.
Thanks for the input chaps
Ade...
Re: FN-FORUM Crapscape 4.75 Test
date posted 30th January 2001 10:39
Hi Ade, well it worked for me in NN 4.7 and IE, I'm wondering whether you
may have a problem with it being rendered with gaps because theres 4 images
which dont have the width and height attributes?...
RE: FN-FORUM freelance rates
date posted 30th January 2001 10:04
All work I found on jobserve.com was full-time on-site, which I call
"contract" rather than "freelance". Was I not looking in the right place?
David Nye
http://dnye.com
Business Systems, Database &...
legal matters copy of my original email - for Morgan Richards
date posted 30th January 2001 09:36
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Re: FN-FORUM Crapscape 4.75 Test
date posted 30th January 2001 09:22
how about adding border="0" into the table tag? Incidently everyone, please
stop winging about netscape. If you don't want to develop for it that is
your own choice - I develop for both ns and m$ a...
Flash Screensaver
date posted 30th January 2001 09:09
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RE: FN-FORUM legal matter - please help
date posted 30th January 2001 09:00
did you implicitly state that this WAS a scam? or just say it could be?
There is a great deal of diffrence between them
Morganif neccesary...
Crapscape 4.75 Test
date posted 30th January 2001 07:56
Hiya,
I have a little script I`m developing for a client, it works well in IE and
Crapscape 6.0 but in 4.75 it is putting gaps between the images, I know there
is a solution because I have fixed i...
Re: FN-FORUM legal matter - please help
date posted 30th January 2001 07:51
I would agree with Nick, the fact that it was already published elsewhere
helps you out, simply email him and tell him that your information was a
direct quote from elsewhere and if he has a beef a...
RE: FN-FORUM legal matter - please help
date posted 30th January 2001 04:12
As far as I'm aware if he wanted to take you to court he would have to prove
he isn't "dodgy" in order to win the case which would probably mean he would
have to prove he didn't send unsolicited e-ma...
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