Freelancers Forum Messages on Monday October 1st 2001
Re: FN-FORUM old versions of IE
date posted 1st October 2001 23:57
I seem to recall when IE5 came out you could choose to keep your
installation of IE4 along side it. Never saw it again with 5.5 or 6, so I
think MS decided to abandon this handy little piece of funct...
RE: FN-FORUM 256colours NT4
date posted 1st October 2001 23:43
Sorry I'm getting confused. I forgot you were trying to get 256 colours ie
less colours. I dare say it must be possible to get less than 16 bit
Hicolor, otherwise you wouldn't be able to go into Wind...
JS - Form to popup?
date posted 1st October 2001 22:45
Feeling very DUH this evening
I have a form button, that when pressed should open a popup, and submit said
form to said popup. simple stuff but I cannot for the life of me get it to
work
could some...
Re: FN-FORUM old versions of IE
date posted 1st October 2001 22:45
> does anyone know where I can get an old version of IE (3/4) for windows?
>
> also..... what are the implications for installing it alongside IE 6 on
winMe?
I have found VMWare very very usefull fo...
Re: FN-FORUM OT Flights (help)
date posted 1st October 2001 22:29
Thanks to everyone who looked into flights for me.
Thankfully she got a flight for £500 and leaves tommorrow. I sent her a
bunch of links but I don't want to go bothering her to find out which one...
RE: FN-FORUM flash into e-mail ?
date posted 1st October 2001 22:28
Richard,
Puttin a flash file into an email follows the excat same process as that of
inserting jpg's or gifs into an email. The only thing is that you really are
not inserting a flash file more so r...
Re: FN-FORUM Views please
date posted 1st October 2001 22:10
Its a good idea, but I really would like to design my site, myself as I kind
of example of what I can do! Or where you just taking the piss in that
email!?
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Re: FN-FORUM Views please
date posted 1st October 2001 22:08
Youll have to ignore any kind of coding for this site whatsoever, as I said,
the original I did in 30 mins in Dreamweaver, normally I write the HTML code
by hand, of course using stylesheets. I don't...
Re: FN-FORUM Views please
date posted 1st October 2001 22:06
Thanks Iain, Im working on it.
Most of my photography / actually all of it is still at my old school as I
had to leave it there to be marked for my A-Level, Ill have to go and get it
and get scannin...
RE: FN-FORUM Views please
date posted 1st October 2001 22:00
Ewan - I agree - lots of design talent there and, like Iain says, you open
yourself up for the obvious criticism with the small fonts (which is
precisely what I picked up on straight away) - I feel g...
Re: FN-FORUM old versions of IE
date posted 1st October 2001 21:48
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> >> does anyone know where I c...
Re: FN-FORUM Views please
date posted 1st October 2001 21:48
If I were you I would refuse to work for yourself or, if you still want the
contract, charge yourself a higher fee. If that won't work, go to tight
briefs and offer £15.00 for an 8 page site. Get th...
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date posted 1st October 2001 21:48
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Re: FN-FORUM Views please
date posted 1st October 2001 21:41
You have a lot of design talent, ewan, so don't throw out sites for view if
you know that their is one issue that will be picked up by everyone, i.e.
the small fonts. Can I suggest that you use an ex...
Re: FN-FORUM Views please
date posted 1st October 2001 21:36
Ewan
1. put more of your photography work online.
2. make it the 'readable version'
3. apart from that it's nice.
Iain
('nice' is not as bad as it sounds!!!)
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Re: FN-FORUM old versions of IE
date posted 1st October 2001 21:28
>> does anyone know where I can get an old version of IE (3/4) for windows?
>>
>> also..... what are the implications for installing it alongside IE 6 on
>>winMe?
>you cant !!!
probably being...
Re: FN-FORUM Comments Please
date posted 1st October 2001 21:26
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RE: FN-FORUM 256colours NT4
date posted 1st October 2001 21:08
I only have 16 bit as an option??? and can select 1024x768
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RE: FN-FORUM old versions of IE
date posted 1st October 2001 20:32
Look for them on old coverdiscs off maganazines...
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Matthew Russell
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RE: FN-FORUM old versions of IE
date posted 1st October 2001 20:10
browsers galore: http://browsers.evolt.org/
Mike
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Re: FN-FORUM old versions of IE
date posted 1st October 2001 19:54
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Subject: FN-FORUM old versions of IE
> does anyone know where I can get...
RE: FN-FORUM flash into e-mail ?
date posted 1st October 2001 19:04
This should hopefully work :...
old versions of IE
date posted 1st October 2001 18:51
does anyone know where I can get an old version of IE (3/4) for windows?
also..... what are the implications for installing it alongside IE 6 on winMe?
yours,
Michael Fish...
RE: FN-FORUM Views please
date posted 1st October 2001 18:08
MEZ: Nods in agreement..!
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flash into e-mail ?
date posted 1st October 2001 17:31
Does anyone know or give me any pointers about
inserting a flash movie into an e-mail ? when the
e-mail opens it plays the movie,would it be possible
to add it as a signature ?
cheers,
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Re: FN-FORUM Views please
date posted 1st October 2001 17:26
does anyone else find this, or is it just me?
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Re: FN-FORUM Views please
date posted 1st October 2001 17:26
But whats the solution? This is really starting to p*ss me off, its been the
same problem for years
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RE: FN-FORUM Copyright
date posted 1st October 2001 17:20
Don't know about the domain issue but with regards to the copyright of the
site itself, if there was a contract between the company and the designer of
the site, this is the first place to check abou...
Re: FN-FORUM Views please
date posted 1st October 2001 17:07
I would get used to it mate, you will always be the hardest client to please
on 10/1/01 3:25 PM, Ewan Rayment at [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> This is just getting depressing. I don't ever have so much...
RE: FN-FORUM Comments Please
date posted 1st October 2001 16:40
Anyone else got any comments on http://www.clickitstudios.com/newdesign
????
Best Regards
>>> Andrew
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Phone: 07748 655 513 - Fax: 0870 168 8552
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Re: FN-FORUM Views please
date posted 1st October 2001 16:32
This is just getting depressing. I don't ever have so much trouble designing
for other people, but when it comes to my own site it takes me ages and I
can't get it right.
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Re: FN-FORUM Views please
date posted 1st October 2001 16:31
Ok, this is how I do it.
Create some text, then highlight it, or select the text box. Then go to the
"Text Options" window (Window > Panels > Text Options) there is a tick box
for "Use device fonts"...
Re: FN-FORUM Views please
date posted 1st October 2001 16:05
Do tell
Steve
on 10/1/01 2:36 PM, Ewan Rayment at [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Nick you mean have some text anti-alias and some text not anti-alias in one
> movie? It is possible, if thats what you me...
Re: FN-FORUM Views please
date posted 1st October 2001 16:03
I guess it is just one of those thing mate, we see things we like and they
get lodged in our subconscious, I guess the only thing you can do is
constantly review your design if it starts to go offlin...
Re: FN-FORUM Copyright
date posted 1st October 2001 15:52
This is very tricky as the domain name is technically "owned" by the ISP. If
the ISP wont cooperate then the client could try and get the name transfered
to them by the relevant naming authority. If...
Re: FN-FORUM Views please
date posted 1st October 2001 15:45
Nick you mean have some text anti-alias and some text not anti-alias in one
movie? It is possible, if thats what you meant let me know and Ill explain
how.
Sorry if its not what you meant.
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Re: FN-FORUM Views please
date posted 1st October 2001 15:45
Thanks for the views Mez, when I said that everyone should change their res
I was only joking, I wouldn't expect anyone to change their res to view my
site. Basically Im just trying out different ide...
Re: FN-FORUM Views please
date posted 1st October 2001 15:44
Yes, and rather suprisingly similar to hillmancurtis.com - but honestly I
didn't mean to rip them off :( I hopefully have some originality in my
styles... although Im starting to think otherwise!
Al...
RE: FN-FORUM OT Flights (help)
date posted 1st October 2001 15:08
Bob has asked me to say thanks for all the responses to his question.
Apparantly she's got her flight, although I don't know who through. No
doubt when he's in front of a computer again he'll let us...
Re: FN-FORUM Not my day today...
date posted 1st October 2001 15:04
Wow! This msg took 2 mths to arrive ;c)
Em
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Re: FN-FORUM OT Flights (help)
date posted 1st October 2001 14:52
Hi,
You could also try lastminute.com they cover everywhere and offer good
discounts on journeys that take place within 15 days of purchasing.
Ade...
Re: FN-FORUM OT Flights (help)
date posted 1st October 2001 14:46
www.flightline.co.uk
www.cheapflights.com
www.flightsavers.co.uk
...and if you find any cheap flights to Dalaman (Turkey) on 1st June, lemme
know!
Em
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RE: FN-FORUM Views please
date posted 1st October 2001 14:43
The design is nice and clean I like it, but as a concept I think it will
only work if it is made to fill the screen at whatever res the viewer has.
I think It would work better in Flash since it is...
RE: FN-FORUM working with 2 databases in Access
date posted 1st October 2001 14:34
Create a link, linking the table from one database into the other, than use
the tables within the one database. Depending on the programming language
you could probably even do it using DDL (Data Def...
RE: FN-FORUM OT Flights (help)
date posted 1st October 2001 14:24
www.holidaysbyphone.com do good last minute flights, to all sorts of places
and very cheap, last one i bought was £65 return to tenerife!....anyway if u
want answers quick, phone them rather than t...
RE: FN-FORUM Views please
date posted 1st October 2001 14:23
Hey Ewan,
Just had a quick look, it is nice (personally I like it a lot)but reminded
me a hell of a lot of the old k10k site
probably doesn't help but hey
Steve...
RE: FN-FORUM OT Flights (help)
date posted 1st October 2001 14:18
Try these Bob
http://www.cheapflights.com/cgi-bin/reload/dep/Moscow_dep.html
http://www.flights-to.co.uk/flights_to_Moscow.htm
H...
RE: FN-FORUM Comments Please
date posted 1st October 2001 14:15
LOL, I thought that the game was supposed to have been a good one though -
apart from the result of course
Martin Kellie
ICQ: 11219980
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RE: FN-FORUM 256colours NT4
date posted 1st October 2001 14:14
Ah I can see what you problem is now and have come across this myself.
If you can only get 16 bit which is 65000 colours it most likely means that
your monitor, video card, or driver doesn't support...
RE: FN-FORUM working with 2 databases in Access
date posted 1st October 2001 14:13
> I am trying to work with two databases in MS Access
> 2000 - actually i have to pass data from one database
> to other ...any suggestions
Hi Kashif,
It really depends on what your requirements ar...
Copyright
date posted 1st October 2001 14:11
I'm getting a number of clients now where they've got sites from cowboy
outfits and have asked me to fix them.
I'd appreciate yours views -
One client bought a domain name from company, the compan...
RE: FN-FORUM OT Flights (help)
date posted 1st October 2001 14:08
Check out http://www.cheapflight.com - they cover Moscow. Cheapest flights
are always round trip so, even if your friend doesn't intend returning to
the UK, it would probably be cheaper to buy a rou...
RE: FN-FORUM OT Flights (help)
date posted 1st October 2001 14:02
Try http://www.teletextholidays.co.uk/
Mark
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RE: FN-FORUM Views please
date posted 1st October 2001 13:50
Not annoying, no.
As far as the site goes I like it but, you seem to have sacrificed function
for design in the readability stakes, i.e. the text is a tad bit too small I
think its the lighter grey...
OT Flights (help)
date posted 1st October 2001 13:44
Afternoon,
I need info on cheap flights to moscow a.s.a.p. A friends grandmother
passed away today and she needs to get home on a shoestring.
Any help gratefully recieved.
Bob....
Re: FN-FORUM Views please
date posted 1st October 2001 13:43
okokok, apart from the tiny font... I know!!
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Re: FN-FORUM Views please
date posted 1st October 2001 13:43
Actually, everyone switch their res to 640*480 - its readable then! Agh,
only joking. Im not going to change it now, but prob will redo the whole
thing in a bit anyway.
I need someone to code for me...
Re: FN-FORUM Views please
date posted 1st October 2001 13:38
lol
Ive had enough of this game!!
I knew it was unreadable so I put unreadable, because it is unreadable which
is probably best as its all totall b*llocks anyway.
Aghhh, and now everything has gone...
RE: FN-FORUM Views please
date posted 1st October 2001 13:37
Love the overall look and fell, very clean.
Just a couple of comments.
* Very very small text. I found it a struggle to read it.
* Found some of the pages had very little on them.
* 404 Error...
Re: FN-FORUM Views please
date posted 1st October 2001 13:33
> Ewan - at the top right hand corner you've got "unreadable version" - I
> don't know if that's intentional but, to be honest, most of it IS
> unreadable!!!
>
You took the words right out of my mout...
RE: FN-FORUM Views please
date posted 1st October 2001 13:32
Font is way too small
Martin Kellie
ICQ: 11219980
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Re: FN-FORUM Comments Please
date posted 1st October 2001 13:31
I'm not sure whether I like the flickering rollover, although it is a
novelty - so I've taken the liberty of piching the JS file to have a play
round with ;-)
On the Services->Technologies sub headin...
RE: FN-FORUM Views please
date posted 1st October 2001 13:24
W2K IE5.0 1024x768 16bit ADSL
Ewan - at the top right hand corner you've got "unreadable version" - I
don't know if that's intentional but, to be honest, most of it IS
unreadable!!!
the text is way...
RE: FN-FORUM Comments Please
date posted 1st October 2001 13:21
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Views please
date posted 1st October 2001 13:03
Can I have your view on an update please?
http://www.thestrangeorange.com
Also, if Im driving you mad by asking you lot all the time, please tell me.
Regards
Ewan....
Comments Please
date posted 1st October 2001 12:57
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Can I have comme...
RE: FN-FORUM FTP Transfer
date posted 1st October 2001 12:45
ooh er ! so you can !!
Anyway, whichever way it's done .... it's a whole lot better than
Dreamweaver's FTP facility - that is so SLOW !!
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Re: FN-FORUM thought
date posted 1st October 2001 12:40
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RE: FN-FORUM FTP Transfer
date posted 1st October 2001 12:14
Sorry, I'm afraid you can drag and drop with FTP in IE.
But if it makes you feel any better I didn't realise that it would make an
entry in My Network Places so you *have* taught me something new :)...
RE: FN-FORUM Host Headering
date posted 1st October 2001 12:05
It makes no difference whatsoever if the IPs are all on the same machine
(which they must be if Host Headering/Virtual Hosting is an option) as the
attack will slow the whole machine down, thus I'd g...
Comments Please
date posted 1st October 2001 11:20
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Can I have comme...
RE: FN-FORUM thought
date posted 1st October 2001 10:39
Iain,
I like your thinking and am very much of the same opinion, we ned to keep
as much business ni our own locality as it generally ensures prosperity for
your area. Also most of our customers are...
RE: FN-FORUM FTP Transfer
date posted 1st October 2001 09:55
Sorry - didn't mean to infer otherwise but I was trying to get across the
point that you can use the functionality and drag & drop etc in WE for FTP
which I don't believe can be done with IE ?!
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RE: FN-FORUM FTP Transfer
date posted 1st October 2001 09:34
IE and WE are the same thing when you are dealing with and protocols in the
TCP/IP suite, try connecting to a machine using IE, then go and look in My
Network Places, as if by magic it's there smilin...
RE: FN-FORUM 256colours NT4
date posted 1st October 2001 08:51
> I only have 16 bit in the settings so presumably I need to
> install the drivers...is there a set procedure?
I don't have NT4, but win2k which is similar.
IIRC you need to go to Control Panel : D...
FN-FORUM 256colours
date posted 1st October 2001 07:31
Andrew - did you not see the earlier postings from myself and others
regarding drivers ?! See below - this would hopefully sort out the problem
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Re: FN-FORUM 256colours
date posted 1st October 2001 07:30
It would seem like either your monitor does not support a greater range of
colours or you need a different driver.
Iain
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RE: FN-FORUM 256colours NT4 office 2000
date posted 1st October 2001 07:30
I have NT4 installed...do I need to go throught the NT4 installation to set
the drivers? Presuming the graphics card/adapter is built in to the mother
board where will I find which one it is, or do...
RE: FN-FORUM 256colours NT4
date posted 1st October 2001 07:30
I only have 16 bit in the settings so presumably i need to install the drivers...is there a set procedure?
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RE: FN-FORUM 256colours
date posted 1st October 2001 06:53
Checked the settings only 16 bit can be selected, there are no other options?
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