Freelancers Forum Messages on Saturday September 28th 2002
RE: FN-FORUM profession??
date posted 28th September 2002 23:46
That reminds me of Politician. No training needed. In fact it seems that the
less competance you have the higher you rise in the profession!!
Ian
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
[EM...
Re: FN-FORUM profession??
date posted 28th September 2002 22:30
Except me. I have no creative ability whatsoever and the design skills of a
desiccated frog. I also have no desire to be a leader or a millionaire
(which is just as well really).
++++++++++++++++++++...
Re: FN-FORUM profession??
date posted 28th September 2002 22:25
> ...is there ANY other profession where someone without any experience at
all
> considers themself a part of that profession?
Well, I got this off alt.world.leaders last year.
"Hi Everyone,
I'm ne...
Re: FN-FORUM profession??
date posted 28th September 2002 21:36
and whilst I have stars in their eyes in the background and the other pop
idol shite
-how about
SINGER??
Shaf
----- Original Message -----
From: "john anslow" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sen...
Re: FN-FORUM profession??
date posted 28th September 2002 21:36
how about artist?
EVERY one but EVERYone is one...
sigh...
Shaf
----- Original Message -----
From: "john anslow" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 5:12 PM
Subjec...
Re: FN-FORUM New BNI branches opening in Nottinghamshire
date posted 28th September 2002 18:51
Not bitter at all.. it was predictable ( an attribute of this particular
networking group :-) ... As users frequently point out this and many other
topics have been covered before.. check the archives...
Instantly Eliminate 60% Of Your
date posted 28th September 2002 18:19
...
Re: FN-FORUM New BNI branches opening in Nottinghamshire
date posted 28th September 2002 18:00
Let's not be bitter about quips. I respect the fact that other peoples
interests might be different to mine, and they might be right and I might be
wrong. That is what makes this forum enjoyable (for...
Re: FN-FORUM New BNI branches opening in Nottinghamshire
date posted 28th September 2002 17:52
Sort of.....
Actually, what happened was that alrge amounts of Euro and other money
distorted local networks so that people were more bothered about getting in
on 'projects' rather than doing busines...
FN-FORUM: Menu Problems :(
date posted 28th September 2002 17:48
Can anyone help me with the menu problem im having at the following address:
http://www.bcsgroup.co.uk/test/
The flash content is blocking the dynamic menu.
Anyone know how to solve it?
Thanks,...
RE: FN-FORUM New BNI branches opening in Nottinghamshire
date posted 28th September 2002 17:32
The Pain you refer to I presume is taking it up the arse from fellow Brown Nose
Interceptors
Andrew ;o
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
[EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Joe Pritchard
Sent:...
Re: FN-FORUM New BNI branches opening in Nottinghamshire
date posted 28th September 2002 17:19
Thanks Dave,
hehehe...I guess I feel pretty secure ignoring local networks in and around
Sheffield because in the years I tried to get involved I had a lot of pain
and little gain.
I agree - this fo...
RE: FN-FORUM E-Mail Question?!
date posted 28th September 2002 17:13
Thanks for that - although, Cathy, I never saw your original answer
(only the extract below) - this does happen on the forum from
time-to-time (as we all know!!) .... Would you be so kind as to send i...
Re: FN-FORUM profession??
date posted 28th September 2002 17:13
Yeah sure there are lots, how about builder, decorator or plasterer, my
dad always tells them that they're doing it wrong.
Gardener, car mechanic carpenter plumber oh the list is endless,
hopeless...
Re: FN-FORUM profession??
date posted 28th September 2002 17:12
On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 15:33, Paul J White wrote:
> ...is there ANY other profession where someone without any experience at all
> considers themself a part of that profession?
Builders/Plumbers etc?...
Re: FN-FORUM New BNI branches opening in Nottinghamshire
date posted 28th September 2002 16:57
Recommend you go to your local chapter of BNI as a visitor and see for
yourself. Other peoples experiences may not necessarily be that valid as
networking is a two way process...
BNI (for example) i...
RE: FN-FORUM netscape issues...
date posted 28th September 2002 16:49
hmmmm, thanks for that!!
so it pops up the window and says flash 6 detected?!? but you get nothing in
the popup? and you don't get the download macromedia flash player window?
have you got 6,0,47,0...
RE: FN-FORUM New BNI branches opening in Nottinghamshire
date posted 28th September 2002 16:39
At the risk of rehashing a thread that hit this list a while back - I
have no doubt that fellow back-scratchers do well out of it, my problem
is the first-come-first-served nature of the organisation....
profession??
date posted 28th September 2002 16:35
...is there ANY other profession where someone without any experience at all
considers themself a part of that profession? For example, I don't go to a
hospital or write into a journal about medicine...
Re: FN-FORUM CSS positioing question
date posted 28th September 2002 16:29
> cheers paul - figures that it'd be something a wee bit more complex
> vertical-align, i mean whats the point in making a developers life easy?
:)
>
God, that would never do! It's amazing you have to...
Re: FN-FORUM Best Printers
date posted 28th September 2002 16:25
> Don't mention Lexmark to me. Just had a terrible experience with a
> My adive would be to avoid like the plague. IMHO
>
We recently got a Lexmark from the freecolourprinter site, after Carla
recomme...
Re: FN-FORUM New BNI branches opening in Nottinghamshire
date posted 28th September 2002 16:25
Hi there,
Really interested in people's experiences of Networking in general.
I know that many network organsisations won't allow more than one or two
members in the same 'Chapter', 'Branch', 'Cave'...
Re: FN-FORUM problems
date posted 28th September 2002 15:41
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
------=_NextPart_000_0081_01C26705.11019910
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0082_01C26705.11019910"
------=_NextPart_...
RE: FN-FORUM problems
date posted 28th September 2002 15:20
Hi,
That's caused by not having set widths on the table cells which contain
the text.
Having looked at your code, I've noticed your table is pretty complex so
you might want to have a look at rebuil...
Re: FN-FORUM problems
date posted 28th September 2002 15:20
phil radford wrote:
> The text seems to look o.k in 1024 res but at 600x800 it goes into a
> huge long column.
> http://www.redwooddesigns.co.uk
Looks the same in each res in Moz - don't forget to s...
FN-FORUM Contact management and billing
date posted 28th September 2002 15:19
Hi Darren
i) Contact management - if your volumes are reasonably low, I
recommend that you use Outlook. It allows you to store
Names/Address/Telephone numbers/important, and you can set appointments,...
FN-FORUM problems
date posted 28th September 2002 15:08
Hi all,Got a problem with my own new site.The text seems to look o.k in 1024 res but at 600x800 it goes into a huge long column.How can I sort this out without losing the current style of the text...
Re: FN-FORUM CSS positioing question
date posted 28th September 2002 14:58
And the parent element that this inline element is going to be in the middle
of is? And its height is specified how? And what isn't working exactly? Note
that I said inline element...
+++++++++++++++...
Re: FN-FORUM CSS positioing question
date posted 28th September 2002 14:46
cheers paul - figures that it'd be something a wee bit more complex
vertical-align, i mean whats the point in making a developers life easy? :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul J White" [EMAI...
RE: FN-FORUM Best Printers
date posted 28th September 2002 14:37
Don't mention Lexmark to me. Just had a terrible experience with a
network with three Lexmark printers on a new TS install. They don't
work, and what's more, break TS itself in relation to printer red...
Contact management and billing
date posted 28th September 2002 14:33
Hi, I've 2 questions for you all
What do you all use to manage your client contacts? By that I mean
somthing that I can use to store Names/Address/Telephone
numbers/important details and then on top...
Re: FN-FORUM CSS positioing question
date posted 28th September 2002 14:29
> anybody(paul?) able to shine any light on this before i return to tables
on
> this one?
>
No tables needed, the following works in Moz/Opera /IE (not sure about IE4)
HTH, Paul....
RE: FN-FORUM New BNI branches opening in Nottinghamshire
date posted 28th September 2002 14:08
Drat he's found out about our BNI days out!!
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
[EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of David McEwen
Sent: 28 September 2002 11:04
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Subject...
CSS positioing question
date posted 28th September 2002 14:02
trying to get a 'letterbox' style design done in CSS-P, however when i try
to set vertical-align to middle it gets ignored (PC: IE6, moz 1.1).
anybody(paul?) able to shine any light on this before i...
Re: FN-FORUM E-Mail Question?!
date posted 28th September 2002 13:49
Lists [EMAIL REMOVED] writes
>Tell him to send to those recipients as plain text. The attachment thing
>happens when the receiving end (or a server) doesn't understand rich text
>format email (MS-TNEF...
Re: FN-FORUM Looping Web Audio
date posted 28th September 2002 12:59
Lose the music, that'll make it a little closer to perfect.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daren Halfpenny" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 11:52 AM...
Re: FN-FORUM Looping Web Audio
date posted 28th September 2002 12:12
Use Flash.
More control, compression and dead easy to embed.
You can stream it too.
I'll do it for you if you like. I fancy a small distraction.
It'll take ten minutes. Mail over the mp3.
Darren Yat...
Re: FN-FORUM xml
date posted 28th September 2002 12:10
> I read the info on XSL and it had an example of converting XML to XHTML
> server side with ASP to get over the lack of browser support. Is there
> any draw backs to this? If not i think I might have...
Re: FN-FORUM Best Printers
date posted 28th September 2002 12:05
Got a HP 880C here, excellent black quality, colour is not photo perfect by
any stretch of the imagination - but thats not why I bought it.
Oh, and the ink carts are a sod to refill yourself
Rick
K...
Re: FN-FORUM Press releases
date posted 28th September 2002 11:52
Thanks Shakil,
I actually stumbled across the pressbox link after asking... the sourcewire
is all new to me though. :)
Aral
--
Aral Balkan
Director, Bits And Pixels Ltd.
http://www.BitsAndPixels.co....
Looping Web Audio
date posted 28th September 2002 11:50
Morning people
I'm having a spot of bother with a file on my website and I wonder if anyone
can help me out. On my home page (www.dhalfpenny.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk) I
have an audio loop which plays onc...
Know a good accountant?
date posted 28th September 2002 11:43
Hi gang!
Is there anyone out there who uses the services of a decent Accountant in
the Medway Towns area of Kent (I'm near Gillingham). I'm currently using a
firm up in Dartford who for their money j...
Re: FN-FORUM Press releases
date posted 28th September 2002 11:27
Here you go:
http://www.sourcewire.com/
http://www.pressbox.co.uk
All sorted :)
Shak
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aral Balkan" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Saturday, September...
Re: FN-FORUM New BNI branches opening in Nottinghamshire
date posted 28th September 2002 11:22
The word branch reminds me of trees
----- Original Message -----
From: "David McEwen" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM New BNI br...
RE: FN-FORUM New BNI branches opening in Nottinghamshire
date posted 28th September 2002 11:16
Hutch,
I'm not worried about it being cliquey - it works! I've had £2,500 in new
business in the last month because of BNI. I also got another lead yesterda
which could get me another new site.
Ia...
Re: FN-FORUM New BNI branches opening in Nottinghamshire
date posted 28th September 2002 11:08
The word 'chapter' always puts Hells Angels in my mind.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Maynes" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 10:36 AM
Subjec...
Re: FN-FORUM Best Printers
date posted 28th September 2002 11:04
I used to have a Lexmark which was pretty rubbish so I got a HP Deskjet 940c
which was originally about £140 but I got it for £100, can't go wrong,
excellent print quality.
Best Regards
D Thomas
-...
Re: FN-FORUM New BNI branches opening in Nottinghamshire
date posted 28th September 2002 11:01
Just for the BNI'ers out there.. have you read about the launch of
BNIWebring.com
www.bniwebring.com (details in the latest issue of Success Net)
As for the £400 membership fee.. yes it is quite a...
RE: FN-FORUM New BNI branches opening in Nottinghamshire
date posted 28th September 2002 10:56
Sigh, I've got to go to our chapters meeting on Tuesday morning, person that
usually goes is away :(...
Press releases
date posted 28th September 2002 10:49
I was wondering if anyone here had any tips on getting started with press
releases? There must be a directory of local and national media companies
that they're sent to or perhaps a general site that...
RE: FN-FORUM New BNI branches opening in Nottinghamshire
date posted 28th September 2002 10:36
Chapter gives a bit of a Bible type connation! don't you think....
Should really be called 'Golf Course'
Andrew
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
[EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Andy Hutch...
Re: FN-FORUM Site Check - Active Reload
date posted 28th September 2002 10:28
Tam Stone wrote:
> For some reason your left links open whether I right click or left
> click, which i find annoying as sometimes i right click to open links
> in a new window.
You can hold shift and...
Happy Birthday Google
date posted 28th September 2002 10:18
I may just have a drink to celebrate :)
Andrew
---
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.391 / Virus Database: 222 - Release D...
Re: FN-FORUM Mac os upgrade headache
date posted 28th September 2002 10:11
UPDATE your software, go to os 9.2.2 and get all the updates for office
98. you should be ok then.
On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 11:10 am, Luke Cooper wrote:
> Hi
>
> I upgraded from Mac os...
RE: FN-FORUM New BNI branches opening in Nottinghamshire
date posted 28th September 2002 10:06
Ermm .... nope ... he's not confused. We've had many discussions about
BNI on this list. The cliquey way that it works verges on the masonic,
Hutch
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
[...
Re: FN-FORUM Site Check - Active Reload
date posted 28th September 2002 10:05
Typo "Click here to excess" LOL!
How do I know when I've clicked excessively?
Some of the text is far too small for us older persons.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++...
Re: FN-FORUM New BNI branches opening in Nottinghamshire
date posted 28th September 2002 09:46
I think it was humour:) Most of us know what BNI is...
And if you can't afford £400 a year, your local Chamber/ Business Link
probably has a networking club for about half the price or free in some...
Re: FN-FORUM New BNI branches opening in Nottinghamshire
date posted 28th September 2002 09:18
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
------=_NextPart_000_000E_01C266CF.8745FED0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="Windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Errrm - I think...
Re: FN-FORUM New BNI branches opening in Nottinghamshire
date posted 28th September 2002 08:22
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
------=_NextPart_000_00D2_01C266C7.CDE299A0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="Windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Handshake?? St...
Re: FN-FORUM Well that's it I'm retiring!
date posted 28th September 2002 06:52
I've recently worked with a search optimiser for the first time. Most
interesting experience.
I guess that some of the hard IT skills are coming back in to vogue again -
scaling, site optimisation,...
Re: FN-FORUM Site Check - Active Reload
date posted 28th September 2002 01:05
First page I sticks to the corner of the browser (1024x768) i think
centering it would be an idea.
Also a diff font - new times roman looks icky (unless you didn't bother
defining one and thats my...
Re: FN-FORUM Site Check - medialogik
date posted 28th September 2002 00:55
Only if Earnest objects
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Crockford" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 12:19 AM
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM Site Check - medialog...
Site Check - Active Reload
date posted 28th September 2002 00:32
Hi there people,
Been reading the forum for a short time now without posting, and so i
thought the time had come to take the plunge and ask for the (in)famous Site
Check - might as well have the inpu...
RE: FN-FORUM Well that's it I'm retiring!
date posted 28th September 2002 00:27
Slightly different in my case, I started selling search engine optimisation
services as an add on, people take note when you have clients who say your
websites have gained them x thousand pounds of ne...
Re: FN-FORUM New BNI branches opening in Nottinghamshire
date posted 28th September 2002 00:26
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C26685.AB2C35C0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="Windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Practicing that...
RE: FN-FORUM Site Check - medialogik
date posted 28th September 2002 00:23
> I will now go and fiddle again in earnest!
Isn't that an arrestable offence?...
|
|