Freelancers Forum Messages on Sunday May 30th 2004
RE: FN-FORUM: Card Design
date posted 30th May 2004 23:26
"dude - with the greatest respect - you shouldn't be asking advice like
this if you are a designer - i mean, what does that say about your
skills?? ;-)"
Even the best of us need a nudge in the rig...
Re: FN-FORUM: Card Design
date posted 30th May 2004 23:00
On 30 May 2004, at 22:51, John Murphy wrote:
> It's my new business card design and could do with some pointers, I'm
> stuck on placing details bit like NAME, EMAIL etc any suggestions?
dude - with...
Re: FN-FORUM: Am I being unrealistic with this quote?
date posted 30th May 2004 22:43
Carl W Crawley wrote:
>>My rate is £350 a day, including travel costs - I must admit, I don't know
>>how that fares to the rest of the industry, although I know my per hr cost
>>fared well against a...
FN-FORUM: Card Design
date posted 30th May 2004 22:27
If anyone has a few minutes to spare you couldn't have a look at
http://www.keltecdesign.net/carddesign.jpg
It's my new business card design and could do with some pointers, I'm
stuck on placing det...
RE: FN-FORUM: A week or so ago...
date posted 30th May 2004 22:17
Thanks for every ones support and comments, the girlfriend wasn't happy
to start with she's got a BA and currently doing her Masters (she's a
teacher) but can see I'm now a lot happier and stress free...
RE: FN-FORUM: A week or so ago...
date posted 30th May 2004 22:12
good on ya!
Make the time gained count
Mike
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Re: FN-FORUM: Am I being unrealistic with this quote?
date posted 30th May 2004 21:58
> My rate is £350 a day, including travel costs - I must admit, I don't know
> how that fares to the rest of the industry, although I know my per hr cost
> fared well against a couple of other local...
RE: FN-FORUM: Am I being unrealistic with this quote?
date posted 30th May 2004 21:57
Aaron stick to your guns £350 is a good rate (for them) for what you are doing
and 2 days is conservative, I am sure if you get it done sooner you can work
something out with them :) securing a retai...
Re: FN-FORUM: Am I being unrealistic with this quote?
date posted 30th May 2004 21:52
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 08:30:07PM -0000, Darren Foster wrote:
> what are you charging? And ill go ?10 lower!!
£3.50 and a packet of fags!...
Re: FN-FORUM: Am I being unrealistic with this quote?
date posted 30th May 2004 21:51
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 03:36:18PM -0000, Tony Crockford wrote:
> they obviously have no idea about sods law.
Indeed not - they are probably the most unrealistic people I've met so far..
As an exampl...
Re: FN-FORUM: Am I being unrealistic with this quote?
date posted 30th May 2004 21:50
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 04:05:05PM -0000, Damon Birch wrote:
> I have not heard of any giving away free routers. Free modem maybe
You're right indeed - that's what I meant to say, honest
> Last yea...
Re: FN-FORUM: Am I being unrealistic with this quote?
date posted 30th May 2004 21:47
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 06:36:48PM -0000, Business A2Z wrote:
> what are you charging?
One million dollars! ;)
My rate is £350 a day, including travel costs - I must admit, I don't know
how that...
Re: FN-FORUM: A week or so ago...
date posted 30th May 2004 21:46
John Murphy wrote:
> A week or so ago we had a chat about degrees etc and uni and I asked who
> had a degree etc, well today I've taken the plunge and I've ditched my
> course mainly as its to old and...
Re: FN-FORUM: A week or so ago...
date posted 30th May 2004 21:43
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 08:43:12PM -0000, John Murphy wrote:
> had a degree etc, well today I've taken the plunge and I've ditched my
> course mainly as its to old and boring and doesn't interest me a...
Re: FN-FORUM: A week or so ago...
date posted 30th May 2004 21:20
...we were joking.
Nah we weren't. Blessings with your ventures.
jaseb
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FN-FORUM: A week or so ago...
date posted 30th May 2004 21:18
A week or so ago we had a chat about degrees etc and uni and I asked who
had a degree etc, well today I've taken the plunge and I've ditched my
course mainly as its to old and boring and doesn't inter...
RE: FN-FORUM: Am I being unrealistic with this quote?
date posted 30th May 2004 21:10
2 days sounds _very_ reasonable to me......
Andrew
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RE: FN-FORUM: Am I being unrealistic with this quote?
date posted 30th May 2004 21:05
what are you charging? And ill go =A310 lower!!
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RE: FN-FORUM: Am I being unrealistic with this quote?
date posted 30th May 2004 19:11
what are you charging?
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RE: FN-FORUM: image - size of an elephant
date posted 30th May 2004 18:28
ooooohhhhhh... impressive... BAH!
I said THEIR site was awful
Dan wrote:
"making something accessible doesn't make it good"
True, but mostly it does
Mike
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Re: FN-FORUM: image - size of an elephant
date posted 30th May 2004 18:21
Mike wrote > That site is fecking awful... pile of steaming c*ap
Yeah it's so crap that they've won a bunch of high profile awards
http://www.lateral.net/us/awards.shtml...
Re: FN-FORUM: image - size of an elephant
date posted 30th May 2004 18:15
Dan Norcott: > *runs off*
Dan Cook: > *runs after him, and bangs him over the head with a flash mx
2004 box*
;-P...
RE: FN-FORUM: image - size of an elephant
date posted 30th May 2004 18:14
>isn't one of Lateral's best (www.lateral.net) by a long shot
That site is fecking awful... pile of steaming c*ap
Mike... bit pissed cause city lost ;(
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Re: FN-FORUM: image - size of an elephant
date posted 30th May 2004 18:09
Dan Cook wrote:
> Not shit!? It's fucking awful. I admit that the Odeon site isn't one of
> Lateral's best (www.lateral.net) by a long shot, but making something
> accessible doesn't make it good. Th...
Re: FN-FORUM: image - size of an elephant
date posted 30th May 2004 18:02
> Did you ever see this?
>
> http://www.dracos.co.uk/odeon/
>
> someone posted it a while ago - quite clever. They've basically taken
> the odeon website and made it not shit ;)
Not shit!? It's fuc...
Re: FN-FORUM: image - size of an elephant
date posted 30th May 2004 16:49
Craig Tinson wrote:
> agreed..and it always bugged me that the odeon website never worked in
> mozilla either.. as someone that uses linux 90% of the day.. thats
> annoying..
>
> seems a little OT...
RE: FN-FORUM: Am I being unrealistic with this quote?
date posted 30th May 2004 16:40
>Their reply to that was that two days was 'more than they were
expecting'
>(oh and they argued that some ADSL providers give free routers.. well,
yes,
>but not WiFi ones that have built in VPN suppo...
Re: FN-FORUM: image - size of an elephant
date posted 30th May 2004 16:19
Luke Perman wrote:
>
> On 30 May 2004, at 09:13, Business A2Z wrote:
>
>> Is this what we are going to expect for the future. Everyone has
>> broadband, now we can create images as large as we like!...
Re: FN-FORUM: Am I being unrealistic with this quote?
date posted 30th May 2004 16:11
At 16:24 on Sunday, 30 May 2004, Aaron Brailsford wrote:
>
> Or is it the customer being unrealistic..
they obviously have no idea about sods law.
Tell them you'll do it on an hourly rate instead....
FN-FORUM: Am I being unrealistic with this quote?
date posted 30th May 2004 15:59
Or is it the customer being unrealistic..
I just quoted someone two days of install time to go to their offices and:
Put in a Vigor ADSL router with WiFi and print server
Reconfigure their Linux ser...
Re: FN-FORUM: Can anyone spot what is wrong
date posted 30th May 2004 15:13
PAMELA WHITTAKER wrote:
>Can anyone see what is wrong with this please. Line 76 is the line "If
>rs_temp.eof Then". I have been staring at it for what seems like hours and
>it looks perfectly alright...
Re: FN-FORUM: CSS - navigation
date posted 30th May 2004 14:50
On 30 May 2004, at 15:06, Mike wrote:
>>
>
> Should that be allowing for multiple use
On 30 May 2004 Andrew wrote:
> I generally use
and get your nested correct...
RE: FN-FORUM: CSS - navigation
date posted 30th May 2004 14:42
>
Should that be allowing for multiple use
Mike
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Re: FN-FORUM: NDAs (was Decifer)
date posted 30th May 2004 14:02
On 27 May 2004, at 07:57, Joe Pritchard wrote:
> Quite a few investor types and VCs I've spoken with over the years get
> a
> little queasy when asked to do NDAs. The trick is really to be ready
>...
Re: FN-FORUM: NDAs (was Decifer)
date posted 30th May 2004 13:51
On Sunday 30 May 2004 13:44, Luke Perman wrote:
> > Quite a few investor types and VCs I've spoken with over the years get
> > a
> > little queasy when asked to do NDAs. The trick is really to be rea...
Re: FN-FORUM: NDAs (was Decifer)
date posted 30th May 2004 13:20
> Quite a few investor types and VCs I've spoken with over the years get
> a
> little queasy when asked to do NDAs. The trick is really to be ready
> to
> move with your idea so quickly that someon...
Re: FN-FORUM: CSS - navigation
date posted 30th May 2004 13:17
On 30 May 2004, at 12:53, Business A2Z wrote:
> whats the alternative to this without images? I generally use class="menu">
this is a great idea on how to have replacement text show when images...
Re: FN-FORUM: image - size of an elephant
date posted 30th May 2004 13:09
On 30 May 2004, at 09:13, Business A2Z wrote:
> Is this what we are going to expect for the future. Everyone has
> broadband, now we can create images as large as we like!
no, that's just bollocks....
RE: FN-FORUM: CSS - navigation
date posted 30th May 2004 12:29
was this css menu technique used by anyone? did it fair well - bugs?
whats the alternative to this without images? I generally use
Andrew
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Re: FN-FORUM: FW: flash clip needed if possible
date posted 30th May 2004 12:14
Do it in Poser and export to flash. To make someone walk in poser is a piece
of piss as it's one of the preset animations.
It's not as good as habitat, but here's one I did a few years ago:
http://ww...
Re: FN-FORUM: MySQL TCP question
date posted 30th May 2004 09:53
Some useful links for you -
Info on setting privileges here -
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Adding_users.html
and some testing info if you need it.
http://www.dougsparling.com/comp/howto/apache-...
Re: FN-FORUM: Can anyone spot what is wrong
date posted 30th May 2004 09:41
oops - I had just spotted the problem it was the "str &" in the first line -
ahhhh. The previous delete statement was in the str. I should have known -
it isn't the first place the original coder had...
RE: FN-FORUM: Can anyone spot what is wrong
date posted 30th May 2004 09:39
>a.. Error Type:
>ADODB.Recordset (0x800A0E78)
>Operation is not allowed when the object is closed.
>/insurance4brokers/www/pet/design/resultprivate.asp, line 76
> str = str & " SELECT * FROM Temp_N...
FN-FORUM: Can anyone spot what is wrong
date posted 30th May 2004 09:27
Can anyone see what is wrong with this please. Line 76 is the line "If
rs_temp.eof Then". I have been staring at it for what seems like hours and
it looks perfectly alright to me.
a.. Error Type:
AD...
RE: FN-FORUM: MySQL TCP question
date posted 30th May 2004 09:23
The server is a web server, with 2 ip address, both open to the net. I
can access everything on the server, while remote on the server and via
the internet on both IP addresses except for MySQL. When...
FN-FORUM: image - size of an elephant
date posted 30th May 2004 08:49
I would have thought the creator of the splashpromo.jpg would have produced a
little optimisation magic!
http://www.odeon.co.uk/
Is this what we are going to expect for the future. Everyone has bro...
FN-FORUM: FW: flash clip needed if possible
date posted 30th May 2004 08:21
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From: john deaville [EMAIL REMOVED]
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1970 14:11:01 +0100
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Subject: flash clip needed if possible
i need to try and knock together a small site in a day...