Freelancers Forum Messages on Thursday June 9th 2005
Re: FN-FORUM: Introduction
date posted 9th June 2005 23:47
Hey Elaine,
Damm im such a whore when it comes to looking for work. If ever i need
any analysis work doing i'll be sure give you a shout.
Well if you ever need any work done to your pc let me know...
RE: FN-FORUM: Introduction
date posted 9th June 2005 23:34
Hi Darren
Nice to meet you, I'm new to the team as well. My skills range from
secretarial to analytical. For the last 2 years I've worked as Analyst in
HM Customs and Excise so I'm now looking in a...
FN-FORUM: Introduction
date posted 9th June 2005 23:21
Im new to the group and thought i would introduce myself.
My names Darren Foster. I'm your average geek, a freelance Tech
Support/IT Consultant. I've been doing this now for the last 8 months.
I'...
Re: FN-FORUM: FW: A0 on canvas
date posted 9th June 2005 21:08
elaine hobbs wrote:
> Sadiq
>
> Sorry I think you must have the wrong person.
Well he said it to me as well, so maybe you got the wrong end of the
mailing list?
;o)...
Re: FN-FORUM: loops!
date posted 9th June 2005 21:06
Dom Latter wrote:
>Try to get out of the habit of "select *", it's 'orrible.
>"select t.id from table as t" makes for more robust maintainable code.
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>
>
that looks awfully like a yorkshireman spe...
RE: FN-FORUM: FW: A0 on canvas
date posted 9th June 2005 20:59
Sadiq
Sorry I think you must have the wrong person.
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FN-FORUM: FW: A0 on canvas
date posted 9th June 2005 20:51
hi
remember seeing someone looking for A0 canvas printing, send me a mail if it
was you and ill put you in touch with my printer, he says he can do it. not
done any large format with him but the qua...
Re: FN-FORUM: Do any of you use seo software
date posted 9th June 2005 19:05
Google doesn't care what's in the meta keywords tag. It does like a good
'title /title' and a half decent description is always worth writing.
The basics of SEO are just:
1. Visible text on the page...
Re: FN-FORUM: google updates
date posted 9th June 2005 18:52
On 9 Jun 2005 16:13:10 -0000, "Marc Wilson" said:
> In freelance.forum, (Jonathan Patchett) wrote:
>
> >I've noticed that pages with parameters don't seem to be getting ranked at
> >the moment - not...
RE: FN-FORUM: loops!
date posted 9th June 2005 18:26
I was thinking something like
Select a.id, b.id, c.id, d.id=20
From table a=20
left outer join table b on a.id =3D b.linemanagerid,
left outer join table c on b.id =3D c.linemanagerid,...
Re: FN-FORUM: Cheap ADSL?
date posted 9th June 2005 17:55
On 9 Jun 2005, at 17:05, Derek C.Almond wrote:
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> I'm happy enough with my 15 quid for 2 megs no bandwidth
> restrictions plus net service
they do traffic shaping, which is a bandwidth restric...
Re: FN-FORUM: Cheap ADSL?
date posted 9th June 2005 17:54
On Thursday 09 Jun 2005 5:42 pm, Rus Foster wrote:
> Its for an existing ADSL linve via netservices so I would look for anot=
her
> backbone provider
I suspect this isn't possible. Go figure:
http:/...
RE: FN-FORUM: URL Encoding problem
date posted 9th June 2005 17:28
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Andy Macnaughton-Jones wrote:
> Callback;
Understood.
Assuming the encode URL function isn't working as expected, I would try
and store some state info on the client side thu...
Re: FN-FORUM: Cheap ADSL?
date posted 9th June 2005 17:21
Hi
Its for an existing ADSL linve via netservices so I would look for another
backbone provider
Rus
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RE: FN-FORUM: URL Encoding problem
date posted 9th June 2005 17:20
Well it's feckin working now. Why it didn't do it before I don't know...
PITA... Wasted a good couple of hours on that one=20
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RE: FN-FORUM: URL Encoding problem
date posted 9th June 2005 17:12
Yeah, well that's what I was doing and it still doesn't work !
Maybe I need to encode it at a different place and tell the XML/XSL
parser to handle it differently. I'll try that... Will report back......
Re: FN-FORUM: URL Encoding problem
date posted 9th June 2005 17:07
Andy Macnaughton-Jones wrote:
> Would still be;
> Page.aspx?
> p1=123&
> p2=456&
> p3=callback.aspx?x_p1=456&
> x_p2=789
In old fashioned ASP, if I want to pop the URL of the current page into...
RE: FN-FORUM: URL Encoding problem
date posted 9th June 2005 17:02
Don't want to go down the session route as it buggers up later on if I
want to transfer cross site (a possiblity for payment provision). We're
already encrypting some stuff there but that's handled di...
Re: FN-FORUM: Cheap ADSL?
date posted 9th June 2005 16:58
On 9 Jun 2005 16:12:33 -0000, Dom Latter [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>=20
> A backup to what? Another ADSL line? If your lines take the same route =
to
> the same place then many types of outage will aff...
Re: FN-FORUM: URL Encoding problem
date posted 9th June 2005 16:56
On Thursday 09 Jun 2005 5:07 pm, Andy Macnaughton-Jones wrote:
> So when you click on the "view product" link on the products list page =
-
> which is "paged", i.e., might be page 3 of 7 and have othe...
Re: FN-FORUM: google updates
date posted 9th June 2005 16:51
In freelance.forum, (Jonathan Patchett) wrote in
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>I've noticed that pages with parameters don't seem to be getting ranked at
>the moment - not sure if they're not being indexed.
Ind...
Re: FN-FORUM: Cheap ADSL?
date posted 9th June 2005 16:50
On Thursday 09 Jun 2005 5:01 pm, Rus Foster wrote:
> What is the current cheapest ADSL going around. I need a secondary back=
up
> connection I think.
A backup to what? Another ADSL line? If your l...
Re: FN-FORUM: google updates
date posted 9th June 2005 16:49
In freelance.forum, (Paul Silver) wrote in
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>I'm afraid iFrames are a bad thing, but you don't have to sacrifice
>style, you could get the same effect by using a div with CSS setting...
RE: FN-FORUM: URL Encoding problem
date posted 9th June 2005 16:45
Callback;
Products list > Product View > Add to Basket > basket View ...
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Re: FN-FORUM: Cheap ADSL?
date posted 9th June 2005 16:44
I'm happy enough with my 15 quid for 2 megs no bandwidth restrictions
plus net service
www.plus.net
or
http://portal.plus.net/my/mydiscount_info/landing_page.html?WRKUh%2Fz%2FuZ5dXmEjImm%2BILd7HU...
FN-FORUM: Cheap ADSL?
date posted 9th June 2005 16:40
What is the current cheapest ADSL going around. I need a secondary backup
connection I think.
Rus
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Re: FN-FORUM: Do any of you use seo software
date posted 9th June 2005 16:39
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> Head data isn't so important
> webmasterworld.com has some great info on SEO. you have to subscribe for
> the good stuff though.
I find www.seochat.com is a good site, partic...
Re: FN-FORUM: Do any of you use seo software
date posted 9th June 2005 16:32
Head data isn't so important
webmasterworld.com has some great info on SEO. you have to subscribe for
the good stuff though.
here's some things that are important for keywords:
Inbound link text
title...
Re: FN-FORUM: URL Encoding problem
date posted 9th June 2005 16:31
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Andy Macnaughton-Jones wrote:
> I'm building an e-commerce site and I need to maintain callbacks when I
> move between pages.
Can you explain the 'callbacks' thing?
> I've got...
Re: FN-FORUM: index / alpha transparency
date posted 9th June 2005 16:02
> whats the difference between alpha and index - which is best?
An alpha channel allows you to have varying transparency, eg. a blurred
edge, or a translucent window
The PNG file format uses an Alph...
Re: FN-FORUM: loops!
date posted 9th June 2005 15:59
On Thursday 09 Jun 2005 10:30 am, [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> That code looks very useful, what language is it in tho?
It's a new language combining the best features of PHP and Python,
along with any b...
Re: FN-FORUM: Wire Mouse??
date posted 9th June 2005 15:56
Thanks Paul , it is the frequency and it seems to be playing the game at
the moment, although every now and again it'll ask to have the space bar
pressed for 15 seconds!
Andrew
> On 7 Jun 2005 14:1...
FN-FORUM: Regular Expression - PHP
date posted 9th June 2005 15:53
Hi All,
I have a World Time script. Basically I am reading another website to get
the time and using general expression to find the time in string.
Here is my expression.
$pattern = "([0-9]+:[0-9...
FN-FORUM: URL Encoding problem
date posted 9th June 2005 15:42
Hi,
I've got a URL encoding problem.
I'm building an e-commerce site and I need to maintain callbacks when I
move between pages.
I've got the following situation;
From a page with this URL;
produ...
FN-FORUM: index / alpha transparency
date posted 9th June 2005 15:42
hi all
whats the difference between alpha and index - which is best?
TA
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Re: FN-FORUM: Do any of you use seo software
date posted 9th June 2005 15:21
It is just that I did a website for someone a long time ago which had all
the head data and never showed up on google
They have since asked me to try and sort this out - there is little money
involv...
Re: FN-FORUM: Do any of you use seo software
date posted 9th June 2005 14:51
for an SEO site their PageRank isn't too flash and there's a few things
about the site that aren't optimised. I get standards warnings, no
DOCTYPE, SpiderTest mentions javascript and css style in the...
Re: FN-FORUM: Do any of you use seo software
date posted 9th June 2005 14:42
On 9 Jun 2005 11:21:05 -0000, "jd" said:
> I have been looking at a number of products and am looking at something
> that will generate and optimise all the head data
>
> Does anyone have recommendat...
FN-FORUM: Do any of you use seo software
date posted 9th June 2005 11:59
I have been looking at a number of products and am looking at something that
will generate and optimise all the head data
Does anyone have recommendations
http://www.webceo.com/how-it-works/
?
T...
Re: FN-FORUM: How on earth do ems work?
date posted 9th June 2005 11:21
Hi Jonathan,
An em is a typographic measurement which dates back to the days of
letterpress but is still relevant in modern typesetting.
You can find a bit of info about this here:
http://www.cl.c...
RE: FN-FORUM: How on earth do ems work?
date posted 9th June 2005 10:28
Fixed my own problem
I'd set the font-size in the main content to be 0.7em, it appears that ems
depend on the font size of the element, rather than the default font-size,
so em can be different for d...
Re: FN-FORUM: How on earth do ems work?
date posted 9th June 2005 10:25
An em is literally the size of a capital 'M', I think. I think the
problem with ems is that different browsers calculate the dimension
differently. Like, some will literally bitmap an M and count...
Re: FN-FORUM: How on earth do ems work?
date posted 9th June 2005 10:21
Jonathan Patchett wrote:
> Trying to do a layout using EM, so that it responds nicely to accessibility
> options.
>
> I've set the main containing div to be 41em wide
>
> then I have a content block...
FN-FORUM: Some SEO Work for someone
date posted 9th June 2005 10:16
Any SEO experts on list who want to help a client to improve the rankings
for a west end musical website?
Please contact me off list
thanks
rich...
FN-FORUM: How on earth do ems work?
date posted 9th June 2005 10:12
Trying to do a layout using EM, so that it responds nicely to accessibility
options.
I've set the main containing div to be 41em wide
then I have a content block that is 31em, and a menu floated to...
RE: FN-FORUM: loops!
date posted 9th June 2005 10:08
That code looks very useful, what language is it in tho?
I am using ASP and SQL Server...
the statement I have at the moment is
select * from table where linemanagerid=3Dsession("userid")
--------...
Re: FN-FORUM: Network security?
date posted 9th June 2005 08:50
Sorry forgot to mention that you turn off simple file sharing and check in
local security policy, Network Access that Force Network Logons using Local
Accounts to Authenticate as Guest is not enabled....
Re: FN-FORUM: Network security?
date posted 9th June 2005 08:45
Install 9x if you want share-level security! XP uses user-level security, so
either create the same users with the same passwords on machines, then set
appropriate NTFS and share permissions for the u...
Re: FN-FORUM: Todays meeting with first ever client.
date posted 9th June 2005 08:23
Julie,
I know someone who can probably help you cheaply with an A0 Epson large
format printer. Mail me offline and I'll put you in touch with him.
The problem you might get is that canvas media ge...
Re: FN-FORUM: Video CD Production
date posted 9th June 2005 01:21
On 8 Jun 2005, at 23:08, Adam Dyson wrote:
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> I have a potential client who wants to create a video cd slideshow of
> images, set to music, that can be played on a pc or dvd player.
>
If you choose...
RE: FN-FORUM: loops!
date posted 9th June 2005 00:18
It depends on your target environment and your database... I don't know
if you can get native XML out of MySQL. =20
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