Freelancers Forum Messages on Friday October 7th 2005
Re: FN-FORUM: 5pt not 0.25pt!
date posted 7th October 2005 23:27
> Obviously if he wants a border smaller than 1 pixel then there will be
> no border!
You can emulate a thinner line by making the colour in between the line
colour and the background colour. For...
Re: FN-FORUM: 5pt not 0.25pt!
date posted 7th October 2005 21:28
Hi
Depends on the viewer's screen resolution setting, 1 pt. can be seen to
be much thicker, or thinner. Try to match yours and clients' first.
From my understanding 1 pt = 1 px. Alas, when it come...
FN-FORUM: 5pt not 0.25pt!
date posted 7th October 2005 21:03
Hi
Can anyone tell me how many pixels there are to a point, I have created
a template with a border (working to a clients design) He has came back
to me saying that the border I have created is 5pt an...
Re: FN-FORUM: Adobe Illustrator PC/Mac advice required
date posted 7th October 2005 19:12
Hello,
Don't know about the chap you where talking to, but you lost me after the
second word, just shows I've no chance of becoming an illustrator....
DG)
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Re: FN-FORUM: resubscribe
date posted 7th October 2005 18:26
oops typo
mydocument.php
should be mydocument.pdf
>
> Of course, I have a little question for anyone who knows anything about
> Flash MX: I want to allow my viewers to download a PDF file from a Fla...
Re: FN-FORUM: resubscribe
date posted 7th October 2005 18:09
Try this:
If the button instance name was pdfButton
pdfButton.onRelease=3Dfunction(){getURL("mydocument.pdf","_blank");}
If you want to force download and avoid opening in a browser window
(depend...
Re: FN-FORUM: Adobe Illustrator PC/Mac advice required
date posted 7th October 2005 17:37
Dai
The principal difference you are seeing in the colours between Mac and
PC are caused by the different gamma settings typically used for
monitors on each platform.
Mac monitors normally have a...
FN-FORUM: resubscribe
date posted 7th October 2005 17:16
Hi guys and gals!
I'm back to this lovely forum after three weeks away getting married and
detoxing from the internet, three weeks of pure bless without checking
one single email or skyping or MSN...
RE: FN-FORUM: Adobe Illustrator PC/Mac advice required
date posted 7th October 2005 17:12
Dai
I use a designer that works on a Mac, I'm on PC. For the font issue, he
always sends the Illustrator files with fonts converted to outlines so it
doesn't matter if I have the right font or not. T...
Re: FN-FORUM: please broadcast
date posted 7th October 2005 16:51
On 7 Oct 2005 13:08:21 -0000, Hakim Cassimally
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> ArtCafe's email client is broken. Mamading already asked him to fix
> it, just in case that isn't clear: "ArtCafe: please fix...
Re: FN-FORUM: Adobe Illustrator PC/Mac advice required
date posted 7th October 2005 16:39
Just a thought, but has your designer included a spot channel in the file? A
print designer (since he's working in illustrator I assume he is) may
include an extra channel in addition to the CMYK in...
Re: FN-FORUM: Adobe Illustrator PC/Mac advice required
date posted 7th October 2005 16:20
glad you added that I thought a new dimension had come in and I hadn't
heard.
As Printing (Not photographic) is done in CMYK
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Re: FN-FORUM: Adobe Illustrator PC/Mac advice required
date posted 7th October 2005 16:16
most print work is
done in Adobe RGB
To those print designers out there - I am talking mainly about photographic
work in photoshop - which is what I do mainly
On 7/10/05 4:14 pm, "jd" [EMAIL R...
Re: FN-FORUM: Adobe Illustrator PC/Mac advice required
date posted 7th October 2005 16:14
What a mind field.
No font is the same - Times Roman being the prime example here - You have to
get the company to send you their fonts so they are the same. But you have
an added problem in that y...
Re: FN-FORUM: Adobe Illustrator PC/Mac advice required
date posted 7th October 2005 16:09
Fonts
You are always going to get problems when people use more obscure fonts, an=
d
you don=B9t have them on your system, sometimes you have to install 2 files
for a font I think (?) I have also f...
Re: FN-FORUM: million dollar web page
date posted 7th October 2005 16:07
eh? "Sold: 301,000" from 1,000,000 = 30%, so he's made 30% of his
projected profit.well done him! there are some stupid people in this
world lol, somehow a 10X10 block doesn't appeal to me, and i ha...
Re: FN-FORUM: Adobe Illustrator PC/Mac advice required
date posted 7th October 2005 16:06
Hi Dai, finally something I can help with in this forum. I'm designer!!!
Colours will never match exactly. Normally designers work with CMYK colour
pallet on Illustrator, so it changes when you conve...
Re: FN-FORUM: Adobe Illustrator PC/Mac advice required
date posted 7th October 2005 16:04
Ah the old cross platform chesnut. lol
Trying to keep it simple.
Colours render according to monitors, in the past when 276 colours
were the norm then the diffferent os palettes made a difference...
Re: FN-FORUM: million dollar web page
date posted 7th October 2005 16:02
I reckon more money will be earned on bets for and against him actually
selling the 1,000,000 pixels in blocks of 10 x 10!
My persoanl view is that it wont go beyond the 100,000 pixels which to be
fa...
FN-FORUM: Adobe Illustrator PC/Mac advice required
date posted 7th October 2005 15:42
Hi all,
We are developers with minimal design knowledge or exposure. We do most =
of
our work for design companies. One particular client who wanted us to =
do
xhtml/css build insisted on sending u...
Re: FN-FORUM: please broadcast
date posted 7th October 2005 15:34
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Andrew Larcombe wrote:
> ...any idea of the amount of CO2 used during manufacture and shipping?
None whatsoever.
Here's one man and his panel .... http://www.solarkent.co.uk/
-...
Re: FN-FORUM: Domain name extensions
date posted 7th October 2005 15:33
> Must have been thinking "legal definition", as in there is nothing that
> stats you have to be an organisation to use a .org etc...
Registrars sometimes have some rules, for instance you can't us...
Re: FN-FORUM: Domain name extensions
date posted 7th October 2005 15:23
Dom Latter wrote:
> On Friday 07 Oct 2005 2:22 pm, Nathan wrote:
>
> [top level domains]
>
>
>>There actually isn't any formal definition.
>
>
> There is, or at least, was:
> http://www.faqs.org/...
RE: FN-FORUM: please broadcast
date posted 7th October 2005 15:17
If you go down that route you'd better stop sending emails from your =
PC...
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Re: FN-FORUM: Domain name extensions
date posted 7th October 2005 15:14
On Friday 07 Oct 2005 2:22 pm, Nathan wrote:
[top level domains]
> There actually isn't any formal definition.
There is, or at least, was:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1591.html
For example, for .n...
Re: FN-FORUM: please broadcast
date posted 7th October 2005 15:10
ArtCafe wrote:
>>If I was building a new house I'd certainly consider making a big chunk =
>>of roof solar cells. The roof structure *might* need to be modified =
>>though as they're much heavier than...
Re: FN-FORUM: hosting
date posted 7th October 2005 14:43
34sp.com are good, not particularly cheap for reselling, but great
service - they have a chat room where you normally get an instant
response to any queries, and they have forums / telephone support t...
Re: FN-FORUM: Domain name extensions
date posted 7th October 2005 14:41
definitely .uk for SEO reasons if you are targeting google.co.uk
Quoting Nathan [EMAIL REMOVED]
>
> Paul Durdin wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> You are in danger of opening up a big philosophical discussion!
>>...
Re: FN-FORUM: Domain name extensions
date posted 7th October 2005 14:17
Paul Durdin wrote:
> Hi
>
> You are in danger of opening up a big philosophical discussion!
>
> It must depend of what your client thinks he is, how his customers see him,
> or how he would like th...
Re: FN-FORUM: million dollar web page
date posted 7th October 2005 14:13
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
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> I wonder if the people paying him realise google and the others will
> see it as a link/spam farm and penalise them ?
im sure there getting enough clicks from people rea...
Re: FN-FORUM: million dollar web page
date posted 7th October 2005 14:10
Thomas Design wrote:
> the last i read he'd just passed the $60,000 mark, nice.
Since when? If since recent then perhaps I'll create a few dozen more for
the UK and Europe. If since the Internet firs...
Re: FN-FORUM: million dollar web page
date posted 7th October 2005 14:05
I wonder if the people paying him realise google and the others will see
it as a link/spam farm and penalise them ?
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Tam Denholm wrote:
>
> Probably the most over spammed thing...
Re: FN-FORUM: please broadcast
date posted 7th October 2005 14:03
ArtCafe's email client is broken. Mamading already asked him to fix
it, just in case that isn't clear: "ArtCafe: please fix your email
client".
This is, by the way, far far worse than the original a...
Re: FN-FORUM: million dollar web page
date posted 7th October 2005 13:59
the last i read he'd just passed the $60,000 mark, nice.
D Thomas
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Re: FN-FORUM: million dollar web page
date posted 7th October 2005 13:54
Probably the most over spammed thing on the internet. Credit to the
guy on his idea and success but im now getting sick of hearing about
it. Just another netbux in my opinion....
RE: FN-FORUM: please broadcast
date posted 7th October 2005 13:35
What is with the continuous 'Please broadcast' subject lines on a lot of the
messages sent to the list recently ?
Simon...
Re: FN-FORUM: hosting
date posted 7th October 2005 13:20
Yeah thats quite good, although is in US so not much good for performance
measurments.
John
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
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> have you seen http://uppanel.com/ ?
> I dunno whether...
FN-FORUM: million dollar web page
date posted 7th October 2005 13:16
Hi all,
I'm sure some of you may have seen this already, but some first year
business management student at Nottingham has found this way of curing his
£500,000 student debt!!! $1 per pixel
http:/...
RE: FN-FORUM: Page Rendering Times
date posted 7th October 2005 13:05
Caching xslt loading and caching the webservices are an option *BUT*
most of the XML is "user specific" so of course that means that we can't
cache it very easily.
For some of the static stuff I'm go...
Re: FN-FORUM: hosting
date posted 7th October 2005 13:03
have you seen http://uppanel.com/ ?
I dunno whether it's much good
Quoting [EMAIL REMOVED]
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>
>
> Hi Anthony,
>
> I'm putting together a website that monitors hosts every minute - not
> their own w...
Re: FN-FORUM: Good forum design
date posted 7th October 2005 12:58
I agree, getvanilla does look promising. I haven't tried it out yet.
other ones to look at are vbulletin(not free) and simple machines. some
cms have
good forums eg ldu and e107
personally I hate goi...
RE: FN-FORUM: Page Rendering Times
date posted 7th October 2005 12:57
in debug mode, your server will be:
(a) holding all the symbols and stuff in memory
(b) doing loads of extra logging / tracing
so it's generally *much* slower.
i should think it will run a good dea...
RE: FN-FORUM: Page Rendering Times
date posted 7th October 2005 12:42
The pages are all based on 1 or more xml > xslt translations with the
XML coming from a database courtesy of an XML EXPLICIT SP sent as text
via a web service (all running on the same machine at the m...
Re: FN-FORUM: hosting
date posted 7th October 2005 12:37
to be honest I haven't been with them very long. They have a good
reputation on
webhostingtalk.com forums though. I had inherited a HostRoute reseller account
from a clients previous webguys and it w...
Re: FN-FORUM: hosting
date posted 7th October 2005 12:36
Hi Anthony,
I'm putting together a website that monitors hosts every minute - not
their own websites but customers websites(submitted by customers and verified
as such).
I'll also track the resp...
Re: FN-FORUM: hosting
date posted 7th October 2005 12:24
> so far the uptime has been 100%
As a self-hosting person, I'd just like to point out that 100% uptime
isn't difficult so long as you don't get any hardware problems. What might
be more interest...
Re: FN-FORUM: Page Rendering Times
date posted 7th October 2005 12:21
Hi Andy,
I usually have a rule that 95% of pages should render in under 2 seconds.
John
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Andy Macnaughton-Jones wrote:
>
> Hi,
> What would people consider to be a reasonabl...
RE: FN-FORUM: Page Rendering Times
date posted 7th October 2005 12:20
hey there
guess it depends upon the complexity of the page content.
if we're talking about painting a few dynamic aspects onto a template, then
2.5 secs seems rather high.
if it involves rendering...
FN-FORUM: MySQL reference
date posted 7th October 2005 12:17
I need a reference for advanced MySQL queries using PHP to output any
links would be good. The links I have are not appropiate.
Andrew...
FN-FORUM: please broadcast
date posted 7th October 2005 12:07
>If I was building a new house I'd certainly consider making a big chunk =
>of roof solar cells. The roof structure *might* need to be modified =
>though as they're much heavier than tiles.
well acco...
FN-FORUM: Page Rendering Times
date posted 7th October 2005 12:06
Hi,
What would people consider to be a reasonable speed for rending a web
page - by which I mean server side from start of request to fully
generated ? I'm getting timings in "debug" mode on aspx of...
Re: FN-FORUM: Domain name extensions
date posted 7th October 2005 12:04
Hi
You are in danger of opening up a big philosophical discussion!
It must depend of what your client thinks he is, how his customers see him,
or how he would like them to see him.
a global busine...
RE: FN-FORUM: please broadcast
date posted 7th October 2005 11:59
The ickle wind turbine thing is on trial at the moment - via British gas =
in scotland and soemwhere else - my wife spotted the advert in a "homes" =
type magazine.
If I was building a new house I'd...
Re: FN-FORUM: Good forum design
date posted 7th October 2005 11:58
On 7 Oct 2005 10:53:36 -0000, Billy Hasirci [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> I'm looking for some examples of good forum/BB design. Seeing as they're
> mainly text based, I'd be interesting to see how people...
Re: FN-FORUM: Good forum design
date posted 7th October 2005 11:55
Hi Billy
Im working in my spare time on a phpbb forum for a little project.
It's my first attempt at one and its pretty simple.
There are a lot of skins/mods/styles for it, and they aren't all that...
Re: FN-FORUM: Good forum design
date posted 7th October 2005 11:52
take a look at www.fr-es.co.uk, its a good example of a heavily redesigned
version of PHPBB. Took me ages it did but it was worth it.
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FN-FORUM: please broadcast
date posted 7th October 2005 11:52
here is another free eco warrior advert
for anyone to use
http://www.topdeck.wanadoo.co.uk/powergreenad.jpg
apparently solar panels provide 30% of the average household electric
and theres a new wind...
Re: FN-FORUM: hosting
date posted 7th October 2005 11:51
I have a reseller account with heart internet and so far the uptime has been
100% they are without a doubt the best host I've seen in a long time.
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FN-FORUM: Good forum design
date posted 7th October 2005 11:48
Hello all,
I'm looking for some examples of good forum/BB design. Seeing as they're
mainly text based, I'd be interesting to see how people have tackled this
design challenge.
Thanks in advance
Bil...
FN-FORUM: Domain name extensions
date posted 7th October 2005 11:47
Hi All,
One of my clients is setting up a portal site for community groups,
clubs, societies, charities and businesses in his local area and has
registered his domain name with half a dozen differe...
Re: FN-FORUM: hosting
date posted 7th October 2005 11:39
That looks like a good deal with those guys.
What's the level of service/uptime like?
Cy
On 7 Oct 2005, at 10:12, [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
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> I use clook.net for my UK stuff
>
> Quoting Ben [EMAIL...
RE: FN-FORUM: Football
date posted 7th October 2005 11:17
amazing! how comes he isnt playing for chelsea?
A couple more for ya
http://www.aftonbladet.se/atv/player.html?catID=26&clipID=557 (after the
adverts)
http://www.expertfootball.com/training/trick-084...
Re: FN-FORUM: Football
date posted 7th October 2005 10:59
WOW How neat is that....
When's he going to score???
Hardeep
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Subject: FN...
RE: FN-FORUM: Football
date posted 7th October 2005 10:32
It is amazing. Shame google are making such a balls-up of the videos =
though - they look crap blown up to that size.=20
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RE: FN-FORUM: Football
date posted 7th October 2005 10:15
That is amazing!! I can't believe people are just walking by
and not stopping to watch. Thanks for the link - I also saw
a passer by wearing one of my shirts.
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Re: FN-FORUM: hosting
date posted 7th October 2005 10:13
Hi Ross,
On 6 Oct 2005, at 23:44, Ross Sadler wrote:
> I've stupidly got 2 hosting accounts at the moment. Fasthosts (bag of
> shite
> IMHO) too big too soon and heartinternet.co.uk very good! Ther...
Re: FN-FORUM: hosting
date posted 7th October 2005 10:07
I use clook.net for my UK stuff
Quoting Ben [EMAIL REMOVED]
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>> I've stupidly got 2 hosting accounts at the moment. Fasthosts (bag of
>> shite
>> IMHO) too big too soon and heartinternet.co.uk very...
RE: FN-FORUM: Football
date posted 7th October 2005 09:55
Is there something wrong with his legs ? Why doesn't he stand up ? ;)
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FN-FORUM: Football
date posted 7th October 2005 09:50
If anyone likes football (real football), check this out:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4505462782975458603&q=football...
Re: FN-FORUM: hosting
date posted 7th October 2005 09:27
> I've stupidly got 2 hosting accounts at the moment. Fasthosts (bag of
> shite
> IMHO) too big too soon and heartinternet.co.uk very good! There's my
> tuppence worth.
Cheers for all the suggestion...
RE: FN-FORUM: Flash images
date posted 7th October 2005 08:59
Excellent. That simple eh?!
IF this is similar to a problem I had - I used 'import to library', opened
the library pallette, draged the imported graphic onto the stage and it
should come out the...
Re: FN-FORUM: Flash images
date posted 7th October 2005 08:48
IF this is similar to a problem I had - I used 'import to library', opened
the library pallette, draged the imported graphic onto the stage and it
should come out the correct size
Often when I...
FN-FORUM: Flash images
date posted 7th October 2005 08:38
Hi all,
I'm trying to do a presentation in Flash, but whenever I import pictures or
copy and paste them in, they change size and it's almost impossible to get
them to look good again!
Does anyone kn...
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