Freelancers Forum Messages on Thursday October 20th 2005
RE: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 23:40
Nathan, I agree I was making a point not every designer wants to be the
slickest coder in the world and not every coder will be a designer.
You are right that every site had to be coded by hand - I...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 23:06
Ross Sadler wrote:
> 2. DW is a tool to use, as is any other. We all could manipulate final end
> code for a psd file so that the pixel placed 401666,166333 has a slightly
> different value to the nex...
RE: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 21:56
Right, finally decided to join in on this one!
1. (as I can't be arsed to back through the list to work out who); had a
blog that scrolled sideways, nicely compatible, someone else's site which
had n...
RE: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 21:56
Whoa, don't get me wrong. I think Angel and I are agreed that we as artists
DO need to learn to validate our 'pretty' code - no mistake - what we don't
like is the way the coders 'can' tend to rate th...
Re: FN-FORUM: vsftpd
date posted 20th October 2005 21:34
john m wrote:
>
> thanks
>
> but am a bit nervous about this.
> did the first two.
>
> But surely iptables -F deletes all the rules??? and so will get rid of
> all my other ones too, - but I need...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 20:27
Ah, for once rather following the chatter I decide to enter the fray and
on the side of standard purists.
Standard based sites have got a bad name as John points out, you just
have to look at the r...
Re: FN-FORUM: IT Forum
date posted 20th October 2005 19:59
On Thursday 20 Oct 2005 5:29 pm, Darren Foster wrote:
> Anyone know of any IT forums for the more techie kind of everyday thing=
s
> that us freelance Tech support guys deal with.
Go on, try us....
Re: FN-FORUM: IT Forum
date posted 20th October 2005 19:27
Sunbelt has a load of forums. There's also the MS public newsgroups and
various lists for different apps (eg Exchange, SBS). Google is your friend.
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Re: FN-FORUM: Problems with images
date posted 20th October 2005 19:13
That'll be the silver lining that everyone talks about... ;-)
Andy Macnaughton-Jones wrote:
>Yeah, found some more info on that as well. I'd never have spotted it if
>I'd not loaded it into Photosho...
RE: FN-FORUM: Problems with images
date posted 20th October 2005 19:00
Yeah, found some more info on that as well. I'd never have spotted it if
I'd not loaded it into Photoshop where is says "filename 75% (CMYK)".
I've modified our upload process to force conversion to...
Re: FN-FORUM: Problems with images
date posted 20th October 2005 18:52
Always! Browsers don't handle the CMYK info in the image.
Images for the web should always be RGB.
Steve
Andy Macnaughton-Jones wrote:
>Hi,
> I've managed to create some JPG's that can't be viewed...
FN-FORUM: Problems with images
date posted 20th October 2005 18:41
Hi,
I've managed to create some JPG's that can't be viewed in a browser.
They're uploaded via our CMS, resized and saves as appropriate. Some
images work, some don't. Opening the image up in photosho...
Re: FN-FORUM: vsftpd
date posted 20th October 2005 18:33
thanks
but am a bit nervous about this.
did the first two.
But surely iptables -F deletes all the rules??? and so will get rid
of all my other ones too, - but I need them set to keep the machine...
Re: FN-FORUM: vsftpd
date posted 20th October 2005 18:13
john m wrote:
>
> yes it seems to work from localhost,
>
> What do you mean by drop the firewall. If I turn it off surely I'll not
> be able to connect at all.
>
> Just done that on a local machi...
Re: FN-FORUM: vsftpd
date posted 20th October 2005 17:58
yes it seems to work from localhost,
What do you mean by drop the firewall. If I turn it off surely I'll
not be able to connect at all.
Just done that on a local machine and now I can't get to it...
Re: FN-FORUM: from CGI to SQL
date posted 20th October 2005 17:46
John 'Max' Maxwell wrote:
> I will have to add all of his 'stockists' names and addresses - would you
> put them all in one table simply under name, address, country, phone etc
> etc? or split them up...
Re: FN-FORUM: vsftpd
date posted 20th October 2005 17:45
On 20 Oct 2005 16:41:08 -0000, Nathan [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> * Check it works from localhost, if it does drop the firewall and try
> remotely.
>
Good point, should have thought of it myself.
--...
Re: FN-FORUM: vsftpd
date posted 20th October 2005 17:32
john m wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> got problems with my server again.
> This time its vsftp
>
> the client seems to connect ok.
> verifies user-name and password.
> but wont give the file list. It hangs...
RE: FN-FORUM: IT Forum
date posted 20th October 2005 17:26
www.experts-exchange.com
v.good
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Safe-2-Surf
John 'Max' Maxwell
Consultant Engineer
[EMAIL REMOVED]
5 Redvers Way,
Moorhayes Park,
Tiverton,
Devon.
EX16 6XL
tel:...
FN-FORUM: Stock art Problems!
date posted 20th October 2005 17:20
Hi all
Can anyone tell where I can get a vector T-shirt stock Image from, the
only catch is I need it to be 'FREE'
I have googled but keep getting hit with sign ups etc.. then when I do
the images ar...
Re: FN-FORUM: vsftpd
date posted 20th October 2005 17:20
On 20 Oct 2005 16:20:28 -0000, john m [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> no mention of anything in any logs at all
>
Better look at the configuration file then, check if it's logging and
where it's logging t...
FN-FORUM: IT Forum
date posted 20th October 2005 17:19
Anyone know of any IT forums for the more techie kind of everyday things
that us freelance Tech support guys deal with.
TIA
Darren Foster
www.darrenfoster.co.uk
[EMAIL REMOVED]
Office - 01872 8881...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 17:13
I have to agree with John ('Max'),
As another artist who also builds web sites, generally I get clients because
of the look of the sites I build, not the technical accuracy of the coding.
As most of...
Re: FN-FORUM: vsftpd
date posted 20th October 2005 17:11
no mention of anything in any logs at all
john
On 20 Oct 2005, at 17:09, Mamading Ceesay wrote:
>
> Have you checked the logs?...
Re: FN-FORUM: vsftpd
date posted 20th October 2005 17:01
On 20 Oct 2005 15:49:46 -0000, john m [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> any ideas where to start???
>
Have you checked the logs?
--
Mamading Ceesay
"Isn't a state that keeps files on innocent persons a po...
RE: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 16:59
John 'Max' Maxwell wrote:
>
> Cabridgeshire - by any chance supposed to be Cambridgeshire?
I've heard it's the No 1 place for the hire of cab ridges.
Karl...
RE: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 16:57
Ummmmm - I was actually referring to the syntax error:
Cabridgeshire - by any chance supposed to be Cambridgeshire?
Max)
On 20 Oct 2005 14:08:29 -0000, John 'Max' Maxwell [EMAIL REMOVED]
wrote:
>...
Re: FN-FORUM: Colour problem with JPEGs in Photoshop
date posted 20th October 2005 16:45
Hi Julian,
At 3:37 pm +0000 20/10/05, Julian Blundell wrote:
>I sometimes have problems opening jpg files in Photoshop, what I do is open
>them in something else, copy them onto the clipboard and the...
FN-FORUM: vsftpd
date posted 20th October 2005 16:41
Hi all
got problems with my server again.
This time its vsftp
the client seems to connect ok.
verifies user-name and password.
but wont give the file list. It hangs for quite a while, then timesout....
Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 16:37
Never let anyone go on an "intro to Access" course. Especially not at a
college...they often allow you to have REPEATING GROUPS (aargh) in your
tables, as well spaces in everything. *shudder*
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Re: FN-FORUM: IE 7 Beta
date posted 20th October 2005 16:33
It comes with TechNet Plus (subs currently many % off) and MSDN.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Kathy
http://www.vendetta.co.uk
+44(0)7005 982 261
DNRC M...
Re: FN-FORUM: Colour problem with JPEGs in Photoshop
date posted 20th October 2005 16:30
Hi Colin
I sometimes have problems opening jpg files in Photoshop, what I do is open
them in something else, copy them onto the clipboard and then past them into
Photoshop.
Jules
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Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 16:14
Excellent reply Sam
Agree totally
Lorna
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FN-FORUM: Colour problem with JPEGs in Photoshop
date posted 20th October 2005 15:59
All,
One of my customers is having problems when opening JPG images in
Photoshop on his MAC (OSX).
It's not something I've come across so wondered if anyone on the list
had experienced a similar p...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 15:49
> http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.sixshootermedia.com%=
2Fportfolio.php
>
> Standards schmandards ;-)
lol, thats quite funny. I shall have to tell him that. Cheers....
Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 15:44
> VERY good designer. He produces exceptional sites, both beautiful and
> hand coded to xhtml+css standards compliance. His work is the standard
> i expect from quality designers, which is why i put a...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 15:43
On Thursday 20 Oct 2005 2:54 pm, Tam Denholm wrote:
> http://www.sixshootermedia.com/portfolio.php
>
> You gotta admit, he's pretty damn good.=20
I gotta say, the first thing I did is crank the text...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 15:39
On Thursday 20 Oct 2005 2:46 pm, Alastair Dant wrote:
> worst i ever saw (in an access db too) were apostrophes and quote marks=
=2E..
Nooooooo! Say it ain't so!...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 15:35
Yes, i know he does. Im sure the javascript is done with dreamweaver,
but i know that that xhtml+css is all hand coded.
:)
On 20 Oct 2005 14:39:20 -0000, Ray McGinty [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> He's...
Re: FN-FORUM: Webmail (again)
date posted 20th October 2005 15:34
On 20 Oct 2005 13:24:25 -0000, Andy Macnaughton-Jones [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote=
:
>
> *That* sounds plausable I guess. I'm waiting on the response back from
> 1&1's tech team, but I think they've recentl...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 15:30
He's also using Dreamweaver unless I'm very much mistaken... ;-)
On 20 Oct 2005, at 14:53, Tam Denholm wrote:
> You gotta admit, he's pretty damn good. Take a look at the templates
> he offers, they...
RE: FN-FORUM: OT: console recommendation
date posted 20th October 2005 15:28
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> My 2p
>=20
> My son is 13 months and will not touch a video game for some
> time because his parents hate them!! But he does site
> mesmerised with his Dad by the Sugababes vi...
Re: FN-FORUM: from CGI to SQL
date posted 20th October 2005 15:21
On 20 Oct 2005 14:17:13 -0000, John 'Max' Maxwell [EMAIL REMOVED] w=
rote:
>
> No response - shall I take this one elsewhere then??
>
> Max.
Not sure im completely understanding what you mean, but im...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 15:07
On 20 Oct 2005 14:08:29 -0000, John 'Max' Maxwell [EMAIL REMOVED] w=
rote:
>
> I see he is based in Cabridgeshire - where is that?
>
I've no idea, ive never met the guy, im in Edinburgh, i aint goin...
RE: FN-FORUM: OT: console recommendation
date posted 20th October 2005 15:07
My 2p
My son is 13 months and will not touch a video game for some time because
his parents hate them!! But he does site mesmerised with his Dad by the
Sugababes videos on TV ... do you think that's...
RE: FN-FORUM: from CGI to SQL
date posted 20th October 2005 15:07
No response - shall I take this one elsewhere then??
Max.
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RE: FN-FORUM: OT: console recommendation
date posted 20th October 2005 15:01
I agree with that. I have no doubt they will be more social, but as most
tests have proved, they don't develop in the same way and tend to have a
much shorter attention span as they get older. 6 and 2...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 15:00
Nathan wrote:
>
> Alastair Dant wrote:
>
>> :o)
>>
>> worst i ever saw (in an access db too) were apostrophes and quote
>> marks...
>>
>> andWhatIsWrongWithCamelCasePrayTell ?
>>
>> next they'll be...
RE: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 14:59
I see he is based in Cabridgeshire - where is that?
Very nice though.
You gotta admit, he's pretty damn good. Take a look at the templates
he offers, they're quite good. You'll also notice he did m...
RE: FN-FORUM: IE 7 Beta
date posted 20th October 2005 14:47
Thanks for that info, the link from NRG just goes to a tech notes
download but if it was on release there should be some copies floating
around cyberspace somewhere. Looks like fingers crossed is the...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 14:45
Alastair Dant wrote:
> :o)
>
> worst i ever saw (in an access db too) were apostrophes and quote marks...
>
> andWhatIsWrongWithCamelCasePrayTell ?
>
> next they'll be telling us that they prefer t...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 14:45
http://www.sixshootermedia.com/portfolio.php
You gotta admit, he's pretty damn good. Take a look at the templates
he offers, they're quite good. You'll also notice he did my site :P
Tam...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 14:40
Speaking as a fellow designer, not a hand coder, what we really need is
a wysiwig application that allows us to design visually and arrange
page elements to be pixel perfect and which then automatic...
RE: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 14:37
:o)
worst i ever saw (in an access db too) were apostrophes and quote marks...
andWhatIsWrongWithCamelCasePrayTell ?
next they'll be telling us that they prefer those silly K & R {
bracket positio...
RE: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 14:30
i agree that - historically speaking - dreamweaver has earned itself a nasty
reputation for mutilating code.
yet, since MX was released, it's been possible to set it up so that it is
much less intrus...
RE: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 14:24
Ideal. Thank you.
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John 'Max' Maxwell
Consultant Engineer
[EMAIL REMOVED]
5 Redvers Way,
Moorhayes Park,
Tiverton,
Devon.
EX16 6XL
tel: +44 (0) 1884 25...
RE: FN-FORUM: IE 7 Beta
date posted 20th October 2005 14:21
There already is a public Beta which has been around for quite a while:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=718E9B3A-64FE-4A4C-
9DDF-57AF0472EAD2&displaylang=en
HTH, Simon
:: -...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 14:19
On Thursday 20 Oct 2005 1:25 pm, Lists wrote:
> Hmm, as what little I do is VBA, it's all Pascal case or Camel case. I
> don't like underscores; they remind me of being forced to learn COBOL. =
But
>...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 14:18
> I know I am now leaving myself open to attack from the purists - but we a=
ll
> speak our minds here so I will say that a lot of these 'pure' sites are n=
ot
> very pleasing on the eye and tend to l...
Re: FN-FORUM: IE 7 Beta
date posted 20th October 2005 14:16
IE7 was available via cnet and a few other places a while ago but it
seems to have vanished.
I've had the opportunity to use it and so far its behaved exactly like
ie6, with all our favourite bugs -...
RE: FN-FORUM: Webmail (again)
date posted 20th October 2005 14:15
*That* sounds plausable I guess. I'm waiting on the response back from
1&1's tech team, but I think they've recently changed things around and
you get to speak to somebody via (I'm sure) VOIP routed s...
RE: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 14:01
Blimey - is this place full of grumpy old men or what? Am I supposed to bin
Dreamweaver and start using a quill because Walter Matthau and 'is mate
wouldn't give me a job?
I have a job, thank you. I...
RE: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 14:01
If you use design view maybe it is not perfect but then what is ? At the end
of the day it is down to personal preference. I couldn't care a less if DW
had a design view, I can code perfectly well in...
RE: FN-FORUM: Webmail (again)
date posted 20th October 2005 13:59
we had a bug relating to PDFs in the past, might be unrelated but i'll give
you a quick run down...
the file upload system for our family of sites kept mysteriously aborting
when presented with certa...
RE: FN-FORUM: Webmail (again)
date posted 20th October 2005 13:45
I just tested it with my own 1& 1 account and it works fine - if that helps?
Does he get an error or does the email just turn up with no attachment? It
is quite an odd method - you have to browse for...
RE: FN-FORUM: OT: console recommendation
date posted 20th October 2005 13:44
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>=20
> But i dont think children under the age of 3 should be
> playing video games or even watching the TV for that matter.
> Im not trying to tell you how to raise your child...
RE: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 13:39
> Dreamweaver produces clean code
Dreamweaver produces Better code, but not clean code. It still puts needless
stuff in there, imho.
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RE: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 13:38
>I use dreamweaver and love it, but i hand code everything.
> And im real sorry to say it Max, but i'd never hire anyone that didnt
hand code.
I'm pretty much with Tam on this one however as far a...
RE: FN-FORUM: Webmail (again)
date posted 20th October 2005 13:36
2 PDFs, 500-600Kb in size. Limit for webmail is 2mb (according to their
blurb) so even with the encoding overhead, it's still less than 2mb
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RE: FN-FORUM: Webmail (again)
date posted 20th October 2005 13:31
How big a file is the PDF silly question I know but the limit on 1 & 1
accounts is 10mb.
Also what exactly does the return message say when it's bounced back.
Regards,
Darren Foster
www.darrenfoste...
RE: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 13:28
I have to disagree with you to some extent. You can only consider comparing
the latest FrontPage with Dreamweaver as in previous version of FrontPage
there is just no comparison - lets face it, it was...
RE: FN-FORUM: Download manager
date posted 20th October 2005 13:24
>>>It's actually for an admin section for the operator to make processing a
zip file they have to download as easy as possible so it could even be an
application on the client machine that does the jo...
FN-FORUM: Webmail (again)
date posted 20th October 2005 13:23
Hi,
Slightly different (I think) webmail question.
Got a client using the 1&1 webmail and he's having trouble sending PDF
attachments, the 1&1 server keeps bouncing them
When he sends from outlook...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 13:16
Hmm, as what little I do is VBA, it's all Pascal case or Camel case. I
don't like underscores; they remind me of being forced to learn COBOL. But
inconsistency is much worse (or spaces in field names...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 13:11
Dreamweaver is like FrontPage in many ways. If you don't already know how to
write standards-compliant code, it certainly won't help you. It fills the
page with unnecessary js bloat and likes to stuff...
Re: FN-FORUM: Exporting SQL Data to MS Word document
date posted 20th October 2005 13:02
Depends on what exactly you want the output to be, but mail merge to
catalog/directory might do what you want. Word will talk to most things via
ODBC or OLEDB (plus a little VBA, perhaps). Can be easi...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 12:54
On Thursday 20 Oct 2005 12:12 pm, Tam Denholm wrote:
> camel humps in variable naming,
camel humps? Do you mean camelHumps? What's wrong with them?...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 12:42
On 20 Oct 2005 11:40:30 -0000, Derek Almond [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> >>camel humps in variable naming,
>
> Out of interest, why ? I much prefer it that way - what do you use inste=
ad
> ?
>
> Derek...
RE: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 12:32
>>camel humps in variable naming,
Out of interest, why ? I much prefer it that way - what do you use instead
?
Derek...
RE: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 12:28
Fair enough. All personal preference.
Love is in the eye of the beholder so to speak
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Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 12:24
> If you're going to hand write the code anyway, what's the point in using
> dreamweaver?
Well for many reasons, mainly because i like the way it works and
organises my projects into "sites", i also...
FN-FORUM: IE 7 Beta
date posted 20th October 2005 12:20
Hi all,
We've already got clients asking if their new site is going to be
compliant in IE7 ?!!?? (their friend told them to ask) it a good and
worthy question but we haven't seem a copy and there's...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 12:17
> Because they're smaller and faster than the equivalent dreamweaver code? =
;O)
You're damn right Nick. Just look at your sites source, its small,
fast, and it validates, you could say, its perfect...
RE: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 12:15
If you're going to hand write the code anyway, what's the point in using
dreamweaver?
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Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 12:10
John 'Max' Maxwell wrote:
> Amen to that Sam - the more I use it the more I find myself coding at the
> line, but it is great to have everything there up on the screen. Like me,
> you probably find th...
Re: FN-FORUM: Exporting SQL Data to MS Word document
date posted 20th October 2005 12:05
Duncan,
I use this script to create quotations and invoices for a client's
backend quotation system.
The way it works is my PHP code does the mySQL selects to get the
customer name, address etc, t...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 12:03
I use dreamweaver and love it, but i hand code everything.
And im real sorry to say it Max, but i'd never hire anyone that didnt hand =
code.
Im afraid i am pretty bad like this, i have a hate list...
RE: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 11:51
Amen to that Sam - the more I use it the more I find myself coding at the
line, but it is great to have everything there up on the screen. Like me,
you probably find that a lot of these hard line code...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 11:50
On 20 Oct 2005 09:56:54 -0000, Sam Morgan [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote=
:
>
> Anyone wanna send there browsers over to my latest creation and give me s=
ome
> feedback, its just the first html template so fa...
RE: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 11:48
Can you have another look, think it is a slight rendering issue with the
css, I made a tweek.
Regards
Sam Morgan
WIREDEYES - Internet Consultancy
tel : 020 7100 2178
fax : 0871 433 2278
web :...
RE: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 11:45
Thanks for your comments, im glad people like the design.
I don't want to get into any flame war about DW and standards (but what the
hell) but in my 10 years of professional web design experience I...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 11:44
> Anyone wanna send there browsers over to my latest creation and
> give me some
> feedback, its just the first html template so far so no other pages
> to test
> yet.
>
> http://studiodolso.cyber...
RE: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 11:39
Oh, and no, You aren't! lol
No offence intended!!!!
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RE: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 11:38
I hate it!
But it's mainly cos if your trying to change a site that was made in
dreamweaver before you had to update it, it's almost impossible.
Dreamweaver always seems to create loads of uneccessary...
RE: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 11:29
Why is dreamweaver sh1te - is this a forum held belief?
I use it and I love it - does this mean I am sh1te because I don't hand
code??
Forgive me if I have missed something - remember, I'm new!!
Ma...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 11:27
On Thursday 20 Oct 2005 10:57 am, Sam Morgan wrote:
> http://studiodolso.cybervision.it/
Looking good on FF / Linux....
FN-FORUM: from CGI to SQL
date posted 20th October 2005 11:26
Good morning all, I have just secured a redesign for my friends site which
is currently live at www.romanticaofdevon.co.uk which is very exciting
because the subject lends itself to good design and of...
RE: FN-FORUM: Download manager
date posted 20th October 2005 11:24
Nar, im not looking for something that is transparent to the user, this
would be something like a signed activex / java component that the user
installed willingly but once installed enables this func...
Re: FN-FORUM: Download manager
date posted 20th October 2005 11:22
On Thursday 20 Oct 2005 11:08 am, Nick Grimshaw wrote:
> Sam Morgan wrote:
> > Im looking for something with as little user interaction as possible,
> > basically click a link in an email have the fil...
RE: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 11:21
Looks good, but if you used dreamweaver, you have to remember it's sh*te,
lol...
RE: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 11:09
> http://studiodolso.cybervision.it/
The UI Looks nice with the exception of the man with the box's squashed
head, but the codes not so pretty it won't take much to fix though.
- -
Name = Richard...
RE: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 11:04
Wow nice :-)
Looks sexy on Windows/Firefox 1.0.7
Nice work
Darren Foster
www.darrenfoster.co.uk
[EMAIL REMOVED]
Office - 01872 888148
Mobile - 07881 805523
Skype me - darrenfoster1976
Disclaimer:...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 10:59
Pretty good visually. Source code could be improved though as it
doesnt validate and its quite obvious you used dreamweaver to make it,
the mishmash of tables isnt pretty.
But yeah, looks good if you...
Re: FN-FORUM: Download manager
date posted 20th October 2005 10:58
Sam Morgan wrote:
> Im looking for something with as little user interaction as possible,
> basically click a link in an email have the files downloaded and unzipped to
> a predefined folder without a...
Re: FN-FORUM: Exporting SQL Data to MS Word document
date posted 20th October 2005 10:57
Ray,
Been having a go with it, I have a few problems though. This script
allows for you to set a .txt to be used as the contents...What I
actually want converted to PDF is a .php which in turn contain...
FN-FORUM: Site test / critique
date posted 20th October 2005 10:48
Anyone wanna send there browsers over to my latest creation and give me some
feedback, its just the first html template so far so no other pages to test
yet.
http://studiodolso.cybervision.it/
Regar...
Re: FN-FORUM: Exporting SQL Data to MS Word document
date posted 20th October 2005 10:47
On Thursday 20 Oct 2005 10:06 am, Ray McGinty wrote:
> PHP Pdf Creation
> Module-free creation of Pdf documents from within PHP developed by
> R&OS Ltd
> http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf
Nice one Ray....
Re: FN-FORUM: Exporting SQL Data to MS Word document
date posted 20th October 2005 10:32
D D Glendinning wrote:
> Morning All,
> Basically, an admin system I have built allows the admin personnel to
> generate a members directory, which can be up to 40 pages long,
> containing tables with...
FN-FORUM: Meta thread on how threads work
date posted 20th October 2005 10:30
On Thursday 20 Oct 2005 12:21 am, Andrew Larcombe wrote:
> Dont ask....you'll end up with a meta-thread on how these threads work.
And we hadn't even got on to what everyone's having for lunch...
>...
Re: FN-FORUM: Exporting SQL Data to MS Word document
date posted 20th October 2005 10:27
On Thursday 20 Oct 2005 9:42 am, D D Glendinning wrote:
> I am running on PHP/MySQL, any chance you could give me a pointer to
> any tutorials on exporting this page to pdf?
Good place to start:
http...
RE: FN-FORUM: Download manager
date posted 20th October 2005 10:21
Thanks guys,
Im looking for something with as little user interaction as possible,
basically click a link in an email have the files downloaded and unzipped to
a predefined folder without any other us...
Re: FN-FORUM: Download manager
date posted 20th October 2005 10:18
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 09:23:29AM -0000, Anthony Cartmell wrote:
>
> >Isn't the downside of this that self-extracting zips are executable
> >files ?
> >Maybe it has changed since I last used them...
Re: FN-FORUM: Exporting SQL Data to MS Word document
date posted 20th October 2005 10:18
If you really need Word, and you're targetting a recent version, try
outputting HTML with a .doc extension.
To get an idea of formatting, create a suitable Word document and Save As
HTML.
Works...
Re: FN-FORUM: Download manager
date posted 20th October 2005 10:14
> Isn't the downside of this that self-extracting zips are executable
> files ?
> Maybe it has changed since I last used them many years ago.
Yes, if that is a downside. They're completely self-con...
RE: FN-FORUM: urgent: paypal interaction
date posted 20th October 2005 10:03
I have a UK PayPal seller's account (business account) and the option to
accept payments from non-PayPal members IS available.
Derek
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Re: FN-FORUM: urgent: paypal interaction
date posted 20th October 2005 09:59
There is defiantely a setting in the Admin panel - I ahev just set one up -
Pam
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From: "Ray McGinty" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 200...
Re: FN-FORUM: Exporting SQL Data to MS Word document
date posted 20th October 2005 09:57
Duncan,
I've been using a nice simple bit of software from these guys for a
couple of years now without any problems:
> PHP Pdf Creation
> Module-free creation of Pdf documents from within PHP deve...
RE: FN-FORUM: Exporting SQL Data to MS Word document
date posted 20th October 2005 09:53
Just a suggestion, why not send the existing page as an HTML email to the
supplied customer's address from PHP... This might be simpler than exporting
a Word or PDF document.
Dave.
_________________...
Re: FN-FORUM: Exporting SQL Data to MS Word document
date posted 20th October 2005 09:52
erm.....
google ;-)
jez
On 20 Oct 2005, at 09:41, D D Glendinning wrote:
>
> Thanks Jez,
>
> I am running on PHP/MySQL, any chance you could give me a pointer to
> any tutorials on exporting this...
Re: FN-FORUM: urgent: paypal interaction
date posted 20th October 2005 09:50
Last time I checked (about 6 months ago now) Paypal were introducing
payment without an account in the US, but they couldn't (or would'nt)
say when it might be introduced in the UK.
On 19 Oct 2005,...
RE: FN-FORUM: OT: console recommendation
date posted 20th October 2005 09:40
We found that when our son played games on the Xbox he became a bit
obsessed and wanted to play them all the time at the expense of playing
with anything else (I'm talking games like Sonic, Shrek and...
Re: FN-FORUM: Exporting SQL Data to MS Word document
date posted 20th October 2005 09:33
Thanks Jez,
I am running on PHP/MySQL, any chance you could give me a pointer to
any tutorials on exporting this page to pdf?
Many Thanks,
Duncan...
Re: FN-FORUM: Exporting SQL Data to MS Word document
date posted 20th October 2005 09:31
Jeremy Aston wrote:
>
> I would publish it to PDF as (a) that is strightforward from all sorts
> of platforms and (b) is nice and read only.
>
> If you are running on a .net platform then the inte...
Re: FN-FORUM: Exporting SQL Data to MS Word document
date posted 20th October 2005 09:23
I would publish it to PDF as (a) that is strightforward from all
sorts of platforms and (b) is nice and read only.
If you are running on a .net platform then the integration with Word
would be ea...
FN-FORUM: Exporting SQL Data to MS Word document
date posted 20th October 2005 09:17
Morning All,
Basically, an admin system I have built allows the admin personnel to
generate a members directory, which can be up to 40 pages long,
containing tables with members details in each of the...
RE: FN-FORUM: OT: console recommendation
date posted 20th October 2005 08:43
Maybe 1 or 2 words!
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Williams
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Re: FN-FORUM: OT: console recommendation
date posted 20th October 2005 08:40
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 07:25:32AM -0000, Ian Copeland wrote:
>
> Children, on average, learn 98% of their life knowledge in the first 2 years
> of their life. That's why talking like an idiot to the...
RE: FN-FORUM: OT: console recommendation
date posted 20th October 2005 08:16
Children, on average, learn 98% of their life knowledge in the first 2 years
of their life. That's why talking like an idiot to them with all that
coochy-coo stuff works well, even if it's usually the...
RE: FN-FORUM: FW: SAYNOTO0870.COM
date posted 20th October 2005 08:12
If you're talking about mobile phone bills, I once found that o2 were adding
texts to my bill, even though I hadn't sent them. But that was at the time
when phones didn't save text messages, so I coul...
Re: FN-FORUM: urgent: paypal interaction
date posted 20th October 2005 08:00
It's an option under the web payments options in the profile of the
wendor account - you can opt to allow people to pay without a paypal
account, or force them to sign up.
Richard Monk wrote:
>Hmm...
RE: FN-FORUM: Download manager
date posted 20th October 2005 07:56
Isn't the downside of this that self-extracting zips are executable files ?
Maybe it has changed since I last used them many years ago.
Simon
:: -----Original Message-----
:: Assuming Windoze: Win...
Re: FN-FORUM: Zone alarm Security Suite
date posted 20th October 2005 02:20
To add my 2p...I used to use ZA but switched to Sygate Personal Firewall.
You can get a lot more information and yet its still easy to use and setup.
They also have a set of online tests to check what...
Re: FN-FORUM: OT: console recommendation
date posted 20th October 2005 01:27
Take into account the following 3 things of this post:
1) I dont know anything about children as i try to avoid them whenever poss=
ible.
2) Im all for children using computers of any kind.
3) This i...
Re: FN-FORUM: PHP Freelancer
date posted 20th October 2005 00:27
Hi Russell,
Can I be of any help for you? I live in Henley and have good command
in PHP/Mysql, dreamweaver, photoshop etc.
Best regards,
Mekh Gurung
On 19 Oct 2005 18:06:16 -0000, Russell Sutton
[...
Re: FN-FORUM: Zone alarm Security Suite
date posted 20th October 2005 00:12
John 'Max' Maxwell wrote:
> Frig me, I wish I'd never said anything now. Do you people always discuss
> everything to death for so long until one man is victorious with the last
> and longest comment?...
Re: FN-FORUM: Contact Fields MySQL db
date posted 20th October 2005 00:10
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Hello Andrew,
>
> I'm sure your correct in what you say. But I don't, at my present level of
> knowledge of php and MySQL full understand it.
>
> So it's back to the books....
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