Freelancers Forum Messages on Friday January 6th 2006
RE: FN-FORUM: Suggestions please
date posted 6th January 2006 23:57
Simple, set a cookie when the arrive and check for it as then browse.
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Re: FN-FORUM: Suggestions please
date posted 6th January 2006 23:55
On Saturday 07 January 2006 00:21, [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> I was thinking about adding code to some of my pages to test that if the
> referer was blank then redirect to the home page. I wanted to mak...
Re: FN-FORUM: Suggestions please
date posted 6th January 2006 23:52
I was thinking about adding code to some of my pages to test that if the
referer was blank then redirect to the home page. I wanted to make sure that
if someone start by going to to a page that isn'...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 23:44
On Saturday 07 January 2006 00:06, richard wrote:
> ive definately learnt some lessons from you guys.
>
> any help would be much appreciated
>
You've got other sites you have done - can't you mention...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 23:43
go to school or get a job on the bottom rung and learn as much as you
can from the people around you so you can move up to the position you
seem to be trying to get into by using short cuts.
be prep...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 23:39
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yes - and if you are truly a developer you should know that already.
richard wrote:
>how old are u guys?
>
>and is it difficult to succeed in this industry?
>
>richard
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Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 23:38
I reckon all should drop this and realise that richard by now has
learnt by his mistakes which in the begining may be to test things
out or not but the only person he is hurting is himself.
No po...
RE: FN-FORUM: Site Test Please
date posted 6th January 2006 23:38
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Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 23:36
ive definately learnt some lessons from you guys.
any help would be much appreciated
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Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 23:34
Well=20
In all honesty - the first thing you should do is accept that there are
things that should be considered unnaceptable practice - and that is
plagarising someone elses work
Secondly don=B9t p...
RE: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 23:32
It's not difficult to succeed in any industry if you are not blatantly
stealing. Theft is theft & at 22 you are old enough to understand that. I
have put 15 years into the IT industry and would take...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 23:27
Fm JD
> I have had people ask me to virtually recreate quoted sites and I have
said
> no, I will do something along the same lines but not identical, it
reflects
> badly on me as someone who claims to...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 23:26
In fairness he's not the only one to copy other people's designs ...
http://www.rwdmag.com/articles/fullstory.php?&sid=&id=2343
On 6 Jan 2006, at 23:43, jd wrote:
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> It is fair enough to say tha...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 23:19
so jd, if you were starting out again, what's the first thing I should learn
and do?
richard
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Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 23:15
no sorry, I wasn't!
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Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
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> Well, to be...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 23:13
It is fair enough to say that we all start out somewhere and it is fair
enough to look at what other designers do and use that as a basis of
designing a site - ie something similar to www.......
But...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 23:11
how old are u guys?
and is it difficult to succeed in this industry?
richard
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Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 23:10
Well, to be honest you were starting to sound like dozens of teenage
wannabe's I've heard similar stories from.
richard wrote:
>why is my age important?
>
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Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 23:08
Richard
You may find
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1988/Ukpga_19880048_en_2.htm#mdiv9 of
interest, especially sections 9-16 of this statute. Hope it assists in your
Web career.
Mike A.
Sam Morgan...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 23:01
believe me m8, Ive learny a lot from u guys this evening, more than what I
wanted to learn in fact!
there's goes my chances of getting a job next week, come interviews.
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Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 23:00
why is my age important?
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Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
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> I don'...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 22:58
why is my age important?
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Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
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> Maybe he has...
RE: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 22:56
"MY BETTER SITES", sorry pal don't even go there. Passing of someone else's
work as your own is not only extremely bad form but most likely illegal.
It's also sticking your middle finger up the rest o...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 22:54
Maybe he has the point now and will desist from his activities, as we should
now too desist.
He may like to know that these forums are well crawled by search spiders and
comments here may arrive befo...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 22:51
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> I don't mean to offend Richar...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 22:48
I don't mean to offend Richard, but can I ask your age?
steve
richard wrote:
>nice point!
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Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 22:42
nice point!
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Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 22:38
On Friday 06 January 2006 22:55, richard wrote:
> any advice for me then, as two of my better sites have now gone down?
>
> and I had interviews coming up as well, where I needed to show examples of
>...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 22:29
And text and layout and the rest! But he has done the right thing now
and taken it down. Well done.
Tom
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Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 22:27
And this looks like the result of a save as in IE
http://www.xrms.co.uk/CRM%20Solutions%20Online%20-%20XRMS%20Press%20Release%20Archives_files/
Might not be, but most people don't use spaces in their...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 22:25
I think you used the same images ...
eg http://www.xrms.co.uk/images/forrester_b.gif for one (oops!)
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Kathy
http://www.vendetta...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 22:25
any advice for me then, as two of my better sites have now gone down?
and I had interviews coming up as well, where I needed to show examples of
my work.
richard
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Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 22:24
> And for the love of god, compare http://www.xrms.co.uk/ and
> http://www.entellium.com/
Hmmm, a certain similarity in the images...?
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Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 22:21
On Friday 06 January 2006 22:43, Tom Singer wrote:
> Tom
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> On 6 Jan 2006 22:18:00 -0000, richard [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> > thanks for picking holes in my site, I have taken both my own website
> >...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 22:13
Well they all seem to be purporting to be different seperate
businesses who have done seperate sites for each other and they all
seem to claim ownership for the same site. If I was you I'd just have
o...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 21:48
thanks for picking holes in my site, I have taken both my own website down
and xrms.co.uk.
what do you mean the relationship between my sites?
richard
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Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 21:24
erm, it really is you know. No designer or coder likes people ripping
off their designs and work to pass off as their own. Can you show us
some sites that you have done to back up the 'Im a very good...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 21:06
On Friday 06 January 2006 21:31, richard wrote:
> it's not important anyway
It doesn't look too good on a publicly-accessible mailing list when you copy
someone else's page and pass it off as your o...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 21:03
any positive ideas for me, besides all the negative ones going around, we've
all made mistakes and used other people's idea!
come on let's all hold our hands up, if we were that good we would all be...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 21:01
it's not important anyway
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> Now I s...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 21:00
yes m8, the sites are either the sites ive done or been involved in doing.
Im a very good developer in fact.
im currently working on developing my current site, so it doesn't look the
same, beside it...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 20:55
Now I see why they were so different...ripping off a site then saying it
was just a 'tester' is really, really low Richard.
Did you actually have a hand in ANY of the sites listed outside Llandudno?...
Re: FN-FORUM: yaks
date posted 6th January 2006 20:53
Cheers for that, it was funny, did u do the artwork?
On 6 Jan 2006 18:38:23 -0000, Alex Beston [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
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> http://www.strawberrydragon.com/images/animation/thelifeofyaks.html
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Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 20:43
richard - any reason your flash & html sites are totally different?
Usually they would carry the same style, just with less fancy bits on
the html...seems a little disjointed. Also, the flash site i...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site Test Please
date posted 6th January 2006 20:36
Nice bit of insight there Sam
In fact this is the first website in an additional partnership I've just
formed with a friend. He's a brilliant media producer responsible for some
well known TV ads. He...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 20:28
You left the line in your source. I have to
ask what the point of copying his site was, especially as you didn't
even hand edit it to see how it was put together.
Tom
On 6 Jan 2006 20:46:3...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 20:26
2nd line on http://www.richardsmartwebsolutions.com/portfolio.htm
lol
And a strange mishmash of HTML and XHTML to boot.
Tom
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Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 20:17
hi, ive taken the home page off, it was just for testing purposes anyway.
however, how did you manage to recognise it, from alan germani site?
richard
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Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 20:16
hi, ive taken the home page off, it was just for testing purposes anyway.
however, how did you manage to recognise it, from alan germani site?
richard
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RE: FN-FORUM: Self code or package?
date posted 6th January 2006 20:08
Nearly always develop new or re-use existing personally developed
components. Usually take the hit of trying to genericise customer
requirements to allow for re-use.
And working with web designers /...
RE: FN-FORUM: Self code or package?
date posted 6th January 2006 19:43
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Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: Self code or package?
Hi Lee,...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 19:41
Oh for gods sake richard take that site down, you haven't even
bothered to change the names on the testimonials, or some of the
testimonials either for that matter. In fact you've ripped the whole
sit...
RE: FN-FORUM: Self code or package?
date posted 6th January 2006 19:36
Hi Lee,
I agree with you on that one:)
Craig
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I'm interested in people's opinions about this.
I have seen a few people saying 'use osCommerce' etc., and just wondered i...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 19:32
On Friday 06 January 2006 19:53, Stephen Smith wrote:
> http://www.richardsmartwebsolutions.com/portfolio.htm
>
> http://www.alangermani.com/portfolio.htm
>
> Some vague similarities there....
Maybe...
Re: FN-FORUM: Newsreader clip
date posted 6th January 2006 19:26
Paul Cooper wrote:
> In case someone does a search of this thread ....
>
> http://www.4rfv.co.uk/brieflisting.asp?scategory=279
> http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/Customer/index.aspx
>
There is als...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 19:23
richard wrote:
> yes my portfolio is at www.richardkingsleysmart.com
> and non flash at www.richardsmartwebsolutions.com
Hmm...
http://www.richardsmartwebsolutions.com/portfolio.htm
http://www.alan...
RE: FN-FORUM: IIS Password protection system for web pages
date posted 6th January 2006 19:11
I agree with Kathy
Remove iis guest account from directories you want to control
Password requested and windows will do the rest. Best still if already
logged on then no logon required
Damon
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FN-FORUM: Self code or package?
date posted 6th January 2006 19:05
I'm interested in people's opinions about this.
I have seen a few people saying 'use osCommerce' etc., and just wondered if
this is the general practice?
I had a few customers last year that had maj...
RE: FN-FORUM: Graphic Design
date posted 6th January 2006 19:02
I get most of my work from web designers that can't code, or don't want too.
I have a small base of regular customers that ring me before they quote &
add 30% commission to my prices.
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Re: FN-FORUM: Graphic Design
date posted 6th January 2006 18:57
Hi all,
can I ask how you all get free lance work so you can work from home and make
a living? Where or how do you get your work? I sit from ringing around or
leaflets or from sites like this??
thank...
RE: FN-FORUM: Site Test Please
date posted 6th January 2006 18:50
Reduce the Bgimage JPGs to 70%, will save 30k and have little effect on the
quality.
Other suggestions / critiques.
- You need to set the bg colour, probably to the outer most colour of the
gradien...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 18:43
I'd like to add to that from a long-term business consultant's point of
view.
The local enterprise agency, business development agency, business
development section of the local/regional government a...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 18:34
thanks for the ideas, no im not a salesman, I may advertise for one.
are you getting much work from your own business?
richard
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Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 18:28
With something like the Penrhyn Bay site I'd suggest you start by
phoning local businesses to offer them a free listing (as well as
doing obvious search engine promotion).
Nobody's going to pay t...
Re: FN-FORUM: IIS Password protection system for web pages
date posted 6th January 2006 18:16
Can't you just use integrated authentication and control access with the
built-in NTFS permissions/security groups same as any other resources?
That way the users wouldn't need additional passwords....
FN-FORUM: yaks
date posted 6th January 2006 18:08
http://www.strawberrydragon.com/images/animation/thelifeofyaks.html
--
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deltatraffic.co.uk
php, mysql, seo,
xml, web-services,
hosting, usablility,
standard...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site Test Please
date posted 6th January 2006 17:59
On Friday 06 Jan 2006 6:11 pm, richard wrote:
> Hello,
>
> not sure whether I should be responding to this email!
> so sorry, if i shouldnt.
As you asked - no you shouldn't. =20
If you are starting...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 17:57
yes my portfolio is at www.richardkingsleysmart.com
and non flash at www.richardsmartwebsolutions.com
Ive got a number of sites, that I want to promote one is
www.penrhynbayonline.com, which is an on...
Re: FN-FORUM: Portfolio
date posted 6th January 2006 17:50
Firstly, have you got a portfolio site yet - if so what's the URL?
Secondly who do you want to advertise it to and what do you hope to
achieve? Web design firms (potential employers), small busine...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site Test Please
date posted 6th January 2006 17:41
Hello,
not sure whether I should be responding to this email!
so sorry, if i shouldnt.
Anyway can anyone help me with ideas on how I should go about
advertising/marketing my site and portfolio.
reg...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site Test Please
date posted 6th January 2006 17:38
Thanks Steve
I'll take that and all the other useful comments and revise.
Mike A
Steve O'Connor wrote:
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>> Page load... yep, my thoughts but the graphic artist...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site Test Please
date posted 6th January 2006 17:35
Works OK on Safari 2 on OS X, bit it's ridiculously slow over a 2 meg
broadband connection.
I've had a look at one of the background images and it was around
75k. That's probably too big for a b...
Re: FN-FORUM: IIS Password protection system for web pages
date posted 6th January 2006 16:23
Try this :-
http://www.troxo.com/products/iispassword/
It's free too.
On 6 Jan 2006 16:46:02 -0000, Russell Sutton
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> Hi
>
> Im looking for a simple off the shelf piece of s...
FN-FORUM: IIS Password protection system for web pages
date posted 6th January 2006 16:16
Hi
Im looking for a simple off the shelf piece of software that will allow me
to password protect web pages, word docs, pdfs etc on an intranet.
The intranet will run on a Windows server with .net...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site Test Please
date posted 6th January 2006 16:14
Mike A [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
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> Page load... yep, my thoughts but the graphic artist insists on detail,
> causes me headaches. Unless there's another way to achieve quality and
> reduce image file...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site Test Please
date posted 6th January 2006 16:12
Thanks D...
That IS the images optimized!!! Already taken a lot of the punch from image
backgrounds.
Will have a look at that text.
Mike A
D D Glendinning wrote:
> Mike,
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> Very nice looking si...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site Test Please
date posted 6th January 2006 15:59
Mike,
Very nice looking site. Just a few comments:
-Your images could do with some more optimising, as they take about
6-7 secs to load (and I have broadband..)
- The font used for "Their builder...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site Test Please
date posted 6th January 2006 15:50
Thanks Steve
Agree on short content but that was the idea as this is a "display" or
brochure site, design only to let interested partners/buyers see that the
firm exist and are strong.
Menu buttons....
Re: FN-FORUM: Site Test Please
date posted 6th January 2006 15:23
Quick look...
Looks ok in Firefox 1.5 on WinXP, although images take a few seconds to load
and when you first arrive at the site it looks a little strange due to this.
Really don't like the menu swa...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site Test Please
date posted 6th January 2006 15:04
I'd be grateful for a site check and commentary on
www.guthriecontracts.co.uk to see if it works across browsers, looks okay
and so on.
Many thanks!
Mike A....
FN-FORUM: Drupal Knowledge..... ?
date posted 6th January 2006 15:02
Hi
I'm hoping someone might be able to help, I am trying to set up a website
using Drupal CMS - www.drupal.org however I an having problems getting this
set up, I think the problems come from the sit...
Re: FN-FORUM: Newsreader clip
date posted 6th January 2006 14:57
In case someone does a search of this thread ....
http://www.4rfv.co.uk/brieflisting.asp?scategory=3D279
http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/Customer/index.aspx...
Re: FN-FORUM: Re: pre-built e-commerce sites
date posted 6th January 2006 13:20
thanks leigh
On 6 Jan 2006, at 13:24, Leigh Hunt wrote:
Hi Matt,
I've used osCommerce (http://www.oscommerce.com/) in the past - a very
good open source e-commerce solution. They have a demo online...
Re: FN-FORUM: Re: pre-built e-commerce sites
date posted 6th January 2006 12:55
Hi Matt,
I've used osCommerce (http://www.oscommerce.com/) in the past - a very
good open source e-commerce solution. They have a demo online at
http://demo.oscommerce.com/ , and a list of online sho...
Re: FN-FORUM: Re: pre-built e-commerce sites
date posted 6th January 2006 12:23
ok call me on Studio: + 44 (0)20 8678 8423
Mobile: + 44 (0)7815 814 634 mot till later this afternoon though as
I've got some meetings or e-mail me: [EMAIL REMOVED]
yours
matt
On 6 Jan 2006, at 12...
RE: FN-FORUM: Re: pre-built e-commerce sites
date posted 6th January 2006 12:19
Not the answer you were after, but I've just built a cheap n cheerful
e-commerce site for another customer. Very limited options but I can adapt
it to your use if you like. If you want to contact me...
FN-FORUM: Re: pre-built e-commerce sites
date posted 6th January 2006 11:50
hi
a month or so ago someone posted some links to a website which offered
ready made e-commerce websites for about $150-$300 - cant find the link
anymore but want to show it to a client to show them...
RE: FN-FORUM: OT Earliest programming, was: Null testing problem
date posted 6th January 2006 11:10
No silly reason apart from I got one....so thought I would play with it...
Darren
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RE: FN-FORUM: PHP error
date posted 6th January 2006 09:55
Sorry - I could have been clearer. I have a 'oops' screen if the mail
fails. It's just habit that I always put ob_start() at the beginning of
each script.
So many functions return Boolean values th...
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