Freelancers Forum Messages on Monday June 12th 2006
Re: FN-FORUM: Somebody pleeeese help
date posted 12th June 2006 23:58
go to your printers property / advanced option / set the print size in.
further assistance please send me an email at
[EMAIL REMOVED]
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Re: FN-FORUM: Somebody pleeeese help
date posted 12th June 2006 23:55
Andy Macnaughton-Jones wrote:
>
> I've got a new HP color laser 2605dn and despite my best efforts it
> wont' default to printint in A4 - it's forever saying to load paper in
> tray 1 etc., etc.
>
> I...
Re: FN-FORUM: Skills exchange club (was Resource Database)
date posted 12th June 2006 23:51
Tony Crockford wrote:
> I guess this is one area that we should not recognise or tally and any
> "exchange" of goods or services between members is their "private"
> affair.
It still provides that c...
FN-FORUM: Somebody pleeeese help
date posted 12th June 2006 23:45
I've got a new HP color laser 2605dn and despite my best efforts it
wont' default to printint in A4 - it's forever saying to load paper in
tray 1 etc., etc.
I've set it to A4 on the printer, in print...
Re: FN-FORUM: Skills exchange club (was Resource Database)
date posted 12th June 2006 22:48
Adam Dyson wrote:
>
> Paul Bryant wrote:
>> It would have to be *unofficial*. Hope there isn't anyone from the
>> revenue
>> who subscribe to the list...
>
> It would be totally unofficial, uncontr...
Re: FN-FORUM: Skills exchange club (was Resource Database)
date posted 12th June 2006 22:28
Paul Bryant wrote:
> It would have to be *unofficial*. Hope there isn't anyone from the revenue
> who subscribe to the list...
It would be totally unofficial, uncontractual, and simply based on
frien...
Re: FN-FORUM: where to buy domain name?
date posted 12th June 2006 22:09
On 12 Jun 2006 22:07:13 -0000, David Powell [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
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> if you mean Fasthosts, then problems with .net servers and their support....
>
> On 12 Jun 2006 21:59:51 -0000, Alan Lloyd [EMAIL...
Re: FN-FORUM: where to buy domain name?
date posted 12th June 2006 22:08
> > namecheap.com
>
> I was going to use them once, but at the time I thought they were
> Godaddy. At least their system was identical.
They do basically offer the same service, except godaddy bombar...
Re: FN-FORUM: where to buy domain name?
date posted 12th June 2006 22:01
On 12 Jun 2006 22:01:08 -0000, Dave Boulden [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
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> I've had no problems with 1and1 and currently do all my hosting though them.
> But the most important thing is to go with a regis...
Re: FN-FORUM: where to buy domain name?
date posted 12th June 2006 21:59
if you mean Fasthosts, then problems with .net servers and their support....
On 12 Jun 2006 21:59:51 -0000, Alan Lloyd [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> On 12 Jun 2006 21:53:07 -0000, Bo Persson [EMAIL REMO...
RE: FN-FORUM: Skills exchange club (was Resource Database)
date posted 12th June 2006 21:58
It would have...
Re: FN-FORUM: where to buy domain name?
date posted 12th June 2006 21:56
On 12 Jun 2006 21:56:40 -0000, Tam Denholm [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> namecheap.com
I was going to use them once, but at the time I thought they were
Godaddy. At least their system was identical.
Al...
RE: FN-FORUM: where to buy domain name?
date posted 12th June 2006 21:53
I've had no problems with 1and1 and currently do all my hosting though them.
But the most important thing is to go with a registrar who fits your needs.
What will you be using the domain for? Just ema...
Re: FN-FORUM: where to buy domain name?
date posted 12th June 2006 21:52
On 12 Jun 2006 21:53:07 -0000, Bo Persson [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Why not?
Just personal experience. Plus I don't see the need when there are
better registrars around.
1and1 are fine *unless* you...
Re: FN-FORUM: where to buy domain name?
date posted 12th June 2006 21:49
namecheap.com
I have about 35 domains all with namecheap, the service is excellent
and unlike godaddy they dont try to sell you a load of extra crap you
dont need when buying the domain. I can usuall...
Re: FN-FORUM: where to buy domain name?
date posted 12th June 2006 21:46
Hi,
I use www.ukreg.com - part of Fashosts, but don't let that put you off!
David
[EMAIL REMOVED]
www.e-availability.com
On 12 Jun 2006 21:28:56 -0000, Alan Lloyd [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
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> On 12 J...
Re: FN-FORUM: where to buy domain name?
date posted 12th June 2006 21:45
Why not?
Bo
12 jun 2006 kl. 22.28 skrev Alan Lloyd:
>
> On 12 Jun 2006 21:22:54 -0000, Bo Persson [EMAIL REMOVED]
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Gang,
>>
>> Where do I turn to buy my own domain? I heard someth...
Re: FN-FORUM: where to buy domain name?
date posted 12th June 2006 21:22
On 12 Jun 2006 21:22:54 -0000, Bo Persson [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Hi Gang,
>
> Where do I turn to buy my own domain? I heard something about 1one.co.uk?
I personally use 123reg.co.uk and enom.com...
Re: FN-FORUM: chatroom with webcam software
date posted 12th June 2006 21:16
Mike,
MyVideoTalk specialise in video streaming/live web meeting technology and
have a great web based (no software download needed) video web meeting
solution. It really is the best that I've seen....
FN-FORUM: where to buy domain name?
date posted 12th June 2006 21:15
Hi Gang,
Where do I turn to buy my own domain? I heard something about 1one.co.uk?
Bo...
Re: FN-FORUM: Skills exchange club (was Resource Database)
date posted 12th June 2006 21:05
Tony Crockford wrote:
> I just had a thought that needs capturing on this topic -
>
> how would it be to have a sort of fixed "price" exchange package, say
> based around a "portfolio site" for examp...
Re: FN-FORUM: Ringtone downloading
date posted 12th June 2006 21:01
> I posted a message about downloading ringtones and someone responded, can
> they post this again as my other half deleted the email....
I'm afraid I can't find it, but all forum posts are archived...
Re: FN-FORUM: Skills exchange club (was Resource Database)
date posted 12th June 2006 21:00
> thoughts?
I think it's a great idea... no money involved, making everything so
much simpler....
Re: FN-FORUM: Skills exchange club (was Resource Database)
date posted 12th June 2006 20:52
I think it's called bartering!
Mike A.
Tony Crockford wrote:
> Rob Allen wrote:
>> Adam Dyson wrote:
>>
>>> The idea of some sort of "skills exchange database" for freelancers
>>> seems to be meeti...
Re: FN-FORUM: Skills exchange club (was Resource Database)
date posted 12th June 2006 20:28
Rob Allen wrote:
> Adam Dyson wrote:
>
>> The idea of some sort of "skills exchange database" for freelancers
>> seems to be meeting with positive feedback. With access limited to
>> members only, an...
Re: FN-FORUM: Skills exchange club (was Resource Database)
date posted 12th June 2006 20:11
Adam Dyson wrote:
> The idea of some sort of "skills exchange database" for freelancers
> seems to be meeting with positive feedback. With access limited to
> members only, and with a good peer feedb...
Re: FN-FORUM: chatroom with webcam software
date posted 12th June 2006 19:51
[My last email was rejected because of gmail's default HTML tool, so
please ignore if you get this email twice]
Mike,
Myself, I am Flashcom programmer. If you/your client need to hire me,
I can make...
Re: FN-FORUM: Skills exchange club (was Resource Database)
date posted 12th June 2006 19:40
Liz Warren wrote:
> I really like the ideas being floated around here - good luck to the
> team who've volunteered to put in the hard work trying to get this off
> the ground!
Thanks. ;o)
> In term...
Re: FN-FORUM: Skills exchange club (was Resource Database)
date posted 12th June 2006 19:30
I really like the ideas being floated around here - good luck to the
team who've volunteered to put in the hard work trying to get this off
the ground!
In terms of bringing new members on board, co...
Re: FN-FORUM: Introductions
date posted 12th June 2006 19:29
> Re: FN-FORUM: Introductions - Lorna McArdle - Spinette Designs [EMAIL REMOVED]
>
> Welcome Liz.
>
> I think copyrighting is actually the hardest craft of everything we do on
> this forum.
>
> Wh...
FN-FORUM: Domain Name on Number Plate
date posted 12th June 2006 19:29
Can anyone please *recommend* somewhere that I can get a number plate
made up for my car with my domain name in the footer of the plate ?
I recently bought a new car which has the garage name and con...
FN-FORUM: Ringtone downloading
date posted 12th June 2006 19:16
I posted a message about downloading ringtones and someone responded, can
they post this again as my other half deleted the email....
Best Regards
John
--
No virus found in this outgoing message....
Re: FN-FORUM: resolution
date posted 12th June 2006 18:28
looks fine to me, I actually quite like it, though I don't think I should!
Paul
On 12 Jun 2006 18:21:37 -0000, Mark Bell [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Afternoon all,
>
> http://m4rk.biz/arts/nflip/inde...
Re: FN-FORUM: resolution
date posted 12th June 2006 18:26
> This is appearing in a 'low' resolution to my client.
>
> Does it to anyone else?
Only if I set the quality to "Low" or "Medium" instead of "High"
(mouse-right, Quality)
Anthony
--
www.fonant.c...
RE: FN-FORUM: resolution
date posted 12th June 2006 18:25
>Afternoon all,
>http://m4rk.biz/arts/nflip/index.html
>This is appearing in a 'low' resolution to my client.
>Does it to anyone else?
>'Low' in terms of acceptable image quality for 'Average Joe...
Re: FN-FORUM: Opera problem
date posted 12th June 2006 18:20
Lorna,
> I have been checking my web sites and found that in Opera 8 Beta the
> buttons
> disappear anyone know why that should be when it's OK in IE, Firefox and
> Netscape.
All works fine for me...
FN-FORUM: resolution
date posted 12th June 2006 18:15
Afternoon all,
http://m4rk.biz/arts/nflip/index.html
This is appearing in a 'low' resolution to my client.
Does it to anyone else?
'Low' in terms of acceptable image quality for 'Average Joe Web...
Re: FN-FORUM: Web Designers & Developers
date posted 12th June 2006 18:08
On Friday 09 Jun 2006 3:09 pm, John 'Max' Maxwell wrote:
> Trouble is, if I do the PHP wrong - the site doesn't work whereas if a
> developer does the design wrong it just looks ugly ... which a quic...
RE: FN-FORUM: Logo on my bus card
date posted 12th June 2006 17:41
Hi Ranbir
If you're not using one of their templates, avoid vistaprint. There =
cards
are always pixelated - at least in my experience. Their postcards are
dreadful too. there isn't much you can do a...
FN-FORUM: Logo on my bus card
date posted 12th June 2006 17:29
Hello,
We're doing a bit of a home made logo - I know I should be shot for this
seeing as I'm not a designer - but we need it quick and are short of cash.
We just had to spend to hire a meeting ro...
Re: FN-FORUM: Opera problem
date posted 12th June 2006 17:11
If it's any consolation, they also don't appear in the standard 8.54
version either.
It's not much consolation, is it? Sorry.
When the page is rendered I'm seeing the buttons for a moment and then...
Re: FN-FORUM: expanding navigation menus
date posted 12th June 2006 17:09
i allways used to use the suckerfish but now tend to use the son of
suckerfish,
http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/
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From: "Keith Alexander" [EMAIL RE...
Re: FN-FORUM: Local Directory Website
date posted 12th June 2006 16:48
was there a link for this?
Andrew
Ian Michell wrote:
>
> Well part of the idea is that it is possibly for designers, people that
> want to pump out dynamic content without coding anything. So far...
FN-FORUM: Opera problem
date posted 12th June 2006 16:47
I have been checking my web sites and found that in Opera 8 Beta the buttons
disappear anyone know why that should be when it's OK in IE, Firefox and
Netscape.
The 2 sites in questions
www.spinet...
Re: FN-FORUM: Industry standard hard drive cleaning
date posted 12th June 2006 15:21
On Monday 12 Jun 2006 1:01 pm, Paul Summers wrote:
> We have a client looking to renew their office workstations and send th=
e
> old kit for recycling, before doing so the hard drives in the machines...
FN-FORUM: contract
date posted 12th June 2006 14:52
Afternoon all,
I've completed a couple of projects for a client who has now grown to a
level of requiring an internal PHP/MySQL bod.
They're offering a 3 month contract initially, going permi after...
Re: FN-FORUM: Getting Freelance Work
date posted 12th June 2006 13:20
Quoting Colin Rainsforth [EMAIL REMOVED]
>
> At 12:05 pm +0000 12/6/06, Nick Hill wrote:
>> Although...
>>
>> I've come across several design agencies which use macs, but
>> bafflingly enough still u...
Re: FN-FORUM: Getting Freelance Work
date posted 12th June 2006 13:03
At 12:05 pm +0000 12/6/06, Nick Hill wrote:
>Although...
>
>I've come across several design agencies which use macs, but
>bafflingly enough still use IE5.
AFAIK Microsoft ditched support for MacOS ve...
Re: FN-FORUM: Industry standard hard drive cleaning
date posted 12th June 2006 12:33
Hi Paul
I have done some government work through a 3rd party - drop me a private
email to [EMAIL REMOVED] and i will give you some further info
Regards
Tony
Paul Summers wrote:
>We...
Re: FN-FORUM: expanding navigation menus
date posted 12th June 2006 12:22
> This doesn't accommodate ie, which doesn't recognise :hover on anything
> but and doesn't understand the child selector >
csshover.htc can fix this for IE6 users :)
http://www.xs4all.nl/~peter...
RE: FN-FORUM: Industry standard hard drive cleaning
date posted 12th June 2006 12:20
>We have a client looking to renew their office workstations and send the
>old kit for recycling, before doing so the hard drives in the machines
>need to be wiped... Is there a recommended piece of...
Re: FN-FORUM: Industry standard hard drive cleaning
date posted 12th June 2006 12:18
http://www.cesg.gov.uk
http://www.cesg.gov.uk/site/publications/media/directory.pdf
On 12 Jun 2006 12:01:18 -0000, Paul Summers [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> We have a client looking to renew their offi...
Re: FN-FORUM: Getting Freelance Work
date posted 12th June 2006 12:14
I should make a test with Safari and Firefox. The latter is very
popular among us Mac users.
Bo
12 jun 2006 kl. 13.11 skrev tom davis:
>
> though that's often in the misguided belief that it's "wh...
RE: FN-FORUM: Industry standard hard drive cleaning
date posted 12th June 2006 12:12
Freeware: http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/
Enjoy.
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To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
Subje...
Re: FN-FORUM: Getting Freelance Work
date posted 12th June 2006 12:12
I have experienced that websites do look different when on windows or
macos. It is th location of images that is the difference. I have no
experience of Intel Mac, yet.
Bo
12 jun 2006 kl. 13.06 s...
Re: FN-FORUM: Getting Freelance Work
date posted 12th June 2006 12:04
though that's often in the misguided belief that it's "what everyone
else uses", whereas actually it's a completely different rendering
engine from the PC version and a pile of junk... perhaps the...
Re: FN-FORUM: Getting Freelance Work
date posted 12th June 2006 11:59
Although...
I've come across several design agencies which use macs, but
bafflingly enough still use IE5.
There's no accounting for taste.
On 11 Jun 2006 22:06:16 -0000, Keith Alexander
[EMAIL REMO...
FN-FORUM: Industry standard hard drive cleaning
date posted 12th June 2006 11:54
We have a client looking to renew their office workstations and send the
old kit for recycling, before doing so the hard drives in the machines
need to be wiped... Is there a recommended piece of sof...
Re: FN-FORUM: iTunes (OT)
date posted 12th June 2006 11:49
yep - audio hijack from rogue amoeba
On 9 Jun 2006, at 23:09, Mark Bell wrote:
>
> Does anyone know what's the best tool to record a radio stream from
> iTunes
> into an mp3 or similar?
>
> Than...
Re: FN-FORUM: Yahoo! Maps Web Services - Geocoding API
date posted 12th June 2006 11:46
It's interesting what google maps brings up these days....;)
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&t=k&ll=53.538774,-1.346804&spn=0.000875,0.002626&t=k
anyone live near Leeds????
David
[EMAIL REM...
Re: FN-FORUM: Skills exchange club (was Resource Database)
date posted 12th June 2006 11:40
Gary Short wrote:
> And how would someone get invited to join this club?
Firstly just to reinforce that we don't want this to be an elite club!
We just want to make it a "place" that encourages coope...
FN-FORUM: OT - monday SEO article ;-)
date posted 12th June 2006 11:40
http://www.rightreading.com/webwork/historical-webmasters.htm
A lesson to us all, I'm sure
Derek...
Re: FN-FORUM: expanding navigation menus
date posted 12th June 2006 11:31
There is - though the ft.com seems to use a rather appalling amount of
javascript instead.
You can see the basic technique at
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/menus/demo.html
This doesn't ac...
Re: FN-FORUM: Yahoo! Maps Web Services - Geocoding API
date posted 12th June 2006 10:37
Mark Bell wrote:
> For a good commercial solution, I'd recommend
> http://www.postcodeanywhere.co.uk/ they do pretty much anything to do with
> postcodes - geocoding/distances/mapping yadda yadda, and...
Re: FN-FORUM: Yahoo! Maps Web Services - Geocoding API
date posted 12th June 2006 10:25
Anthony Cartmell wrote:
>
>> Not quite what I was looking as what I needed was something to convert
>> a postcode or place to latitude and longitude coordinates which is
>> something Google do not...
FN-FORUM: expanding navigation menus
date posted 12th June 2006 10:23
Morning all!
Right, I am not a real designery type person, and usually keep my
navigation menus very simple and "one level".
My client, however would like an expanding menu, like the one on the FT:...
RE: FN-FORUM: Yahoo! Maps Web Services - Geocoding API
date posted 12th June 2006 10:21
For a good commercial solution, I'd recommend
http://www.postcodeanywhere.co.uk/ they do pretty much anything to do with
postcodes - geocoding/distances/mapping yadda yadda, and while not free,
they a...
RE: FN-FORUM: chatroom with webcam software
date posted 12th June 2006 10:19
Mike Holton wrote:
> Hi All,
> a client has just asked me for a chat room on his site which has
> webcam functionality. Any ideas of available software out there?
> Anyone with experience of this? co...
Re: FN-FORUM: Yahoo! Maps Web Services - Geocoding API
date posted 12th June 2006 10:13
> Not quite what I was looking as what I needed was something to convert a
> postcode or place to latitude and longitude coordinates which is
> something Google do not offer at the moment.
Sorry,...
Re: FN-FORUM: Yahoo! Maps Web Services - Geocoding API
date posted 12th June 2006 09:59
Anthony Cartmell wrote:
>
>> I posted while ago looking for free Geocoding services to use with
>> Google maps. Here is a viable solution and best of all it's free.
>
> Google have just released th...
Re: FN-FORUM: chatroom with webcam software
date posted 12th June 2006 09:47
Bear in mind the two tufat ones both require additional licencing
/purchase of your own fms licence to work with video.
Also check out www.userplane.com as an alternative, they have a free
version you...
Re: FN-FORUM: Resource Database
date posted 12th June 2006 09:30
It is an excellent plan, although from my own past experience I
suspect that this forum may be too small a pool to draw on in the long
term. But I guess we can cross that (and any other) bridge when w...
RE: FN-FORUM: Incorporated address..
date posted 12th June 2006 09:28
It is best practice, but not law. There are some laws covering what you must
have on your site if you are selling goods/services from your site though.
The DTI is a good place to check these out.
Che...
RE: FN-FORUM: Skills exchange club (was Resource Database)
date posted 12th June 2006 09:26
And how would someone get invited to join this club?
Cheers,
Gary
http://www.garyshort.org/
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FN-FORUM: Incorporated address..
date posted 12th June 2006 09:06
So, we're getting round to incorporating, and I was wondering if anyone knew=
this.. Are we required to put our registered address on our website? I=
can't find any mention that we need to, but want...
Re: FN-FORUM: Yahoo! Maps Web Services - Geocoding API
date posted 12th June 2006 09:05
> I posted while ago looking for free Geocoding services to use with
> Google maps. Here is a viable solution and best of all it's free.
Google have just released their geocoding service. Works wel...
Re: FN-FORUM: Flash programmer (OO-Actionscript 2) for hire!
date posted 12th June 2006 08:48
That sounds sensable to me - Pam
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From: "Mike Holton" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Flash programmer (OO...
RE: FN-FORUM: Ringtones and downloading
date posted 12th June 2006 08:46
John,
There are various ways to do this.=20
One that I have just used when recently writing a system to download
ringtones, games, etc. is the following...=20
Basically, it involves getting your site...
FN-FORUM: Skills exchange club (was Resource Database)
date posted 12th June 2006 08:41
Morning all
The idea of some sort of "skills exchange database" for freelancers
seems to be meeting with positive feedback. With access limited to
members only, and with a good peer feedback system,...
RE: FN-FORUM: CSS and ie
date posted 12th June 2006 08:35
That looks like my ticket. Cheers Andy :)
kind regards
Paul Bryant
http://webdesignSME.co.uk
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Andy
Macnaughton-Jon...
RE: FN-FORUM: CSS and ie
date posted 12th June 2006 08:27
Ah... it is a support issue then. I was looking at the W3 schools site which
suggests IE does support :hover....
RE: FN-FORUM: CSS and ie
date posted 12th June 2006 07:15
Search for suckerfish for drop-down's in CSS. All our dropdowns are
based around that concept.=20
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Keith
Alexander
Sent: M...
Re: FN-FORUM: Resource Database
date posted 12th June 2006 06:48
Adam Dyson wrote:
> So, what do you think? Good idea? What should we do differently and why?
>
> As mentioned before, I am happy to set the thing up and run it, but I
> see definitely this as a join...
Re: FN-FORUM: Yahoo! Maps Web Services - Geocoding API
date posted 12th June 2006 06:19
I checked this over and it appears to ony refer to the US. Do you know
if Yahoo have plans to exted this to the UK?
Guy
Simon Dingley wrote:
>
> I posted while ago looking for free Geocoding servi...
RE: FN-FORUM: chatroom with webcam software
date posted 12th June 2006 05:47
Mike,
I think one of these will help you out nicely. I've used the first one b4,
it's regularly updated and works out of the box. Alas, no webcam built in
but you could mount that independently.
Th...
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