Freelancers Forum Messages on Friday January 5th 2007
RE: FN-FORUM: How can I make a menu like this ....
date posted 5th January 2007 23:34
Hi Allan,
The source code for the menu you are interested in using is actually from
Dynamic Drive and can be found at
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/chrome/index.htm; they offer a
whole li...
RE: FN-FORUM: How can I make a menu like this ....
date posted 5th January 2007 22:51
Thanks everyone, I actually found a tab menu on dhtmlgoodies, working on the
implementation to get the best effect, currently on the development site at
http://pwpdev.desk2web.co.uk/
Please don't be...
Re: FN-FORUM: How can I make a menu like this ....
date posted 5th January 2007 22:36
On Friday 05 January 2007 23:07, Lists@ wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone can shed a little light on how the top menu at
> http://www.confetti.co.uk/category/view/95.do is done, I'd love to do the
> s...
Re: FN-FORUM: How can I make a menu like this ....
date posted 5th January 2007 22:32
On 5 Jan 2007 23:07:41 -0000, Lists @ [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Just wondering if anyone can shed a little light on how the top menu at
> http://www.confetti.co.uk/category/view/95.do is done, I'd lo...
Re: FN-FORUM: How can I make a menu like this ....
date posted 5th January 2007 22:29
CSS is probably the way to go nowadays. I have used ideas from this tutorial
before! you might find it useful;
http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/css/css-round-corners.shtml...
FN-FORUM: How can I make a menu like this ....
date posted 5th January 2007 22:20
Just wondering if anyone can shed a little light on how the top menu at
http://www.confetti.co.uk/category/view/95.do is done, I'd love to do the
same on a site I am working on.
Thanks
Allan...
RE: FN-FORUM: MySQL data types and lengths
date posted 5th January 2007 20:54
I agree with Anthony, but want to add the following:
1. Making a database larger than necessary may be OK if you are just playing
around with MySQL code, and you are the only person who needs to use...
RE: FN-FORUM: 123-reg email problems - still ongoing
date posted 5th January 2007 20:32
I have to agree with Andrew for GoDaddy - despite them being in the US, I
too have had absolutely no problems with their domain registration services.
This includes a transfer of domain recently booke...
Re: FN-FORUM: MySQL data types and lengths
date posted 5th January 2007 19:15
> The client asked why i couldnt make them all as large fields (TEXT) , it
> kind of threw me as i didn't really know why, i have just done it out of
> habit.
>
> I know there is a valid reason.....
FN-FORUM: MySQL data types and lengths
date posted 5th January 2007 18:03
Silly question alert..
Why is it bad to have a large MySQL field type if the data stored will
never fill it?
E.g. i had a field which i made as a varchar(200) thinking that it would
be enough. It...
RE: FN-FORUM: help with regular expressions please!
date posted 5th January 2007 17:47
Duncan Glendinning wrote:
> Right, I have a field in my database, which contains
> something of the form:
>
> Species:Cinnamonum zeylanicum
> Origin: Sri Lanka
>
> Now what I need to do is use some...
Re: FN-FORUM: Help with HTML Emails
date posted 5th January 2007 13:56
On 5 Jan 2007 14:34:53 -0000, Andrew Bibby [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> > The problem with this and many other services is that they charge per
> > campaign and per mail.
>
> The pricing for CampaignMon...
RE: FN-FORUM: Help with HTML Emails
date posted 5th January 2007 13:47
> The problem with this and many other services is that they charge per
> campaign and per mail.
The pricing for CampaignMonitor is US$5 per email campaign plus 1 cent per
recipient - with discounts...
Re: FN-FORUM: Help with HTML Emails
date posted 5th January 2007 13:36
On 5 Jan 2007 14:09:33 -0000, Jonathan PHILLIPS [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> > Nobody mentioned http://www.campaignmonitor.com/ yet. What gives ..
> >
> > Bob Gentle
>
> The problem with this and many o...
Re: FN-FORUM: ASP suckery
date posted 5th January 2007 13:32
webmetric wrote:
>>> If you response.write(oRs.Fields("daDespatchDate")) what do you get back,
>>> check it is a valid date format.
>>>
>
> I get nothing at all ;-( but that does work for the c...
RE: FN-FORUM: Help with HTML Emails
date posted 5th January 2007 13:22
> Nobody mentioned http://www.campaignmonitor.com/ yet. What gives ..
>
> Bob Gentle
The problem with this and many other services is that they charge per
campaign and per mail.
SendStudio is 100%...
Re: FN-FORUM: Help with HTML Emails
date posted 5th January 2007 13:13
Nobody mentioned http://www.campaignmonitor.com/ yet. What gives ..
Bob Gentle
Northeast Creative
Telephone : 08701 995 605
Mobile : 07795 636 191
www.northeastcreative.com...
RE: FN-FORUM: ASP suckery
date posted 5th January 2007 12:59
>>If you response.write(oRs.Fields("daDespatchDate")) what do you get back,
>>check it is a valid date format.
I get nothing at all ;-( but that does work for the created date, so it MUST
be somethin...
RE: FN-FORUM: Help with HTML Emails
date posted 5th January 2007 12:59
Looks very good. In this case the client already has some tools for =
email
marketing, normally this stuff is done through a cms (which is where I =
came
in). For some reason they wanted a one-off lik...
RE: FN-FORUM: Help with HTML Emails
date posted 5th January 2007 12:56
> I had the same problem, and although long winded, I ended up buying a
> package which I can't recommend enough. Its called SendStudio, and its
> made by Interspire (www.interspire.com)
We also use...
Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: FN-FORUM: Help with HTML Emails
date posted 5th January 2007 12:54
Fair comment! Guilty as charged.
Though I would doubt that those "most people" who haven't a clue are
amazed - they probably don't even notice.
All this effort and no one appreciates the data-miner...
Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: FN-FORUM: Help with HTML Emails
date posted 5th January 2007 12:42
Steve Pineger wrote:
>
>
>> This sort of feature is why many don't open HTML emails in the first
>> place.
>>
>>
> Not really, there are a few developers who don't like this sort of
> thing, an...
RE: FN-FORUM: Help with HTML Emails
date posted 5th January 2007 12:40
It was the clients request. I have also had the misfortune of receiving
emails with external links when behind a security screen that dosnt let you
see them - kinda irritating.
regards,
Paul Durdin...
Re: FN-FORUM: ASP suckery
date posted 5th January 2007 12:40
> I'm more of a PHP bod, but needs must and all that, so I'm looking at an
> ASP
> (classic) site for a client. I hasten to add, that I didn't write this
> site
> myself, and I have no idea if it's...
RE: FN-FORUM: ASP suckery
date posted 5th January 2007 12:32
If you response.write(oRs.Fields("daDespatchDate")) what do you get back,
check it is a valid date format.
Secondly I would personally create a function for date formatting, something
like this which...
Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: FN-FORUM: Help with HTML Emails
date posted 5th January 2007 12:31
> This sort of feature is why many don't open HTML emails in the first place.
>
>
Not really, there are a few developers who don't like this sort of
thing, and a few more tinfoil hat wearers, but...
Re: FN-FORUM: ASP suckery
date posted 5th January 2007 12:25
First try outputting the
oRs.Fields("daDespatchDate")
value without the formatting. That way you'll at least be able to see if
the date data is reaching the script.
You're right, 30/12/1899 comes...
Re: FN-FORUM: Help with HTML Emails
date posted 5th January 2007 12:21
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 01:02:30PM -0000, Duncan Glendinning wrote:
>
> Paul.
>
> I had the same problem, and although long winded, I ended up buying a
> package which I can't recommend enough. Its...
Re: FN-FORUM: Help with HTML Emails
date posted 5th January 2007 12:15
Is there any particular reason you don't want to host the images
separately? Its much more polite than sending larger emails.
Many marketing emails use HTML and separately hosted images - there's
n...
Re: FN-FORUM: Help with HTML Emails
date posted 5th January 2007 12:15
Paul.
I had the same problem, and although long winded, I ended up buying a
package which I can't recommend enough. Its called SendStudio, and its
made by Interspire (www.interspire.com)
If you are...
FN-FORUM: ASP suckery
date posted 5th January 2007 12:13
I'm more of a PHP bod, but needs must and all that, so I'm looking at an ASP
(classic) site for a client. I hasten to add, that I didn't write this site
myself, and I have no idea if it's the APS that...
RE: FN-FORUM: help with regular expressions please!
date posted 5th January 2007 12:09
Yes, I'd normalise the database first, that treats the problem at source and
doesn't try to fix it later down the line.
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RE: FN-FORUM: Help with HTML Emails
date posted 5th January 2007 12:05
I don't want to assume that anyone is using outlook. I would like a solution
that fits all... I was using outlook (because that is what I have) to try
stuff out.
regards,
Paul Durdin
Taradata Ltd
h...
Re: FN-FORUM: Help with HTML Emails
date posted 5th January 2007 11:52
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 12:29:26PM -0000, Paul Durdin wrote:
>
> My client wants to send emails based on an image (jpg) with a hotspot /
> hyperlink to a web page. In outlook I seem t be able to embe...
Re: FN-FORUM: Help with HTML Emails
date posted 5th January 2007 11:51
> If I use html I can encode the hotspot, but I have to host the image on a
> web site somewhere.
You can use an inline image too. Have a look at the source text of a
message with an embedded imag...
FN-FORUM: Help with HTML Emails
date posted 5th January 2007 11:42
My client wants to send emails based on an image (jpg) with a hotspot /
hyperlink to a web page. In outlook I seem t be able to embed the image
within the email so the recipient sees the image, instea...
Re: FN-FORUM: help with regular expressions please!
date posted 5th January 2007 11:30
Duncan Glendinning wrote:
>
> Morning!
>
> Right, I have a field in my database, which contains something of the
> form:
>
> Species:Cinnamonum zeylanicum
> Origin: Sri Lanka
>
> Now what I need to...
Re: FN-FORUM: help with regular expressions please!
date posted 5th January 2007 11:23
Edward,
Sorry, am using php, and the database is MySQL on Linux.
Duncan...
RE: FN-FORUM: help with regular expressions please!
date posted 5th January 2007 11:17
Duncan Glendinning wrote:
> Morning!
>
> Right, I have a field in my database, which contains
> something of the form:
>
> Species:Cinnamonum zeylanicum
> Origin: Sri Lanka
>
> Now what I need to...
RE: FN-FORUM: UK Counties and Cities Select List
date posted 5th January 2007 10:45
Many thanks to everyone for their suggestions, wikipedia was definitely the
place to go.
As it happens (and as is always the case) the client has now changed their
minds on what they actually want, b...
FN-FORUM: help with regular expressions please!
date posted 5th January 2007 10:35
Morning!
Right, I have a field in my database, which contains something of the form:
Species:Cinnamonum zeylanicum
Origin: Sri Lanka
Now what I need to do is use some reg expressions to split the f...
RE: FN-FORUM: 123-reg email problems - still ongoing
date posted 5th January 2007 10:08
>question: who would people suggest using for domain registration and
>low-cost hosting or just email forwarding for hobby or 'sideline' domains?
i
>do like the 123 control panel and the control you g...
FN-FORUM: google analytics - making reports from exported XML
date posted 5th January 2007 10:00
Morning,
I've been asked to set up an intranet page showing statistics related to a companies website.
They'd like to see highlights from google analytics (ie just page views, unique vs new visito...
Re: FN-FORUM: 123-reg email problems - still ongoing
date posted 5th January 2007 09:50
> question: who would people suggest using for domain registration and
> low-cost hosting or just email forwarding for hobby or 'sideline'
> domains?
FWIW I use Fasthosts (as UKreg) for domains, an...
RE: FN-FORUM: 123-reg email problems - still ongoing
date posted 5th January 2007 08:47
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FN-FORUM: 123-reg email problems - still ongoing
date posted 5th January 2007 08:40
hi,
i reported on the ongoing problems with 123-reg email forwarding recently. i
have just received a support reply from them:
i said, among my complaints:
>> "do i need to switch my domains to other...
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