Freelancers Forum Messages on Monday February 12th 2007
Re: FN-FORUM: [Way OT]w: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 12th February 2007 23:32
Can't help but think that this, and spur topics, on a searchable public
developer forum, has sent out a negative message to Web professionals and
potential clients.
Great opinion and interest, yes. B...
FN-FORUM: Extended Character display in XHTML UTF-8
date posted 12th February 2007 23:01
Hi,
Just having some problems with the display of some latin characters in a =
few
pages of a site. The pages are XHTML but the CMS is putting out some =
Spanish
words with characters like "=E9" and...
RE: FN-FORUM: Newbie MySQL Question
date posted 12th February 2007 20:08
Thanks Bill,
All working now after a bit of re-booting.
Cheers,
Craig
-----Original Message-----
This should help you with resetting the password:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/resettin...
Re: FN-FORUM: [Way OT]w: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 12th February 2007 19:53
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Carrie wrote:
>
>
> money can't buy happiness;
>
> Hi,
>
> But it can help you to be miserable in comfort? I'll take the money.
I'm quite comfy, but to quote someone I...
Re: FN-FORUM: Javascript browser problem
date posted 12th February 2007 18:46
Hi,
possibly the problem is with:
style.display="inline" in the SetLocation function
Since it's a table element you are showing and hiding, you might instead
want
style.display="block"
but...
FN-FORUM: Javascript browser problem
date posted 12th February 2007 18:02
Need some help, Created a reg form for a site and having some browser
problems with some of the javascript
See http://spexi.wiredeyes.com/en/register.asp
If you scroll down to the title "Location" a...
Re: FN-FORUM: [Way OT]w: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 12th February 2007 17:26
Carrie wrote:
money can't buy happiness;
Hi,
But it can help you to be miserable in comfort? I'll take the money.
If I were you, I run over someone just for the hell of it....
DG)
-----...
Re: FN-FORUM: Newbie MySQL Question
date posted 12th February 2007 17:25
This should help you with resetting the password:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/resetting-permissions.html
Cheers,
Bill.
On 12 Feb 2007 18:09:26 -0000, Craig [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Tha...
RE: FN-FORUM: Newbie MySQL Question
date posted 12th February 2007 17:12
Thanks Bill,
That gives me "MySQL Error Number 1045 Access denied for user
[EMAIL REMOVED] password: NO)"
I get ping responses though.
Cheers,
Craig
-----Original Message-----
Defaults:
Server:...
Re: FN-FORUM: Newbie MySQL Question
date posted 12th February 2007 17:08
Craig wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just installed MySQL V5 and it's Admin tools. I'm being asked for a
> "Server Host" "Username" and "Password" in the connection dialogue of MySQL
> Administrator. I'm sur...
Re: FN-FORUM: Newbie MySQL Question
date posted 12th February 2007 17:03
Defaults:
Server: local or localhost
Username: root
Password:
Default setup has no password, so you should change this asap.
Cheers,
Bill.
On 12 Feb 2007 17:50:40 -0000, Craig [EMAIL REMOVED] w...
FN-FORUM: Newbie MySQL Question
date posted 12th February 2007 16:53
Hi,
I've just installed MySQL V5 and it's Admin tools. I'm being asked for a
"Server Host" "Username" and "Password" in the connection dialogue of MySQL
Administrator. I'm sure I wasn't asked to set...
Re: Re: FN-FORUM: NTLWORLD in and outgoing email (SMTP)
date posted 12th February 2007 16:15
Brilliant! Many thanks.
Bo
>
> From: Lorna McArdle - Spinette Designs [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Date: 2007/02/12 Mon PM 05:00:09 GMT
> To: "FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM...
Re: FN-FORUM: NTLWORLD in and outgoing email (SMTP)
date posted 12th February 2007 16:10
> Trying to get NTLWORLD or as it is called now Virgin Media to let me know
> the server for in -and outgoing mail. Anyone that can tell? With my Tesco
> it is mail.tesco.net
>
> Thank you for...
Re: FN-FORUM: NTLWORLD in and outgoing email (SMTP)
date posted 12th February 2007 16:05
> Trying to get NTLWORLD or as it is called now Virgin Media to let me
> know the server for in -and outgoing mail. Anyone that can tell? With
> my Tesco it is mail.tesco.net
Hi Bo,
Try typing:
s...
Re: FN-FORUM: NTLWORLD in and outgoing email (SMTP)
date posted 12th February 2007 16:03
pop.ntlworld.com
smtp.ntlworld.com
Lorna McArdle
www.spinettedesigns.co.uk
Skype: spinettedesigns
From: "Bo Persson"
>
> Trying to get NTLWORLD or as it is called now Virgin Media to let me
> k...
FN-FORUM: NTLWORLD in and outgoing email (SMTP)
date posted 12th February 2007 15:18
Trying to get NTLWORLD or as it is called now Virgin Media to let me
know the server for in -and outgoing mail. Anyone that can tell? With
my Tesco it is mail.tesco.net
Thank you for all help
Bo...
Re: FN-FORUM: Has anyone heard of ......
date posted 12th February 2007 15:12
It's always a maximum of 5 other "places" available for each project I
think.
This sort of thing is fine, and it can be very effective, provided you
are aware that:
a.) Your £15/£20 is in no...
Re: FN-FORUM: [Way OT]w: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 12th February 2007 15:10
Gary Short wrote:
> Carrie wrote:
>
>
> Wow, sucks to be you. :-(
>
>
Nah, its all right really.
I have a lovely son, who I get to see a lot of,
My Dad is at least still with us, it was touc...
Re: FN-FORUM: Has anyone heard of ......
date posted 12th February 2007 15:03
Dominic Raywood wrote:
> The words "old", "rope" and "money" spring to mind :)
>
Seagoon: "Five pounds to move a piano from one room to another? That's
money for old rope!"
Moriaty: "I would hav...
Re: FN-FORUM: Has anyone heard of ......
date posted 12th February 2007 15:01
> Yep they've all paid the same credits as you. The credits basically just
> get you a contact name, telephone number and email address (and
> sometimes a more substantial brief) for the project....
Re: FN-FORUM: Has anyone heard of ......
date posted 12th February 2007 14:54
The words "old", "rope" and "money" spring to mind :)
--
Dominic Raywood
Rubicon Computer Services Limited
W: http://rubiconcsl.com
E: [EMAIL REMOVED]
T: 08456 521 561 (+44 1823 698420)
F: 08456 52...
FN-FORUM: Web design software for Macs
date posted 12th February 2007 14:52
Hi Everyone
Can anyone recommend a good (and simple to use) web design package
for Macs. I need to put a site together for a peice of business, but
the software on my PC (Serif Webpage maker) i...
Re: FN-FORUM: Has anyone heard of ......
date posted 12th February 2007 14:49
Yep they've all paid the same credits as you. The credits basically just
get you a contact name, telephone number and email address (and
sometimes a more substantial brief) for the project.
It's th...
Re: FN-FORUM: Has anyone heard of ......
date posted 12th February 2007 14:47
Yep
Lorna
pam [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> So each of those 5 other people you have pitched against have each paid
> credits to get further information???
>
> Pam Gould
> Gouldsmiths
> www.gouldsm...
RE: FN-FORUM: Has anyone heard of ......
date posted 12th February 2007 14:41
So each of those 5 other people you have pitched against have each paid
credits to get further information???
Pam Gould
Gouldsmiths
www.gouldsmiths.co.uk
[EMAIL REMOVED]
-----Original Message-----...
Re: FN-FORUM: Has anyone heard of ......
date posted 12th February 2007 14:35
From my brief experience, if you are going to try it don't rely on
email communications. Get on the phone and sell yourself as you'll be
potentially pitching against up to 5 other people for the pr...
RE: FN-FORUM: [Way OT]w: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 12th February 2007 14:32
Carrie wrote:
> I am slightly worried by the seemingly fascist comments that only the
> deserving (non smoking, teetotal, unfashionably dressed, and =
*grateful*)
> poor will be allowed to eat and ha...
Re: FN-FORUM: [Way OT]w: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 12th February 2007 14:31
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:59:30PM -0000, Carrie wrote:
> I am slightly worried by the seemingly fascist comments that only the
> deserving (non smoking, teetotal, unfashionably dressed, and *gratef...
Re: FN-FORUM: Has anyone heard of ......
date posted 12th February 2007 14:27
I am signed up about a year ago and it is genuine. I spent about £30 and
got some leads but no projects materialised (although I didn't push very
hard at the time). It was founded by two people I b...
Re: FN-FORUM: Has anyone heard of ......
date posted 12th February 2007 14:26
Pam wrote:
> So you don't recommend parting with my money then???
Currently, No.
Jon
--
Freelancers, contractors earn more with Prosperity4
Call 0870 870 4414 or visit www.prosperity4.com
and ben...
RE: FN-FORUM: Has anyone heard of ......
date posted 12th February 2007 14:23
Pam wrote:
> Has anyone heard of firstratedirectory.co.uk??? I had a phone
> call from a man who then sent me a link to the company. When
> you have signed up (free) the company send you a list of
>...
Re: FN-FORUM: Has anyone heard of ......
date posted 12th February 2007 14:20
Pam wrote:
> Has anyone heard of firstratedirectory.co.uk??? I had a phone
> call from a man who then sent me a link to the company. When
> you have signed up (free) the company send you a list of
> p...
Re: FN-FORUM: Has anyone heard of ......
date posted 12th February 2007 14:17
> Sounds like a Friend Of A Friend story to me...
Phew! Thought you meant my story about the dating site ;) Honest guv, it
wasn't me :)
>
> -ben
>...
Re: FN-FORUM: CO2 Emmissions: was Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 12th February 2007 14:13
Alain Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:20:35PM -0000, Paul Lee TBWNET wrote:
>> Alain Williams wrote:
>>> On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 11:42:47AM -0000, Paul Lee TBWNET wrote:
>>>> What will be...
Re: FN-FORUM: Has anyone heard of ......
date posted 12th February 2007 14:08
pam wrote:
> The bloke reckons that someone paid £35 and then got a website to do for
> £3,000
>
>
That's a pretty detailed description. Sounds like a Friend Of A Friend
story to me...
-ben...
RE: FN-FORUM: Has anyone heard of ......
date posted 12th February 2007 14:05
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Walk away, sounds to good to be true now.
>
> Plus wanting a min 0f 310 pounds.
>
> It's a con.
>
> Lorna
>
> pam [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
>>
>> The cheapest one at the...
RE: FN-FORUM: Has anyone heard of ......
date posted 12th February 2007 14:03
pam wrote:
> Has anyone heard of firstratedirectory.co.uk??? I had a phone
> call from a man who then sent me a link to the company. When
> you have signed up (free) the company send you a list of
> p...
Re: FN-FORUM: [Way OT]w: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 12th February 2007 14:02
Lists (Kathy) wrote:
> In case anyone hasn't seen it.
>
>
> http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/
I am slightly worried by the seemingly fascist comments that only the
deserving (non smoking, te...
Re: FN-FORUM: Has anyone heard of ......
date posted 12th February 2007 13:49
Walk away, sounds to good to be true now.
Plus wanting a min 0f 310 pounds.
It's a con.
Lorna
pam [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> The cheapest one at the moment is 6 credits =A36 others are 17 credit...
Re: FN-FORUM: CO2 Emmissions: was Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 12th February 2007 13:47
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:20:35PM -0000, Paul Lee TBWNET wrote:
>
> Alain Williams wrote:
> >On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 11:42:47AM -0000, Paul Lee TBWNET wrote:
> >>What will be interesting, is if the...
RE: FN-FORUM: Has anyone heard of ......
date posted 12th February 2007 13:44
The cheapest one at the moment is 6 credits =A36 others are 17 credits, =
you
can only buy credits at a minimum of 10 each =A310.
The bloke reckons that someone paid =A335 and then got a website to do...
Re: FN-FORUM: php editor
date posted 12th February 2007 13:40
That'd be great. Can I have a copy please :)
>
> Have made a system of tSkeleton based templates for smarty, php, xhtml for
> gvim to speed things up - ( will share them if anyone interested )
>
> Ia...
Re: FN-FORUM: Has anyone heard of ......
date posted 12th February 2007 13:35
Could be genuine, but my bullshit detector has just gone off :) I think
I'd ignore it unless you can see actual proof of its genuineness (if
that's a word).
I have read of various sites that do the...
FN-FORUM: CO2 Emmissions: was Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 12th February 2007 13:24
Alain Williams wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 11:42:47AM -0000, Paul Lee TBWNET wrote:
>> What will be interesting, is if the EU gets its way on CO2 emmissions,
>> because as proposed that pretty m...
FN-FORUM: Has anyone heard of ......
date posted 12th February 2007 13:13
Has anyone heard of firstratedirectory.co.uk??? I had a phone call from =
a
man who then sent me a link to the company. When you have signed up =
(free)
the company send you a list of prospective clie...
Re: FN-FORUM: Web Forms
date posted 12th February 2007 12:36
No worries, I'm sure I've been guilty of doing that kind of thing before anyway!
I'm always learning about new problems.... I think that might be a
pretty close definition of "web developer" actually...
Re: FN-FORUM: php editor
date posted 12th February 2007 12:29
On Monday 12 February 2007 13:09, Ian Michell wrote:
> VIM is a good bet! I like vim for most programming.
Only most ? :-)
>
> However some people like it easy and at work one of our guys seems to be...
Re: FN-FORUM: php editor
date posted 12th February 2007 12:13
VIM is a good bet! I like vim for most programming.
However some people like it easy and at work one of our guys seems to be
keen on komodo! The good thing is that it supports perl too.
Otherwise t...
Re: FN-FORUM: php editor
date posted 12th February 2007 12:08
Vim vote seconded :) Also, if you have shell access on the server and
need to edit anything directly, you will undoubtedly have vi available,
which is then the same editor as that which you normally...
Re: FN-FORUM: php editor
date posted 12th February 2007 11:20
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 12:11:39PM -0000, Richard Fletcher wrote:
> Obligatory vote for vim. Configurable colourschemes, ftp built in + lots
> more :)
>
> http://www.vim.org
Obligatory reply vote...
Re: FN-FORUM: php editor
date posted 12th February 2007 11:14
On Sunday 11 February 2007 07:56, Tam Denholm wrote:
> I currently use dreamwaver to hand code all my stuff but it seems
> major over kill as I only like two features of it.
> 1. the syntax highlighti...
Re: FN-FORUM: Web Forms
date posted 12th February 2007 10:31
Quoting Nick Hill [EMAIL REMOVED]
>
> Yes, I know - I mentioned this:
>
>> You should also,
>> always, check that what they're trying to send you isn't malicious
>
> and wouldn't advise using this co...
Re: FN-FORUM: Print Resolution
date posted 12th February 2007 10:31
Daren
The best piece on this subject, needs archiving.
Thanks for the tip, I didn't know that was a feature. This will help a lot
in the future for me. These are the sort of things I would of picked...
Re: FN-FORUM: php editor
date posted 12th February 2007 10:09
Tam Denholm wrote:
> I currently use dreamwaver to hand code all my stuff but it seems
> major over kill as I only like two features of it.
> 1. the syntax highlighting.
> 2. the ftp client built in....
Re: FN-FORUM: Web Forms
date posted 12th February 2007 09:58
Yes, I know - I mentioned this:
> You should also,
always, check that what they're trying to send you isn't malicious
and wouldn't advise using this code as is without checks....
On 12 Feb 2007 10:...
RE: FN-FORUM: Web Forms
date posted 12th February 2007 09:49
I really wouldn't bother with this avenue, for a start you won't learn
anything from it and it is unlikely to actually work.
The things you should do are -
1. Find out what server side programming...
Re: FN-FORUM: Web Forms
date posted 12th February 2007 09:48
to simplify.
any web form has an action.
this actions should be the name of the form processor on your server.
first you need a form processor on your server.
get the FormMail package from here:...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fw: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 12th February 2007 09:43
Anthony Cartmell wrote:
>
>> Remember also that businesses will be hit by higher delivery charges,
>
> High delivery charges are also caused by lorries sitting in congestion.
> This is problem that...
Re: FN-FORUM: Web Forms
date posted 12th February 2007 09:41
> I don't know of anything on the Mac (or PC actually) that would do
> that for free. The problem is you can do so much with web forms that
> it's nearly always quicker, if you know what you're d...
Re: FN-FORUM: Web Forms
date posted 12th February 2007 09:36
Quoting Nick Hill [EMAIL REMOVED]
>...
Re: FN-FORUM: Web Forms
date posted 12th February 2007 09:34
Quoting Daren Halfpenny [EMAIL REMOVED]
>
> PHP only adds to my woes - I know nothing about that either!!! I am
> trying to find some software which will automatically produce a
> script based on a a...
Re: FN-FORUM: Web Forms
date posted 12th February 2007 09:32
I don't know of anything on the Mac (or PC actually) that would do
that for free. The problem is you can do so much with web forms that
it's nearly always quicker, if you know what you're doing, to co...
Re: FN-FORUM: Rubbish dumping (was: Proposed car tax scheme)
date posted 12th February 2007 09:16
>> > All that will happen will be an increase in fly tipping.
>>
>> I would expect that people might not like that. Would you fly tip, t=
o
>> avoid paying for your rubbish to the collected?
>
> I ha...
Re: FN-FORUM: Web Forms
date posted 12th February 2007 09:07
PHP only adds to my woes - I know nothing about that either!!! I am
trying to find some software which will automatically produce a
script based on a a form design. It seems that there is some out...
Re: FN-FORUM: Web Forms
date posted 12th February 2007 08:54
Hi Daren
Web forms always come in two parts - there's the form, and then a page
which processes it. These can often be the same actual page of code,
but whether they are or not you need some way of p...
Re: FN-FORUM: Web Forms
date posted 12th February 2007 06:48
Martin Wilkins wrote:
> Hold it hold it, you want a script, go for the old world famous formmail
> script at matts script archive, I still use this sometimes today, its really
> is great for startin...
FN-FORUM: Digital Asset Management Software
date posted 12th February 2007 05:58
Hi
Does anyone have any suggestions for Digital Asset Management
Software (DAM).
I would like to host a clients picture library online so that
registered users to be able to browse and selected...
Re: FN-FORUM: Web Forms
date posted 12th February 2007 01:35
Also to add all functional scripts you find on website normally have
security features so you can't 'hijack them' as you put it or place there
code into your pages.
There are plenty of sites out th...
Re: FN-FORUM: Web Forms
date posted 12th February 2007 01:23
Hi Daren,
As I am familiar with PHP only, that's what I use for web forms all
the time. I simply submit all values from a HTML form to a PHP script
which creates a formatted email.
Basically, you can...
Re: FN-FORUM: Web Forms
date posted 12th February 2007 01:19
Hold it hold it, you want a script, go for the old world famous formmail
script at matts script archive, I still use this sometimes today, its really
is great for starting out as well.
You will fin...
FN-FORUM: Web Forms
date posted 12th February 2007 01:08
I'm pretty new to the web design thing and am starting at the bottom
and gradually working my way upwards. My latest stumbling block is
that I really cannot get my head around web forms - laying t...
Re: FN-FORUM: Print Resolution
date posted 12th February 2007 01:06
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this already but n my
experience, for what it's worth...
In PhotoShop, when working on a document, even in CMYK mode, you are
seeing all the colours on screen...
Re: FN-FORUM: Individual Menu items in joomla.
date posted 12th February 2007 00:21
Are you talking about individual background images like in a list menu (the
ul's and li's) and then text over the top or are you wanting to have
different gif images as the buttons with the text emb...
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