Freelancers Forum Messages on Tuesday February 13th 2007
FN-FORUM: SVN Repos
date posted 13th February 2007 18:16
Hi All
I need a private, secure svn host.
Ideally free :), but will pay if need be.
Any recommendations?
Thanks...
FN-FORUM: Passing on a Client
date posted 13th February 2007 18:16
Hi All.
We have a client who we have been dealing with for the last month or so
we have draft a number of design concepts for him and he is now happy
with what we have produced.
We were initially...
Re: FN-FORUM: using different fonts
date posted 13th February 2007 17:22
OK, fair enough, like I said its an old one ive not used in a long time so
didnt realise it was ie specific, never mind ay!
Martin
atdc
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Re: FN-FORUM: Can this be done?
date posted 13th February 2007 17:10
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 17:42, [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> The db is full of binary data for graphics and content, my box is
>
> P4 630 HT-T with 1.5gig 533 ddr-2 etc. But can't deny I've made a...
Re: FN-FORUM: Can this be done?
date posted 13th February 2007 16:45
Ian M Robertson Wrote:
Haven't tried using blobs for graphics - I can't see it helping performance.
( I develop on a P3 / 700MHz - 500MB and run php, apache, mysql at
reasonable
speed )
Hi,
I've...
Re: FN-FORUM: Can this be done?
date posted 13th February 2007 16:15
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 16:58, [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Ian M Robertson Wrote:
>
> Bit late now - next time might be good idea to keep css as external files
> and
>
> > embed only container id's /...
Re: FN-FORUM: Can this be done?
date posted 13th February 2007 16:14
Dominic Raywood wrote:
Okay, but do you have a separate header and footer file? If so, bung
the start of the div in the header - before any of the existing stuff
- and close it in the footer?
Him...
Re: FN-FORUM: Can this be done?
date posted 13th February 2007 16:06
Okay, but do you have a separate header and footer file? If so, bung =20
the start of the div in the header - before any of the existing stuff =20
- and close it in the footer?
i.e.
header:
... ex...
Re: FN-FORUM: Can this be done?
date posted 13th February 2007 16:02
Ian M Robertson Wrote:
Bit late now - next time might be good idea to keep css as external files
and
> embed only container id's / class's within the php.
Hi,
Not sure I understand? I'm using ext...
Re: FN-FORUM: Can this be done?
date posted 13th February 2007 15:47
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 16:31, [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Dominic Raywood wrote:
>
> Well, in that case, I'd wrap the whole existing site in a container
> division and centre that. If you make the...
Re: FN-FORUM: Can this be done?
date posted 13th February 2007 15:34
Dominic Raywood wrote:
Well, in that case, I'd wrap the whole existing site in a container
division and centre that. If you make the space a slightly different
colour, it will look deliberate and st...
Re: FN-FORUM: HTML special characters encoding
date posted 13th February 2007 15:03
> Is there a way in php to not encode html tags. I'm trying to encode
> special chars such as £ & " etc from a user input but want to allow html
> tags. is there an easy way, or do I have to do...
Re: FN-FORUM: Can this be done?
date posted 13th February 2007 14:32
Well, in that case, I'd wrap the whole existing site in a container =20
division and centre that. If you make the space a slightly different =20
colour, it will look deliberate and still look profes...
FN-FORUM: HTML special characters encoding
date posted 13th February 2007 14:28
Is there a way in php to not encode html tags. I'm trying to encode
special chars such as £ & " etc from a user input but want to allow html
tags. is there an easy way, or do I have to do a reg exp...
Re: FN-FORUM: Extended Character display in XHTML UTF-8
date posted 13th February 2007 14:18
> but long term UTF-8, once you have it *properly* working makes more
> sense to cover *everything*
UTF-8 is also the default character encoding for XML, and hence, I
suppose, XHTML.
Anthony
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Re: FN-FORUM: Can this be done?
date posted 13th February 2007 14:18
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Having viewed my site in 17" and 19" VDU's there is a problem. The 19"
> version has a large amount of space on one side.
>
> So, is there anyway to make the site r...
Re: FN-FORUM: Can this be done?
date posted 13th February 2007 14:07
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Having viewed my site in 17" and 19" VDU's there is a problem. The 19"
> version has a large amount of space on one side.
>
> So, is there anyway to make the site r...
Re: FN-FORUM: using different fonts
date posted 13th February 2007 14:00
Quoting Martin Wilkins [EMAIL REMOVED]
>
> You can embed fonts files into your web page that arent standard fonts, cant
> quite remember how though, its an old one, just google it maybe.
See http://...
Re: FN-FORUM: Can this be done?
date posted 13th February 2007 13:57
Hi,
Thanks to all who replied, it's a resolution problem, (as already suggested
by you all).
The site in question is very large and uses some eight css style sheets,
and, that's the minor problem....
Re: FN-FORUM: [Way OT]w: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 13th February 2007 13:56
Judging by the amount of views its creating it just looks like you can't
access it yet?
Maybe try tomorrow?
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S...
Re: FN-FORUM: [Way OT]w: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 13th February 2007 13:52
Peter Sowerby wrote:
> Its not pretty but it only took 5 mins :)
Welcome to your webspace
This Website is currently awaiting its owner to upload some pages,
should you require webspace or web desig...
Re: FN-FORUM: using different fonts
date posted 13th February 2007 13:34
You can embed fonts files into your web page that arent standard fonts, cant
quite remember how though, its an old one, just google it maybe.
Martin
atdc
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From: "Lorna...
Re: FN-FORUM: [Way OT]w: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 13th February 2007 13:16
Must be your ISP's DNS its working here, oh well LOL
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Re: FN-FORUM: [Way OT]w: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 13th February 2007 13:12
Peter Sowerby wrote:
> Its not pretty but it only took 5 mins :)
Welcome to your webspace
This Website is currently awaiting its owner to upload some pages,
should you require webspace or web desig...
Re: FN-FORUM: Can this be done?
date posted 13th February 2007 13:05
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Having viewed my site in 17" and 19" VDU's there is a problem. The 19"
> version has a large amount of space on one side.
>
> So, is there anyway to make the site res...
RE: FN-FORUM: Can this be done?
date posted 13th February 2007 12:44
If the resolution's the same size check in your moniter settings that
the DPI is the same on both monitors. Iof they're different resolutions
then it's a liquid CSS layout that you need...
Re: FN-FORUM: Can this be done?
date posted 13th February 2007 12:35
Does the bigger screen display a different resolution e.g. 1024x768, =20
800x600 etc ?
Can't say I can see why the display "size" should matter, but =20
obviously the resolution would make a differe...
Re: FN-FORUM: [Way OT]w: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 13th February 2007 12:31
Its not pretty but it only took 5 mins :)
http://freelance.pobz.co.uk
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To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
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FN-FORUM: Can this be done?
date posted 13th February 2007 12:12
Hi,
Having viewed my site in 17" and 19" VDU's there is a problem. The 19"
version has a large amount of space on one side.
So, is there anyway to make the site resize dependent upon which size the...
Re: FN-FORUM: Extended Character display in XHTML UTF-8
date posted 13th February 2007 12:04
Haven't read all the thread but if your characters are displaying fine
as staic HTML, and also look fine in Access .... so it's just when you
use ASP to display dynamic forigein text you're getting pr...
Re: FN-FORUM: [Way OT]w: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 13th February 2007 11:35
To all,
1) A mailing list will resolve you're difficulties much quicker than a forum
will. You post a question here, you get an answer. The same cannot always be
said of any forum...
2) Every mail...
Re: FN-FORUM: Extended Character display in XHTML UTF-8
date posted 13th February 2007 11:30
Craig wrote:
> Hi Tony,
>
> The site is in English and Spanish (www.haseltoninversiones.com/test, not my
> design by the way) and XHTML so utf-8 seemed to be the way to go. Anyway, as
> my previous p...
RE: FN-FORUM: Extended Character display in XHTML UTF-8
date posted 13th February 2007 11:14
Hi Tony,
The site is in English and Spanish (www.haseltoninversiones.com/test, not my
design by the way) and XHTML so utf-8 seemed to be the way to go. Anyway, as
my previous post said, it's all ok n...
Re: FN-FORUM: [Way OT]w: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 13th February 2007 10:53
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:25:24AM -0000, Dave Cross wrote:
> I agree with Tony. I much prefer mailing lists to web forums.
>
> But I'd just add the suggestion that this mailing list would be easier...
RE: FN-FORUM: [Way OT]w: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 13th February 2007 10:41
STOP
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Re: FN-FORUM: PDF Creator
date posted 13th February 2007 10:34
Quoting Daniel McMullan [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Hi all,
>
> Was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to create pdf's. I remember
> reading a thread some months ago where some mentioned a free pdf c...
Re: FN-FORUM: using different fonts
date posted 13th February 2007 10:32
So just by adding say
Trebuchet MS, Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif
to my list this should be ok, looks quite good on my site.
I can at least show her the list you pointed me to thanks
Lorna McAr...
Re: FN-FORUM: [Way OT]w: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 13th February 2007 10:28
Quoting Tony Crockford [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Peter Sowerby wrote:
>> I would prefer a phpBB style forum to this outdated mailing list style.
>
> and I cancel out your preference by preferring the push of...
RE: FN-FORUM: Extended Character display in XHTML UTF-8
date posted 13th February 2007 10:26
Hi,
I finally found a solution. In the global.asa file insert:
Session.Codepage=65001 which apparently ensures all data transfer is
converted to/from UCS2 and utf-8 (UCS2 being how ASP/SQL Server/Acc...
Re: FN-FORUM: Extended Character display in XHTML UTF-8
date posted 13th February 2007 10:24
Craig wrote:
> Thanks for the advice, utf-8 end to end. I'm about to start using MySQL for
> one project funnily enough so that's good advice. However, the immediate
> problem is with an MS Access dat...
Re: FN-FORUM: PDF Creator
date posted 13th February 2007 10:20
Daniel McMullan wrote:
> To be more specific, i have recently created a couple of brochures and want to
> display them in pdf format on my web site. So will need a pdf creator, which
> can produce sha...
Re: FN-FORUM: PDF Creator
date posted 13th February 2007 10:18
Daniel McMullan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to create pdf's. I remember
> reading a thread some months ago where some mentioned a free pdf creditor. If
> some...
Re: FN-FORUM: PDF Creator
date posted 13th February 2007 10:16
+1 for cutePDF if you've already got the document (installs as a printer
and works very well)
+1 for OpenOffice.org if you're about to create the document.
Anthony
--
www.fonant.com - Quality web...
Re: FN-FORUM: PDF Creator
date posted 13th February 2007 10:13
Either use the one I suggested and upload it to the server. =20
Otherwise, if its a Linux Server, use ImageMagick :) Not sure if =20
ImageMagick is available on windoze though.
--=20
Dominic Raywo...
Re: FN-FORUM: [Way OT]w: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 13th February 2007 10:12
> Regard it as nattering round the kettle as you may do
> if you were in an office.
Nicely put :) This list is a virtual coffee machine, with drinkable
coffee!
Anthony
--
www.fonant.com - Qualit...
RE: FN-FORUM: Extended Character display in XHTML UTF-8
date posted 13th February 2007 10:11
Thanks for the advice, utf-8 end to end. I'm about to start using MySQL =
for
one project funnily enough so that's good advice. However, the immediate
problem is with an MS Access database. Is there a...
RE: Re: FN-FORUM: using different fonts
date posted 13th February 2007 10:10
>but what's wrong with text as images, used sparingly, with proper alt >attributes?
One pitfall is that its not great for SEO, titles are normally pretty relivant to content so having them as anythi...
FN-FORUM: PDF Creator
date posted 13th February 2007 10:04
To be more specific, i have recently created a couple of brochures and want to
display them in pdf format on my web site. So will need a pdf creator, which
can produce sharp crisp graphics. Hope this...
Re: FN-FORUM: [Way OT]w: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 13th February 2007 10:01
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:49:41AM -0000, Paul Lee TBWNET wrote:
> Its about freelancing, and there are not just web developers on it. Also
> a lot of people are working alone at home and provides a...
Re: FN-FORUM: PDF Creator
date posted 13th February 2007 09:59
On a PC, I use : http://www.pdf995.com/
The free copy does pretty much everything you could want; you just get =20
a couple of ads pop-up every time you create a file.
It installs itself as a print...
Re: FN-FORUM: PDF Creator
date posted 13th February 2007 09:55
Daniel McMullan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to create pdf's. I remember
> reading a thread some months ago where some mentioned a free pdf creditor. If
> som...
Re: FN-FORUM: [Way OT]w: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 13th February 2007 09:52
Mike A wrote:
> 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 opin...
Re: FN-FORUM: using different fonts
date posted 13th February 2007 09:51
Lorna McArdle - Spinette Designs wrote:
> Is it yet possible to use a different font other than the standard font in
> web yet.
>
> I know a client would love me to ditch Arial or Verdana but I'm lo...
Re: FN-FORUM: PDF Creator
date posted 13th February 2007 09:49
i use cutepdf and have done for years works perfectly for me
http://www.cutepdf.com
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FN-FORUM: PDF Creator
date posted 13th February 2007 09:46
Hi all,
Was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to create pdf's. I remember
reading a thread some months ago where some mentioned a free pdf creditor. If
someone could pass on this informati...
RE: FN-FORUM: using different fonts
date posted 13th February 2007 09:40
technically you can use CSS to define any font you like but it'll only show up if the user has the correct font on their machine.
an alternative is sIFR (http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/) which us...
FN-FORUM: using different fonts
date posted 13th February 2007 09:32
Is it yet possible to use a different font other than the standard font in
web yet.
I know a client would love me to ditch Arial or Verdana but I'm loathed to
use images for text.
Any thoughts ple...
RE: FN-FORUM: Javascript browser problem
date posted 13th February 2007 09:22
Actually I found out the solution. You can use "inline" or "block" for IE
but FF doesn't like it (Mangles it). You can use "table-row" in FF and it
works but IE doesn't support it. The solution is to...
Re: FN-FORUM: [Way OT]w: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 13th February 2007 09:18
no no painting (I hate DIY)
I'm saying that the same things that would make a forum stale already make
this stale, but I would personally prefer the forum style.
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Re: FN-FORUM: [Way OT]w: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 13th February 2007 09:12
Peter Sowerby wrote:
> A forum may grow stale but this email pretty much only has the core few that
> respond to it as well and if they stopped posting it would have no emails
so, what you're sayin...
Re: FN-FORUM: [Way OT]w: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 13th February 2007 09:02
I find I delete most of the emails as I have nothing to add or there of no
interest, and it feels more like spam.
A forum may grow stale but this email pretty much only has the core few that
respon...
Re: FN-FORUM: [Way OT]w: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 13th February 2007 08:56
Peter Sowerby wrote:
> I would prefer a phpBB style forum to this outdated mailing list style.
and I cancel out your preference by preferring the push of email to the
pull of a forum (which I rarely...
Re: FN-FORUM: Extended Character display in XHTML UTF-8
date posted 13th February 2007 08:37
> inside. The page encoding is UTF-8 which I though sorted all this stuff
> out.
Check:
1) Your page is being served with UTF-8 encoding (tick!) I think Apache 2
servers stuff as UTF-8 by defaul...
Re: FN-FORUM: [Way OT]w: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 13th February 2007 08:32
I would prefer a phpBB style forum to this outdated mailing list style.
Pete
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RE: FN-FORUM: [Way OT]w: Proposed car tax scheme
date posted 13th February 2007 08:27
Hear hear, Mike.
Without wishing to be an old curmudgeon, the reason I joined this list was
to read (and contribute to) web design and web business topics. The number
of off-topic posts each day a...
RE: FN-FORUM: Extended Character display in XHTML UTF-8
date posted 13th February 2007 08:18
Hello Craig,
I would echo what Tony said - you must have utf-8 end-to-end.=20
Have you got a media type meta element like this in your XHTML:
HTH,
Andrew.
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Re: FN-FORUM: Extended Character display in XHTML UTF-8
date posted 13th February 2007 08:11
Craig wrote:
> 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 charact...
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