Freelancers Forum Messages on Wednesday July 18th 2007
Re: FN-FORUM: Flash Type Insertion
date posted 18th July 2007 22:25
> Reading this makes me chuckle - I think the thing you are looking for is
> something called sIFR (from http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/), where you
> could use Flash (or possibly one of the Flash...
FN-FORUM: 2 Servers - 4 NICs
date posted 18th July 2007 20:56
Hi,
I have 2 servers connected to a LAN across a 10/100 network but I would =
like
faster transfer rates. If I was to install a gigabit card in each server =
(so
that each server had 2 NICs each) and...
Re: FN-FORUM: CSS/HTML Books
date posted 18th July 2007 19:59
If any one needs 'CSS web design for Dummies' I uploaded it to:
http://www.box.net/shared/3a4bctfxx0 ( I think!)
Ah Web 2.0 is ace!
Rich
On 18 Jul 2007, at 20:04, Tony Crockford wrote:
>
>
> On...
Re: FN-FORUM: CSS/HTML Books
date posted 18th July 2007 19:57
Hi Jon,
I like Eric Meyer's books. I worked through the examples in More Eric
Meyer on CSS and found I learnt a lot. You can download the scripts from
his site and then add the CSS a bit at a time a...
Re: FN-FORUM: CSS/HTML Books
date posted 18th July 2007 19:52
www.w3schools.com is a great tool, I'm always recommending this site :)
For those that don't really know much about developing at all this will
start you off quite well with html, xhtml, css, Javasc...
Re: FN-FORUM: CSS/HTML Books
date posted 18th July 2007 19:41
On 18 Jul 2007, at 19:02, Jon Hughes wrote:
> any of you lovely, talented people be
> able to recommend such books? I've Googled all sorts of things and
> perused many web sites but there's nowt lik...
Re: FN-FORUM: CSS/HTML Books
date posted 18th July 2007 19:33
I too have only just started trying to learn css.
Initially I went to amazon - beginner css, that should do it, but I honestl=
y
cannot follow books - short attentiaon span
I would look at compu...
Re: FN-FORUM: Flash Type Insertion
date posted 18th July 2007 19:22
SiFR is absolutely ACE
Found it a little fiddly to implement, but that could be me, but well
worth it in the end, and easily transferable afterwards,
I'll stop waffling now!
R
On 18 Jul 2007, at...
RE: FN-FORUM: Flash Type Insertion
date posted 18th July 2007 19:16
Hi Edward,
Reading this makes me chuckle - I think the thing you are looking for is
something called sIFR (from http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/), where you
could use Flash (or possibly one of the...
RE: FN-FORUM: Flash Type Insertion
date posted 18th July 2007 19:03
Do you mean for the flash to simply be able to read text from another source
such as a text file for example ?
I've built an mp3 player for my music clients which reads in the text from
the .txt fil...
Re: FN-FORUM: CSS/HTML Books
date posted 18th July 2007 19:03
whoops forgot the link:
http://www.cssmastery.com/
ya can get it from Amazon
R
On 18 Jul 2007, at 19:13, Leon Stacey wrote:
>
> He Jon,
> A mighty fine place to start is www.w3schools.com. Thats...
RE: FN-FORUM: CSS/HTML Books
date posted 18th July 2007 19:02
Hello Richard,
Thanks for your reply.
Erm... Which book would that be?!
Cheers,
J
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Re: FN-FORUM: CSS/HTML Books
date posted 18th July 2007 18:56
Hi Jon,
I have constantly sung the praises of HTML Utopia:
Designing Without Tables Using CSS published by Sitepoint. It is a
fantastic book that is great for beginners to CSS, it does however
ass...
RE: FN-FORUM: CSS/HTML Books
date posted 18th July 2007 18:54
Personally, I've always found books rather tricky to learn from. Call me
stupid if you want :)
One thing you could do is get yourself a copy of Homesite to do your
Html/Xhtml as well as a copy of To...
FN-FORUM: Flash Type Insertion
date posted 18th July 2007 18:51
Hello,
This is one of the "shot in the dark" requests, but here goes ...
A couple of months ago I read an article about a Flash object that
somebody had created that dynamically inserted text which...
Re: FN-FORUM: CSS/HTML Books
date posted 18th July 2007 18:50
He Jon,
A mighty fine place to start is www.w3schools.com. Thats where i
started with CSS and it grew from there.
It was the best way for me anyway, I could read/learn/design/test all
on the comp...
Re: FN-FORUM: CSS/HTML Books
date posted 18th July 2007 18:49
Hi there
I found this book very helpful, it focusses on what you need really, =20
without being bloated like many a guidebook. The concept is covered =20
and that insight is very helpful to learn the...
FN-FORUM: CSS/HTML Books
date posted 18th July 2007 18:40
Evening all,
Advise me please...
I am needing, rather urgently, to improve my supremely basic web skills
and learn CSS plus whatever else I ought to be up on. Being a
product/graphic designer by tr...
Re: FN-FORUM: Ecommerce - Zen Cart - Customisation
date posted 18th July 2007 16:27
> Colin,
>
> Another great reply thanks Colin. I hope the person who asked the
> original question about ZenCart finds it as helpful and appreciates it too.
>
Yes I do - thank you - and thanks f...
Re: FN-FORUM: Microsoft Office for Mac
date posted 18th July 2007 15:05
On 18/7/07 15:08, "John Kelly" [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> As far as I know 2004 is the latest for MAC but that is not the problem.
> You can download converters from the MS site for legacy systems. The...
Re: FN-FORUM: Microsoft Office for Mac
date posted 18th July 2007 14:51
That is correct. Are you sure that you can open a MS Office Word 2007
with MS Office 2004 Mac? I am not too sure?
Cheers
Bo Persson, M.A.
Independent Fashion Researcher
[EMAIL REMOVED]
Skype name:...
RE: FN-FORUM: Microsoft Office for Mac
date posted 18th July 2007 14:45
As far as I know 2004 is the latest for MAC but that is not the problem.
You can download converters from the MS site for legacy systems. The
Office Word 2007 is using XML in saving the file and that'...
Re: FN-FORUM: Ecommerce - Zen Cart - Customisation
date posted 18th July 2007 14:35
Colin Rainsforth wrote:
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> At 10:56 +0000 18/7/07, Paul Stanton - Innovative Future wrote:
>> Great reply thanks Colin-useful info for everyone there. I seem to
>> remember that someone...
Re: FN-FORUM: Microsoft Office for Mac
date posted 18th July 2007 14:28
Are we not talking MS Office 2004 Mac?
Hi
Yes we are?
Im going to give the Open Office a try out, I think.
Malc
Can anyone tell me what the latest version of office is for the mac,
is it...
Re: FN-FORUM: Microsoft Office for Mac
date posted 18th July 2007 14:19
Are we not talking MS Office 2004 Mac?
Cheers
Bo Persson, M.A.
Independent Fashion Researcher
[EMAIL REMOVED]
Skype name: bossep64
http://bopersson64.wordpress.com/
http://culturedevelopmentandresea...
Re: FN-FORUM: SQL Help ... again
date posted 18th July 2007 14:16
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 15:15:22 Paul Cooper wrote:
> more importantly, how was my list etiquette Dom?
I dunno, isn't this the bit where you tell me to f*ck off if I'm not going
to be helpful?
(B...
Re: FN-FORUM: SQL Help ... again
date posted 18th July 2007 13:52
more importantly, how was my list etiquette Dom?
On 18 Jul 2007 11:54:32 -0000, Dom Latter [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 18 July 2007 13:15:36 Paul Cooper wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > This is my S...
Re: FN-FORUM: Microsoft Office for Mac
date posted 18th July 2007 13:49
Hi Malcolm,
At 12:49 +0000 18/7/07, Malcolm Izatt wrote:
>Can anyone tell me what the latest version of office is for the mac,
>is it 2004? Or has there been a later one since.
>
>I have just receiv...
Re: FN-FORUM: Microsoft Office for Mac
date posted 18th July 2007 13:48
On 18/7/07 13:50, "Malcolm Izatt" [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what the latest version of office is for the mac,
> is it 2004? Or has there been a later one since.
>
> I have just rec...
Re: FN-FORUM: Microsoft Office for Mac
date posted 18th July 2007 13:47
On 18/7/07 13:50, "Malcolm Izatt" [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what the latest version of office is for the mac,
> is it 2004? Or has there been a later one since.
>
> I have just rec...
Re: FN-FORUM: SQL Help ... again
date posted 18th July 2007 13:47
On 18 Jul 2007 11:47:17 -0000, Steven Lavine [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> strSQL1 = "SELECT tblCourses.Title AS Title, tblCourses.ID,
> tblCourses.Description AS Description, tblCourses.Active,
> tblCours...
Re: FN-FORUM: Ecommerce - Zen Cart - Customisation
date posted 18th July 2007 13:45
Hi Paul,
At 10:56 +0000 18/7/07, Paul Stanton - Innovative Future wrote:
>Great reply thanks Colin-useful info for everyone there. I seem to
>remember that someone posted a bare bones template on th...
Re: FN-FORUM: Microsoft Office for Mac
date posted 18th July 2007 13:34
I don't have it in front of me but that is possible and easy.
Cheers
Bo Persson, M.A.
Independent Fashion Researcher
[EMAIL REMOVED]
Skype name: bossep64
http://bopersson64.wordpress.com/
http://cul...
Re: FN-FORUM: Microsoft Office for Mac
date posted 18th July 2007 13:31
2004 is the latest.
Cheers
Bo Persson, M.A.
Independent Fashion Researcher
[EMAIL REMOVED]
Skype name: bossep64
http://bopersson64.wordpress.com/
http://culturedevelopmentandresearch-cedar.freehomep...
FN-FORUM: Microsoft Office for Mac
date posted 18th July 2007 13:27
Hi
Can anyone tell me what the latest version of office is for the mac, =20
is it 2004? Or has there been a later one since.
I have just received a file from someone using Office 2007 on Windows =20...
Re: FN-FORUM: SQL Help ... again
date posted 18th July 2007 12:32
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 13:15:36 Paul Cooper wrote:
> Hi
>
> This is my SQL...
Looks more like MS SQL to me...
sorry.
> tblCourses.CourseCode1 LIKE '%" & strString & "%' OR
> tblCourses.CourseCo...
Re: FN-FORUM: Extractoing from PHP
date posted 18th July 2007 12:28
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 12:57:18 Neil Caunt wrote:
> Dom Latter wrote:
> > On Wednesday 18 July 2007 12:01:34 Keith Stonebanks wrote:
> >> W executes it...
> >
> > You are running a browser on the w...
Re: FN-FORUM: SQL Help ... again
date posted 18th July 2007 12:25
Hi Paul,
This sort of query had me stumped awhile back. with a bit of jiggery
pokery, you will end up with this
strSQL1 = "SELECT tblCourses.Title AS Title, tblCourses.ID,
tblCourses.Description AS...
Re: FN-FORUM: A long shot..
date posted 18th July 2007 12:06
For what it's worth, I deal with immigration issues. Contact off list...
Mike A.
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Re: FN-FORUM: SQL Help ... again
date posted 18th July 2007 12:04
woohoo ... thanks!
Paul...
Re: FN-FORUM: SQL Help ... again
date posted 18th July 2007 11:58
Paul Cooper wrote:
> I only want to return records where tblCourses.Active = 'IS'. But
> this part of my statement seems to be getting ignored.
Use some parentheses:
WHERE tblCourses.Active = 'IS'...
FN-FORUM: SQL Help ... again
date posted 18th July 2007 11:53
Hi
This is my SQL...
strSQL1 = "SELECT tblCourses.Title AS Title, tblCourses.ID,
tblCourses.Description AS Description, tblCourses.Active,
tblCourseListings.CourseID, tblCourseListings.ID AS Cours...
Re: FN-FORUM: SEO and pagename aliasing
date posted 18th July 2007 11:46
Thanks very much indeed.
Vicki
Steven Lavine wrote:
>
> Hi Vicky,
>
> The search engines treat the urls as www.mydomainname.com/myblog/.
>
> Steve
>...
Re: FN-FORUM: SEO and pagename aliasing
date posted 18th July 2007 11:45
Yeah, that's me. Hi Steve. And thanks for this answer.
Cheers
Vicki
Steve Griffiths wrote:
>
> (OT) Are you the Vicki Sivess who was at Southampton University? There
> was a CS lecturer by that name...
Re: FN-FORUM: Extractoing from PHP
date posted 18th July 2007 11:34
Dom Latter wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 July 2007 12:01:34 Keith Stonebanks wrote:
>> W executes it...
>
> You are running a browser on the webserver?
>
> There is such a thing as server-side Javascript...
Re: FN-FORUM: Ecommerce - Zen Cart - Customisation
date posted 18th July 2007 11:34
Colin Rainsforth wrote:
> For entirely bespoke designs, my tip is to strip down your install to
> the bare bones and build up from there rather than trying to
> manipulate existing third party templ...
Re: FN-FORUM: Opening a new tab in IE7
date posted 18th July 2007 11:29
I've a feeling he means an alternative to the target="_blank"
attribute rather than from a user perspective.
AFAIK there is currently no way to do this, however css3 looks like it
will support tabs...
Re: FN-FORUM: SEO and pagename aliasing
date posted 18th July 2007 11:26
Vicki Sivess wrote:
>
> Firstly many thanks to those who replied re Smarty. I'm stuck into it
> now.
>
> In the .htaccess file there is a rewrite rule, RewriteRule ^(.+)/$
> controller.php?req=$1, w...
FN-FORUM: A long shot..
date posted 18th July 2007 11:23
Hi guys,
As the subject implies, this is a bit of a long shot - I don't usually
go around pouring my heart out but I'm in a bit of a situation and I
could really use some help. To cut a long story...
Re: FN-FORUM: SEO and pagename aliasing
date posted 18th July 2007 11:17
Vicki Sivess wrote:
>
> Firstly many thanks to those who replied re Smarty. I'm stuck into it
> now.
>
> In the .htaccess file there is a rewrite rule, RewriteRule ^(.+)/$
> controller.php?req=$1, w...
Re: FN-FORUM: Extractoing from PHP
date posted 18th July 2007 11:14
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 12:01:34 Keith Stonebanks wrote:
> W executes it...
You are running a browser on the webserver?
There is such a thing as server-side Javascript, but I'm pretty sure that
t...
Re: FN-FORUM: shopping cart
date posted 18th July 2007 11:03
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 11:31:19 Virgin Email wrote:
> I may try cubecart and if this does my head in I will go for paid.
Just cos you paid for it doesn't mean it's magically easier to install.
Y...
FN-FORUM: SEO and pagename aliasing
date posted 18th July 2007 11:03
Firstly many thanks to those who replied re Smarty. I'm stuck into it now.
In the .htaccess file there is a rewrite rule, RewriteRule ^(.+)/$
controller.php?req=$1, which passes control back to cont...
Re: FN-FORUM: Ecommerce - Zen Cart - Customisation
date posted 18th July 2007 10:40
At 17:37 +0000 17/7/07, [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>Hello - I have looked for articles on customising layouts for Zen Cart
>templates using css with limited success
>
>I am sure this is a huge area - but...
Re: FN-FORUM: Extractoing from PHP
date posted 18th July 2007 10:39
W executes it...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dom Latter" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Extractoing from PHP
>
> On Tu...
Re: FN-FORUM: Extractoing from PHP
date posted 18th July 2007 10:19
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 20:27:32 Keith Stonebanks wrote:
> The Datcash Server (P), the reply comes back to W (SSL) where the
> javascript submits it back to the databse on W, once this submitted we
>...
Re: FN-FORUM: shopping cart
date posted 18th July 2007 10:09
The php.ini file needs "SAFE_MODE=OFF"
so I asked can you help please?
and I got
> Although safe mode is on by default, you can resolve most issues that this
> throws up by installing php as a cgi mod...
Re: FN-FORUM: shopping cart
date posted 18th July 2007 09:55
At 21:50 +0000 17/7/07, Virgin Email wrote:
>Intial problems were overcome then I had problems with php.ini file and
>permisions.
>I may have to look for a different hosting company as 34sp are not th...
Re: FN-FORUM: Opening a new tab in IE7
date posted 18th July 2007 07:58
On 17 Jul 2007 17:26:23 -0000, James Herrington
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Just a quick question, I've had a quick browse around on google, but
> short of manually changing settings, is there...
Re: FN-FORUM: Ecommerce - Zen Cart - Customisation
date posted 18th July 2007 06:24
Thanks lee - could you mention a product that you have experience with if
possible?
On 18/7/07 1:21 am, "lee fogarty" [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Paid solution every time. Not cheap but the...
Re: FN-FORUM: Ecommerce - Zen Cart - Customisation
date posted 18th July 2007 00:58
Paid solution every time. Not cheap but the best option.
On 17 Jul 2007 22:32:27 -0000, Lorna McArdle - Spinette Designs
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> I have to disagree
>
> I have used osCommerce and...
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