Freelancers Forum Messages on Wednesday June 20th 2001
Re: FN-FORUM Postcode checker
date posted 20th June 2001 22:17
Post code finder and address finder at www.royalmail.com
(http://pol.royalmail.com/pf.asp and http://pol.royalmail.com/af.asp)
Kathy
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FN-FORUM Working in the US
date posted 20th June 2001 21:37
Martin, I'm currently working as a contractor in the
US.
What do you want to know?
Mike.
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Postcode checker
date posted 20th June 2001 21:34
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RE: FN-FORUM any mac users?
date posted 20th June 2001 20:21
Yes it's called the Character map funnily enough, not so sure it is as good
as the Keycaps utility on the Mac, mind it's a while since I last used a
Mac, the Character map works, but personally I thi...
RE: FN-FORUM Restaurant page site review
date posted 20th June 2001 19:20
Sharon,
Out of curiosity, what do you mean by a "take away directory"?
Does the client expect you to get the details of x'000 restaurants?
As food for thought, how do you make a client happy?
Is it...
where& what time is the meeting tomorow?
date posted 20th June 2001 19:06
Well??
Regards,
Johnny Kattouf
K A T T O U F
Internet Services
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RE: FN-FORUM Microsoft Outlook 2000
date posted 20th June 2001 18:30
I'm not certain about this, but I have a feeling it may be because people
are sending HTML e-mail to you and your Outlook is set to plain text as
default. If you send me your e-mail address (send to...
RE: FN-FORUM Automatic Javascript Sending
date posted 20th June 2001 18:04
Dave,
Are you able to provide me with an example at all - or a web link to a
script that has such an example?
Thanks in advance
Stephen Parker
http://www.orbinternet.com
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Microsoft Outlook 2000
date posted 20th June 2001 17:41
Can anyone help with a problem thats driving me nuts - every email I receive
is now coming as an e-mail but with a .txt file as an attachment. The .txt
file simply contains the text of the e-mail.
I...
Re: FN-FORUM Restaurant page site review
date posted 20th June 2001 17:28
The word subjective comes to mind:)
Personally I think the colour vibrancy of the pic
makes the page and the colours complement well.
B/W I think not:)
From just this page I've got several other res...
RE: FN-FORUM Restaurant page site review
date posted 20th June 2001 16:44
Most of the design layout seems fine though as others have said the fade in
seems a bit slow, which in my experience is always a problem with large area
alpha fades.
One thing I am not sure about my...
any Director 8.5 users
date posted 20th June 2001 16:21
Has anyone used Director 8.5 yet for creating online 3D games? I am
just starting work on my first and would be interested in seeing what
other people are doing. If I get it working, you will all b...
Hosting
date posted 20th June 2001 15:53
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Re: FN-FORUM Feedback
date posted 20th June 2001 15:04
I as expecting the fax people ;-)
Why the ` instead of ' (proper single quote/apostrophe)? Looks really
weird.
Kathy
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Re: FN-FORUM Photoshop 5.5 or 6?
date posted 20th June 2001 14:05
Thanks. I've already got that update and it still hogs the memory (256MB)
something awful, even after fiddling with scratch disk, memory and cache
settings. I thought you may have found some newer up...
RE: FN-FORUM Photoshop 5.5 or 6?
date posted 20th June 2001 14:04
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/pswin.htm
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RE: FN-FORUM Feedback
date posted 20th June 2001 14:01
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Re: FN-FORUM Photoshop 5.5 or 6?
date posted 20th June 2001 13:52
> URL please, or could you mail it to me?
URL for photoshop update 6.0.1
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/pswin.htm
You probably want the english version
Cheers
TAJ Simmons
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Re: FN-FORUM anyone want my car
date posted 20th June 2001 13:46
Sorry Thursday
Emma Mulqueeny
www.m-e-s.co.uk
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Re: FN-FORUM Fireworks 4: Swap colour(s)
date posted 20th June 2001 13:40
If the image has been originated in fireworks you should be able to use the
"find and replace" function that is apple+F on a Mac or equivalent on PC.
you can search and replace an load of stuff but y...
RE: FN-FORUM Feedback
date posted 20th June 2001 13:27
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Feedback
date posted 20th June 2001 13:10
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Re: FN-FORUM Photoshop 5.5 or 6?
date posted 20th June 2001 13:09
> But make sure you get the patch from adobe for windows PC.
> Otherwise it gobbles up all your memory when in use.
URL please, or could you mail it to me?
Ta, Paul.
P J White
www.BW3.co.uk
Digita...
RE: FN-FORUM Catalogue without e-commerce?
date posted 20th June 2001 13:03
Paul,
For this number of products I don't really see the need for any database
or programming, and it will be quicker for the customers without!
Put the data into an XML file,...
Re: FN-FORUM RE:stopdrag
date posted 20th June 2001 12:57
Nice one geeza, I'll send it in a day or so (how did you sort yours? or is
it dead tricky?) the problem seems to rear its head when you try to take the
piss with your mouse speed on the roll-over
ch...
Re: FN-FORUM Photoshop 5.5 or 6?
date posted 20th June 2001 12:52
I'd go for PhotoShop 6.
But make sure you get the patch from adobe for windows PC.
Otherwise it gobbles up all your memory when in use.
Cheers
TAJ Simmons
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Re: FN-FORUM Fireworks 4: Swap colour(s)
date posted 20th June 2001 12:51
Martin, I can do that in Photoshop if you want to send it over, with hex/rgb
values for reqd background colour....... I'm pretty busy but it won't take
long.
Paul (who is filling in an insurance for...
Re: FN-FORUM paypal
date posted 20th June 2001 12:49
I can thoroughly recommend WorldPay
Approx £125 a year
They can be a "Merchant" for you to save messing about with banks
They charge approx 4.5% per transaction.
http://www.worldpay.com
Their webs...
Re: FN-FORUM Photoshop 5.5 or 6?
date posted 20th June 2001 12:45
Go for 6 its unbelievable once you get the hang of it!
I've used 5, 5.5 and fireworks4 non compare to the adaptability and all
round quality of ps6
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Fireworks 4: Swap colour(s)
date posted 20th June 2001 12:40
Afternoon folks,
Easy one for someone I'm sure. I want to swap a colour (or perhaps a range
of colours) for another colour. Basically, the background on an image is
the wrong colour - can't FILL a...
Re: FN-FORUM RE:stopdrag
date posted 20th June 2001 12:40
I have cracekd it, but it was an error on my part, if you want you can email
me your file with your problem and I can have a look at it tomorrow
Pete
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Re: FN-FORUM anyone want my car
date posted 20th June 2001 11:36
It is Thur. Whose changing things around?..
They can buy the first round I recon..
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RE:stopdrag
date posted 20th June 2001 11:29
Pete,
I've got a similar problem at the mo.
Trying to do a mouseOver startdrag/mouseOut stopdrag type thingy, it picks
up and does its start drag bit on the over but seems to get confused as F**k
and...
RE: FN-FORUM anyone want my car
date posted 20th June 2001 11:02
> Friday? I thought it was Thursday?
Yeah, me too......
Re: FN-FORUM anyone want my car
date posted 20th June 2001 10:52
Friday? I thought it was Thursday?
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anyone want my car
date posted 20th June 2001 10:34
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I am flogging my...
how about tonight?
date posted 20th June 2001 10:25
Anyone up for it?
Cheers
Dan...
Re: FN-FORUM Photoshop 5.5 or 6?
date posted 20th June 2001 10:22
>JPEG Optimizer from www.xat.com
I'd back Martin up on that one - it's a tiny program but with loads of scope
to optimise quality vs file size. I use it a lot for quick compression when
testing etc....
Re: FN-FORUM Photoshop 5.5 or 6?
date posted 20th June 2001 10:18
I went from 5 to 5.5 and found it a worthwhile upgrade, then went to 6 and
certainly have not been 'a little disappointed' - the vector tools and text
fx are not quite in the FW league, but are a val...
RE: FN-FORUM Photoshop 5.5 or 6?
date posted 20th June 2001 10:11
Slightly off topic - have you tried JPEG Optimizer from www.xat.com
? That works a treat on compression
Martin Kellie
Dream Weavers Home
ICQ: 11219980
I use Fireworks for all my com...
Photoshop 5.5 or 6?
date posted 20th June 2001 09:57
I have the opportunity to either upgrade my Photoshop to 5.5 or go the full
hog and install 6.
I'm reasonably happy using 5, I have heard upgrading to 6 might leave me a
little disappointed as it has...
RE: FN-FORUM paypal
date posted 20th June 2001 09:56
A little while ago someone on this forum strongly recommended Paypal - but I
think this was only for taking payment for his own design work from overseas
clients.
| I and friends in the UK have foun...
Re: FN-FORUM Finding work
date posted 20th June 2001 09:29
Try www.alec.co.uk for jo hunting tips and networking suggestions.
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Neil asked:
> I'm doing all the 'usual' stuff like
> mailings and replying to posts on va...
Thursday's London Meet
date posted 20th June 2001 09:22
Hi
Have we decided on a time for meeting up on tomorrow? If not how about 7pm
at The Founders Arms (http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?pc=se19jh),
seems to be the nearest pub to the Tate Modern...
RE: FN-FORUM Shop@ssistant Classic
date posted 20th June 2001 09:15
I have used Shop Assistant Db with Stock Control and I found it very easy to
use and set up. You also have a great deal of flexibility when designing the
site by altering the html templates, so long...
RE: FN-FORUM Ways to prevent images/pages being printed/saved? Could this work
date posted 20th June 2001 08:05
Digimarc support comes bundled with Photoshop, so it's a popular way to
watermark a photo.
Personally I prefer this sort of approach to try at least potentially to
control any copyright theft that...
RE: FN-FORUM interesting read on ecom in the uk
date posted 20th June 2001 08:00
Very interesting.
I think if BT get their act sorted and we start to actually pay less for
access (as opposed to the hype) then usage of the internet will increase.
I have produced 25 websites for...
Re: FN-FORUM Stop Drag
date posted 20th June 2001 07:19
no sorted it, cheers boss
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interesting read on ecom in the uk
date posted 20th June 2001 06:19
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/11366.html
Report: Bad Signs for UK E-tailers
By Michael Mahoney
www.EcommerceTimes.com,
Part of the NewsFactor Network
June 20, 2001
According to a new rep...
Re: FN-FORUM paypal
date posted 20th June 2001 01:13
OK, paypal now sounds crap.
does anyone have a recommendation for an online payment system for (very)
small companies?
| I and friends in the UK have found it completely impossible to use
| Paypa...
Re: FN-FORUM Russian
date posted 20th June 2001 01:02
I'm glad I'm not doing Hebrew!
I found that two things work, copying and pasting into unipad (to
bypass the double byte problem)with Russian selected allows copying and
pasting from there into DW...
Re: FN-FORUM paypal - end user story
date posted 20th June 2001 00:46
I recently was obliged to use Paypal in the UK to pay for a US
service. They charged me to 'join' Paypal which was later credited
against the first transaction - debit card owneship 'verification'...
Re: FN-FORUM Queries
date posted 20th June 2001 00:19
Ctrl F5 forces a refresh from the server - in other
words it calls to the server for the pages as opposed
to refreshing from the cashe (which for some is what
F5 does)
Ink
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