Freelancers Forum Messages on Thursday September 27th 2001
RE: FN-FORUM freeserve
date posted 27th September 2001 23:47
I would think it is because u have to connect through freeserve. They
make a profit on the phone calls, so they have a restriction that you
have to dial up through them to ftp and check email. It is...
RE: FN-FORUM freeserve
date posted 27th September 2001 23:34
yes!....you have to connect through freeserve......havent they got ?35 a
year to pay for hosting?....depending on how many site changes they have to
make it would save them money in the long run........
RE: FN-FORUM freeserve
date posted 27th September 2001 23:31
I use:
uploads.webspace.freeserve.net (for the server)
and whatever the username and password used to access the internet
(freeserve account)
Works for me.
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RE: FN-FORUM thought
date posted 27th September 2001 23:28
Again,
I'm not selling searches, I don't even push stats onto my clients like:
"Ooh look how many hits I got you, ain't I good???"
I sell sales leads!
How does the client know it's a sales lead?...
Re: FN-FORUM giglistings [was Nochex]
date posted 27th September 2001 23:16
I guess it must be Unix 'cos it's not NT!
Em
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freeserve
date posted 27th September 2001 22:26
Hi all
I'm trying to upload a site to a clients' free webspace with freeserve.
I've checked their help site and the ftp information should be right but it
doesn't work. could it be that I have to b...
Re: FN-FORUM thought
date posted 27th September 2001 22:21
you're totally, utterly and completely missing the point.
my original argument was that your method isnt the most efficient, effective
way of improving a companies sales.
i ask again:
of those 85%...
RE: FN-FORUM Theories
date posted 27th September 2001 22:17
Hi Thr Everyone,
This forum was not intended to discuss politics but obviously there are
those amongst us who have a real passion...therefore, for those who are
interested in good wholesome "Conspri...
RE: FN-FORUM giglistings [was Nochex]
date posted 27th September 2001 22:04
What are you developing your sites on! Unix or NT?
Mark Anderson
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Re: FN-FORUM htpasswd
date posted 27th September 2001 21:30
Thanks for all the pointers, I'll get it sorted now ;-)
P J White
www.BW3.co.uk
Digital Media Stuff...
Re: FN-FORUM giglistings [was Nochex]
date posted 27th September 2001 21:23
database? no! all done painstakingly by hand - isn't it, Martin???? still
can't get my head round databases :c|
I've set up a browser sniffer now with the what's new section and the gigs.
What's yo...
RE: FN-FORUM OT - Joke
date posted 27th September 2001 20:56
Yes Je suis Francais (sorry everyone).
Ok you want a joke about the English ?
A short one, but don't shoot me afterwards !!!
A British couple is making love. (I know, coming from a French guy it ca...
RE: FN-FORUM Im back - aghhhhhhhhhh
date posted 27th September 2001 20:14
welcome back Ewan...Where in Russia did you go ??
Regards
Darren Spink
http://www.arkad.leeds.co.uk
Tel: +44(0)113 253 4750
Fax: +44(0)113 253 1686
ICQ: 56667649
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RE: FN-FORUM thought
date posted 27th September 2001 20:06
>people rarely look for a regional business over the web -
Rubbish!!!!! I work all week the last thing I want to do on the w/end is go
shopping! I do it in the evening on the web, freeing up my w/en...
Re: FN-FORUM Im back - aghhhhhhhhhh
date posted 27th September 2001 19:43
Russia was cool thanks Mike. Literally as well.. . -7 degrees on some days.
I should have some cool photos soon (being developed) Ill put them up on a
webby and post the url if people are interested...
RE: FN-FORUM TightBriefs question
date posted 27th September 2001 19:30
Thanks Dave...I was starting to think that a degree in Project management
had been de-valued by people being called project management and not
understanding what it is. After all with all the jokes...
RE: FN-FORUM Im back - aghhhhhhhhhh
date posted 27th September 2001 19:29
Welcome home.... how is russia?
Mike
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RE: FN-FORUM Im back - aghhhhhhhhhh
date posted 27th September 2001 19:29
Welcome home.... how is russia?
Mike
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RE: FN-FORUM thought
date posted 27th September 2001 19:08
Bottom line,
people do search for carpets and bathrooms and cars etc...
I've got 18 months worth of stats that prove you wrong.
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Im back - aghhhhhhhhhh
date posted 27th September 2001 18:30
Hows everyone? Hope its been an eventful and interesting four weeks. Im now
back from the middle of nowhere.
For your information only.
Oh, and if anyone thinks they got give me some graphic design...
Re: FN-FORUM thought
date posted 27th September 2001 16:25
im not debating the effect of SEO for attracting people to a site - im
debating its use for *sales*
people rarely look for a regional business over the web - anybody who uses
the internet to find a...
RE: FN-FORUM OT monkeys
date posted 27th September 2001 15:48
Too true too true... Excellent....
Best Regards
>>> Andrew
MSOnet.co.uk
Telephone: +44 1474 813870
Fax: +44 1474 813819
The information in this email is confidential and may be legally
privi...
Pukka Flash
date posted 27th September 2001 15:45
Pretty cool site !!!
www.coin-op-city.com
Steve...
Re: FN-FORUM thought
date posted 27th September 2001 15:38
lol! not when i have to finish off work!
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Re: FN-FORUM OT - Joke
date posted 27th September 2001 15:38
Aye.. kinda gave it away.
But then they sit and get excited about the benefits of sorting columns in
tabulated data on the fly, they (rest of peps in the office) deal with Sun
Microsystems and MS Gr...
FN-FORUM OT monkeys
date posted 27th September 2001 15:13
Not a font joke in sight.......but:
A man walks into a Silicon Valley pet store looking for a monkey. The
storeowner points towards three identical looking monkeys in politically
correct,
animal-fri...
RE: FN-FORUM thought
date posted 27th September 2001 14:14
Ian,
This method is used on many sites which seem to have *.HTML content, back
the content is actually generated dynamically. Freeserve.com is a good
example, which uses Cold Fusion to generate stat...
Radio Wind-up Call Gone Wrong...Beautiful
date posted 27th September 2001 14:00
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Re: FN-FORUM JS New Window
date posted 27th September 2001 13:34
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Re: FN-FORUM The Legend of the Four Fonts
date posted 27th September 2001 13:15
Actually, Martin, I wrote it during my lunch break!
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Re: FN-FORUM The Legend of the Four Fonts
date posted 27th September 2001 13:11
Yeah um.. stick to what ever else you do..
=)
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RE: FN-FORUM The Legend of the Four Fonts
date posted 27th September 2001 13:04
Good one, guess you don't have much to do ;-)
Martin Kellie
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Re: FN-FORUM JS New Window
date posted 27th September 2001 13:01
Not Javascript - straight HTML
New Page
Cheers
Mike
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Re: FN-FORUM JS New Window
date posted 27th September 2001 12:54
Thanks Guys,
Told you I was braindead in the morning, couldn't even get the right language
:-)
target=_blank is what I was looking for
Ade...
RE: FN-FORUM thought
date posted 27th September 2001 12:53
Hi Ian
I think you didn't fully understand my point.
> I don't have a problem with ASP, PHP, JSP etc.
>
> But then again I'm not in charge of the top search engine's
> algorithms am I?
>
> SOME sea...
Re: FN-FORUM JS New Window
date posted 27th September 2001 12:41
ooopps thought you meant a pop up window? If it's just a new browser
window then sure -
target=_blank
will do the job.
Andrew
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The Legend of the Four Fonts
date posted 27th September 2001 12:38
Alright, if I must respond to the joke - everyone else seems to be doing
so - here's my offering:
THE LEGEND OF THE FOUR FONTS
Four fonts walk into a bar. The barman says "Oi - I've seen your faces...
Re: FN-FORUM JS New Window
date posted 27th September 2001 12:37
target="_blank" ?
Jon
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> Hi,
>
> Sorry I'm a bit b...
RE: FN-FORUM JS New Window
date posted 27th September 2001 12:31
Hi Ade,
Admitedly I dont claim to be a web designer but I thought you simply include
the attribute target="_new" I'm pretty sure there's no need to bother
messing about with Javascript. Or am I talk...
Re: FN-FORUM JS New Window
date posted 27th September 2001 12:29
Not Javascript - straight HTML
New Page
Cheers
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Re: FN-FORUM JS New Window
date posted 27th September 2001 12:18
in head section put this:...
RE: FN-FORUM thought
date posted 27th September 2001 12:06
I don't have a problem with ASP, PHP, JSP etc.
But then again I'm not in charge of the top search engine's algorithms am I?
SOME search engines are CONSIDERING indexing dynamically generated pages...
JS New Window
date posted 27th September 2001 12:03
Hi,
Sorry I'm a bit braindead this morning can someone send me the Javascript
which makes a text link open into a new browser window please.
Thanks
Ade...
RE: FN-FORUM Hosting question
date posted 27th September 2001 11:45
Sorry missed earlier message, where is this you are talking about..?
Mez
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FN FORUM pricing - Iain's right
date posted 27th September 2001 11:40
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Fellow F's,
I have found that price can be an issue but I try to work on customer...
RE: FN-FORUM htpasswd
date posted 27th September 2001 11:34
The .htaccess file is used by you server to decide a number of things like
what the 404 or 403 etc pages can be located for specific errors.
eg.
ErrorDocument 401 http://www.i-am-many.com/many/Ze...
Re: FN-FORUM OT - Joke
date posted 27th September 2001 11:29
that very bright picture on the wall is really a window to the outside
world, it might be scary at first but now is the time to go into the real
world, meet real people and stop making your girlfrien...
RE: FN-FORUM OT - Joke
date posted 27th September 2001 11:27
Tu es francais?
Do the French have jokes about the English, that are translateable?
:-)
Matt
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RE: FN-FORUM OT - Joke
date posted 27th September 2001 11:17
*grins* Everyone is correct then ;-)
Martin Kellie
ICQ: 11219980
Everybody in the office now thinks I'm a real
geek....
Re: FN-FORUM OT - Joke
date posted 27th September 2001 11:11
And that took you a day to develop? Oooooh, I'm feeling faint.
John
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RE: FN-FORUM OT - Joke
date posted 27th September 2001 11:08
Ah Monsieur !!!
You are spoiling us with your jokes !!
Guillaume, who is not en vacances, and enjoy travailler here in the UK.
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RE: FN-FORUM secure certificate
date posted 27th September 2001 11:06
Hi Matt,
We don't add anything to the price of the cert, but we charge an admin fee
for the application and installation, we only get them for clients, if you
want one you are best off just going to...
RE: FN-FORUM htpasswd
date posted 27th September 2001 11:01
You need this:
http://www.inch.com/commercial/web/server/apache/htpasswd.html
Generate a password online that you can add to htpasswd using ftp only
hth
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Re: FN-FORUM OT - Joke
date posted 27th September 2001 10:57
I had nothing to do all day when that joke was sent to me so I played with
it a bit:
Four fonts walk into a bar The barman says "Oi - I've seen your faces
before. Get out! We don't want your type in...
Re: FN-FORUM htpasswd
date posted 27th September 2001 10:52
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RE: FN-FORUM secure certificate
date posted 27th September 2001 10:50
On another note - www.freessl.com issue certs for free. We have recently
signed up for one, and are awaiting verification, so we can test it out.
Regards
Matt
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RE: FN-FORUM OT - Joke
date posted 27th September 2001 10:50
An architect, an artist and an systems engineer were discussing whether it
was better to spend time with the wife or a mistress
The architect said he enjoyed time with his wife, building a solid
fou...
htpasswd
date posted 27th September 2001 10:49
The password bit is encrypted using Unix Crypt so its not a matter of simply
entering the passwords. Easiest solution would be to use something like
http://www.cgi-factory.com/password/index.shtml...
RE: FN-FORUM secure certificate
date posted 27th September 2001 10:45
Alex,
How much do you resell Thawte certs for?
Thanks,
Matt
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Re: FN-FORUM OT - Joke
date posted 27th September 2001 10:43
Sent that joke to a mate, who came back with the following witty retort:
If it had been a saloon the serif would have been called to the subsequent
fight or (work with me here!) if a French speaking...
htpasswd
date posted 27th September 2001 10:41
Can someone please explain how the htpasswd thing works without mentioning
the word telnet? I've got the htaccess file configured, it brings up the
enter username & password dialogue, but refuses to...
RE: FN-FORUM OT - Joke
date posted 27th September 2001 10:38
Absolutely terrible - loved it ;-)
Martin Kellie
ICQ: 11219980
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Re: FN-FORUM secure certificate
date posted 27th September 2001 10:30
You're best off going to Thawte. They are now owned by Verisign, but are
normally much cheaper than Verisign or BT. Only downside is that it'll take
longer to issue the certificate because they nee...
RE: FN-FORUM thought
date posted 27th September 2001 10:28
I have heard the figure 85% before, it comes from some research done by
JupiterMMX I think.
Those people who have their sites SEOd are realising that it is worth it, I
have a small garage as a custo...
RE: FN-FORUM secure certificate
date posted 27th September 2001 10:25
Definitely go with Thawte, their certs are exactly the same as everybody
elses. They are loads cheaper AND they know what they are talking about. We
resell certs, on the Thawte site application pages...
Re: FN-FORUM OT - Joke
date posted 27th September 2001 10:24
No, don't even wait to get your coat!!!
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> Four font...
Re: FN-FORUM giglistings [was Nochex]
date posted 27th September 2001 10:17
Does it not all come from one database them Ema? If it did you wouldn't have
to update multiple sites.
Jon
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RE: FN-FORUM Tight Briefs
date posted 27th September 2001 10:15
But as people sign on you have movement out of the market, demand starts to
exceed supply, prices go up, people see profit in the market, people move
into the market, supply rises, prices drop, peopl...
Re: FN-FORUM Tight Briefs VAT payments
date posted 27th September 2001 10:15
Ah! Someone who drinks as much coffee as me!
JOn
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OT - Joke
date posted 27th September 2001 10:13
Four fonts walk into a bar....
The barman says "Oi - get out! We don't want your type in here"
heh ... *cough* ... I'll get my coat.
Jon H.
Freelance Designer
Aardman Animations
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RE: FN-FORUM TightBriefs question
date posted 27th September 2001 10:00
Darren said:
>
> I've heard it said that Tightbriefs does the project management,
> but a mail
> fron dan or andy said that they didn't advise clients as to budgets etc.
>
We advise clients if they...
RE: FN-FORUM thought
date posted 27th September 2001 10:00
Hi Ian
TBH I don't see what your problem with ASP is. One of the sites we've
created is a directory site, and the front page and every page within the
directory is static HTML. However that static...
RE: FN-FORUM Tight Briefs VAT payments
date posted 27th September 2001 09:48
>
> Are you expecting Freelancers to meet the price inclusive or
> exculsive of VAT?
>
If the freelancer is registered for VAT add it on otherwise don't! We are
VAT registered and add 17.5 when will...
RE: FN-FORUM thought
date posted 27th September 2001 09:41
Just to add to Ians post, '85% of people find a website via the search
engines' a very difficult figure to calculate and monitor. I know if I find
a site that interests me I bookmark it, I may have f...
RE: FN-FORUM thought
date posted 27th September 2001 09:40
>I could do the same and pass key words for meta tags.
But how does a search engine react to that ?
Is it completely ignored ?
You said 10 pages could be seen and now 250 can. What did you change ?
I...
RE: FN-FORUM thought
date posted 27th September 2001 09:40
>I could do the same and pass key words for meta tags.
But how does a search engine react to that ?
Is it completely ignored ?
You said 10 pages could be seen and now 250 can. What did you change ?
I...
RE: FN-FORUM thought
date posted 27th September 2001 09:36
Just to add to Ians post, '85% of people find a website via the search
engines' a very difficult figure to calculate and monitor. I know if I find
a site that interests me I bookmark it, I may have f...
RE: FN-FORUM thought
date posted 27th September 2001 09:28
Provided all the pages are using the same variables (and you can lay the
site out correctly) its possible to use ASP for fixed dynamic pages using
the 404 error page to display the actually content....
RE: FN-FORUM thought
date posted 27th September 2001 09:18
A LOT of search engines don't use META tags
One of them is Google the worlds largest.
Maybe you miss my point.
You create a page to match:
product, area
This points to your index page
how you s...
Re: FN-FORUM secure certificate
date posted 27th September 2001 09:03
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:06:16AM +0100, gurukool wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know of better pricing for secure certificates - new & renewals.
> Trying to find more options other than BT Ignite
>...
RE: FN-FORUM thought
date posted 27th September 2001 08:58
>>When I took over the website, it was set up with Active Server Pages,
>>unfortunately, setting up this way gives a very LOW profile on the
internet
>>in fact the way the website was first set up, a...
RE: FN-FORUM secure certificate
date posted 27th September 2001 08:48
http://www.thawte.com
Regards
Matt
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RE: FN-FORUM TightBriefs question
date posted 27th September 2001 08:34
Good point well made.
Totally agree with you - there's still a lot of truth in the saying that
you get what you pay for - a potential client recently queried our
charges - I replied that "you may ge...
secure certificate
date posted 27th September 2001 08:15
Hi,
Does anyone know of better pricing for secure certificates - new & renewals.
Trying to find more options other than BT Ignite
http://www.ignite.com/application-services/products/international/e...
RE: FN-FORUM thought
date posted 27th September 2001 08:04
You say...
"if approached by a company like that i wouldnt even entertain the thought
of
increasing business for them that way"
...However SEO isn't about increasing business for the website design...
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Re: FN-FORUM thought
date posted 27th September 2001 06:56
do you EVER sleep?!!
Iain
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thought
date posted 27th September 2001 03:04
somebody the other day mentioned about cross referenceing this'n'that with
local towns for a bathroom company.
im trying to work out why since like 99.9999999% population if i require a
new bathroo...
Re: FN-FORUM Tight Briefs
date posted 27th September 2001 02:46
i suppose a sort of analogue are the farmers in the uk who get screwed by
the supermarkets (as opposed to those who screw the EU).
their prices have been driven down so much by market forces that th...
Re: FN-FORUM TightBriefs question
date posted 27th September 2001 02:17
good point darren
having reluctantly taken part on project management in the past i have to
agree from what i have seen that what tightbriefs does *isnt* PM and more
like an agency.
if tightbriefs...
Re: FN-FORUM pricing
date posted 27th September 2001 01:54
Usually I know the clients site/setup well enough to use that as a reason
for not going elsewhere... someone else may find things they didn't expect
where I know what i have to deal with and hence my...
RE: FN-FORUM Tight Briefs
date posted 27th September 2001 01:38
> At the end of the day, it's all down to market forces. When the demand is
> low, people are going to be willing to work for peanuts. When
> things return
> to normal everyone will be busy again s...
Re: FN-FORUM Hosting question
date posted 27th September 2001 00:18
I agree. They don't take the piss when you screw up and have to cry for
help either. Now that's adding value (..wrote the server side divvie.)
Bob
> >>I think they give developers a free server t...
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