Freelancers Forum Messages on Wednesday June 26th 2002
Re: FN-FORUM Frightening or what?
date posted 26th June 2002 23:49
Sherry wrote:
> I suppose the advantage I have is that most people are not interested in the
> adult business market and so the clients I deal with tend to be
> well-educated in terms of what they wa...
Re: FN-FORUM Frightening or what?
date posted 26th June 2002 23:02
I have run into similar issues with designing websites for the adult
market. Lots of people think they can do better, cheaper and use stock or
free pictures and the punters will keep coming back. T...
RE: FN-FORUM Google
date posted 26th June 2002 22:34
Agreed Mike looking good here too, nailed some top slots for terms with all
our local counties in them. We're on the border or Surrey, Middlesex, Hants
and Berks.
Try http://google-dance.miniunterneh...
FN-FORUM Survival
date posted 26th June 2002 21:52
Hi Martin
Er, um, in my humble opinion, you make your own luck. "The harder I
work, the luckier I get....." (or "The smarter I work ...."
It was gratifying to see the response from one fellow freela...
RE: FN-FORUM cleaning up hand drawn scans
date posted 26th June 2002 21:33
Paint Shop Pro is quite good for that sort of thing -you can use the
eraser tool to 'rub out' what you don't want or if there are particular
colours you want rid of you can edit the palette. You can...
cleaning up hand drawn scans
date posted 26th June 2002 20:56
can anyone recommend something to clear up scanned in drawings? hand drawn
ones that is, basically i want to remove the perspective lines from faces,
etc. before i add colours, clothes, hair etc....
Re: FN-FORUM how to create chrome - sorry need to edit b4 posting
date posted 26th June 2002 20:54
Ade(funkyfish) wrote a load of crap:
> That looks like the normal chrome action but they have then "equalized"
> the resulting rasterised layer and added an adjustment layer above that
> one...
I...
Re: Video Codecs
date posted 26th June 2002 20:53
cheers for that - i couldnt find anything in properties about its codec, but
using kathys suggestion i found it was a divx one....
FN-FORUM how to create chrome
date posted 26th June 2002 20:29
Hi all,
Anyone no how to create chrome graphics like this www.whoswe.com
The photoshop filter is a bit lame any ideas please?...
Re: FN-FORUM Frightening or what? - in response to several different threads..
date posted 26th June 2002 20:26
Ray McGinty wrote:
>>>This organisation suggesting you invest in the web equivalent of a Lada is
>>>the one set up by the government to encourage effective use of the
>>>internet. Wonderful.
>>
>
> I...
Re: FN-FORUM how to create chrome
date posted 26th June 2002 20:04
phil radford wrote:
> Hi all,
> Im trying to create some chrome effects but the filter in photoshop is
> not really good enough.
> I want it to be like www.whoswe.com
> They have really cracked the...
RE: FN-FORUM how to create chrome
date posted 26th June 2002 20:01
Yep - that's definitely a 3D Studio render. Best chrome filter I've
encountered is the one in AutoFX Dreamsuite,
Hutch
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RE: FN-FORUM Google
date posted 26th June 2002 19:51
Right in the update now mate, try www2 and www3 for the other db's, good
luck with your listings... looking sweet here
Mike
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Anyone fancy a quick job?
date posted 26th June 2002 19:48
Hello Freelancers,
We're looking for someone to built a one-page template page for a site for a
new business arm we're thinking about launching. I'm going to do all the
site building / HTML stuff mys...
Re: FN-FORUM Frightening or what?
date posted 26th June 2002 19:13
Where are you based, Ray?
Kathy
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Re: FN-FORUM how to create chrome
date posted 26th June 2002 19:08
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FN-FORUM how to create chrome
date posted 26th June 2002 19:04
Hi all,
Im trying to create some chrome effects but the filter in photoshop is not really good enough.
I want it to be like www.whoswe.com...
Google
date posted 26th June 2002 19:04
Guys / Gals
Anyone notice if any of their sites have changed lately on Google? it seems
to be doing an update but its just taking ages..Ian..Mike?
Best Regards
D Thomas
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Re: FN-FORUM Frightening or what?
date posted 26th June 2002 18:59
it's a real rip off - J60/hour for job like that.
Vadim.
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Re: FN-FORUM Frightening or what?
date posted 26th June 2002 18:21
>> This organisation suggesting you invest in the web equivalent of a Lada is
>> the one set up by the government to encourage effective use of the
>> internet. Wonderful.
I find the whole thing depr...
Re: FN-FORUM Survival
date posted 26th June 2002 17:58
I hope you've been completing a self-assessment tax return and paying the
correct amount of tax and NI while taking the bread from the mouths of those
of us who are trying to make a living here.
Kath...
RE: FN-FORUM Frightening or what?
date posted 26th June 2002 17:58
Paul,
Quite frankly I think the way people from Tunbridge Wells are represented
and continual whingers is quite disgusting! I myself live in Tunbridge Wells
and can attest that it is filled with amia...
Re: FN-FORUM PWS QUESTION
date posted 26th June 2002 17:55
BTW You don't need Frontpage extensions to make PWS work or ASP or IIS. The
best one I had was when someone had named her PC "12" or something similar,
which, of course, is not a legal name and PWS th...
RE: FN-FORUM Survival
date posted 26th June 2002 17:20
There's no doubt that there's a considerable amount of luck involved in
it - but with some hard work it's possible to do very nicely out of
freelance work. Forge ties with other companies - offering y...
RE: FN-FORUM Survival
date posted 26th June 2002 17:17
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RE: FN-FORUM Outdoor pool - was Frightening or what?
date posted 26th June 2002 16:59
Check it out - best £99 I ever spent
http://www.toysrus.co.uk/product_detail.jsp?lp_uid=TU533&bos_uid=2670&si
d=1387091920&kick=-1253414191&nextpage=search_display.jsp
Hutch
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Survival
date posted 26th June 2002 16:55
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Hi all,
Just a quick mail re...
Setting Up
date posted 26th June 2002 16:47
I have just finished university and would really like to set myself us as a
freelance designer, however there are 2 (Big) problems with this:
1. I need more training on general I.T. knowledge and pa...
Re: FN-FORUM Frightening or what?
date posted 26th June 2002 16:43
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Now that is frightening :-))
>
>
>*Hutch mutters something about ha...
RE: FN-FORUM Frightening or what?
date posted 26th June 2002 16:36
What's most amusing is that they've managed to produce a site that looks
even shittier than a Frontpage template, which they could have added
their text to in about one minute flat. Even the photo loo...
Re: FN-FORUM Frightening or what?
date posted 26th June 2002 16:32
> This organisation suggesting you invest in the web equivalent of a Lada is
> the one set up by the government to encourage effective use of the
> internet. Wonderful.
>
Is that right? It is so crap!...
RE: FN-FORUM PWS QUESTION
date posted 26th June 2002 16:27
Hi Pam
Have you tried inserting a link to a virtual directory on your default web
site?
If your test site is in a different directory rightclick on your default
website set up by PWS and add a new vir...
Re: FN-FORUM Frightening or what?
date posted 26th June 2002 16:11
>Where?
Outside my office doors... But I cant find the keys!
Argh!
vav
(Im in Bristol at the mo!)
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Re: FN-FORUM Frightening or what?
date posted 26th June 2002 16:10
>> I wish someone would pay me 10 quid for 10 minutes crap work!
> £10 is way too much for a site like that
Ah, but they paid nothing for the human resource expended in producing
that c^r^a^masterp...
Re: FN-FORUM Frightening or what?
date posted 26th June 2002 15:58
Actually they're paying you £2.75 for ten minutes work (£7.25 reg. fee) -
but even the £10 doesn't add up. Doesn't Webplus cost $40-$50? And that ten
minutes is assuming you've already got the lo...
Re: FN-FORUM Frightening or what?
date posted 26th June 2002 15:56
> I wish someone would pay me 10 quid for 10 minutes crap work!
>
I've just saved myself £90 odd for 5 mins work - mending our tenant's
boiler. I think we're in the wrong business, plumbing is easy a...
Re: FN-FORUM Frightening or what?
date posted 26th June 2002 15:53
Quoting Ema [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > Cheer up Ade, the sun is shining!
>
> Where?
Here in Wokingham it's been lovely all day. Took the Ducati over
Newbury to pick up the documentation for another bike t...
Re: FN-FORUM Frightening or what?
date posted 26th June 2002 15:45
> Cheer up Ade, the sun is shining!
Where?
Em
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Re: FN-FORUM Frightening or what?
date posted 26th June 2002 15:34
Cheer up Ade, the sun is shining!
Ah... We are stuck behind our computer screens...
oops!
;D
vav
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RE: FN-FORUM Frightening or what?
date posted 26th June 2002 15:33
You can include my name on that :D the thought crossed my mind too, but
I decided to air my comments to you guys instead. Maybe we ought to ask
for a quote, bet it comes in higher than £10!!!! (oh wh...
Re: FN-FORUM Frightening or what?
date posted 26th June 2002 15:30
Lol, really?
Id rather be paid £10 for ten minutes of quality work... over and over
again!
1hour = £60 1 day = £480
1week = £2400
1 year = happy! ;D
vav
(dont think that id get many replies fr...
FN-FORUM Frightening or what?
date posted 26th June 2002 15:30
> I wish someone would pay me 10 quid for 10 minutes crap work!
>
> Kathy
£10 is way too much for a site like that
Joe...
Frontpage re-writes code
date posted 26th June 2002 15:26
Hi all,
The company I am working for are using Frontpage 98, is there anyway to stop it from
rewriting/formating the code or is it a case of just except it
Cheers
Mark...
RE: FN-FORUM Frightening or what?
date posted 26th June 2002 15:21
Not really, what business is he selling? It's obviously not webdesign!
;o)
Matt Keeble
www.keebleconsulting.com
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Re: FN-FORUM Frightening or what?
date posted 26th June 2002 15:06
Ema wrote:
> The 10 Minute £10 Website...
> www.1010website.co.uk/
>
> Em
> --
> www.bw3.co.uk
That's a terrible web-site...
It reminds me of the problems I have in Cumbria/Lancashire. "No, we can...
Re: FN-FORUM Frightening or what?
date posted 26th June 2002 15:04
I wish someone would pay me 10 quid for 10 minutes crap work!
Kathy
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RE: FN-FORUM Where are all the hosting guys?
date posted 26th June 2002 14:59
1749 now!
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Re: FN-FORUM Where are all the hosting guys?
date posted 26th June 2002 14:57
Hi John
I would be able to provide this hosting for £100 pa. The server is W2K /
IIS 5 so you'd be using ASP 3.0 with full support for Access (and CDO if you
need to generate emails). There are...
Re: FN-FORUM Where are all the hosting guys?
date posted 26th June 2002 14:54
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Thanks guys I'll be picking from the two best quotes using the standar...
Re: FN-FORUM Where are all the hosting guys?
date posted 26th June 2002 14:44
Bloody hell it's the hosting auction...
Don't ya think it would be nice for the rest of us to send your quotes
off-list?
ta
ade
1748 e-mails today and counting....
--
chief druid and fish-frier...
RE: FN-FORUM Where are all the hosting guys?
date posted 26th June 2002 14:36
> Fatfriar ProductionsDon't you just hate it when people don't
> read questions properly before jumping in!!
I can offer coldfusion hosting if you want it :)
regards
Andrew M
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Frightening or what?
date posted 26th June 2002 14:35
The 10 Minute £10 Website...
www.1010website.co.uk/
Em
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Content Writers
date posted 26th June 2002 14:28
Thanks to everyone who responded about the content writing I posted the
other day, sorry if I haven't responded to everyone individually as there
were quite a few but details have been passed onto the...
RE: FN-FORUM Where are all the hosting guys?
date posted 26th June 2002 14:19
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RE: FN-FORUM Where are all the hosting guys?
date posted 26th June 2002 14:12
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Re: FN-FORUM Where are all the hosting guys?
date posted 26th June 2002 14:05
Fatfriar ProductionsDon't you just hate it when people don't read questions
properly before jumping in!!
C.
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Re: FN-FORUM Where are all the hosting guys?
date posted 26th June 2002 14:04
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Re: FN-FORUM Where are all the hosting guys?
date posted 26th June 2002 13:50
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Re: FN-FORUM Where are all the hosting guys?
date posted 26th June 2002 13:30
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Simon,
does that include access/ASP support?
John
Simon Osborn wr...
Re: FN-FORUM Where are all the hosting guys?
date posted 26th June 2002 12:53
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RE: FN-FORUM restricting users on apache
date posted 26th June 2002 11:34
Hi Robin,
Are you on *nix or win?
In httpd.conf on *nix Apache has a parameter called "MaxClients" - set
that to whatever you need. The default is 150. Not sure how you would
give the "too busy" war...
RE: FN-FORUM Where are all the hosting guys? - [OT]
date posted 26th June 2002 11:05
Woops, sorry about sending that to the list guys.
Norman (bows his head in shame)...
RE: FN-FORUM Where are all the hosting guys?
date posted 26th June 2002 11:03
Hi John
Sounds like our basic hosting is the one for you. It's ?99 pa and gives
you a site hosted on an IIS5 machine. The hosting includes Blatmail,
CDONTS, JMail mail components and access to raw...
Where are all the hosting guys?
date posted 26th June 2002 10:49
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Guys,
I have a client wanting a quote to host a garage site, 5-10 meg...
Re: FN-FORUM CSS length units
date posted 26th June 2002 10:45
> I use a mix.
> % for article text, and pt for printable pages. % for "lineheight".
> For everything else I use px.
> But anyway, if I was using verdana I'd go for px, because verdana is a
> 'screen...
RE: FN-FORUM SEO Consultants Directory
date posted 26th June 2002 10:44
I am already in it, thanks anyway Em
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Re: FN-FORUM CSS length units
date posted 26th June 2002 10:18
Hi Marion,
I use a mix.
% for article text, and pt for printable pages. % for "lineheight".
For everything else I use px.
But anyway, if I was using verdana I'd go for px, because verdana is a
'scr...
SEO Consultants Directory
date posted 26th June 2002 10:18
Thought this may interest some:
SEO Consultants Directory - Find Search Engine Optimization Companies...
www.seoconsultants.com/
Em
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restricting users on apache
date posted 26th June 2002 10:09
Hi all,
I have a small freebsd server running apache and bind 9. Its getting hit
hard today owing to the launch of a new site, how could I restrict the
number on concurrent users, and redirect users...
Domain Name Search Tool
date posted 26th June 2002 10:01
Just found another nifty domain name search tool - freeware too.
http://www.mozzle.com/overview.htm - tick the domains you want to
search on, enter your search phrase and hit the button. Very nifty,...
Re: FN-FORUM SEO
date posted 26th June 2002 09:18
Don't forget to set your bg colours!
Em
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Could you have a peek at www.tamdesign.co.uk/lewiscobb search engine
ranking...
Re: FN-FORUM CSS length units
date posted 26th June 2002 09:03
I use px
Em
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RE: FN-FORUM CSS length units
date posted 26th June 2002 07:32
This is a bone of contention around web-designers methinks. The best
advice I found about lengths is basically avoid pt like the plague.
Check out www.richinstyle.com for some really helpful info abou...
RE: FN-FORUM CSS length units
date posted 26th June 2002 03:53
Marion,
Since you are targeting only one browser you can use what ever units
your little heart desires. However if you want to target Netscape as
well I would recommend using pt as that is the standa...
CSS length units
date posted 26th June 2002 01:08
What CSS length units are you lot using now? em, px, % or pt?
I can't decide which to go for where the font-family is
"Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" and the target browser
is Interne...
RE: FN-FORUM SEO
date posted 26th June 2002 00:02
www.tamdesign.co.uk/lewiscobb
Make sure you put a robots.txt file in the root dir on the final site.
See http://www.robotstxt.org/ for more info
HTH
regards
Andrew Mottershead
Web Developer
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