Freelancers Forum Messages on Saturday January 15th 2005
Re: FN-FORUM: Site Check
date posted 15th January 2005 23:27
On 15 Jan 2005, at 14:35, Dave Edwards wrote:
> Wow! I remember that model - the first 3 slot Mac - the prior Mac II
> and IIx models had 6 slots.
>
> Was that your first mac, Luke?
my second mac ;-...
Re: FN-FORUM: Advice and help please
date posted 15th January 2005 23:21
At 00:19 on Sunday, 16 Jan 2005, David wrote:
> I did mean word; and, how do you try it out as you're going along? The
> style sheet is not completed, so it wouldn't work; would-it?
please stop usin...
Re: FN-FORUM: Advice and help please
date posted 15th January 2005 23:18
I would recommend not to use Word - especially if you're trying to
write your own CSS. Word is a word processor, not web page editor.
Word will make it's own 'CSS' - if you try to change that, you'll...
RE: FN-FORUM: Advice and help please
date posted 15th January 2005 23:05
Hi Joe;
I did mean word; and, how do you try it out as you're going along? The
style sheet is not completed, so it wouldn't work; would-it?
Kind Regards
D.G
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Re: FN-FORUM: outburst
date posted 15th January 2005 22:58
At 23:32 on Saturday, 15 Jan 2005, Dave Edwards wrote:
>
> On 15 Jan 2005 19:36:09 -0000, Alex Beston [EMAIL REMOVED]
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Noticed from reading the daily BNM, that Lloyd was bra...
Re: FN-FORUM: Advice and help please
date posted 15th January 2005 22:56
At 23:28 on Saturday, 15 Jan 2005, David wrote:
>
> Hi Andy;
>
> This is what I've done so far:
>
> padding:'padding-top'0px 'padding-right'2px 'padding-bottom'0px
> 'padding-left'2px;
> margin:'mar...
Re: FN-FORUM: Advice and help please
date posted 15th January 2005 22:33
On 15 Jan 2005 23:28:29 -0000, David [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> This is what I've done so far:
[snip!]
> I won't know if I'm right until I get to the end, that's my problem with
> css. I work on what I...
Re: FN-FORUM: outburst
date posted 15th January 2005 22:19
On 15 Jan 2005 19:36:09 -0000, Alex Beston [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Noticed from reading the daily BNM, that Lloyd was brave enough to point
> something out.
>
> It concerns:
>
> http://...
RE: FN-FORUM: Advice and help please
date posted 15th January 2005 22:14
Hi Andy;
This is what I've done so far:
/* CSS Document */
body{
background:
background-image:url(http://www.linkhomes2000.co.uk/main/graphics/bg/bg_
link_fole_00_11_new_11.gif);
font-family:Arial,...
RE: FN-FORUM: Advice and help please
date posted 15th January 2005 21:45
O.K I see; but anything is easy, if-you-know-how. I just struggle with
layout using css. It just never renders the right way, in any browser;
and, that=92s before I up-load it to the web.
Kind Regard...
Re: FN-FORUM: .NET & COM
date posted 15th January 2005 20:15
Hello Damon,
The client has already looked sharepoint portal server and decided that it
was not adequate for their needs and have opted for the bespoke option
instead. I think this is mainly due to h...
RE: FN-FORUM: .NET & COM
date posted 15th January 2005 19:50
Hi John
Just been catching up on this thread.=20
From what I have read the message queue / separate service is the best =
idea
but does the client have the budget to run to installing Sharepoint =
s...
RE: FN-FORUM: Advice and help please
date posted 15th January 2005 18:47
Css tends to be used in 2 stages.
Firsly there's replaceing things like and tags and
similar graphical things and stuff like changing border colours of stuff
- things that you can't do with standar...
Re: FN-FORUM: Starting out as a freelancer
date posted 15th January 2005 18:39
> Just a quick query. Is there any problem with listing sites I did when I
> wasn't a freelancer (employed by a design agency) on my online portfolio?
Get permission from your employer at the time an...
FN-FORUM: Starting out as a freelancer
date posted 15th January 2005 18:31
Hi There,
Just a quick query. Is there any problem with listing sites I did when I
wasn't a freelancer (employed by a design agency) on my online portfolio?
Just wondering what you guys think. I'd p...
Re: FN-FORUM: Advice and help please
date posted 15th January 2005 18:28
But CSS is sooooooo much easer that all that font rubbish (and I'm not a web
person at all). You'll probably find it useful to put in a doctype too.
Firstly so you can see if you code is valid and sec...
Re: FN-FORUM: Advice and help please
date posted 15th January 2005 18:23
sylvia wrote:
>
> David wrote:
>
>> dreaded css
>
> dreaded?? uh?
>
yeah: DCSS
Its, like, real Dangerous.
Fear It.
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Business Director
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Tel: 01273 691234
Room 32, Level...
Re: FN-FORUM: RegEx help
date posted 15th January 2005 18:23
What language are you working with?
In PHP, this seems to work:
if(ereg("^C:\\\+","C:\asdf")){
echo "yes";
}else{
echo "no";
}
So you could just loop through each variable. Basically the pattern...
FN-FORUM: outburst
date posted 15th January 2005 18:22
Hi,
Noticed from reading the daily BNM, that Lloyd was brave enough to point
something out.
It concerns:
http://brightonnewmedia.org/archives/2005-January/069923.html
What is this about and do I...
Re: FN-FORUM: Advice and help please
date posted 15th January 2005 18:01
David wrote:
> dreaded css
dreaded?? uh?...
Re: FN-FORUM: RegEx help
date posted 15th January 2005 17:49
At 18:41 on Saturday, 15 Jan 2005, Rob Hull wrote:
>
> Ok, I know next to nothing about regular expressions. I tried looking on
> google and that didn't help me.
>
> I need a regEx to find all lines...
Re: FN-FORUM: Advice and help please
date posted 15th January 2005 17:44
At 18:30 on Saturday, 15 Jan 2005, Darren Seamark wrote:
>
> "I just hate css."
>
> Does not compute!
>
>
> "Designing with Web standards" by Jeffrey Zeldman. V good book. You
> wont
> learn CSS...
FN-FORUM: RegEx help
date posted 15th January 2005 17:27
Ok, I know next to nothing about regular expressions. I tried looking on
google and that didn't help me.
I need a regEx to find all lines in a text file that don't start with "C:\"
Is it possible?...
RE: FN-FORUM: Advice and help please
date posted 15th January 2005 17:16
"I just hate css."
Does not compute!
"Designing with Web standards" by Jeffrey Zeldman. V good book. You wont
learn CSS from it but it will at least turn your hatred into luurve! :)
-----O...
RE: FN-FORUM: Advice and help please
date posted 15th January 2005 17:12
Thanks Guys;
You may not believe it; but there is a company selling three and four
page sites worse than this page; I know that for fact. So now it=92s the
dreaded css for me, at the moment anyway, I...
Re: FN-FORUM: Off for a while..
date posted 15th January 2005 16:47
Dave Edwards wrote:
> On 15 Jan 2005 13:34:21 -0000, Aaron Brailsford [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>>Right, off to Norway I go ;)
> Do you like sheep's head and chips?
Or Reindeers - yummy! ;)
Cheers,
Ric...
RE: FN-FORUM: OT - frustration
date posted 15th January 2005 16:29
That was tough!!
Managed to do it after all, but only after trying ten thousand times :P
susan
susan.engel
graphic.design
www.susanengel.co.uk
www.twinsolutions.co.uk
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Re: FN-FORUM: Time Management
date posted 15th January 2005 15:26
hugh wrote:
> I know this topic has come up before,
>
Not a simple solution but one more techy people might be interested in
is never losing things again and having access to them where ever you...
FN-FORUM: Over 35's Dinner in London in Aid of Asia Charities
date posted 15th January 2005 14:48
I'm helping host an over 35's Dinner Party on Tuesday 18th Jan - all
profits are going to Charity for the Asia Disaster, email me if you want
more information - it will be held in Covent Garden at 8...
RE: FN-FORUM: Advice and help please
date posted 15th January 2005 14:45
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Macnaughton-Jones [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Sent: 15 January 2005 15:36
> To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: Advice and help please
>
> Phew,...
Re: FN-FORUM: .NET & COM
date posted 15th January 2005 14:43
yes thats an interesting idea.=20
when the request is made, you can make an object that points to the
word doc stored in the db and put the object in the message queue.
On 15 Jan 2005 14:32:55 -0000...
RE: FN-FORUM: OT - frustration
date posted 15th January 2005 14:33
Got it in the end. I had just proved it was impossible when I realised
I was not considering all the valid moves...is that the point of the
test, or just me being dense? ;)
TechnologyAngel
http://ww...
RE: FN-FORUM: Advice and help please
date posted 15th January 2005 14:22
Phew, where to begin...
Javascript in main body rather than external script files
Table Based Layout
Javascript Driven Menus
Very inaccessibile
I'm not a designer so I shant comment aboutthing li...
Re: FN-FORUM: Off for a while..
date posted 15th January 2005 14:18
Aaron Brailsford wrote:
> Right, off to Norway I go ;)
Good luck, Grandad :)
--
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FN-FORUM: Advice and help please
date posted 15th January 2005 14:04
Hi all;
=20
Could someone have a look here: http://www.linkhomes2000.co.uk. I have
just started; trying to build a freelance career; and, need a site to
show to prospective clients.
=20
At presen...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site Check
date posted 15th January 2005 13:22
On 15 Jan 2005 14:16:42 -0000, Luke Perman [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> On 15 Jan 2005, at 13:43, Dave Edwards wrote:
>
> > I was thinking of slicing up an Apple ...
>
> i've got an old IIcx here tha...
Re: FN-FORUM: .NET & COM
date posted 15th January 2005 13:18
Could you not have a service running and dump the request to the message
queue and deal with them one at a time so you would only have one instance
of word running rather than gobbling up loads of mem...
RE: FN-FORUM: OT - frustration
date posted 15th January 2005 13:11
Damn it
This is going to be addictive..
Got to 3 on my first attempt...
Nicola
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Sent: 15 January 2005 13:23...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site Check
date posted 15th January 2005 13:03
On 15 Jan 2005, at 13:43, Dave Edwards wrote:
> I was thinking of slicing up an Apple ...
i've got an old IIcx here that isn't doing much ;-)
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t. +44 (0) 870 930 2843
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Re: FN-FORUM: Off for a while..
date posted 15th January 2005 12:39
On 15 Jan 2005 13:34:21 -0000, Aaron Brailsford [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Right, off to Norway I go ;)
>
Do you like sheep's head and chips?
--
http://www.m4mac.com
Help, Troubleshooting, Coaching...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site Check
date posted 15th January 2005 12:30
On 15 Jan 2005 13:24:12 -0000, Luke Perman [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> On 15 Jan 2005, at 09:52, Emma Davis wrote:
>
> > Since looking at John's site and reading his thoughts behind it I am
> > wonde...
Re: FN-FORUM: OT - frustration
date posted 15th January 2005 12:26
On 15 Jan 2005 13:22:54 -0000, Tony Crockford [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Ripley's game.
>
> i can get down to two.
>
> how about you?
>
> http://www.ripleys.com/games/iq.html
So Tony, how many at...
Re: FN-FORUM: Off for a while..
date posted 15th January 2005 12:26
At 13:34 on Saturday, 15 Jan 2005, Aaron Brailsford wrote:
>
> Right, off to Norway I go ;)
good luck mate.
go easy on the ice cold schnapps and don't sit in saunas with strange
looking women.......
Re: FN-FORUM: OT - frustration
date posted 15th January 2005 12:25
I did it! :)
Nothing better to do. :(
Screenshot to prove it! ;-)
On 15 Jan 2005 13:23:12 -0000, Tony Crockford [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Ripley's game.
>
> i can get down to two.
>
> how about yo...
FN-FORUM: Off for a while..
date posted 15th January 2005 12:20
Right, off to Norway I go ;)
Staying subbed though so you can't talk about me behind my back ;P
Be good (like that'll happen ;))
Aaron...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site Check
date posted 15th January 2005 12:10
On 15 Jan 2005, at 09:52, Emma Davis wrote:
> Since looking at John's site and reading his thoughts behind it I am
> wondering if I can go along the lines of fresh vegetables as they also
> can loo...
FN-FORUM: OT - frustration
date posted 15th January 2005 12:09
Ripley's game.
i can get down to two.
how about you?
http://www.ripleys.com/games/iq.html
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RE: FN-FORUM: .NET & COM
date posted 15th January 2005 11:48
Yes, but the additional instances of the application wouldn't load =
additional objects into memory, just the information for them. Unless =
you specifically loaded the additional librarys into their...
Re: FN-FORUM: .NET & COM
date posted 15th January 2005 11:36
it will create an instance for each time Word is instantiated by the code
ApplicationClass WordApp =3D new ApplicationClass();
it could be avoided if one ApplicationClass instance is created and
s...
RE: FN-FORUM: .NET & COM
date posted 15th January 2005 10:38
Would it create a memory instance of word each time ? If it was
instanciated as an object then only the data for the document (and
associated object data) would be created, the actual application woul...
Re: FN-FORUM: .NET & COM
date posted 15th January 2005 09:37
Since it will run on a webserver, two or more people will be running
the code at the same time.
the code will create a memory instance of Word every time the code is run.
the instance should be releas...
RE: FN-FORUM: .NET & COM
date posted 15th January 2005 09:22
>>>I don't have any examples but, the code will be similar to doing it on a
client machine....
Re: FN-FORUM: Site Check
date posted 15th January 2005 08:39
Absolutely brilliant idea.
You have just described exactly what I have been doing for the past couple
of years and as I come from more of a design background (i.e. not coding
design but lines and c...
Re: FN-FORUM: .NET & COM
date posted 15th January 2005 00:32
I will most likely be using Word 10 (Office XP) to do this rather than 2003
as this is what the client has at the moment. Thanks for the info and help
Best Regards
John
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Re: FN-FORUM: 3D scanning
date posted 15th January 2005 00:29
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? :s
>From: zogthedoomed [EMAIL REMOVED]
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>Date: 15 Jan 2005 0...
Re: FN-FORUM: 3D scanning
date posted 15th January 2005 00:25
I'm breathing a huge sigh of relief I can tell you!
>Also, everyone likes to think that they are not the daftest on the list
>:-) :-[
>...