Freelancers Forum Messages on Saturday March 26th 2005
Re: Compression comparison, was Re: FN-FORUM: Site check please
date posted 26th March 2005 23:33
On 26 Mar 2005, at 23:16, Andy Warwick wrote:
> Here's my donation for tricky JPEG with lots of lines.
>
> http://homepage.mac.com/creed_nmd/.Pictures/laxey_wheel.png
And as follow-up, here's Photo...
Compression comparison, was Re: FN-FORUM: Site check please
date posted 26th March 2005 23:14
On 26 Mar 2005, at 22:43, Tony Crockford wrote:
> I think we should find some common images and all do our best
> optimisation and stick up for judging.
>
> we could link them from the wiki...
>
> a...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site check please
date posted 26th March 2005 23:09
Tony Crockford wrote:
>> Regular debate here - TC likes to recommend Ignite, for jpegs I
>> reckon Xat.com's optimiser is the best free/share solution, but I've
>> done my own tests, and rate Pho...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site check please
date posted 26th March 2005 22:41
At 22:38 on Saturday, 26 Mar 2005, Paul J White wrote:
>
> Catherine Hutchinson wrote:
>>> I used Photoshop CS's Save For Web, and optimised with that; I don't
>>> have Fireworks, so don't know if...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site check please
date posted 26th March 2005 22:34
Catherine Hutchinson wrote:
>>I used Photoshop CS's Save For Web, and optimised with that; I don't have
>>Fireworks, so don't know if that would do a better job.
>
>
> Yes I use photoshop CS too bu...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site check please
date posted 26th March 2005 21:59
> I used Photoshop CS's Save For Web, and optimised with that; I don't have
> Fireworks, so don't know if that would do a better job.
Yes I use photoshop CS too but if the pics are too big I often o...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site check please
date posted 26th March 2005 21:28
On 26 Mar 2005, at 19:18, Catherine Hutchinson wrote:
>
>> That's odd; IE 6.0.blah on Win XP is my standard test platform, and
>> I'm
>> not seeing that at all. Can you describe these white images a...
RE: FN-FORUM: SWISHmax
date posted 26th March 2005 21:24
> ...SWISH looks a lot easier to
> use than Flash
> > and a lot cheaper but is it as good/producing acceptable
> results within this
> > industry? Are there any downsides of using this alternative...
Re: FN-FORUM: quick site check
date posted 26th March 2005 21:18
> When I look at the site the drop down menu's on the left are transparent
> at first and very dificult to read the sub sections, then when you
> roll-over the background changes in the submenu to the...
FN-FORUM: CSS problem
date posted 26th March 2005 21:00
When I started freelancing a year ago I knocked out a quick website for
myself, since then I've grown rather fond of it.
I'm planning on updating it to use XHTML soon, but in the mean time a
problem...
FN-FORUM: a free, no obligation, online tax clinic.
date posted 26th March 2005 20:54
Can't recommend it from experience but it may be useful...
http://www.mmi-online.co.uk/help/
"This is a free, no obligation, online tax clinic. If you have any
questions regarding income tax, capit...
Re: FN-FORUM: cpc4-shep4-3-0-cust226.leic.cable.ntl.com
date posted 26th March 2005 19:52
>>God I hate being on NTL :-(
>>
>>
>
>Why not move provider? I don't know many places that can get cable but
>not get ADSL.
>
>G
>
>
>
That would involve paying for a phone line I don't need!...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site check please
date posted 26th March 2005 19:24
Every visit to the page in my case.
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Re: FN-FORUM: Site check please
date posted 26th March 2005 19:16
> That's odd; IE 6.0.blah on Win XP is my standard test platform, and I'm
> not seeing that at all. Can you describe these white images a little more
> (or, even better, get screen shots)?
Maybe it...
Re: FN-FORUM: quick site check
date posted 26th March 2005 19:15
>
> No such effect here (Mozilla 1.7)- though I should point out that the
> image
> for "electronics" is *very* blurry; I'd re-do it if possible.
> --
LOL - that's design! I have just put the code t...
RE: FN-FORUM: Clients that won't give you information
date posted 26th March 2005 19:07
If you didn't refund the money could they not argue that they wanted you
to then start up again once they'd finally decided. I don't want to get
into any legal shennanigans about "well you've got our...
RE: FN-FORUM: cpc4-shep4-3-0-cust226.leic.cable.ntl.com
date posted 26th March 2005 18:09
> That's because NTL have these wonderful proxy's all your=20
> internet traffic go through...
> God I hate being on NTL :-(
Why not move provider? I don't know many places that can get cable but
not...
Re: FN-FORUM: cpc4-shep4-3-0-cust226.leic.cable.ntl.com
date posted 26th March 2005 17:18
> Sorry - it's me. I checked my pc + laptop last time you mentioned,
> and everything was clean (also checked whatismyip.com and the IP
> didn't match - I've just found that the IP it reports is b...
Re: FN-FORUM: cpc4-shep4-3-0-cust226.leic.cable.ntl.com
date posted 26th March 2005 17:13
Rachel Graves wrote:
>
> Is still sending out spoofed viruses...
>
> "I found this document about you.
>
> ++++ Attachment: No Virus found
> ++++ F-Secure AntiVirus - www.f-secure.com"
>
> Scanned...
Re: FN-FORUM: Cold calling advice
date posted 26th March 2005 17:12
dude you need to sort you website out, before you even think about picking
up the phone.
Also you may want to consider working within a freelance team! There are
some people who can sell and some pe...
FN-FORUM: cpc4-shep4-3-0-cust226.leic.cable.ntl.com
date posted 26th March 2005 15:44
Is still sending out spoofed viruses...
"I found this document about you.
++++ Attachment: No Virus found
++++ F-Secure AntiVirus - www.f-secure.com"
Scanned by F-Secure... Yeah Right...
--
Rach...
Re: FN-FORUM: SWISHmax
date posted 26th March 2005 14:38
On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 14:27 +0000, Kirsten Hintner wrote:
>
> I don't do a large amount of web design work, mostly video production but I
> have been asked by a new client recently to produce flash m...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site check please
date posted 26th March 2005 14:36
why not preloaded them, if you use dw I think you can preload some
images, so preload your menu and then you wil just loose like 1 sec but
your site will show up properly no white part. Just an idea...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site check please
date posted 26th March 2005 14:32
well I guess we sorted your site out
Maybe Thomas need help now :)
Want help too ?
Jerome
On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 14:20 +0000, Thomas Design wrote:
> It was every page because I'm having the same prob...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site check please
date posted 26th March 2005 14:30
Strange, that doesn't happen on IE6 with Win2k.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Kathy
http://www.vendetta.co.uk
+44(0)7005 982 261
DNRC Minister for Usefu...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site check please
date posted 26th March 2005 14:24
On 26 Mar 2005, at 14:19, Thomas Design wrote:
>
> It was every page because I'm having the same problem kind of with this
> site, I had it set to every page to try and figure it out,,
> http://www.t...
FN-FORUM: SWISHmax
date posted 26th March 2005 14:24
I don't do a large amount of web design work, mostly video production =
but I
have been asked by a new client recently to produce flash movies and
presentations.
Not knowing much about flash I downlo...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site check please
date posted 26th March 2005 14:17
It was every page because I'm having the same problem kind of with this
site, I had it set to every page to try and figure it out,,
http://www.thomas-design.co.uk/ymcadev/
Thats flashing the backgro...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site check please
date posted 26th March 2005 14:10
On 26 Mar 2005, at 14:07, Thomas Design wrote:
> Yep fine here now Andy, you probably fixed it by putting the images in
> the
> li styles
Actually I did that at around 1am (damn, I need a life...)...
Re: FN-FORUM: Can't send (Was Clients that won't give you information)
date posted 26th March 2005 14:09
Are you typing the address form scratch or using an address book entry?
There may be a space before the address or it is actually trying to send to...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site check please
date posted 26th March 2005 14:05
Yep fine here now Andy, you probably fixed it by putting the images in the
li styles
D Thomas
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Re: FN-FORUM: Site check please
date posted 26th March 2005 14:00
On 26 Mar 2005, at 12:42, eliphas wrote:
> A nice way to avoid the rollover problem would be to preload the
> images... then when you focus on them they are already there and you
> avoid the problem...
FN-FORUM: virus spoofing my domain FYI
date posted 26th March 2005 13:46
you may get an email pretending to be from [EMAIL REMOVED] and
containing a zip file with virus [EMAIL REMOVED]
in my case the header reads...
Received: from creative-cognition.co.uk
(cpc4-shep4-3...
Re: FN-FORUM: Clients that won't give you information
date posted 26th March 2005 13:27
O/T
Sorry to do this, but all my postings are being returned: Hi. This is the
qmail-send program at fnmail.co.uk.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is...
Re: FN-FORUM: Cold calling advice
date posted 26th March 2005 13:17
I have been going about things the wrong way by trying to sell programs,
or ideas for programs --like you say, people buy people. I'll have a go at
selling myself rather than trying to push "technolog...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site check please
date posted 26th March 2005 12:40
A nice way to avoid the rollover problem would be to preload the
images... then when you focus on them they are already there and you
avoid the problem of blank images
Have a good week-end.
JErome...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site check please
date posted 26th March 2005 11:39
It all looks okay from here using XP IE6, only the rollovers dont seem to be
working correctly, they kind of flash before showing the rollover image.
D Thomas
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Re: FN-FORUM: career advice!
date posted 26th March 2005 10:44
Hi Mark,
I do see something serious happening with it and I have something specific
in mind. The content and articles written will be the hook.
If yu are around later let me know your land line and...
Re: FN-FORUM: quick site check
date posted 26th March 2005 10:06
In freelance.forum, Catherine Hutchinson [EMAIL REMOVED]
(Catherine Hutchinson) wrote in [EMAIL REMOVED]
>
>What an idiot!!
>
>I've actually sent it to you off list for an entirely differen...
Re: FN-FORUM: career advice!
date posted 26th March 2005 10:02
In freelance.forum, [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED]
wrote in [EMAIL REMOVED]
>
>Without blurting a load of bollocks I want to put a domain together and
>would like to know if there are any of you gu...
Re: FN-FORUM: Clients that won't give you information
date posted 26th March 2005 09:58
In freelance.forum, Dai Williams [EMAIL REMOVED] (Dai Williams)
wrote in [EMAIL REMOVED]
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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On
>> Behalf Of Andy Macnaughton-...
Re: FN-FORUM: Totally free storage and bandwidth ...it says here :)
date posted 26th March 2005 02:41
brillant
Thanks
On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 02:05 +0000, rich wrote:
> http://ourmedia.org/
>
> cheers
> rich
>
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> Version: 7...
FN-FORUM: Totally free storage and bandwidth ...it says here :)
date posted 26th March 2005 02:02
http://ourmedia.org/
cheers
rich
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Re: FN-FORUM: Site check please
date posted 26th March 2005 01:39
On 26 Mar 2005, at 01:17, eliphas wrote:
>
> I don't know about IE but in forefox when we hold the mouse to click
> there is still the border around the image_link...
After a struggle with Google to...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site check please
date posted 26th March 2005 01:36
I am 100% for avaibility and the fact to put img {border:0;} in your css
doesn't affect the accessibility of your website ...
that's even w3c ... I am going to have a look to your AFAIK.
Jerome
On...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site check please
date posted 26th March 2005 01:25
On 26 Mar 2005, at 01:17, eliphas wrote:
>
> I don't know about IE but in forefox when we hold the mouse to click
> there is still the border around the image_link...
Ah, I see what you mean.
AFAIK...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site check please
date posted 26th March 2005 01:15
I don't know about IE but in forefox when we hold the mouse to click
there is still the border around the image_link...
which is a shame when we look at the quality of the website ... nice one
to hav...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site check please
date posted 26th March 2005 01:05
On 26 Mar 2005, at 01:03, eliphas wrote:
>
> Can you give the url to test again please?
Sure.
http://www.wharfhardwoods.co.uk/home.htm
Cheers
--
Andy Warwick
Creed New Media.
P.S. Can we kill c...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site check please
date posted 26th March 2005 01:01
Can you give the url to test again please?
On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 00:44 +0000, Andy Warwick wrote:
> On 25 Mar 2005, at 19:34, Catherine Hutchinson wrote:
>
> > I have some weirdness going on on the...
Re: FN-FORUM: What a day!
date posted 26th March 2005 00:43
On 26 Mar 2005, at 00:39, Luke Perman wrote:
>
> On 25 Mar 2005, at 19:20, Karl Bunyan wrote:
>
>>> just as well I have no clients.
>>
>> Now there's a glass half full attitude if ever I saw one.
>
>...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site check please
date posted 26th March 2005 00:41
On 25 Mar 2005, at 19:34, Catherine Hutchinson wrote:
> I have some weirdness going on on the left hand navigation - when I
> roll
> over products, about us and contact us before the leaf appears to...
Re: FN-FORUM: What a day!
date posted 26th March 2005 00:37
On 25 Mar 2005, at 19:20, Karl Bunyan wrote:
>> just as well I have no clients.
>
> Now there's a glass half full attitude if ever I saw one.
LOL...
so, how many ppl were actually working today? i...
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