Freelancers Forum Messages on Tuesday February 14th 2006
FW: FN-FORUM: Adds in the Paper? Was [how to quote for a job]
date posted 14th February 2006 23:34
Hi Andy,
I would say for a site just like my Pig Farmer one:
Site Design with Feedback Form/Contact Page: =A3550
Small CSS/Layers based Portfolio: =A3150
The site uses high quality images from my...
RE: FN-FORUM: Skype Free Minutes Skype Out
date posted 14th February 2006 22:59
Thanks Tony. 10 mins free skype out.=20
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Crockford
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 11:34 PM
To: Andy Macnaughton-Jon...
Re: FN-FORUM: Skype Free Minutes Skype Out
date posted 14th February 2006 22:57
Woohoo you rule!
Thanks!
Cy
On 14/2/06 23:33, "Tony Crockford" [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
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> http://www.skype.com/campaigns/freeskypedays/index_freeday.html
>
> ;o)
>
> be quick!
>
> --
> Join m...
FN-FORUM: Skype Free Minutes Skype Out
date posted 14th February 2006 22:53
http://www.skype.com/campaigns/freeskypedays/index_freeday.html
;o)
be quick!
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Engage me: http://...
Re: FN-FORUM: how to quote for a job
date posted 14th February 2006 22:05
On 14 Feb 2006 21:15:06 -0000, Andy Davidson [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 01:16:42PM -0000, Tony Crockford wrote:
> > and don't be surprised by the hostile responses, some peopl...
Re: FN-FORUM: windows vs linux mod_rewrites
date posted 14th February 2006 21:41
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 04:13:35PM -0000, Andy Creed wrote:
> For Linux this works
> RewriteRule ^category/(.[^/]*)/{0,1}$ /providers.html?name=$1
>
> Whereas for Windows this works
> RewriteRul...
Re: FN-FORUM: QMail and changing return-path for bounced messages.
date posted 14th February 2006 21:36
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 04:48:35PM -0000, Paul Robinson wrote:
> I don't want to turn this into a "my MTA is better than yours thread" but I
> use exim which has given me reliable service in sites...
Re: FN-FORUM: cost of domain names ... an interesting tale
date posted 14th February 2006 21:22
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 01:55:19PM -0000, Lee Fogarty wrote:
> My other half got a phone call last year from someone claiming to be from
> nominet. Apparently, someone was trying to register Sincla...
Re: FN-FORUM: Help each other, or poke fun and rip us off? [was Cheap SSL "lite"]
date posted 14th February 2006 21:12
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 05:40:14PM -0000, Alain Williams wrote:
> This is why the signing authorities can charge so much: most browers only have a
> number built in (poke through your browser config...
Re: FN-FORUM: Help each other, or poke fun and rip us off? [was Cheap SSL "lite"]
date posted 14th February 2006 21:10
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 09:43:36AM -0000, James Firth wrote:
> It would be quite useful to all of us if people in the forum looked to help
> each other out, as industry colleagues, rather than looki...
Re: FN-FORUM: how NOT to quote for a job
date posted 14th February 2006 20:50
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 05:46:25PM -0000, Andy Swarbrick wrote:
> For a young company wanting to know how to price itself, Ebay may not
> be a bad start.
Will be a sad day if clients use the figure...
RE: FN-FORUM: how to quote for a job
date posted 14th February 2006 20:48
> In the interests of a healthy debate ...
>
> This is not a view I share, because :
>
> - an increase in freelance tallent in the marketplace will make the
> concept of taking on freelancers mo...
Re: FN-FORUM: how to quote for a job
date posted 14th February 2006 20:35
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 01:16:42PM -0000, Tony Crockford wrote:
> and don't be surprised by the hostile responses, some people struggle
> to make ends meet and resent "new" freelancers for the compe...
FN-FORUM: Recruitment
date posted 14th February 2006 20:15
Any other suggestions to FREE and good recruitment site for bods in the
Creative Industry?
. . . oh yeah happy Valentines day!
Regards all,
James
James Cook
Director of Creativity
Adline 'Top...
Re: FN-FORUM: Ranger Suite?
date posted 14th February 2006 20:09
No idea. I think I might have used a very early predecessor when I worked
for the council. They ditched it as it caused too many problems, but that
was with win 3.11 and win 95. For Enterprise, mostly...
Re: FN-FORUM: windows vs linux mod_rewrites
date posted 14th February 2006 19:59
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 20:23, Matt Mitchell wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 February 2006 16:13, Andy Creed wrote:
> > For Linux this works
> > RewriteRule ^category/(.[^/]*)/{0,1}$ /providers.html?name=$...
Re: FN-FORUM: windows vs linux mod_rewrites
date posted 14th February 2006 19:43
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 16:13, Andy Creed wrote:
> For Linux this works
> RewriteRule ^category/(.[^/]*)/{0,1}$ /providers.html?name=$1
> Whereas for Windows this works
> RewriteRule ^category /...
Re: FN-FORUM: Ranger Suite?
date posted 14th February 2006 19:35
Can you do all of the security auditing etc that you can do in Ranger Suite
Best Regards
John...
Re: FN-FORUM: Ranger Suite?
date posted 14th February 2006 19:30
I just use group policy
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http://www.vendetta.co.uk
+44(0)7005 982 261
DNRC Minister for Useful but Irritating Informa...
FN-FORUM:
date posted 14th February 2006 18:39
Does any know of any decent Senior Designers looking for a Job in
Birmingham?
28k to 35K
Regards,
James
James Cook
Director of Creativity
Adline 'Top 100 Agency' 2005
Adline 'Top 100 Agency' 200...
FN-FORUM: Ranger Suite?
date posted 14th February 2006 18:26
Anybody ever used a product called Ranger Suite to lock down
workstations/networks etc? Was wondering what anybody thought of it
Best Regards
John...
Re: FN-FORUM: Photoshop problems
date posted 14th February 2006 17:57
Mike Duguid wrote:
> Might be worth monitoring the application initialisation using filemon
> with a filter of e.g C:\program files\adobe to see if there are any
> obvious problems there.
>
> On 14 Fe...
Re: FN-FORUM: Photoshop problems
date posted 14th February 2006 17:39
Might be worth monitoring the application initialisation using filemon
with a filter of e.g C:\program files\adobe to see if there are any
obvious problems there.
On 14 Feb 2006 13:52:09 -0000, Lists...
RE: FN-FORUM: windows vs linux mod_rewrites
date posted 14th February 2006 17:01
Hi Graham
The space is a typo. However the linux 'version' does not work on windows. I
am using the same browser and I have tried to turn the log on but apache
would not restart.
Andy
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FN-FORUM: WHO KNOWS MR KEVIN REID?
date posted 14th February 2006 16:57
he's american - anyone done any work for him?
please email me directly if you have done or are considering doing any work
for him.
thank you,
twelfty
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Re: FN-FORUM: Photoshop problems
date posted 14th February 2006 16:53
No need for downloading. We can get it off the CD or get the version from
the last security patch that altered it. PC stuff is not a problem for me,
it's just Photoshop I don't know.
He's done so man...
Re: FN-FORUM: Freelancer Docs
date posted 14th February 2006 16:52
On 14 Feb 2006 17:20:38 -0000, [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Hi There
>
> I can vaguely remember some free design based documentation for download,=
cover
> sheets, sign off sheets etc....
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date posted 14th February 2006 16:49
I think I missed the beginning of the problem sorry. What exactly are =
you
trying to achieve Max?
Stephen.
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'Max'...
Re: FN-FORUM: Photoshop problems
date posted 14th February 2006 16:46
Thanks. I'll try the drivers - BIOS is bang up-to-date. It's a brand new
machine and was fine when I installed it at Christmas. I've got one just the
same (but I don't use Photoshop). It's set to col...
Re: FN-FORUM: Cheap SSL "lite"
date posted 14th February 2006 16:44
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:48:50PM -0000, Dom Latter wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 Feb 2006 10:10 am, John Morrison wrote:
> > I'll do you one for ?50
> Why do SSL certificates cost so much (in general)...
Re: FN-FORUM: windows vs linux mod_rewrites
date posted 14th February 2006 16:41
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Andy Creed wrote:
> For Linux this works
>
> RewriteRule ^category/(.[^/]*)/{0,1}$ /providers.html?name=$1
>
> Whereas for Windows this works
>
> RewriteRule ^category /([^/\.]+)...
FN-FORUM: Freelancer Docs
date posted 14th February 2006 16:40
Hi There
I can vaguely remember some free design based documentation for download, cover
sheets, sign off sheets etc.
Can anyone point me in the right diretion??
TIA
Steph...
Re: FN-FORUM: QMail and changing return-path for bounced messages.
date posted 14th February 2006 16:08
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 04:12:46PM -0000, Graeme J Sweeney wrote:
> Ok, so it's not a Flash or CSS question :-)
Yay to you. :-)
> I send email messages on a shared server via SMTP. Bounced message...
FN-FORUM: windows vs linux mod_rewrites
date posted 14th February 2006 15:33
Hi
I am finding differences between windows and linux when it comes to Apache
mod_rewrites.
For Linux this works
RewriteRule ^category/(.[^/]*)/{0,1}$ /providers.html?name=$1
Whereas for Windows...
FN-FORUM: QMail and changing return-path for bounced messages.
date posted 14th February 2006 15:32
Ok, so it's not a Flash or CSS question :-)
I send email messages on a shared server via SMTP. Bounced messages
are going to the FROM adddress and I'd like to specify the recipient of
these at comp...
Re: FN-FORUM: OK - I'll pay for it =?ISO-8859-1?B?o6Oj?=
date posted 14th February 2006 15:01
Hi, Max
I haven't been concentrating hope I'm not to late.
In Flash you can use LoadVars to read Data from say a test file using pairs.
Email off list if you still need the job done...
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date posted 14th February 2006 14:55
Sorry Tom - this was meant to go to the list, what a day!!
Many thanks all.
Cheers,
Max.
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From: John 'Max' Maxwell [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: 14 February 2006 14:43
To: 'To...
Re: FN-FORUM: Drupal Knowledge..... ?
date posted 14th February 2006 14:33
Hi David,
A little while since you posted this, I realise, but I am sorting out
my site in Drupal at the moment. If you still have any issues, let me
know, and I may be able to help.
Cheers,
Leigh....
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date posted 14th February 2006 14:20
Thanks Catherine, I'll drop him a line.
Much appreciated.
Max AKA The Pig Farmer
www.thepigfarmer.co.uk
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: OK - I'll pay for it =A3=A3=A3
If you need a good flash contact you...
Re: FN-FORUM: ActionScript Developer needed.....
date posted 14th February 2006 14:15
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Alain Williams wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 02:36:02PM -0000, Darragh Mason wrote:
>>
>> please stop sending these forum pages to my e-mail, I get about 50 a day
>> and its...
RE: FN-FORUM: ActionScript Developer needed.....
date posted 14th February 2006 14:11
Click the link that looks like this then:...
Re: FN-FORUM: OK - I'll pay for it =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=A3=A3=A3?=
date posted 14th February 2006 14:08
If you need a good flash contact you could email Anthony Phillips
[EMAIL REMOVED] - he's just done some stuff for me, was very good
and very quick - cost £25 per hour but generally charges per proj...
Re: FN-FORUM: ActionScript Developer needed.....
date posted 14th February 2006 14:02
Darragh Mason wrote:
>
> please stop sending these forum pages to my e-mail, I get about 50 a day
> and its clogging up my account!!!
You'll find an unsubscribe link near the bottom of every messag...
Re: FN-FORUM: ActionScript Developer needed.....
date posted 14th February 2006 13:59
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 02:36:02PM -0000, Darragh Mason wrote:
>
> please stop sending these forum pages to my e-mail, I get about 50 a day
> and its clogging up my account!!!
USE YOUR eyes --- th...
RE: FN-FORUM: ActionScript Developer needed.....
date posted 14th February 2006 13:55
please stop sending these forum pages to my e-mail, I get about 50 a day and
its clogging up my account!!!
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Re: FN-FORUM: Photoshop problems
date posted 14th February 2006 13:53
Lists wrote:
> I know plenty of people here use Photoshop, so maybe someone can help with
> this. I have a client who uses Photoshop 6 on XP pro. He says he has been
> having lots of problems includin...
FN-FORUM: ActionScript Developer needed.....
date posted 14th February 2006 13:51
I need an ActionScript Developer for a 3 - 9 month (TBC) contract close to
Swansea.
In order to be considered, you must have a strong commercial background in
working with: HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, CS...
RE: FN-FORUM: Photoshop problems
date posted 14th February 2006 13:32
>I've seen posts about a problem with Photoshop and ntdll.dll, but, as I
>don't use it, I don't know if that is the problem or what the fix is (I
>suspect I am going to have to rebuild the PC from scr...
RE: FN-FORUM: Photoshop problems
date posted 14th February 2006 13:32
Some sort of application conflict? Have they installed any other apps that
may have caused the problems?
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Elan is the world's le...
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date posted 14th February 2006 13:32
I can't believe it. No-one wants to do it.
OK no worries - time to dig out my copy of flash and a beginners guide.
TTFN
Max...
FN-FORUM: Photoshop problems
date posted 14th February 2006 13:12
I know plenty of people here use Photoshop, so maybe someone can help with
this. I have a client who uses Photoshop 6 on XP pro. He says he has been
having lots of problems including:
Saying that all...
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date posted 14th February 2006 13:09
Hi Mike,
Yes - I love the sound of that but have never used flash so I can see =
the
idea of what you're saying and indeed love it - but I cannot implement =
it.
If you or anyone else would like to...
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date posted 14th February 2006 12:53
If you do it in flash, you could make things even easier than using an
external xml file by passing the data from within the html via
flashvars.
e.g in the object element add a parameter...
FN-FORUM: OT: Valentine's Day Funnies
date posted 14th February 2006 12:52
As in posted today, not actually anything to do with Valentine's or romance=
.
Gave me a laugh - thought you might need one.
http://quotes.ibnerd.net/church_1.html
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Regards,
David Nye...
Re: FN-FORUM: Paypal or Worldpay
date posted 14th February 2006 12:21
David Nye wrote:
>>AIUI Paypal have changed in this respect and customers no
>>longer have to open an account.
>>
>>
>
>Apparently it was still happening last week. In the terms there is a
>re...
FN-FORUM: =?iso-8859-1?Q?OK_-_I'll_pay_for_it_=A3=A3=A3?=
date posted 14th February 2006 12:19
Blimey - we're getting there - I cannot believe how easily I have done
complex things yet how hard this is proving to be!!!
I have now sat a 1x1 Table Cell in the content layer, which is fine - we no...
Re: FN-FORUM: Paypal or Worldpay
date posted 14th February 2006 12:13
> AIUI Paypal have changed in this respect and customers no
> longer have to open an account.
Apparently it was still happening last week. In the terms there is a
reference to a 10 transaction limit...
RE: FN-FORUM: Freaky line height
date posted 14th February 2006 12:06
Thanks for that Tony,
I've even printed it out so I can find it. I'll definitely use it on the
next project I do from scratch soon.
Craig
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On 14 Feb 2006 09:31:54 -0000,...
RE: FN-FORUM: layers - from tables
date posted 14th February 2006 11:54
Thanks Tony - all of these workarounds are ridiculous for such a simple
layout, just goes to show (IMO), that there is still a place for tables.
If I went with layers as it is now, and then added the...
Re: FN-FORUM: layers - from tables
date posted 14th February 2006 11:46
On 14 Feb 2006 12:07:53 -0000, John 'Max' Maxwell [EMAIL REMOVED] w=
rote:
> I'm trying to keep this tidy as I like tidy and minimalist CSS code - but
> you can see why some are happy to stick a flas...
Re: FN-FORUM: layers - from tables
date posted 14th February 2006 11:33
On 14 Feb 2006 12:07:53 -0000, John 'Max' Maxwell [EMAIL REMOVED] w=
rote:
>
> Thanks Tony, as I say - one of those days - now see
> www.quickbet.thepigfarmer.co.uk
>
> Is there a way of vertically al...
RE: FN-FORUM: layers - from tables
date posted 14th February 2006 11:28
Thanks Tony, as I say - one of those days - now see
www.quickbet.thepigfarmer.co.uk
Is there a way of vertically aligning my text into the centre of the Div. I
have found several hacks on the interne...
RE: FN-FORUM: CSS and images with IE
date posted 14th February 2006 10:46
Thanks Chaps
That did the trick - it was a combination of white space and removing line
breaks. Blimin IE - who wrote that?
Andy
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Re: FN-FORUM: CSS and images with IE
date posted 14th February 2006 10:24
On 14 Feb 2006 10:52:28 -0000, Andy Creed [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote=
:
>
> Hi
>
> I currently have a site that has an image wrapped in a div. simple you ma=
y
> think, however in Firefox this works well b...
Re: FN-FORUM: CSS and images with IE
date posted 14th February 2006 10:22
First thing I would do Andy is remove the carriage returns:-
and see if that fixes it.
Steve
On 14 Feb 2006 10:52:30 -0000, Andy Creed [EMAIL REMOVED] w...
RE: FN-FORUM: CSS and images with IE
date posted 14th February 2006 10:16
I may be being stupid here - but you have two 5px borders on the div, at the
left and top ... any reason?? This will leave the gap on the right and
bottom - no??
Max AKA The Pig Farmer...
Re: FN-FORUM: layers - from tables
date posted 14th February 2006 10:16
On 14 Feb 2006 10:47:05 -0000, John 'Max' Maxwell [EMAIL REMOVED] w=
rote:
> I want to produce exactly the same using layers in such a way that if the
> browser is set to full screen - the display fi...
FN-FORUM: CSS and images with IE
date posted 14th February 2006 10:12
Hi
I currently have a site that has an image wrapped in a div. simple you may
think, however in Firefox this works well but in IE there is a strange gap
of 1 pixel to the right and two below of the i...
FN-FORUM: layers - from tables
date posted 14th February 2006 10:07
Blimey - I'm having one of those days today, this should be a piece of cake
but my brain won't work.
If you go to www.quickbet.thepigfarmer.co.uk you will see a simple screen
layout - using tables....
Re: FN-FORUM: Freaky line height
date posted 14th February 2006 09:13
On 14 Feb 2006 09:31:54 -0000, Craig [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Thanks Tony,
>
> It's certainly NOT Dreamweaver, it's all my own hand crafted work:)
heh!
fooled me!
>
> Incidentally, class=3D"p" is...
RE: FN-FORUM: Freaky line height
date posted 14th February 2006 08:52
Thanks Tony,
It's certainly NOT Dreamweaver, it's all my own hand crafted work:)
Incidentally, class="p" is a class that reverts text to look like what they
should look like as a but have been chan...
Re: FN-FORUM: Freaky line height
date posted 14th February 2006 07:43
On 14 Feb 2006 00:52:12 -0000, Craig [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Any CSS Guru's around?
you have an unrestricted font-size in IE - resizing the text it goes mad.
change body{ font-size: 1em} to body{...
RE: FN-FORUM: Freaky line height
date posted 14th February 2006 06:40
I see the same in IE6 as the screenshot posted. That particular problem
doesn't occur in Firefox, although there is another slight glitch where
'Dhabi' in the first para wraps onto a new line by itsel...
RE: FN-FORUM: Freaky line height
date posted 14th February 2006 01:17
Craig wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been told that the small amount of text next to each "Luxury
> Offer" on www.argoholidays.com has a double line height in IE. I
> can't see it using
> IE6 or FF, looks...
RE: FN-FORUM: Freaky line height
date posted 14th February 2006 01:00
Not an answer I'm afraid, but I thought you'd like a screenshot from my IE6.
http://82.13.65.36/luxury.jpg
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FN-FORUM: Freaky line height
date posted 14th February 2006 00:12
Hi,
I've been told that the small amount of text next to each "Luxury Offer" on
www.argoholidays.com has a double line height in IE. I can't see it using
IE6 or FF, looks ok to me but the client is...
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