Freelancers Forum Messages on Thursday March 16th 2006
RE: FN-FORUM: Wierd application problem
date posted 16th March 2006 22:03
If it's Norton Security 2006 then you're chasing your tail, I had similar
problems using a Sony and this version with ASP/SQL Server and Visual
Studio.Net. I have seen all these things before, and I...
RE: FN-FORUM: Paypal Credit Card Logos
date posted 16th March 2006 21:52
You can use the logo's of these CC companies if you are a direct cutomer of
their services, it's defined in their T&Cs. You can use the PayPal logo with
Visa and MC etc inside, because you are using a...
FN-FORUM: Wierd application problem
date posted 16th March 2006 21:48
Hi,
I'm currently on holiday but, as a self employed person, I'm still working
away from home! I've loaded a couple of on going projects onto my laptop
and I'm having a bit of trouble getting them w...
RE: FN-FORUM: Paypal Credit Card Logos
date posted 16th March 2006 20:05
> Maybe, but why on earth would a credit card company want to stop anyone
advertising them and encouraging the use of their services?
Not sure if it is still the case but I am sure that Visa used to...
Re: FN-FORUM: Paypal Credit Card Logos
date posted 16th March 2006 19:43
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Re: FN-FORUM: Paypal Credit Card Logos
date posted 16th March 2006 19:04
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 19:43, Lorna McArdle - Spinette Designs wrote:
> as long as there the generic logos rather than actual company logos of
> course you can.
>
> Lorna
Surely, though, the VISA...
RE: FN-FORUM: MySQL query
date posted 16th March 2006 18:54
Just talking about it helped!
SELECT * FROM tablename ORDER by id DESC LIMIT 1;
Thanks anyway!
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FN-FORUM: MySQL query
date posted 16th March 2006 18:47
Having a brain dead moment ...
I have a table in a MySQL database without about 100 rows, indexed
automatically with a unique id.
I need to pull out the last row (most recent, ie: highest unique id)...
Re: FN-FORUM: OutLook Postoffice + Free Ebay Style
date posted 16th March 2006 17:58
Exchange comes with/came with SBS - it is part of the price and SBS 2003 is
cheaper than Windows 2003 with the same number of licences. If it is
workgroup postoffice, they're on their own - no support...
RE: FN-FORUM: DHTML menus
date posted 16th March 2006 17:11
These guys are fantastic. Works with all browsers and if JavaScript is
turned off.
http://www.projectseven.com/
Used it on my site http://www.dynamicdeveloper.co.uk/
Jomo
>
> Afternoon all,
>
>...
FN-FORUM: Google Page Rank
date posted 16th March 2006 17:05
Hi,
I have started a google page rank site but cannot find out any
information on whether or not it is allowed or ethical. The site allows
others to show there google page rank as a link back t...
Re: FN-FORUM: Seo
date posted 16th March 2006 16:09
Spider test looks good - thanks Pam...
Re: FN-FORUM: Seo
date posted 16th March 2006 15:58
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RE: FN-FORUM: Dial Up to AOL?
date posted 16th March 2006 15:55
If you go to broadband and set up a router to do the connection for you, you
can stay with AOL without putting the dreaded CD anywhere near your PC. I
often do this for clients and then just set their...
Re: FN-FORUM: Site check if you please!
date posted 16th March 2006 15:54
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Re: FN-FORUM: Site check if you please!
date posted 16th March 2006 15:49
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FN-FORUM: Selling domain names - Again
date posted 16th March 2006 15:47
Afternoon All,
I asked you where was the best place to adevrtise domain names for
sale. I have now registered with sedo.co.uk but for those of you who
missed this thread and have other suggestions, p...
FN-FORUM: Seo
date posted 16th March 2006 15:38
What tools are the best for SEO and are there any good toolbars for SEO that
point out things such as Met tags being too long. There seems to be al lot
of free SEO tools out there but I don't know w...
RE: FN-FORUM: Boot from LAN
date posted 16th March 2006 15:30
Setting the laptop to 'boot from lan' is the easy bit!
You'll need to setup a server (I only have experience with NT/2K/2K3, =
but I'm sure it's possible with unix) for the laptop to boot from, and...
Re: FN-FORUM: Dial Up to AOL?
date posted 16th March 2006 15:26
Hi Mark,
> unless there
> is a 'workaround' for it somehow ..
That's what I was wondering.
--
Cheers,
Julian Voelcker,
Cheltenham, Glos.
T: 01285 821 910
M: 07971 540 362
MSN: [EMAIL REMO...
RE: FN-FORUM: DHTML menus
date posted 16th March 2006 15:21
Try this one, its one I use all the time, lots of different types and it is
open source (free) http://www.gosu.pl/dhtml/mygosumenu.html.
Regards
Sam Morgan
WiredEyes / WebClickGo
tel (Uk): +44...
Re: FN-FORUM: ecommerce and .net
date posted 16th March 2006 15:20
Andy Macnaughton-Jones wrote:
>I suspect that on balance, on average, with *all* things taken into
>consideration that the cheapest solution will depend on the length of
>string that they're measur...
RE: FN-FORUM: Bespoke CMS - a couple of questions.
date posted 16th March 2006 15:14
Quite agree. The best thing is to educate your users to cut and paste
text into notepad first and then into whatever HTML type editor that
they are using in their browser or you get all kinds of sh!te...
RE: FN-FORUM: Site check if you please!
date posted 16th March 2006 15:13
You should look at the map key, it was registered for a different site =
and
you get an error. I'm using Firefox on XP.
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RE: FN-FORUM: DHTML menus
date posted 16th March 2006 15:12
Suckerfish / Son of Suckerfish CSS menus. Small bit of javascript for IE
to handle hovers over non a tags, works cross browser - we use it for
all our menu functionality that needs drop downs etc. (al...
Re: FN-FORUM: Bespoke CMS - a couple of questions.
date posted 16th March 2006 15:12
Did exactly this for a customer, they just could not get the hang of
it, and quite frankly drove me mad. To me it seemed really simple, but
six months down the line I put FCK on it for them and the on...
RE: FN-FORUM: ecommerce and .net
date posted 16th March 2006 15:07
The TCO will always be cheaper for whichever "company" funded the study
into the TCO ;-)
I suspect that on balance, on average, with *all* things taken into
consideration that the cheapest solution w...
RE: FN-FORUM: Bespoke CMS - a couple of questions.
date posted 16th March 2006 15:01
Done loads of bespoke CMS packages, most recent was HTMLArea 3 with a SQL
Server backend (had to add functionality for inserting images, document
links and Flash media etc). What I have found is peopl...
RE: FN-FORUM: DHTML menus
date posted 16th March 2006 15:00
Try this; http://www.sothink.com/product/dhtmlmenu/index.htm
I find it's compatible with most browsers and takes away the pain of writing
DHTML Menu's.
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FN-FORUM: Site check if you please!
date posted 16th March 2006 14:59
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RE: FN-FORUM: DHTML menus
date posted 16th March 2006 14:59
Hi Duncan,
I can provide you with what you're after. I know it works with firefox &
IE. I don't know about the others though. They are javascript.
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RE: FN-FORUM: DHTML menus
date posted 16th March 2006 14:56
I use one like on this site. http://www.1staspect.com. For browsers which
don't support the javascript it just shows the main headings which work fine
as links in this case.
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Re: FN-FORUM: DHTML menus
date posted 16th March 2006 14:55
Do it with CSS.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=3Den&q=3Dcss+menus&btnG=3DGoogle+Search&m=
eta=3D
Tam
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FN-FORUM: DHTML menus
date posted 16th March 2006 14:51
Afternoon all,
Not being a developer that is big on fancy or pretty, I have never
really bothered with dynamic navigation bars, etc. so i no very little
about them.
A client wants a horizontal navig...
Re: FN-FORUM: Flash ComboBox problem
date posted 16th March 2006 14:44
Not sure my last message came through but problem solved by installing
and using the old MX UI components.
Paul...
RE: FN-FORUM: Dial Up to AOL?
date posted 16th March 2006 14:38
No, AOL def rely on the connection coming via their software - unless there
is a 'workaround' for it somehow ..
---
Mark Bell
http://m4rk.biz
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RE: FN-FORUM: Bespoke CMS - a couple of questions.
date posted 16th March 2006 14:27
I was asked the same thing a while back, and a simple solution was to just
supply a list of basic HTML tags. The user can type them in by hand.
The list can be opened in a pop-up box or displayed ons...
FN-FORUM: Dial Up to AOL?
date posted 16th March 2006 14:26
Is it possible to setup a standard windows dialup connection to AOL?
A friend wants to keep their AOL account, but doesn't want to have to
install their software.
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Cheers,
Julian Voelcker,...
RE: FN-FORUM: Stupid PHP Question
date posted 16th March 2006 14:00
OK, fixed it now. A typo error with the variable, had some lunch and saw it
straight away.
I am using $_SERVER, just slipped the other version in to see whether there
was an issue with it on the serv...
Re: FN-FORUM: Boot from LAN
date posted 16th March 2006 13:56
im sure from the BIOS you can set the primary boot device to the
network adapter on the machine.
On 16 Mar 2006 12:36:24 -0000, D D Glendinning [EMAIL REMOVED] wr=
ote:
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> Morning,
>
> I have a lapt...
Re: FN-FORUM: Viral Marketing
date posted 16th March 2006 13:50
Hi Paul
My husband works for an agency and viral marketing is something they offer
clients. When he gets home later I will see what he has to say. I seem to
remember that one of their recent camp...
Re: FN-FORUM: Bespoke CMS - a couple of questions.
date posted 16th March 2006 13:38
a WYSIWYG editor such as FCKEditor is better from a long term
perspective. Your client may decide to delegate updating to a
colleague who is not familair with HTML or rely on editing pages
quickly and...
Re: FN-FORUM: Bespoke CMS - a couple of questions.
date posted 16th March 2006 13:20
If you don't want to force them to have javascript on you are stuck with
BBCode and very limited editing facilities- no button press tag
additions or anything like that. In fairness, most users don'...
FN-FORUM: Bespoke CMS - a couple of questions.
date posted 16th March 2006 13:06
I'm building a bespoke CMS (PHP/MySQL) system for a small site with one
user updating once a week, mainly with text and images but can't make up
my mind whether to use BBCode for the formatting or an...
Re: FN-FORUM: Stupid PHP Question
date posted 16th March 2006 12:59
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 01:37:05PM -0000, Terry Price - Easymatics wrote:
>
> I'm having a dumb PHP day, can't get a file read to work, so I stripped it
> back to bare essentials and almost text book...
FN-FORUM: Stupid PHP Question
date posted 16th March 2006 12:52
I'm having a dumb PHP day, can't get a file read to work, so I stripped it
back to bare essentials and almost text book, but still won't work. The
development environment is V5 and target V4.3, and it...
FN-FORUM: Viral Marketing
date posted 16th March 2006 12:18
Hi
Does anyone here have experience of delivering viral marketing
campaigns. I've been asked to quote and come up with some
suggestions. It would be great to hear from a
developer who has worked at...
FN-FORUM: Flash ComboBox problem
date posted 16th March 2006 12:16
Hi
I'm populating a ComboBox and it all worked fine using ...
myDropDown.addItem(productName, ID);
However I then realised I needed to deliver the file in FP6 AS1 so I
changed my publish settings (...
RE: FN-FORUM: Streaming video
date posted 16th March 2006 12:14
Licensing costs for Flash server software were a bit high last time I
looked. And as for penetration figures, how many Windows-based machines
are there in the world? All of which have Windows Media Pl...
FN-FORUM: Boot from LAN
date posted 16th March 2006 11:52
Morning,
I have a laptop whose' hard disk is probably dead...keep getting blue
screen and then it shutting down, and now won't boot, and says disk
error. Have a broken DVD drive and no Floppy... (i k...
Re: FN-FORUM: ecommerce and .net
date posted 16th March 2006 11:49
> On 16 Mar 2006, at 11:46 am, Joel Hughes wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi Cathrine
>>> If they could install an apache server cheaply they could save
>>> themselves a fortune as the zencart solution (open sourc...
Re: FN-FORUM: RE: Flow Chart Diagrams
date posted 16th March 2006 11:47
On 16 Mar 2006 12:17:12 -0000, D D Glendinning [EMAIL REMOVED] wr=
ote:
>
> Morning,
>
> Am after an open source program to help me draw some flow charts and
> other diagrams to illustrate how a websi...
RE: FN-FORUM: RE: Flow Chart Diagrams
date posted 16th March 2006 11:42
I did all the flowcharts for my degree in Word.
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Re: FN-FORUM: RE: Flow Chart Diagrams
date posted 16th March 2006 11:36
D D Glendinning wrote:
> Morning,
>
> Am after an open source program to help me draw some flow charts and
> other diagrams to illustrate how a website would work (i.e different
> steps through a pro...
FN-FORUM: RE: Flow Chart Diagrams
date posted 16th March 2006 11:33
Morning,
Am after an open source program to help me draw some flow charts and
other diagrams to illustrate how a website would work (i.e different
steps through a product order process for example)....
RE: FN-FORUM: ecommerce and .net
date posted 16th March 2006 11:01
>
> Hi Cathrine
> If they could install an apache server cheaply they could save
> themselves a fortune as the zencart solution (open source!) does all
> this...
> Craig
How are they saving themselve...
Re: FN-FORUM: ecommerce and .net
date posted 16th March 2006 10:53
Not necessarily. They have a .net server running other things as well as
their website. They want a solution to fit into their current setup they
don't want to change everything else just because I...
RE: FN-FORUM: ecommerce and .net
date posted 16th March 2006 10:18
Sounds like they need a good slap!
'Yes I know, I have an apache server but they want to keep it hosted on
their server which is .net. This isn't an option otherwise I would do it
myself.'
Cather...
Re: FN-FORUM: ecommerce and .net
date posted 16th March 2006 09:49
Yes I know, I have an apache server but they want to keep it hosted on
their server which is .net. This isn't an option otherwise I would do it
myself.
Catherine
craig - freelance web designer wro...
Re: FN-FORUM: OutLook Postoffice + Free Ebay Style
date posted 16th March 2006 09:21
I don't think the IT guy knows too much, I was just concerned more about
personal emails being sent internally being read and stored :)
I know they are looking to upgrade the server but the IT guy ha...
RE: FN-FORUM: ecommerce and .net
date posted 16th March 2006 09:08
Hi Cathrine
If they could install an apache server cheaply they could save
themselves a fortune as the zencart solution (open source!) does all
this...
Craig
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RE: FN-FORUM: Streaming video
date posted 16th March 2006 08:43
> > Stay well clear of Flash Media Server for live content. Stick with=20
> > Windows Media or if you have the cash, Real.
>=20
> Flash media server does live content exceptionally well (if=20
> you k...
Re: FN-FORUM: OutLook Postoffice + Free Ebay Style
date posted 16th March 2006 08:12
Must be workgroup post office then (or SBS) - as MS Mail wasn't free - which
AFAIK doesn't work with Outlook, just the old Exchange client 5/mail icon
that was included with wfw, win95, NT etc. If it...
Re: FN-FORUM: OutLook Postoffice + Free Ebay Style
date posted 16th March 2006 07:15
these guys haven't spent any money on it at so its all the free services,
there is no exchange server so it must be the Microsoft mail right? Using
MAPI
So this can handle storing allthe mail sent i...
Re: FN-FORUM: Streaming video
date posted 16th March 2006 01:26
> Stay well clear of Flash Media Server for live content. Stick with
> Windows Media or if you have the cash, Real.
Flash media server does live content exceptionally well (if you know
what you're do...