Freelancers Forum Messages on Monday April 2nd 2007
Re: FN-FORUM: A better word processor?
date posted 2nd April 2007 23:17
Ian Piper wrote:
> I believe the time
> is ripe for the same kind of re-think about "normal" documents.
Postscript?...
Re: FN-FORUM: A better word processor?
date posted 2nd April 2007 22:55
On 1 Apr 2007, at 11:16 am, Anthony Cartmell wrote:
>
>> 1. It doesn't use html as its default format (you have to export)
>
> HTML is a flexible format: it's designed for web browsers and on-
> sc...
Re: FN-FORUM: 2k3 sbs question
date posted 2nd April 2007 20:26
On Tuesday 27 March 2007 14:03, Lists - ARKAD Solutions wrote:
> When you ask for the properties of the network drive it claims to be 1gb
> and 100% full despite it also having over 7gb of data if you...
Re: FN-FORUM: Which is better: doing good work, or keeping a client happy?
date posted 2nd April 2007 20:04
Nick Hill wrote:
I've been doing a website recently for someone who uses IE5 on the
> Mac,
Who is paying whom to do the work?
DG)
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Re: FN-FORUM: Counties list - where to get a recent, up to date one?
date posted 2nd April 2007 20:01
Duncan Glendinning wrote:
Subject: FN-FORUM: Counties list - where to get a recent, up to date one?
HI,
If this is any good? just help yourself.
http://www.linkhomes2000.co.uk/trials/revised-index...
Re: FN-FORUM: Which is better: doing good work, or keeping a client happy?
date posted 2nd April 2007 17:01
> Eh?
Oh aye. Must be because they were empty divs then! That helps
enormously (actually I suppose it's always a bad idea to rely on empty
divs anyway without putting some kind of text description in...
Re: FN-FORUM: Which is better: doing good work, or keeping a client happy?
date posted 2nd April 2007 15:54
Nick Hill wrote:
>
>> Any chance of a URL and description of the problem?
>
> Sure - test site is here
>
> www.rainjam.com/eg/
>
> The client designed the site, I'm just doing the "technical" bit....
Re: FN-FORUM: Which is better: doing good work, or keeping a client happy?
date posted 2nd April 2007 15:28
> Any chance of a URL and description of the problem?
Sure - test site is here
www.rainjam.com/eg/
The client designed the site, I'm just doing the "technical" bit.
Works fine in Firefox, IE6/7 and...
Re: FN-FORUM: Which is better: doing good work, or keeping a client happy?
date posted 2nd April 2007 14:58
At 09:36 +0000 2/4/07, Nick Hill wrote:
>I've been doing a website recently for someone who uses IE5 on the
>Mac, and consequently finding it hard to produce a nice clean result -
>using nice XHTML an...
Re: FN-FORUM: Which is better: doing good work, or keeping a client happy?
date posted 2nd April 2007 14:36
however, this
> really isn't a mainstream browser and not many non-developers are likely to
> be using it.
True - although if only developers are using it and it's old, there's
probably not much poi...
Re: FN-FORUM: Counties list - where to get a recent, up to date one?
date posted 2nd April 2007 13:14
Duncan Glendinning wrote:
>
> Morning all!!
>
> I am having problems finding a complete and up to date counties list..
> I had been using the one on the Association of British Counties,
> (http://ww...
FN-FORUM: Counties list - where to get a recent, up to date one?
date posted 2nd April 2007 13:06
Morning all!!
I am having problems finding a complete and up to date counties list..
I had been using the one on the Association of British Counties,
(http://www.abcounties.co.uk) but it appears not...
Re: FN-FORUM: Which is better: doing good work, or keeping a client happy?
date posted 2nd April 2007 12:58
Nick Hill wrote:
>
> The two-level,
> CSS-versus-tables approach might be the only way though. (He has
> Safari too, but for some reason prefers IE5.)
like I said, what's not working with IE5 on th...
Re: FN-FORUM: Which is better: doing good work, or keeping a client happy?
date posted 2nd April 2007 12:57
i believe there is a high proportion of legacy OS9 systems in some sectors
(e.g. the music technology sector; i'm afraid i don't have hard stats
though).
OS9 won't run firefox or safari, hence there i...
Re: FN-FORUM: Which is better: doing good work, or keeping a client happy?
date posted 2nd April 2007 12:47
Cheers all - that's kind of what I thought. Problem is the client's a
print designer and doesn't seem to understand that web design isn't
the same thing as print, bless him. I've tried explaining it t...
Re: FN-FORUM: Which is better: doing good work, or keeping a client happy?
date posted 2nd April 2007 12:27
Tony Crockford wrote:
>
> Ben Moxon wrote:
>> If you're prepared to do the work twice then good on you. Otherwise,
>> suggest your client use another browser. After all, they don't take a
>> steam...
Re: FN-FORUM: Which is better: doing good work, or keeping a client happy?
date posted 2nd April 2007 12:20
Ben Moxon wrote:
> If you're prepared to do the work twice then good on you. Otherwise,
> suggest your client use another browser. After all, they don't take a
> steam train to work...
except IE5 i...
Re: FN-FORUM: Which is better: doing good work, or keeping a client happy?
date posted 2nd April 2007 12:12
Nick Hill wrote:
>
> What do you reckon - is it
> better to be "right", and say "I don't support IE5 on the Mac any
> more, tough - use Safari or Firefox", or is it better to give him
> something t...
Re: FN-FORUM: Which is better: doing good work, or keeping a client happy?
date posted 2nd April 2007 12:08
Nick Hill wrote:
>
> or is it better to give him
> something that looks right to him, but might be a bit of a shambles to
> another web designer?
which bits are you struggling with on IE5?
in its t...
RE: FN-FORUM: Which is better: doing good work, or keeping a client happy?
date posted 2nd April 2007 12:07
In that situation I'd be tempted to explain that ie5 on the mac hasn't been updated for years and represents the set-up of a very very small percentage of the visitors he'll be getting. Ask him if he...
Re: FN-FORUM: Which is better: doing good work, or keeping a client happy?
date posted 2nd April 2007 12:04
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 09:37:00AM -0000, Nick Hill wrote:
>
> I've been doing a website recently for someone who uses IE5 on the
> Mac, and consequently finding it hard to produce a nice clean resul...
FN-FORUM: Which is better: doing good work, or keeping a client happy?
date posted 2nd April 2007 10:23
I've been doing a website recently for someone who uses IE5 on the
Mac, and consequently finding it hard to produce a nice clean result -
using nice XHTML and CSS and that. The only way I can think of...
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