Freelancers Forum Messages on Friday June 29th 2007
FN-FORUM: Friday Fun - Bit late, but hey, its still fun
date posted 29th June 2007 23:42
See how fast you can spank the monkey
www.flamjam.com/spank
Enjoy ;)
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Name: Thomas Campbell
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Re: FN-FORUM: OT: (possibly!) Nice Site ;-)
date posted 29th June 2007 21:00
What!? no MIDI backing track?
dear me...
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> I was looking for a band for some corporate entertainment and stumbled on
> this:
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> What with all these deep and meaningful discu...
Re: FN-FORUM: OT: (possibly!) Nice Site ;-)
date posted 29th June 2007 20:20
http://www.carlisle-driving.co.uk/
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FN-FORUM: OT: (possibly!) Nice Site ;-)
date posted 29th June 2007 19:51
I was looking for a band for some corporate entertainment and stumbled on
this:
What with all these deep and meaningful discussions on accessibility, tables
vs. CSS, download times etc., there's sti...
RE: FN-FORUM: HTML Emails (Like Amazon, for example)
date posted 29th June 2007 17:33
Hi
For a managed service which controls all the nitty gritty (haven't used that
expression for ages :)) I thoroughly recommend
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/ which I have used several times for clie...
RE: FN-FORUM: Exchange 2003
date posted 29th June 2007 17:28
Hi Dave
I did this a long time ago and I cannot find the code I used, but from my
memory you can access all parts of Exchange using CDO as Exchange stores all
information (mail, calendar, contacts, e...
FN-FORUM: Yahoo! Auto Response
date posted 29th June 2007 16:21
I'm currently away until the 14th of July and will respond to your email as soon as possible.
Kind regards,
Ben....
Re: FN-FORUM: HTML Emails (Like Amazon, for example)
date posted 29th June 2007 16:18
You can send a multipart email and have plaintext displayed if HTML is
turned off!
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RE: FN-FORUM: HTML Emails (Like Amazon, for example)
date posted 29th June 2007 15:35
> > html emails are notoriously difficult to create in a reliable
> reception
> > way - e.g. most of the time your email will be unreadable when it
> gets
> > to the user.
> >
What gets me is that c...
Re: FN-FORUM: Hardware Upgrade Save all programs
date posted 29th June 2007 15:08
> I guess what you're asking is, will running your programs from an
> external hard-drive have a detrimental effect on performance?
that's the one :)
> External drives tend to power up/down more re...
FN-FORUM: Exchange 2003
date posted 29th June 2007 14:24
Hi
I am currently setting up an intranet and one of the feaures I have been asked for is to publish the calendar from exchange.
Anyone any experience of this? Sharing is no problem from outlook but...
Re: FN-FORUM: HTML Emails (Like Amazon, for example)
date posted 29th June 2007 14:06
Tony Crockford wrote:
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> [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> A customer of mine has asked me to quote for an HTML email she'd like to
>> send to her customer base. She wants something where she...
RE: FN-FORUM: HTML Emails (Like Amazon, for example)
date posted 29th June 2007 12:24
Thanks to everyone for the informed and detailed responses.
I will speak to my client and see what she decides.
All the best,
Matt...
Re: FN-FORUM: HTML Emails (Like Amazon, for example)
date posted 29th June 2007 12:20
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 11:11:33AM -0000, Tony Crockford wrote:
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> [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >A customer of mine has asked me to quote for an HTML email she'd like to
> >send to her cu...
Re: FN-FORUM: HTML Emails (Like Amazon, for example)
date posted 29th June 2007 12:10
If using PHP:
http://www.swiftmailer.org/
It's a more up-to-date and versatile version of the old phpMailer. Very
easy to send multipart HTML/plain text messages, with embedded images and
file a...
RE: FN-FORUM: HTML Emails (Like Amazon, for example)
date posted 29th June 2007 12:06
You don't paste it anywhere. OK! Suppose your client has a list of
customers in Excel and one of the fields is their email address. Create
the email in Word and save as HTML and then use the MS Word M...
Re: FN-FORUM: HTML Emails (Like Amazon, for example)
date posted 29th June 2007 12:04
hey
If you make them, do them ALL with nested tables and don't use ANY
css unless its inline and even then use it ONLY for text if you cant
avoid using a font tag.
its like taking a trip back to...
Re: FN-FORUM: HTML Emails (Like Amazon, for example)
date posted 29th June 2007 11:52
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A customer of mine has asked me to quote for an HTML email she'd like to
> send to her customer base. She wants something where she can add images and
> other HTM...
Re: FN-FORUM: HTML Emails (Like Amazon, for example)
date posted 29th June 2007 11:52
Hi Matt
Have a look at www.mailchimp.com
Lots of info there.
Regards
Malcolm
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> A customer of mine has asked me to quote for an HTML email she'd
>> like to
>> send to her custo...
Re: FN-FORUM: HTML Emails (Like Amazon, for example)
date posted 29th June 2007 11:50
scuse the typo, i meant the mail() function ;)
On 6/29/07, Thomas Campbell [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> if your using php, you can just use the correct headers and enter the
> code as the content with th...
Re: FN-FORUM: HTML Emails (Like Amazon, for example)
date posted 29th June 2007 11:50
if your using php, you can just use the correct headers and enter the
code as the content with the
email() function
***** CODE ROBBED FROM PHPFREAKS.COM ******...
Re: FN-FORUM: HTML Emails (Like Amazon, for example)
date posted 29th June 2007 11:48
I wasn't sure if you needed help re sending the mails off in html format
or actually formatting the mailshot. If the latter then please ignore
this message as I have got it wrong. If the former, I r...
RE: FN-FORUM: HTML Emails (Like Amazon, for example)
date posted 29th June 2007 11:46
Great, but where do I actually paste the HTML?
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Re: FN-FORUM: HTML Emails (Like Amazon, for example)
date posted 29th June 2007 11:43
Erm,
What language are you using? With coldfusion it's simply a case of
saying I'm sending the following html email and here's the html content.
I'd be very concerned about a client wanting to do th...
RE: FN-FORUM: HTML Emails (Like Amazon, for example)
date posted 29th June 2007 11:41
Thanks!
Matt
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RE: FN-FORUM: HTML Emails (Like Amazon, for example)
date posted 29th June 2007 11:40
Create it in Word and save as HTML or use MS FrontPage or similar!!!
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RE: FN-FORUM: Friday Amusement
date posted 29th June 2007 11:37
I hope you responded immediately ;-) I have the Champaign on ice
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Re: FN-FORUM: HTML Emails (Like Amazon, for example)
date posted 29th June 2007 11:34
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/code-html-email-newsletters
On 29 Jun 2007 10:42:21 -0000, [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> A customer of mine has asked me to quote for an HT...
FN-FORUM: HTML Emails (Like Amazon, for example)
date posted 29th June 2007 11:25
Hi all,
A customer of mine has asked me to quote for an HTML email she'd like to
send to her customer base. She wants something where she can add images and
other HTML-based elements from her website...
Re: FN-FORUM: Friday Amusement
date posted 29th June 2007 11:22
dylan wrote:
> Here's something to amuse you all this Friday. Apparently I'm a
> millionaire...:)
>
> D.
>
>
I've lost count of how many people have died recently that I share a
name with and who...
Re: FN-FORUM: FW: ADH WebCreations
date posted 29th June 2007 11:05
To sort the rest of the pages in brief it looks like adding p{ margin: 7px;}
to your style sheet does the job but this is not ideal. Though this may mess
up your index page due to your #text2 (if yo...
Re: FN-FORUM: Friday Amusement
date posted 29th June 2007 11:03
dylan wrote:
> Here's something to amuse you all this Friday. Apparently I'm a
> millionaire...:)
[ snip standard 419 scam ]
I gave up monitoring these offers five years ago. As you can see from
th...
Re: FN-FORUM: OT: Defining "service"
date posted 29th June 2007 11:02
LMFAO :D thats genius lol
On 29 Jun 2007 09:57:05 -0000, Kathy Lists [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
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> From an American friend.
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> At one time in my life, I thought I had a handle on the the meaning of
> t...
Re: FN-FORUM: Friday Amusement
date posted 29th June 2007 10:54
Its my birthday, lend us a tenner as you're now minted?? ;)
Oh, Condolences for your loss of course.... Cough
S
On 29 Jun 2007, at 11:06, dylan wrote:
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> Here's something to amuse you all this Fr...
FN-FORUM: Friday Amusement
date posted 29th June 2007 10:48
Here's something to amuse you all this Friday. Apparently I'm a
millionaire...:)
D.
Dear Friend,
PRIVATE AND URGENT.
I am Mr.Alexa Pilchard, and I work for Barclays Bank London UK, I
was th...
FN-FORUM: OT: Defining "service"
date posted 29th June 2007 10:39
From an American friend.
At one time in my life, I thought I had a handle on the the meaning of
the word *"service."*
*"It's the act of doing things for other people."*
*Then I heard these terms...
Re: FN-FORUM: Hardware Upgrade Save all programs
date posted 29th June 2007 10:23
I guess what you're asking is, will running your programs from an
external hard-drive have a detrimental effect on performance?
External drives tend to power up/down more regularly than internal
ones...
Re: FN-FORUM: Hardware Upgrade Save all programs
date posted 29th June 2007 09:23
Punters Power wrote:
> I have the unfortunate task of considering a computer upgrade only 18 month
> ago the P4 1mb ram was fine! Only fine of course. But now I want to have
> another machine wi...
FN-FORUM: Hardware Upgrade Save all programs
date posted 29th June 2007 07:21
I have the unfortunate task of considering a computer upgrade only 18 month
ago the P4 1mb ram was fine! Only fine of course. But now I want to have
another machine with duo core and Vista so I wa...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fizy Design..
date posted 29th June 2007 01:03
That's really great Lorna, well done!
I'm yet to bag a big name client, but hopefully soon!
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Re: FN-FORUM: FW: ADH WebCreations
date posted 29th June 2007 00:44
When I removed the padding: 7px; from #text this sorted your size problem
but as you said it pushed the text to the edge this is why I said add
margin: 7px; to your #text2, i tested that and it put...