Freelancers Forum Messages on Tuesday March 25th 2008
Re: FN-FORUM: Business funding for under 18's
date posted 25th March 2008 19:11
First of all thanks to everyone who replied, all the advice has been
really helpful!
I'll look into all the different options over the next couple of days
and hopefully, come summer, i'll have the...
Re: FN-FORUM: Multiple Browser testing
date posted 25th March 2008 17:30
And as a final test I always use http://browsershots.org
Lee Rickler
Director - Point and Stare - pointandstare.com
Web Design and Development for over 11 years
Chris Hanson wrote:
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> hey this is...
Re: FN-FORUM: 3 character domain - grabber!
date posted 25th March 2008 17:29
yeah .. foolish ... i'll give you £55 for it.
:)
Lee Rickler
Director - Point and Stare - pointandstare.com
Web Design and Development for over 11 years
Colin Rainsforth wrote:
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> At 17:32 +0000...
Re: FN-FORUM: osCommerce sample data
date posted 25th March 2008 17:24
still don't really understand what you are trying to do.
create accounts and make orders?
We do this on most test beds for oscom and generally create around 10
customers followed by around 50 orders...
Re: FN-FORUM: Multiple Browser testing
date posted 25th March 2008 16:48
Geraint Rhys Jones wrote:
> I'm a young developer (in terms of experience) and wondered if people could
> share with me how they go about testing their sites on multiple web
> browsers, I have IE7, Fi...
Re: FN-FORUM: Multiple Browser testing
date posted 25th March 2008 16:44
Hi Geraint,
For a quick overview I use http://browsershots.org/
It tests your site in LOTS of different browsers.
I also have the usual suite of browsers installed (IE, Firefox, Opera).
I also hav...
Re: FN-FORUM: osCommerce sample data
date posted 25th March 2008 16:39
No thanks. ( I choose to ignore any suggestion of sarcasm here).
I just want to get a data set that I can run my stats algorithms across
to develop a prototype for an osCommerce plug-in. I had hope...
RE: FN-FORUM: Multiple Browser testing
date posted 25th March 2008 16:38
>I'm a young developer (in terms of experience) and wondered if people could
>share with me how they go about testing their sites on multiple web
>browsers, I have IE7, FireFox and Safari installed on...
Re: FN-FORUM: 3 character domain - grabber!
date posted 25th March 2008 16:36
At 17:32 +0000 25/3/08, PuntersPower wrote:
>2 letter domains cool, can't beat it alas just a string of 3 letter and 4
>letter domains some .com but only worth what someone will pay!
I expect 3 lette...
Re: FN-FORUM: Multiple Browser testing
date posted 25th March 2008 16:27
On 25 Mar 2008, at 17:34, Geraint Rhys Jones wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I'm a young developer (in terms of experience) and wondered if
> people could
> share with me how they go about testing their sites o...
Re: FN-FORUM: Multiple Browser testing
date posted 25th March 2008 16:24
hey this is my setup for testing websites
XP
Firefox
IE6
IE7
Opera
Netscape
Safari
Linux
Firefox
Opera
IE6
I test in all them browsers and some other but cant remember the names,
i make change t...
RE: FN-FORUM: 3 character domain - grabber!
date posted 25th March 2008 16:19
to make Dom happy
"if its not trademark infringement you dont have anything to worry =
about*. if yr interested in trading domains take a look at sedo.com"
*does not include corporate bullying with...
Re: FN-FORUM: Business funding for under 18's
date posted 25th March 2008 16:13
see below for unsubscribing < / cough >
Lee Rickler
Director - Point and Stare - pointandstare.com
Web Design and Development for over 11 years
mark richard james Fox wrote:
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> PLEASE TAKE ME OU...
FN-FORUM: Multiple Browser testing
date posted 25th March 2008 16:07
Hi,
I'm a young developer (in terms of experience) and wondered if people could
share with me how they go about testing their sites on multiple web
browsers, I have IE7, FireFox and Safari installed...
Re: FN-FORUM: 3 character domain - grabber!
date posted 25th March 2008 16:06
2 letter domains cool, can't beat it alas just a string of 3 letter and 4
letter domains some .com but only worth what someone will pay!
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http://www.punterspower.co.uk
>
> You own it, and can pr...
Re: FN-FORUM: osCommerce sample data
date posted 25th March 2008 16:01
would you like email addresses too? I have 5000+ on one domain, is that ok?
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http://www.punterspower.co.uk
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> it's order data and customer data I really need. Working on a
> stats/marketing a...
Re: FN-FORUM: osCommerce sample data
date posted 25th March 2008 16:00
It is very confusing to what you are actually trying to achieve with
someone elses live data?
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http://www.punterspower.co.uk
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> No,
>
> dummy data. Anonymised from real life if possible.
>
> Al...
Re: FN-FORUM: 3 character domain - grabber!
date posted 25th March 2008 16:00
On Tuesday 25 March 2008 17:31:58 Brendan Oliver wrote:
> if its not trademark infringement you dont have anything to worry about. if
We all remember the baa.com story, right?
http://www.theregister....
Re: FN-FORUM: Business funding for under 18's
date posted 25th March 2008 15:48
On 25 Mar 2008, at 16:57, mark richard james Fox wrote:
> PLEASE TAKE ME OUT OF THIS EMAIL CC !
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> NOT AT ALL INTERESTED
>
> STOP EMAILING ME THANKS !
I think you made a mistake, because this is...
Re: FN-FORUM: Business funding for under 18's
date posted 25th March 2008 15:45
If you look very carefully there's an unsubscribe link at the bottom of
every post: "...
Re: FN-FORUM: osCommerce sample data
date posted 25th March 2008 15:44
No,
dummy data. Anonymised from real life if possible.
Although if anyone wanted to let me play with real data and be my pilot
site I would love to speak to them too.
Lee Rickler wrote:
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> You m...
Re: FN-FORUM: Business funding for under 18's
date posted 25th March 2008 15:37
its not a a chain email its a mailing list that you have signed up for lol
Chris...
RE: FN-FORUM: Business funding for under 18's
date posted 25th March 2008 15:31
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RE: FN-FORUM: Business funding for under 18's
date posted 25th March 2008 15:26
PLEASE STOP SENDING ME THIS INFORMATION NOT INTERESTED !
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RE: FN-FORUM: Business funding for under 18's
date posted 25th March 2008 15:22
good positive advice there Mike A
+1
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Brendan Oliver
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Re: FN-FORUM: osCommerce sample data
date posted 25th March 2008 15:20
You mean confidential information?
Lee Rickler
Director - Point and Stare - pointandstare.com
Web Design and Development for over 11 years
John Dickens wrote:
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> it's order data and customer data...
RE: FN-FORUM: Business funding for under 18's
date posted 25th March 2008 15:14
Hi James,
What Duncan wrote all sounds like good advice,
Try www.businesslink.gov.uk and you may find that there's some funding
available or if your in Wales, google business eye. But just so you k...
Re: FN-FORUM: Business funding for under 18's
date posted 25th March 2008 15:12
Assuming your business plans are in website development...
James, funding for a Web based business start-up is an essential fallacy.
You may care to re-adjust, for any provider of funds will bring p...
Re: FN-FORUM: osCommerce sample data
date posted 25th March 2008 15:06
it's order data and customer data I really need. Working on a
stats/marketing application that looks at buying habits and presents actions
PuntersPower wrote:
> sample data?
>
> yu mean live product...
RE: FN-FORUM: 3 character domain - grabber!
date posted 25th March 2008 15:06
if its not trademark infringement you dont have anything to worry about. =
if yr interested in trading domains take a look at sedo.com
Kind regards=20
Brendan=20...
Re: FN-FORUM: 3 character domain - grabber!
date posted 25th March 2008 15:01
You own it, and can prove it then it's yours.
Is it a .com? if so then keep hold of it.
TPEBTWG*
PS ... I have a 2 letter .co.uk - anyone better that?
Also a load of 4 letter .org and .nets but I thi...
FN-FORUM: 3 character domain - grabber!
date posted 25th March 2008 14:54
Hello All,
I have a 3 character domain name which I have owned since 2003.
I have just had a call from someone claiming ownership because they have a
limited company with the same 3 characters.
I...
Re: FN-FORUM: osCommerce sample data
date posted 25th March 2008 14:51
sample data?
yu mean live products?
The standard install comes with approx 50 products
Andrew
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http://www.punterspower.co.uk
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> Seeing as osCommerce is the subject "du jour": does anyone hav...
Re: FN-FORUM: Business funding for under 18's
date posted 25th March 2008 14:37
Assumption
1) You are living at home.
2) Most if not all your bills are paid for by parents.
3) Your idea is that good that you are able to persuade said parents to
give you 3-6 months during which y...
Re: FN-FORUM: Business funding for under 18's
date posted 25th March 2008 14:25
Hi James,
When I did it, I got funding from the Prince's Trust.
Your best source of information is your local Business Link.. if they
still are doing it, they had free 1 to 1 sessions with industry
s...
FN-FORUM: Business funding for under 18's
date posted 25th March 2008 14:20
Hi all,
I'm sure someone here will have some good advice or experience on this
however looking on google doesn't really reveal anything.
Basically I'm looking into setting up my own business in the...
Re: FN-FORUM: Thoughts on social tools, bookmarking and newsfeeds anyone?
date posted 25th March 2008 11:11
You should think of it as the Digg, furl or whatever's, users who link to
your site rather than the sites themselves.
Your site makes the news and then your visitors post the links on the
networking...
Re: FN-FORUM: Thoughts on social tools, bookmarking and newsfeeds anyone?
date posted 25th March 2008 10:58
Duncan Glendinning wrote:
> Now my belief is that because of the nature of their site, they should
> be making news and creating the features that make the likes of
> facebook and others want or need...
Re: FN-FORUM: Thoughts on social tools, bookmarking and newsfeeds anyone?
date posted 25th March 2008 10:48
Duncan,
If you have a community/news driven web site, then enabling a "Post to
Facebook" type link is a good way of publicising it and is kind of the
next step up from the old email a friend links....
FN-FORUM: osCommerce sample data
date posted 25th March 2008 10:39
Seeing as osCommerce is the subject "du jour": does anyone have any
sample data for osCommerce. I need quite a big data set in order to
write some stats based software
I know I could fake some up i...
FN-FORUM: Thoughts on social tools, bookmarking and newsfeeds anyone?
date posted 25th March 2008 08:58
Good Morning,
Hope you guys won't mind me resposting this as I would really like
your comments, and this thread has probably got lost in the hundreds
of emails you have to get through after easter....