franglix

Blimey whats going on here then? Is Wizely Notbanksy by another IP?

I want Content and political, useful stuff... May be I am veering off-topic a little (as it seems to be a technical design preferences thread), but I just want to see content nodes evolving and moving on. That we get out of our system the Web 2.0 style 'personal/social identity construction' sites and all the clever apps, and into the domain of useful gritty and accessible political action communication sites. making better use of the full force of the code and languages we already have. I hope that the shift is a convergence towards better communication of world-change, a consilience and not more technical divergence and geek reductionism which so often makes flashy style look so much more appealing than substance. ...my 2 cents.

I maintain the free-lance status over here in France, but have recently jumped into a salaried position. I wanted my independence, but the hard lesson was that what I needed (over here at least) is: a significant professional history (at least 4 years) a reputation amongst clients agency/ies that love your work and are willing to think about you first the ability to chase down jobs and sell your benefits the ability to produce estimates for jobs at least twice monthly and a hard-nosed business attitude Without at least half of these qualities, it should remain something you dream about either side of the office, unless you still live with someone who pays your bills (!). Bear in mind also that the moment you isolate yourself - unless you adore RTFM - your technical skills only develop as fast as a new clients demands them. Professional training just seems very expensive. Forums although great, don't offer you the chance to learn directly from other specialists - you may rarely meet 'colleagues' face to face.

I have no software in particular to suggest. It depends I guess on how big the site is and how much data you are looking to retrieve (just the URLs or the titles also). If the site is fairly well-established and not huge, you could use Google's advanced settings and ask it to list for all the pages indexed (this may not be all the pages though), or just type site:www.whateverthedomainis.com in the usual search field. Then it's a click and drag to save the text on each of the results, the paste into Notepad to rinse of the formatting and html behind the scenes, and post into your final word-processing document.

I am curious Rachel, you mean those that use another's copyrighted image for profit or value, surely?! Or do you actually believe that everyone that saves an image for a personal reason (inspiration, admiration, printing for their office atmosphere etc.) as lazy / unintelligent just because they don't know how to include a link to the specific image?

Just for information, perhaps not the solution for you - and I haven't gone to the point of developing it myself as I haven't got a gallery need at this point - but 'heard of' a technique it elsewhere to put off people trawling for images... (although there's always ways around it.) Basically the idea is to set up/stretch a transparent 1px gif - sometimes dynamically given a different name each time - over the zone of the image of interest. A person trawling for the images on that site thinks that when they are clicking-right to save the image, they actually doing so. Whereas in fact they are saving just the 1px gif with lots of different names. By the time they bother to gleefully check what is contained in their image target folder, they have a huge quantity of nothing. Of course I don't trawl for copyrighted images. No certainly it wasn't me, but a virtual friend (who's name I now can't remember) in a closed down chat room bar over a couple of beers said it was so. I guess you'd have to have a lot of images to protect if you were to go to that length. Then again people can always locate the images in the Temporary Internet file cache if they were determined enough. Not that I would do that, of course.

Yes it is 19.5%. That's what I have to bill for. If I carry out web work for a UK company, I do not have to charge any VAT as is the case between EU member countries. Why do/did you doubt the accuracy of the claim Eggman?

Thanks Dan & Christopher I will check out this recommendation, and return with any comments. Cheers!

Thanks MolotovRus - it seems to have many capabilities, although the compact nature seems 'feels' odd and piddly and less 'pro' even for a quality camera. Perhaps I need to update my thinking. I am gathering from my initial forays that - at least for the quality of the lenses - I should be heading for a model made by the traditional 35mm manufacturer brigade- like Olympus, Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Minolta (but which I hear is 'dead'). I have heard of a 0cm Macro capability - what on earth does that mean, or were my ears serving me wrong? Anyone else using and satisfied with a good macro camera, they could also recommend?

Hello all, Have got a little personal project running, recording the events of my local population of solitary bees. At moment I am using just a simple Sony 5.1 MPx camera to capture the little chaps. After having used a 35mm Minolta7000 for many years, I don't get the frequency of well-focussed images I want of course, so for the rest of the season I will snap away with the oldie for the details I want. So... as I can't apparently get a digital camera whose motor will handle the weight and demands three quality lenses on the oldie, I have to see what's on the digital market with macro capacities. Has anyone got any ideas? Thanks, Paul. P.S. comments on improving my very primitive use of Wordpress here are always welcome.

Gees, you luck guys, over here in France VAT accounting kicks in at 27K€. I guess I need to find that bush where I hid my canoe - somewhere near Dunkirk I seem to remember. Anyway, good luck with however you configure it Peppa!

My first reaction is that it is not very scalable for the usual uses of logos, and I would echo the general sentiments of colleagues above. On the positive side, it is clear you have got artistic qualities - I wish you well in your endeavours! If you have another go at the logo, I (and I am sure others) would be pleased to see its evolution on this thread.

The code can only be offered for the moment : <div id="menu"> <dl> <dt onmouseover="java script:montre();"><a href="index.html" title="Home">Home</a></dt> </dl> <dl> <dt onmouseover="java script:montre('smenu1');">Menu Title</dt> <dd id="smenu1" onmouseover="java script:montre('smenu1');" onmouseout="java script:montre();"> <ul> <li><a href="aplace">Sub Item</a></li> <li><a href="aplace">Sub Item</a></li> <li><a href="aplace">Sub Item</a></li> <li><a href="aplace">Sub Item</a></li> </ul> </dd> </dl> HERE IS THE HEADER CODE FOR THE JS: <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- window.onload=montre; function montre(id) { var d = document.getElementById(id); for (var i = 1; i<=10; i++) { if (document.getElementById('smenu'+i)) {document.getElementById('smenu'+i).style.display='none';} } if (d) {d.style.display='block';} } //--> </script> AND THE CSS: #menu { position:absolute; z-index:100; width: 930px; } #menu dl { float: left; width: 110px; margin: 0 1px; } #menu dt { cursor: pointer; text-align: center; } #menu dd { border: 1px solid gray; } #menu li { text-align: center; background: #fff; } #menu li a, #menu dt a { color: #000; text-decoration: none; display: block; height: 100%; border: 0 none; } #menu li a:hover { background: #eee; } #menu dt a:hover { background: none; } If anyone has any thoughts to help out, please help out our colleague (Franglix is only the passer on).

Is there anyway you can offer a link to the page being tested... I am not the Js or Flash person to offer advice, but when they do arrive in the office, I am sure they would find you the solution quicker with a view of the problem in action. You can always PM me the link and I can post it on your behalf (providing you are not selling products beginning with V, or T and then P).

Thanks, that has worked.

Ahhh, the answer - no wonder. Strangely enough the wrong way around still works in IE. Anyway I always seem to have my own unique way of making a # of things.

Gees you guys are rapid - I was trying to answer ErisDS first interests and you have almost written another chapter to the thread. OK I will go and try the solution, but it is one hour + one beer later here.

Thanks for lending a hand ErisDS. This is now solved - you won't see it on the first links referred to, because the sites are live. I made changes as soon as I had the answer. The issue was that around my potentially clickable images I was trying to put a border in place. Everything was defined in the float left and right image styles, but because there was a link in place, it seemed that in FF a 1px gap was occurring between the bottom of the image and the border. This bizarre one pixel issue was because I hadn't included a 'display:block' in the reference top what to do when there is a link present around the image. It was just an irritating aesthetic thing. If you want to know more - I know experts like to know their fine detail - I will try and recreate the anomaly for you. As ElanMan said the list isn't floated, it is the left image. I want to be able to change the Index page text for the client occasionally (for possibly one day a small one-page CMS and SEO) without having to worry about where I have positioned the image div and whether the unordered list beside it has to be defined as a class apart. OK I will look at those issues. In respect of Q4 - I suspected it was a depreciated issue. So that's one little advance for my SEO acts. Thanks again for your help and interest.

So I am left just with question 2. ... but I am going to be greedy and ask an additional different unsolved 'noob' question. Question 4 - Internal page linking Firefox vs IE. In IE I get it to work <a href="..."> to an <a name="#... ">, but I gather this doesn't work in FF. Why is that, and is there a workaround?

Aha that works! Only, as you spotted, when in reference to the 'a img' (the CSS which references the link declaration). display:block; doesn't resolve this particular challenge when it's within the general class declaration for the .im_lt and its floating and borders etc.. I guess then this issue may be just linked to links. Thanks for clearing that up Subhajit.

I have tried it, but doing this moves all my unordered lists out by 160px (if you notice above on that page there also unordered lists). I could specify a separate class, but me thinks that that workaround would defeat the object of trying to get to grips with finding a way to control them properly with left floats. Hmmm any other ideas?

The CSS I am using on it is .im_lt {float:left; padding:0; margin:5px 7px 1px 8Px; background-color:#FFFF00; border-top:3px double #FF9900; border-right:3px double #FF9900; border-bottom: 3px solid #FF9900; border-left:3px solid #FF9900;} I may have misunderstood your answer, however I thought is was more aesthetically pleasing (but willing to concede on it) to have border top and right as 'double' and the opposites 'solid' - a sort of light direction impression thingy. However as I thought, even when all are 'double' - as you recommend - there still remains an errant pixel space below the image in FF. Any further thoughts on this one (or anyone else)? Thanks. P.S. No matter how I try the eight pixel left margin keeps pulling faces at us! Hehe

That works almost completely in FF (still a bit left of centre), and remains the same in IE6 & IE tab 7 in FF. So, thanks for that.

Hello all, I probably wasn't listening in class when they mentioned these issues and it's probably so obvious to absolutely everyone! So embarrassingly enough, I haven't found the solution, but I have tried to workaround them. Please answer me gently... Question 1: When I put a border round an image such as the left floats on the index pages of the sites here and more obviously here, no matter what I try in FF I always have an errant pixel of depth underneath the floated image. I have generally had to put the padding to '2px 3px 1px 2px' (seen on the right image floats to compensate). I don't see this problem in IE 6 and I believe IE7 (with FF plug-in tab). Any ideas as to how to get rid of this? Question 2: On the index page of the catering site the bullet points of the index page, they are encroaching on the image floated left? I have tried and tried, but what is the solution to move them clear of the floated image? The ul CSS is here: ul {display:block; border:0; margin:0px 0px 0px 20px; padding:4px 0 0 10px; font-size:1.2em;} Question 3: On the first French holiday apartment site on the photo gallery pages seen in the blue menu bar at the bottom of all pages, the images and holders are not centred in FF. The CSS is at the top of each page. <style type="text/css"> /* for non-IE browsers */ div.holder {width:732px; background:#f8f8f8; border:1px solid #FF9900; text-align:center; display:table-cell; vertical-align:middle;} div.holder img {margin:0 auto; border:1px solid #FFFF00;} </style> <!--[if IE]> <style type="text/css"> /* vertical align for IE */ #edge {width:0; height:100%; display:inline-block; vertical-align:middle;} #container {text-align:center; width:100%; display:inline-block; vertical-align:middle;} </style> <![endif]--> Any ideas/tips as to how to get the images + holders in FF to locate in the centre? Thanks in advance.

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