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regardless of the law, this is a dangerous thing to do in my opinion. i used mailchimp to send over 2000 emails for a client. i used a list that had been compiled by the client. they assured me, and i believe them, that the emails had been volunteered to them. we still got 6 spam complaints. this is enough for mailchimp to close my account with them, luckily they haven't. there are other more anonymous ways of doing it i imagine but it's really not good netiquette. it will likely annoy a good chunk of the people who receive the mails. nowadays mailing software requires that emails are submitted voluntarily and then re-confirmed by email to make sure they are not going to report spam. email is sacred.

awesome. thanks again Mike! As it so happened his assistant called me up earlier today to ask if i had changed the password. i told her yes and that i was planning legal action and didn't want to discuss anything further. this is followed by me getting several calls from her boss. i ignore the calls. 5 minutes ago there is a knock at my door.... he's there, apologising, with a cheque in hand. wtf? anyway all sorted. amazing help from you guys i really really appreciate it. looks like a happy new year. once again thanks to everyone who participated in this thread. now i know a lot more than i did before.

Hi Mike, thanks for this. I'm on it. I changed the password before christmas, looks like they've copped on today with his assistant emailing if I had. Why does the letter have to be handwritten? My handwriting is pretty bad. Here is a draft of the letter I intend to send with sensitive data Xed out. Is the bold a bit much? Dear XXXX XXXXXXX, On the XX/XX/2012, I changed the password for the top admin level access to the site. I have left the site intact and it continues to function as originally intended. I have taken this action because you are several months late on paying invoice ref XXXX. The original invoice was sent to you by post on XX/XX/2012 via Quick File Limited. I sent you a reminder by email after the invoice had passed it's due date on XX/XX/2012. You acknowledged the invoice by email on XX/XX/2012 and on XX/XX/2012, asking confirmation of payment details and stating your intention to send a cheque immediately. I confirmed payment details by email on XX/XX/2012. Having not received a cheque, I emailed you on the XX/XX/2012. Almost 2 weeks later, I called you by phone on XX/XX/2012 at 8:30am, you hung up on me without answering my inquiry regarding due payment. It is for this reason that I have restrained your access to the top level admin of the site. I am now charging 8.5% interest from the date the invoice was due, as well as £40 towards recovery costs (as per the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act. This brings the current total to £394.24. You now have 14 days to make good on your debt before I pursue legal action. Regards…

Guys! He hasn't changed the password on the wordpress admin. I still have access! • Should I take the site down? • Should I just change the password and leave the site up? • Should I leave it as it is? MikeChipshop, I like your view of things. But would this change things for you?

well. Just called him up. He complained about me calling him at 8:30 in morning. lol! I asked him if he had sent me a cheque yet. He hung up. Should I gave him 24 hours before sending him a letter then?

The company pays me, not the person (he's not a sole trader). His assistant legally represented the company as I see it. Am I wrong? The "wierd in between deal" was the 50/50. The deal let him off a few hundred quid which I thought was better than the effort involved in taking him to court. As for it being 50% up front, 50% after... this is similar to how I usually do things, obviously if he has already failed the initial contract the burden should be on him to pay 100% of the deal upfront. I know that now. I was naive. I'm learning... Communications between me and him really weren't working over the phone. I felt it safer to only use email, which provide legal evidence. I'm well aware of the situation I've got myself (yes, myself...) into and how it happened. Maybe I should have stated that first. Just trying to correct the situation as best I can. I may well follow your advice and call him up now. Thanks. And that crumbs theme is awesome I may have access to the site, I haven't tried. Is it really a good idea to take down the site at this stage from a legal perspective? I may do this after I speak to him over the phone. Thanks to everyone for the comments and advice, I really appreciate it. I'm learning Will update when I have news.

I hear ya, I figured 50% upfront 50% after was good enough. But really the burden was on him and I see that now. The agreement that was violated was the settlement, not the initial contract. Should I include copies of the emails detailing the settlement (instead of a copy of the contract) in my stern letter? @Jason Dexter Funny you should say. I stopped talking to the guy over the phone due to his rudeness and persistent attempts to manipulate me (took me a while to identify the red flags...). He is well aware he owes me money.

So I think time has come to take this guy to court. Never done this before, hoping to get some feedback. Client wasn't paying me for the website I did for him. He signed a contract, I completed the work. He stopped payment. I took the site down which prompted him to negociate a deal. I accepted to hand over the site for £700 (half up front, half on completion). This was all agreed via email between me and his assistant. He paid the first half, I handed the site over and sent him the second invoice (for the remaining £350). The invoice was sent by post using my accounting software (quickfile.co.uk). When the invoice was 10 days over the due date, I emailed him the invoice and let him know it was overdue. He emailed me back, apologizing, saying he would send the cheque straight away and asking who to make the cheque out to (there was previous confusion over my name). I responded 3 days later. No response. 11 days later, I sent him another email asking if he had sent it yet. No answer. So now it's over a month past due date. What do I do?

fixed, essentially needed to add css3-mediaqueries. this page helped: http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/responsive-design-with-css3-media-queries resolved.

Hello! I have a responsive site for a client: gad-center.com. It goes mental in IE8. I'm testing with adobe web labs and net render.com as i don't have a pc. The main problem is it seems to default to the @media query for portrait tablet and not desktop BUT... it is also displaying the menu un-styled vertically twice but without the home page link (as well as the normal styled horizonal menu). Ithink that is causing my header div to expand in height displaying a repeat background pattern... yikes. any help mucho appreciated.

i can send email from the domain name but i cant send email to the domain for some reason.

So I have a domain name hosted with 1and1 in france. I have a french web host with cpanel. my domain name with 1and1 is parked with my webhost. in the 1and1 dns settings i have the a-record set as the ip address of my VPS. Now I want to set the MX record so I can manage the email from my webhost. what do i put in as the MX record (in the 1and1 dns settings)? do i need to configure anything in the vps cpanel? if so how. the webhost is taking a while to get back to me, any help much appreciated.

woops, misread you. i use java for scrolling up and down pages smoothly to different anchors. i'm thinking it's essential for animating navigation features... basically whatever i can't do in CSS3. i want to get into touch-screen interaction (swiping...), not sure if this is java based though.

not sure what you mean. A browser and code editor? I'm just figuring out how to properly put java into my sites and having it play nicely with plugins that use java too. I've been putting the scripts in the header though I've heard they should go in the footer, despite what google says.

Sorted. Clearfix. Watched this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMEB78VX2P0 (particularly at 9:55 in the video. exactly answered my problem) And read some of this: http://www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html