Re: [wdvltalk] Site check please

2005-03-04 Thread Stephen Caudill
Send them out forthwith to procure an Mac and do not let them re-enter the building without one. Seriously. Mac Mini's are cheap-a-cheap-a and pack a hell of a wallop... so long as you're not doing sound or video *editing* on them... then again a powerbook can easily handle that sort of thing, i

Re: [wdvltalk] Site check please

2005-03-04 Thread Scott Glasgow
The site looks great, Ross, very crisp and clean, easily navigated, and professional. I might change the wording for the "Open Full View" button on the Flash control (which I like, BTW, especially the texture) to "View Menu" or something. When I first moused over it I had the idea at first that

Re: [wdvltalk] Site check please

2005-03-04 Thread Franni Vincent
Screen grabs would be good Franni thanks along with system spec and browsers tested! MOU P.S. I am reliant on you Mac guys at this stage - we're Macless in the office (a big bug bear of mine for cross-platform Director development too). Screenshot on its way offlist - MacOs X, IE5.5 is where the me

Re: [wdvltalk] Site check please

2005-03-04 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Deb > I really like your FLASH =) I think overall it looks > very sharp. Glad somebody likes it lol!!! Trust me guys it will be better when it's finished... > There are 2 things I would change. 1) it's very narrow - I would widen it out a bit > - I'm thinking to 700'ish px or so Just goes to sho

Re: [wdvltalk] Site check please

2005-03-04 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Screen grabs would be good Franni thanks along with system spec and browsers tested! MOU P.S. I am reliant on you Mac guys at this stage - we're Macless in the office (a big bug bear of mine for cross-platform Director development too). Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.mess

RE: [wdvltalk] Site check please

2005-03-04 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Drew > MOU, you have 70 validation errors. Thanks for the check I've not done a proper XHTML Strict validation yet so I'm aware I'm going to have to tweak things. > There is one error that seems to indicate you've used an id twice -- to the tower with ye! Please spare me this once I have been rush

Re: [wdvltalk] Site check please

2005-03-04 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
> I looked at it for a sec from home last night and it > took right at 30 > seconds to pull up the page on DSL (1.5mbps) then an > additional 17 > seconds for the flash to load. I still need to do a lot of image optimisation to do on the site to speed things up a bit and this will be most notica

[wdvltalk] Creating a hyperlink to another drive

2005-03-04 Thread Tom Webb
I want to use a hyperlink to another drive. Using the how does one do this. Tom Webb • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use the web interface http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ Send Your

Re: [wdvltalk] IE display problem

2005-03-04 Thread Portman
I don't have a router. The only change I did make was to reset my password. It is also only some sites that come up blank. Riva Trusz, Andrew wrote: 192.168.0.1 would be your modem. The 192.168.xxx.xxx address range is a private address and isn't on the internet. It is purely local. Your indivi

Re: [wdvltalk] Site check please

2005-03-04 Thread PBC Web Design
At 08:18 PM 3/3/2005, you wrote: http://www.themmen.co.uk/newsite/ Comments on a postcard to the usual address. Hi Ross, I really like your FLASH =) I think overall it looks very sharp. There are 2 things I would change. 1) it's very narrow - I would widen it out a bit - I'm thinking to 700'ish

RE: [wdvltalk] IE display problem

2005-03-04 Thread Trusz, Andrew
-Original Message- From: Portman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 1:12 PM To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] IE display problem Thanks for the reply. Last week when my DSL went out, I called tech support to get back online. They had me go to a ce

Re: [wdvltalk] IE display problem

2005-03-04 Thread Portman
Thanks for the reply. Last week when my DSL went out, I called tech support to get back online. They had me go to a certain website (192.168.0.1) to try and fix the problem, but anytime I tried to navigate from there I got a blank page. The woman did tell me to go to the Advanced tab under In

RE: [wdvltalk] IE display problem

2005-03-04 Thread Trusz, Andrew
-Original Message- From: Portman Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 8:19 PM Subject: [wdvltalk] IE display problem Hi all, I have found this odd problem happening lately. I am unable to access certain websites with IE. Circuity City and Blockbuster are two examples. I can get there wit

[wdvltalk] Nvu editor

2005-03-04 Thread Joseph Harris
I have just come across Nvu, a web page editor, supposedly like Dreamweaver. Does anyone know about it? Joseph Harris • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use the web interface http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discu

Re: [wdvltalk] Site check please

2005-03-04 Thread Franni Vincent
Hi all The new site is nearing completion so I thought I'd better ask you wonderful people for a once over. Not a lot of the site actually has any content yet (for example the Flash widget has temporary graphics and the portfolio has test documents) but you should be able to see the structure.

RE: [wdvltalk] Site check please

2005-03-04 Thread Trusz, Andrew
MOU, you have 70 validation errors. They are in two principal groups. One is the "no such attribute" problem. The other is the entity issue in the php links. There is one error that seems to indicate you've used an id twice -- to the tower with ye! Many of the attribute issues have to do with xhtm

Re: [wdvltalk] Site check please

2005-03-04 Thread Stephen Caudill
Ross, I looked at it for a sec from home last night and it took right at 30 seconds to pull up the page on DSL (1.5mbps) then an additional 17 seconds for the flash to load. It seems to be coming up rather quickly from work on our T3 though :) The overall layout is very sharp and professional

Re: [wdvltalk] IE display problem

2005-03-04 Thread Portman
Hi Joseph, I don't think so. When I connect, the window that opens for SBC is IE. That is the one that I am having problems with. When I open FF myself and browse I have no problems. Riva Joseph Harris wrote: Riva, I have a situation where FF amd IE work from two different connect windows; ev

Re: [wdvltalk] Site check please

2005-03-04 Thread Joseph Harris
All the other pages come up very fast and there is a consistent clarity. I particularly like the way you've done the login page.It's the log in windows that really seem more inviting than most, even though the blue is slightly cold. Joseph > Joseph: > > > The site came up quickly on FF (Xph

Re: [wdvltalk] Site check please

2005-03-04 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Joseph: The site came up quickly on FF (Xphome) but the image is taking for ever to load (56 dial-up). Yeah I forgot to mention that I've not done any image optimisation at this point so the images that teh Flash movie loads in are around 100k each - sorry for all you dial-up testers at this poi