Re: [wdvltalk] Site check please

2005-03-06 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Hi Stephen As I'm at home to visit me mother for Mother's Day I've just acquired my stepdad's old G3 iMac (shame it's red not blue to match my glowing blue P4) but it's more than enough to do my Mac testing on. I will annoy the chief at work some more to get a Mac mini or cheap iMac or SOMETHING

Re: [wdvltalk] Site check please

2005-03-06 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Dave: On the 'Our Services' page, I think the big space to the left of each paragraph looks wrong - it looks like there should be something there that's missing. That's because there is something missing! I forgot to upload the images that go with each service. On the left nav, I feel

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

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 noticable

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

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

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 show

[wdvltalk] Site check please

2005-03-03 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
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.

[wdvltalk] Embedded Windows Media and QuickTime players

2005-02-16 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Hi List After doing a bit of reading I've come across a few different ways of embedding the Windows Media Player control into a cross-browser web page and to be honest I'm not sure which one to go for. Anybody got any suggestions what the best or recommended way of doing this is? Same applies

Re: [wdvltalk] List styling problem

2005-01-26 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Scott: Thanks for the links. This is the only time I've encountered the issue but a heads up on this sort of thing is great for the future. Cheryl: When ultimately the design I posted goes live with PHP generated content I'll probably end up saving a few bytes here and there removing a lot of

[wdvltalk] List styling problem

2005-01-25 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Hi List Having a bit of a problem with IE6/Win adding extra whitespace to a set of lists. http://www.themmen.co.uk/newsite/ is the page. I've made the font size ridiculously small intentionally to illustrate the problem I'm having. At this point I have not applied any margin or padding to any

Re: [wdvltalk] List styling problem

2005-01-25 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Bloody hell *growl* cheers for the heads-up rudy You get told sorry about the confusion with not bothering to tell you your domain was up for renewal 3 months ago but don't worry we've received your payment and everything will work fine but everything goes wrong anyway. Here's some new links

Re: [wdvltalk] List styling problem RESOLVED

2005-01-25 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Hi List I've just noticed the key difference between the two sets of styling rules for those list sets: the list set which renders correctly in IE has a width rule applied to the ul, whereas the offending sets don't. I've added a width rule and everything works properly in IE. I'm uploading

Re: [wdvltalk] [Seriously OT] Mac or PC?

2004-12-17 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Stephen: I did a similar thing and then went direct to Apple's site and priced up a full spec Dual G5 (that's right 8Gb RAM and TWO of those loverly 30 panels). It worked out at something like £10K (about $17K at the moment - yes we do get ripped off in the UK) and I sobbed. However Apple

Re: [wdvltalk] [Seriously OT] Mac or PC?

2004-12-15 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Cheryl: MOU, got cite for that licensing info? Not got the time to find it at the moment, but I'm sure I read something about it on Macromedia's site about their MX 2004 product line. I do know it applies to Director MX 2004 because a partner company use it for both PC and Mac versions

Re: [wdvltalk] [Seriously OT] Mac or PC?

2004-12-15 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Cheryl: I can transfer my license from one PC to another but not between my Mac and PC. When I bought the Mac I asked Macromedia and they said I had to buy a whole new copy for it. No way to transfer one of my PC licenses. Which now makes me wonder if what my partner company has done is legal -

Re: [wdvltalk] OT: Help with a stubborn CD

2004-12-09 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Hi Peter This is sounding like a codec problem i.e. you don't have the codec used to encode the video so you can't play it. Problem is though Microsoft (from what you've said it sounds like you're trying to play through Windows Media Player) don't have a lot of the commonly used video codecs

Re: [wdvltalk] SCR: lf.mechavox.com

2004-12-08 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Good Job Stephen! Re your image replacement for the title - exactly which flavour are you using? I don't think I've seen one which uses an empty span. My personal preference is styling the h1 with the background image and relevant sizes and then nesting a span inside that h1. That nested span

Re: [wdvltalk] SCR: lf.mechavox.com

2004-12-08 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Cheryl I'm not a big fan of image replacement anyway but since we can do so much with web design/development these days (Microsoft browsers permitting of course) but also have so many different aspects to consider 9 times in 10 I move more towards keeping things accessible and don't bother with

[wdvltalk] Re: Losing focus

2004-10-28 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Riva: You might also want to check for scumware or something like that too. I've had some nasty lil buggers that grabbed focus while running in the background every few seconds. MOU • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL

[wdvltalk] Re: Site page glance please

2004-10-18 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Joseph n rudy: here's a tip: do not assign font size don't give them pixels, don't give them ems, don't give them keywords don't set font size at all then have a look at your page in various browsers Now y'see I've never agreed with this sort of approach. OK it does mean that the visitor has got

[wdvltalk] Re: [OT] SP2 choice

2004-10-08 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Joseph does anyone have advice as to which to work from, the download or the disc? It's downloaded now so you might as well use the download. The CD version will be the full file set for SP2, the downloaded version is the file set specific to your installation. If you are concerned about

[wdvltalk] Re: pre in css

2004-09-22 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Joseph: pre is still there so use it to get your text to render as you want to, with all the line breaks and spaces you want, and then style your pre to make it look pretty. CSS is for styling, not markup, so don't try to find CSS versions of HTML tags because they are two different beasts. A

[wdvltalk] RE: OT

2004-09-22 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
My thoughts and prayers to you Jan...just don't be gone too long ;) MOU • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

[wdvltalk] Nested Lists (was pre in CSS)

2004-09-22 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Ignore me list, I just remembered how to do it lol So, to answer my own question: no, a nested list is not a list item in itself just nest up your child lists inside parent lists: ul liitem 1/li liitem 2/li ul lisub item 1/li lisub item 2/li lisub

[wdvltalk] RE: Nested Lists (was pre in CSS)

2004-09-22 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
No. You had it right the first time Really drew? OK, it's a trip to the W3C validator then... Confused MOU • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send

[wdvltalk] RE: font meets font in css

2004-09-21 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Jospeh: a three column with a header and footer Bloody hell! I thought I told you to start off simple! This is a major piece of CSS work Joseph, but it can be done. Just expect to be pulling your hair out an awful lot. Cheryl's right though - http://positioniseverything.net have done some great

[wdvltalk] RE: CSS boxes etc

2004-09-17 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Joseph Now who uses ems for site sizing and what problems are most important? That's the elastic design I was referring to. A column of, say, 36em is fixed to that measurement. No amount of browser resizing is going to change the width of that column. However, changing the text display size via

[wdvltalk] RE: CSS boxes etc

2004-09-15 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Joesph: I get you now...those really annoying scrolly boxes that always try to stay at the same place on your screen regardless of how often you scroll! Ignore them - they're Javascript based and, although the concept behind them is a good one (also I think it's a workaround until our favourite

[wdvltalk] RE: CSS boxes etc

2004-09-15 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Joseph: is there a consensus on what is the most usual size of browser view that people actually see? Not too sure what you mean by this. If you're referring to common or most used screen resolutions then I have two answers for you: * If you're planning on working to a fixed size design

[wdvltalk] RE: CSS boxes etc

2004-09-14 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Their site is excellent for explaining some of the special features found only in IE. How politically correct of you drew :P MOU • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To

[wdvltalk] RE: CSS boxes etc

2004-09-14 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Joseph Just a little thing. Don't confuse floats with fluid as they're different things. All the behaviour you seem to be referring to is fluid design, whereby the layout of a page flows with the sizing of the browser. Note however that it's not really common user practice to constantly size

[wdvltalk] Re: CSS boxes etc

2004-09-13 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Hi Joseph The question you ask is a mighty discussion all to itself! There are so many things to say, from beginner stuff all the way to super-advanced, I just don't know where to start. Best do some reading first I think. Hunt around http://www.alistapart.com for articles on CSS design (but

[wdvltalk] Re: OT: language (was Viruses)

2004-09-09 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
American? Didn't know they'd greated their own language now? Well, until they spell thru correctly (even though the correct version is cheating at Scrabble) and pronounce the h in herbs then I guess it's a different language ;-) From what I've been told, it is now politically correct to refer

[wdvltalk] Re: OT: language (was Viruses)

2004-09-08 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Who do you think you've been talking to? ;-) Well yes OK lol MOU • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

[wdvltalk] Re: Viruses

2004-09-07 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
0-day virus = virus which is propagating before your (or any) antivirus can detect it. It happens every day. Yeah, and given that most new virii are deployed by some bored little computer geek in the ass-end of East Asia the major antivirus companies can usually catch the thing before anything

[wdvltalk] Re: Viruses

2004-09-07 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
rudy by the way, it would be viri, not virii Y'know I've been wondering about that for a while - the double i never looked correct but i was slammed by educators for a very long time for using a single i so I guess it's stuck, but granted viruses is probably better usage even though it is

[wdvltalk] Re: DHTML Cascading Menus

2004-09-07 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
I wonder how many people does really care about Opera or Safari... or even Mozilla :-( Oh how I wish that statement was I wonder how many people does really care about IE =)) Would make are job so much easier, right list? MOU • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join

[wdvltalk] Re: Viruses

2004-09-07 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
no, viruses is technically correct that's what i been tryna tell ya! Well maybe I should bloody listen then :P So does this mean that octopi is now octopuses? MOU • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your

[wdvltalk] Re: Viruses

2004-09-06 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Netsky is still very much alive on the net. It's annoying yes but as long as you're protected there's nothing to worry about. MOU • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To

[wdvltalk] Re: Viruses

2004-09-06 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Netsky is still very much alive on the net. It's annoying yes but as long as you're protected there's nothing to worry about. Of course there is something to worry about! I'm sorry, does turning on your computer scare you that much *cough troll cough* How long until you become victim of a 0-day

[wdvltalk] RE: Trojans

2004-08-31 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Jon That's what the Trusted Sites zone is for In my experience, because Microsoft go to great lengths to idiot-proof their products (but that doesn not mean the developers and testers should be idiots) allowing the Great Unwashed public to plug-in-and-go, nobody wants to play around with

[wdvltalk] Re: Whitespace Readability (was Abbreviation for javascript (??))

2004-08-25 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
I managed to avoid COBOL when I was doing my degree and A-Levels, but from some onscure reason it was replaced with LISP. Not that I can remember a damn thing of course - all those parentheses hurt my brain :( And I always found Pascal to be a problem too, but Delphi makes it very nice now lol...

[wdvltalk] Re: desperate now for order form script

2004-08-25 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Jen: As this is a rather specialist requirement for a form I don't think anybody will have one simply lying around. Send me the link for yours again, with the values for shipping and AZ tax and I'll see if I can find a few spare minutes to write you one. MOU • The WDVL Discussion List

[wdvltalk] Re: Flash not working in Netscape

2004-08-22 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Riva: the background of the movie doesn't come through as transparent when I view http://www.starqualitydesigns.com/parkview in Netscape - any ideas? If you're referring to Netscape 4.x then it won't show as transparent because that browser doesn't support transparent Flash movies. This is

[wdvltalk] Re: rank JS amateur here again

2004-08-22 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Jen: I don't get any errors when the form is changed, but my subtotals box doesn't get updated. There's is also something I've noticed too which you're probably gonna hate me for, although the JS ubergurus will have to double-check me on this... You've declared your markup as HTML 3.2 and put in

[wdvltalk] PHP Crunch time

2004-08-21 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Hi list... I've been a one-trick pony server-side for too long and my employment prospects beyond my current position are looking bleaker. It's time to learn PHP and MySQL. Resources, tutorials, books, training, you guys, any and all types of learning materials required! Any suggestions?

[wdvltalk] Re: [SCR] www.kearys.ie

2004-08-21 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
BJ: I don't believe the Toyota panel has any less electrons to share, do you? gdar Or you could just say it's valance Jac, not valence as they are two different things. You REALLY don't want to do that floor do you! Jac: Overall I think it's great. A few little niggles though. New Lexus

[wdvltalk] OT: Firewire 800 Caddy

2004-08-18 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Hi Stephen Well, the back seems to be holding up so far so venture forth into the office! Here's the link: http://www.macally-europe.com/mainframeset.php?lang=EN Bloody frames! Otherwise look up the PHR-100ACB an that's the one I've got at work and at home. OK, so it's probably not the most

[wdvltalk] Re: Website price

2004-08-11 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
And a little something from me too... I've got two flat rates I operate when doing my freelance work: one for professional clients and one for friends/family. The friends/family rate basically equate to me producing things at cost (which in itself has a certain markup because generally I have no

[wdvltalk] Re: ASP Arrays OO

2004-08-11 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
I'll have a proper look for you as soon as I can Clancy but for now Jure said: The second thing is indexing: Arrays don't start at 0, but instead at 1 In VBScript Arrays DO start indexing at 0 so Clancy's referencing (0, 0) is correct. MOU ? The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM ?

[wdvltalk] Re: CSS center

2004-08-06 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Whoops!! That should've been margin-left: -370px; I knew I'd mess it up lol MOU • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL

[wdvltalk] Re: Is Netscape 4.x dead?

2004-07-19 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
I don't worry about older browsers per se, but like Rudy it's the @import trick I use to keep the design work hidden from horrors like Netscape 4.7 (and I'm most pleased of myself I've not used a single CSS hack in about a year now). I've never understood the mentality to do browser sniffs or

[wdvltalk] Re: fif file frustration

2004-07-09 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
if you are down to taking shots in the dark, try renaming the extension from .fif to .tif to see if the image might not be a tiff As an extension to rudy's suggestion, try changing the extension of your FIF files to every file type Photoshop can do just in case. I've had a few interesting

[wdvltalk] Re: Object and embed problems

2004-06-04 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Paul: Additionally, if your friend wants to be really swish he could write his own DTD for his XHTML pages making all invalid markup valid again!! Got that idea from the discussion board on that Flash Satay article and could well be a viable route to take if you don't fancy ripping out the

[wdvltalk] Re: Flash MX help...

2004-06-02 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Tris: on (release) { getURL(myfile.ext); } should do the trick. Just change myfile.ext to whatever you're trying to open. This will look for files at the same level in a folder structure as the Flash movie (i.e. CD root as you've noted at the beginning). If it don't want to play let me

[wdvltalk] Re: MM Flash MX vs. SwishMax

2004-05-25 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Hi Riley IMO it depends on what you're trying to acheive with your Flash movie. If animation and basic interactivity is what you're after then there's no point in shelling out a fortune for the full Macromedia Flash because you're only going to use a tiny fraction of its functionality. However if

[wdvltalk] SMTP on Windows 2000, round 2

2004-05-19 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Tis I again with ongoing problems... I had managed to get everything working on the server and rejoiced in sending and receiving e-mail. Then last night some lil spam bugger relayed a few thousand mails through the server. Suffice it to say I'm not best pleased about this, especially now that

[wdvltalk] RE: SMTP on Windows 2000

2004-05-16 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Cheers drew for everything I got a nice lil shareware POP3 server and it works well. I'm having a few teething issues now trying to actually send e-mail to my new address (reporting back that the server denied connection because teh user wasn't authenticated) but I'll work through that. I'll be

[wdvltalk] RE: SMTP on Windows 2000

2004-05-12 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Cheers drew - looking good to me MOU • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: set WDVLTALK

[wdvltalk] RE: SMTP on Windows 2000

2004-05-12 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Drew et all So far so good - the info you provided has got this server set up very nicely indeed. Just one little thing I'm stuck on again...how exactly do I now retrieve mail sent to the server? I can see the mails sat on the server's disk but how do I go about getting an e-mail client (such as

[wdvltalk] SMTP on Windows 2000

2004-05-11 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Dear List Run into a bit of a brick wall in setting up a server for a client. I'm not fully up to speed on Windows 2000 Server configuration so I'm not really sure how to go about setting up an SMTP server for one of the sites I'll be hosting. I've set up and configured the SMTP service and

[wdvltalk] Re: IE 5.5 and 6.0 compatibility

2004-04-14 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Browser-sniffed hot-swapped CSS files is probably overkill - if you're careful you can fix the major inconsitencies between IE5.5 and IE6 at the basic design/CSS level. You can get around IE5.5 insane font size issues by specifying a 100% as the font size for the body and then sizes in Em in

[wdvltalk] RE: Am I out of touch? (web sizes)

2004-02-25 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
I'm sorry, I *have* to see this site now...how unprofessional would it be of you to share an URL J.R.? Pretty pretty please? MOU • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To

[wdvltalk] Re: Word V PDF (OT?)

2004-02-18 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
The ideal option would be just to circulate a text only version of the newsletter, but the publications are already established as a Word documents with formatting, so I have to continue to meet that expectation. RTF to the rescue? MOU • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To

[wdvltalk] Re: Table question

2004-01-30 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Good to know you got it sorted jac, but what the bloody hell are you of all people doing using tables in the first place?!? Sorry it's 4.24am and this flu is driving me mad... MOU • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[wdvltalk] Page Test please

2004-01-19 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Greets to all You've seen this already but it has been tweaked per my client's wishes. They didn't like a long column so I've rejigged it to be a floating central panel. http://www.stokelaugarkungfuandkickboxing.co.uk/newsite/school.html

[wdvltalk] Re: Page Test please

2004-01-19 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Cheers Deb Could you clarify your points for me please: hz scroll of about an inch on both pages This is probably to do with those two Lau Gar icons down the sides of the pages (they're floating divs not part of the background hence content), but what monitor resolution are you running at (not

[wdvltalk] Re: Page Test please (fixed)

2004-01-19 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Hi again http://www.stokelaugarkungfuandkickboxing.co.uk/new/school.html http://www.stokelaugarkungfuandkickboxing.co.uk/new/style.html As the Lau Gar symbols down the sides are purely cosmetic, they now fluidly float around 5% from the browser edges, ducking underneath the main content area as

[wdvltalk] Re: Page Test please (fixed)

2004-01-19 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Screenshots offlist are more than welcome - cheers Steve. Which browser you using? MOU • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to

[wdvltalk] Re: Page Test please (fixed)

2004-01-19 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
BJ Um...ok! I have no idea lol A screenshot from you too would be most appreciated if I may impose. Cheers to all MOU • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a

[wdvltalk] Re: [SCR] http://www.interactwiththe.net/ict/

2004-01-17 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
I'm really not sure about this one Matt... Something's just wrong. Can't quite put my finger on it, but it's just...well...wrong. Looks bland, rushed and maybe even amateurish. I think you might need to rip it all out and start again. If your client it happy with it then I don't think you're

[wdvltalk] Re: [SCR] http://www.interactwiththe.net/ict/

2004-01-17 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
In response to Amanda and a pre-emptive apology to Matt: We've all got our own tastes and I'm not saying the absense of fancy graphics or intricate design makes the site in anyway a lesser piece of development, so sorry if I gave that impression. Having looked at it hard now (in case I missed a

[wdvltalk] Re: [SCR] http://www.interactwiththe.net/ict/

2004-01-17 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
this page was his first attempt at a tableless css-only layout, and on that basis, i think it's great It is?!?! I thought Matt had been XHTML+CSS for ages now! I stand corrected and applaud Matt for getting his first CSS only version better than anything I churned out for my first 3 months!

[wdvltalk] Re: Coding help

2004-01-17 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Will Not had chance to look properly but I did notice this: You open up the master table at 100% width and within your very first table row you have cells with widths specified as 169, 100%, 247 and 145 respectively. This adds up to over 100% your page width which I believe is what is causing

[wdvltalk] [OT] Develop for IE!!

2004-01-12 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
always always always test in IE -- it's gotta be at least 80% of EVERYONE's target audience With Matt having issues with CSS dropdowns in IE, this is good advice from rudy, but I thought I'd throw something out there which has benefitted me no end. For all us us who are now either venturing

[wdvltalk] Re: Might be OT?

2004-01-11 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Hi Gerrie The problem is that JPEG is a lossy compression (i.e. you lose quality when you compress) so the more you try and get the file size smaller the more quality you're gonna drop. Also JPEG isn't very good at compressing solid blocks of colour. Best think to do would be to have the graphic

[wdvltalk] RE: Theory: img / for headings and XHTML Semantics

2004-01-05 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
To be honest, though, I did like the chromatic harmony of the blue site a little better Yeah me too :( MOU (who's wondering just how daft a blue sunset will look) Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly...Ping your

[wdvltalk] Theory: img / for headings and XHTML Semantics

2004-01-04 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Hi all Continuing to fiddle with the design work of this Lau Gar Kung Fu site (will get some web demos up for your thoughts soon) and I've got a little question to ask... The client has had the WONDERFUL idea of liking the sub-titles (like instructors' names) in the Chinaone font I used for the

[wdvltalk] RE: Graphing in ASP (preferrably without buying expensive components)

2003-12-30 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Cheers for the URL Cheryl - sorry it's taken so long for the thanks but things have been...interesting and I've not been around. The stuff there does the job spot-on MOU • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[wdvltalk] Graphing in ASP (preferrably without buying expensive components)

2003-12-13 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
I seek the wisdom of thee grizzled ASP veterans... A client has asked me to build a feedback system for a project we are working on, and one of the things they've requested is to have a graph display of the data collected (percentage splits across opinions, that sort of stuff). Anybody got any

[wdvltalk] Re: Storyboarding Tool?

2003-12-13 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Janet Well, if you can arrange for all of my clients to leave me alone for about 6 months and still keep the money coming in so we don't go bust then you can have a copy of the one I'm writing!! Then again, it's for Video production so it might not be what you want... Looks like it's pen and

[wdvltalk] Re: What mistake I have made?

2003-09-14 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Who could tell me what work I had missed? First thoughts would be to make sure you've got your IP addresses correct (if you're using a direct cable connection then fixed Ip addresses always work with me) such as 192.168.0.x with the usual Subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 and both machines are in

[wdvltalk] Re: Flash 5: External movie loaded into a MovieClip loses sound

2003-09-04 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Having re-read my post I was not even remotely clear on what my issue is! Guess that's what happens when you rush things and got a lot on your plate... To clarify then... One section of my primary Flash site is a history of the company. I have produced an audio-visual piece also in Flash having

[wdvltalk] Limiting the number of returned records in SQL/ASP/ADO

2003-09-04 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Tis I again Not having much luck at the moment with work so I'm stuck once more (different project though). I'm trying to retrieve only the first 5 most recent articles in a database (Access database and ASP running from IIS 5.0). Everything works fine but I'm not making any headway in

[wdvltalk] Re: Limiting the number of returned records in SQL/ASP/ADO

2003-09-04 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
i think LIMIT is mysql, not access That would explain that one. SELECT TOP 5 I knew it had to be something like that...and it works! Cheers! MOU Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo!

[wdvltalk] RE: eliminate borders on clickable images

2003-09-04 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
On the image tag, include border=0 Although if you're conforming to XHTML this is not allowed (no design-based markup allowed in HTML). I personally use the following CSS: img { border: 0px; } Which will apply to all images in your page. If you want something a little more specific use a

[wdvltalk] Re: META HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH problem

2003-09-04 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Hi Diane The click sounds like the Windows Navigation Complete system sound. No way around that as IE will report that a refresh using a META tag is a completed navigation, hence the sound fires. Only way to remove it is to turn off that particular sound on your system - fortunately from what

[wdvltalk] Re: Seriously OT (sorry): Automatic shutdown issue with Windows XP

2003-08-14 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
BTW, it's not necessary a flaw in wintel; RPC is common to all modern operating systems. Rather, than placing the blame on a company, Microsoft in this case, there needs to be more effort in teaching programmers how to avoid these things. I am a C++ programmer, and I know how difficult it can

[wdvltalk] Re: Seriously OT (sorry): Automatic shutdown issue with Windows XP

2003-08-14 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Um Robert... Why so touchy dude? This thread was about getting some info on a problem so far I had not encountered, not an attempt by me to utter destroy what little credibility Microsoft has left... Buffer overflows are a function of the language/Compiler (C or C++), not the operating

[wdvltalk] Seriously OT (sorry): Automatic shutdown issue with Windows XP

2003-08-14 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Dear all Forgive the massively OT nature of this post but it's always good to ask fellow puter bods... Is anybody experiencing or has seen a problem with Windows XP recently involving an automatic shutdown? My brother and a friend are both experiencing this issue. Within minutes of Windows

[wdvltalk] Re: MP3 Wav File

2003-08-14 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Two good replies so far, can't help to add a third... I personally use Nero Burning ROM to convert the MP3 into WAV. Nero is bundled with pretty much every CD/DVD writer these days, but if you don't have it then you might as well go with a smaller download such as those freeware/demo apps

[wdvltalk] RE: OT: Business site (was Retrieving client's IP address in ASP)

2003-07-15 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
My first Web App with a full CMS/dynamic back end LOL That's identical to our first big web project since I took over the unit Out of curiosity, what is it you messed up on? Just validation issues? No mess-ups at all really - the whole thing was built to XHTML/CSS2 from the outset, but I got

[wdvltalk] Re: Retrieving client's IP address in ASP

2003-07-12 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Darren: Cheers dude, will do... I thought it'd be in the server variables somewhere, but I've not had much of a play (or needed them before) so I was scratching me head MOU • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[wdvltalk] Re: Where's the birdie...

2003-01-08 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
stick to % width on tables... Or % widths on layers. They're a better design element than tables MOU __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com •

[wdvltalk] Re: Setting focus to existing pop-up window

2003-01-07 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Could just be me not looking at things properly, but I've tried windowName.focus() to no effect - cheers anyway. I'm gonna go back to it tomorrow and double-check I've named things properly and stuff...I'll post code up if I can't get the thing to work. MOU

[wdvltalk] Re: Setting focus to existing pop-up window

2003-01-07 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
use w=window.open() and save the reference in w. Then you can use w.focus() or w.close() etc That's what I've been doing, but it's not working... How about a code sample so I can compare, BJ? MOU __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need

[wdvltalk] Re: Setting focus to existing pop-up window

2003-01-07 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Cheers BJ... I think I might know where my problem is so I'll see tomorrow, but here's the theory: In my code I check to see if a window exists (i.e. if the container variable has anything in it). If it does then change the href and then focus(), otherwise open() a new one and assign the

[wdvltalk] Re: A recap

2003-01-02 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Following Will's lead then: I live and work in Stoke-on-Trent, UK as a New Media developer for a (growing) media company. I'm 24 and wish I had more money! My main focus has always been the programming side, but the visual element has always been fairly strong and is slowly improving. My main

[wdvltalk] Re: Sun Gets Injunction in Microsoft Case

2002-12-27 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Peter: Whoa there!! Never meant to get anybody's back up, it's just that in my experience I've never seen or needed to touch Java and as a result never bothered to dig too deep. Now, as I don't work with, for in near Wall Street and the other examples you give, I was not aware of their

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