Re: Poll: favorite Wireframing tool?

On Friday 08 Aug 2008, Dan LeGate wrote: > That's pretty cool, but I was looking more for a text-only solution (ala > FLiP recommendation), and free too. :-) There's a free* version of Bal., and even that lets you copy the XML description into the clip board, and then you can transform it however

Re: Poll: favorite Wireframing tool?

That's pretty cool, but I was looking more for a text-only solution (ala FLiP recommendation), and free too. :-) Anyone else have one/s they like? Tom Chiverton wrote: > On Wednesday 06 Aug 2008, Dan LeGate wrote: > >> What is your wireframe tool of choice, and why? >> > > For GUIs ? Bal

Re: Poll: favorite Wireframing tool?

On Wednesday 06 Aug 2008, Dan LeGate wrote: > What is your wireframe tool of choice, and why? For GUIs ? Balsamiq. > Is it free? No, but there is a no-save demo. > Where can I download/evaluate it? Ask google :-) -- Tom Chiverton This em

Re: poll - How many MS should it take to load a site's home page?

I agree with the 1 to 2 seconds on Broadband. I allow 10 seconds on my phone. Its all to do with how long you think it *should* take. I just though I would share with everyone a really interesting page on the android website. http://code.google.com/android/toolbox/philosophy.html. It talks

RE: poll - How many MS should it take to load a site's home page?

y, January 22, 2008 9:46 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: poll - How many MS should it take to load a site's home page? > -Original Message- > From: Tom Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:40 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: poll - How m

RE: poll - How many MS should it take to load a site's home page?

> -Original Message- > From: Neil Middleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 7:58 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: poll - How many MS should it take to load a site's home > page? > > I kinda disagree on this. > > For me, y

RE: poll - How many MS should it take to load a site's home page?

> -Original Message- > From: Tom Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:40 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: poll - How many MS should it take to load a site's home > page? > > On Monday 21 Jan 2008, Dave Watts wrote: > >

Re: poll - How many MS should it take to load a site's home page?

I kinda disagree on this. For me, you only need to look at performance overall if you are slower than your competitors, but that first hit should always be nice and snappy. Once the user is looking at your site, they are less likely to run off on the first slow page hit. Neil On Jan 21, 2008 6:

Re: poll - How many MS should it take to load a site's home page?

On Monday 21 Jan 2008, Dave Watts wrote: > On the other hand, to be successful, your application simply has to be no > slower than your competitors' while providing the same level of > functionality and reliability. That's a very interesting take on it, cool. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to central

Re: poll - How many MS should it take to load a site's home page?

Thanks for everyone's thoughts on around this topic. I enjoyed reading your comments. Incase anyone's interested I highly recommend Yahoo!'s yslow: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/ its a great tool for performance issues around this topic. Right now my goal is to always have the site I'm buildi

Re: poll - How many MS should it take to load a site's home page?

Normally I work to a rule of around 2 seconds perceived time before stuff starts appearing on the page with everything else appearing in the next two. The thing with page loads aren't anything to do with ms duration in CF, but the perception by the user. The user does give a t*ss what the

Re: poll - How many MS should it take to load a site's home page?

Seems like 4.2 seconds should have been the answer... On Jan 21, 2008 2:58 PM, James Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 4 seconds > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6131668.stm > > > >Looking forward to hearing everyone's thoughts. > > > >How many milliseconds should it take for a site's h

Re: poll - How many MS should it take to load a site's home page?

4 seconds http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6131668.stm >Looking forward to hearing everyone's thoughts. > >How many milliseconds should it take for a site's home >page to load? ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the mo

Re: poll - How many MS should it take to load a site's home page?

This is a great thread with very interesting inputs and I want to thank everyone for that. Here's my take (not research result but more on 'gut' instinct), different demographics may have a slightly different tolerant level for page loading speed. The younger could be less tolerant of speed wh

RE: poll - How many MS should it take to load a site's home page?

> It's a pet peeve of mine (I'm not really talking about what > you said) but developer's really have to stop assuming that > people are as sophisticated as they are. More specifically > (and less arrogantly) they have to stop assuming that people > actually give a rat's ass about the stuff th

RE: poll - How many MS should it take to load a site's home page?

> -Original Message- > From: Tom Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 5:21 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: poll - How many MS should it take to load a site's home > page? > > On Sunday 20 Jan 2008, Dave Francis wrote: > &g

Re: poll - How many MS should it take to load a site's home page?

On Sunday 20 Jan 2008, Dave Francis wrote: > Slightly different scenario, but back in the days of big iron (CICS and > 3270? terminals), IBM came up with a study that stated that anything over a > 2sec response time "caused anxiety in the user". Different era. Users are more used to waiting for th

RE: poll - How many MS should it take to load a site's home page?

y 20, 2008 11:52 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: poll - How many MS should it take to load a site's home page? > -Original Message- > From: Nate Willard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 3:35 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: poll - How many MS should it t

RE: poll - How many MS should it take to load a site's home page?

> -Original Message- > From: s. isaac dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 5:06 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: poll - How many MS should it take to load a site's home > page? > > IIRC when Macromedia had launched their new websi

RE: poll - How many MS should it take to load a site's home page?

> -Original Message- > From: Nate Willard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 3:35 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: poll - How many MS should it take to load a site's home page? > > Looking forward to hearing everyone's thoughts. > > How many milliseconds should it take

RE: poll - How many MS should it take to load a site's home page?

om -Original Message- From: s. isaac dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 5:06 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: poll - How many MS should it take to load a site's home page? IIRC when Macromedia had launched their new website a few years ago (Dylan I think they call

Re: poll - How many MS should it take to load a site's home page?

IIRC when Macromedia had launched their new website a few years ago (Dylan I think they called it), they published a few articles that described web-wide averages as well as their own targets (the research they'd done during the planning phase). They hit their target of having pages load completely

Re: poll DB

So now I'm trying to create in Oracle the tables for the poll.  But when I try to create the first one, which references another table, I get the error, "missing right parenthesis".  The only other relational work that I've done was in mySQL so I'm sure that it's a syntax or keyword  Oracle issue.

Re: poll DB

I'm building a polling app into my cms right now.  Sorry but I haven't built the Oracle versions of the table installers yet, but I can use the mySQL versions cuz its the simplest sql to post.  If this can help, great.  If anyone has any comments on my design I'd appreciate them as this is a work i

Re: poll DB

>But then wouldn't I be writing an entry in the pollDB for every time that it's answered? >So, when I make a poll, I write an entry for every different option/answer available.  Then I also write an entry for every answer made?  Am I understanding correctly? >It doesn't seem like a good use of DB s

RE: poll DB

This crap is getting annoying >Your message is a reply to anothers post and is more than 100 lines of text. Unless you are >a major writer, your probably adding a lot of the previous replies. Please trim your posts >when replying. Thank you. Looks good to me, here is

RE: poll DB

Looks good to me, here is a layout from one I did… tbl_Polls PollID autonumber PK PollQuestion   text DateAdded  date/time PollStatus   number tbl_PollAnswers AnswerID autonumber PK PolID   number SortID  number Tbl_PollResults ResultID  au

Re: poll DB

> I'm also working on a poll systems and I decided to keep the number > for each option in the same table as the option and just increment the > value for example > > id_poll (fk) > id_poll_option (pk) > poll_option > poll_option_description > poll_option_votes > > if you are going to put the v

Re: poll DB

I'm also working on a poll systems and I decided to keep the number for each option in the same table as the option and just increment the value for example id_poll (fk) id_poll_option (pk) poll_option poll_option_description poll_option_votes if you are going to put the votes in a seperate table

Re: poll DB

>you may also want to throw in a voted by and record their ip into it >so they cant keep voting. I thought of doing that, but it would exclude community computers and since many of our audience is low-income, alot of their access is community-oriented. So otherwise, I'm doing the right thing and

Re: poll DB

you may also want to throw in a voted by and record their ip into it so they cant keep voting. On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 07:38:38 -0400, Daniel Kessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm doing a poll and determined this morning that I should use a > relational DB.  It's pretty basic, but it is my first one

RE: Poll

Hmm.. That's good for a single-question poll. But what about something like that as a "Survey"? | -Original Message- | From: Gene Kraybill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 12:43 PM | To: CF-Talk | Subject: Poll | | | Someone (sorry, I deleted the msg) was as

Re: Poll Application - Jeff

Yes, conceptually they aren't that hard to build, but the more features you add-in the more complex it gets (isn't that always the way?). I'm sure you'll have no problem. My GF won't let me watch any of those one-woman web shows anymore. At 03:01 PM 10/14/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Jeff, s

Re: Poll Application - Jeff

Jeff, shame on you for lighting people on fire ;) I think I'm going to try to build one vs. "get" one. It's hard to do that every time, though, just because I am a one-woman web show (that didnt sound good). Candace K. Cottrell, Web Developer The Children's Medical Center One Children's Plaza

RE: Poll Application

m: Candace Cottrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 11:44 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Poll Application Just something that I can easily update. I guess it'd need an admin area. Like a one question "quick poll". I havent used cfgraphs before, but there's no

Re: Poll Application

Not exactly free, but... There is a chapter of Instant ColdFusion ( written by me ) that steps through the process of writing a survey type of application. Everything in the book (Written on CF5) still applies to CFMX,

RE: Poll Application

Just something that I can easily update. I guess it'd need an admin area. Like a one question "quick poll". I havent used cfgraphs before, but there's no time like the present. I might as well give it a try. Thanks Ben. Candace K. Cottrell, Web Developer The Children's Medical Center One Child

RE: Poll Application

Depending on how complex it has to be, it may not be very hard. I wrote a few pages to collect data from a static survey and show the results. One page to collect results and say "thank you", one to show of the yes/no and rate-it questions, and one to show the various responses to the essay-sty

RE: Poll two tables...

Make use of the custom fields when you create your indexes. Custom1 could be used to store a reference to the table and custom2 to the primary key in said table. Check your docs for details on how to use these fields - it's pretty straightforward. Steve > -Original Message- > From: Peter

RE: Poll two tables...

Use a custom field to indicate which table the data is from. Regards, Anthony Geoghegan. Lead Developer, What's On Where (WOW!) http://www.wow.ie mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Peter Benoit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 November 2000 14:46 To: CF-Talk Subject: P

RE: Poll two tables...

If you are using the CUSTOM fields, try creating a composite value for the custom field, that tells you which table the related records are in; that way you can decode the field to get the table name. Richard -Original Message- From: Peter Benoit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 Novemb

RE: POLL: Cold Fusion tools & packages

I use CommerceBlocks DatabaseBlocks V1.1.3 for putting together backend maintenance systems for customers. Its difficult I think to make an intelligible front end out of it for public use, I prefer to tailor make those for the given applications, but as a backend, fantastic. We are currently in t