[wdvltalk] Managing online advertising

2007-03-08 Thread John Hughes
Folks, Going a bit into unknown here. A client of mine is launching a glossy print publication and a website. To begin with the print publication will be the focus of the brand. Currently advertising spots are being sold on the website as part of a package with the print publication. The website

[wdvltalk] Am I being paranoid?

2007-01-27 Thread John Hughes
Folks, Since I got IE 7 on my machine, Firefox has been giving me trouble. It was my default browser, but now it is opening up saying it needs items repaired, etc. I'm wondering if this and the arrival of IE7 are linked. Has anyone else had similar issues? John. • The WDVL Discussion

RE: [wdvltalk] css float positioning problem

2006-06-01 Thread John Hughes
James, I imagine the footer image is hiding behind some of your other images try putting border : 500px; border-color : #f00; in the footer id definition to see where it went to. Try taking out float: left; from the id definition to see if that is messing with things. HTH John.

RE: [wdvltalk] Another logo question

2006-05-19 Thread John Hughes
How about an apple, playing on the 'apple a day' theme? J. -Original Message- From: Portman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 May 2006 18:38 To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com Subject: [wdvltalk] Another logo question Thanks for the great advice for the real estate lawyer's logo. It looks

RE: [wdvltalk] Anti Adware/Spyware recommendations

2006-05-17 Thread John Hughes
Many thanks for those recommendations Robert, Rudy and Deb. Thanks, John. • 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 Posts

[wdvltalk] Anti Adware/Spyware recommendations

2006-05-16 Thread John Hughes
Folks, This isn't a subject I've looked into a whole lot. I was wondering if people out there had Anti Adware/Spyware utilities they might like to recommend to help curtail my trawl through the options? TIA, John. • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An

RE: [wdvltalk] The biggest spammers - and the prize goes to....

2006-04-22 Thread John Hughes
Thanks Bruce, I'll give that a try. John. Try a program like Mailwasher, which checks your mailbox without downloading all the messages. Bruce • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use the web interface

RE: [wdvltalk] The biggest spammers - and the prize goes to....

2006-04-21 Thread John Hughes
This is Sophos' list of the top 12 spam relaying countries, by percentage: I'm very, very surprised to see that Russia doesn't feature anywhere there Peter MacGregor Agree with that 100% Peter. In as far as can be told in a casual glance, every day the overwhelming majority of my spam is from

RE: [wdvltalk] DIV Overhang

2006-04-13 Thread John Hughes
. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 April 2006 22:53 To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com Subject: RE: [wdvltalk] DIV Overhang Win 2K pro, IE6 / FireFox - No overhang - do you have a screenshot? What browser / OS? On 12 Apr 2006 at 22:11, John Hughes wrote

[wdvltalk] DIV Overhang

2006-04-12 Thread John Hughes
Alright, I'm bloody stumped does anyone know of a hack or some way of sorting out the overhang of the navigation section as shown here? http://localhost/bord_na_nog/index.php Below are the details of the main positioning divs in the layout #parent { width : 700px; text-align : left; border-top

RE: [wdvltalk] DIV Overhang

2006-04-12 Thread John Hughes
you might start by providing us with the ip number of your localhost Funny Guy! http://aodhruadh.org/bord_na_nog/index.php • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use the web interface

RE: [wdvltalk] Potential website

2006-03-25 Thread John Hughes
Riva, Putting these two elements together The person who started this (and didn't finish)... (The guy is looking for a good price and if I am going to give it to him I don't want to work more than I quote for.) Would make me very wary of taking this one on. Why did the first guy not

RE: [wdvltalk] Search Engines

2006-03-21 Thread John Hughes
Dwayne, Thanks for the pointers on the search engines. Much appreciated. John. • 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

[wdvltalk] Search Engines

2006-03-17 Thread John Hughes
Folks, Happy Saint Patrick's to ye all out there. A new site I'm doing requires a search engine. After minimal rooting around I came across Zoom by www.wrensoft.com. It seems alright, but the truth is I'm not too clued in on these so I'm not sure how good a deal they are offering. Does anyone

RE: [wdvltalk] Animated gif

2006-02-13 Thread John Hughes
Hi Riva, I assume you aren't on dialup? The animation file is 788KB and took quite some time for me to download. As regards the grainy effect on your images the problem is that the gif format is not ideal for these kind of continuous tone images. I'm guessing that whatever you are using to

RE: [wdvltalk] Image map problems

2006-01-25 Thread John Hughes
Riva, Check your paths again. I found this particular image: http://www.starqualitydesigns.com/blums/images/partyballoons1.jpg But the url in your page is pointing at: http://www.starqualitydesigns.com/images/partyballoons1.jpg -Original Message- From: Portman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [wdvltalk] OT: PC Shutdown problems

2006-01-24 Thread John Hughes
Folks, Don't know if any of you have come across this issue before. I burned some php files to CD and loaded them on to another PC. They wouldn't open in CoffeeCup and after a bit of headscratching and hoking around I found that the files didn't have a timestamp. When I opened the files in

RE: [wdvltalk] New computer problem

2006-01-10 Thread John Hughes
-Original Message- From: PBC Web Design [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 January 2006 13:58 To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] New computer problem At 05:06 PM 1/9/2006, you wrote: *cough* www.apple.com Going away now... Will I use a Mac at work and it is every bit

Re: [wdvltalk] Quick off topic question

2006-01-03 Thread John Hughes
Should that not be 1 stone = 14lbs ??? John. - Original Message - From: Dan Parry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 1:34 PM Subject: RE: [wdvltalk] Quick off topic question 1 stone = 16lbs -Original Message- From: Portman

Re: [wdvltalk] Quick off topic question

2006-01-03 Thread John Hughes
Hmm, During one of those interminable debates in the UK about switching to metric from imperial I heard one of the pro-imperial mob arguing that it was better because you knew what a stone was: i.e. it weighed about the same as a stone. That's the sort of compelling logic you just can't argue

Re: [wdvltalk] What are they doing here?

2005-11-30 Thread John Hughes
Rudy would make a great stand-up comedian. That is if he isn't one already. John • 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

[wdvltalk] Some CSS layout problems

2005-03-22 Thread John Hughes
Folks, I have a problem best illustrated in Netscape 7.1 on the PC in the following example http://aodhruadh.org/funding/lotto.php As you can see, if you have that browser, the left menu panel and the contents of the right column spill over the footer section. Put baldly, is there a way to

Re: [wdvltalk] Some CSS layout problems

2005-03-22 Thread John Hughes
Stephen, I could kiss your rosy red cheeks. Thanks a million. John. add clear:both to #footer. That's it. hth, Stephen The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use the web interface

[wdvltalk] PHP Questions

2005-02-25 Thread John Hughes
Folks, I'm getting on my feet with PHP, but I've run into a few little problems. I have PHP 4.3.0 set on my machine and I had been using a PHP variable called _SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT] as a generic base to reference my include files against. For example $DOCUMENT_ROOT = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];

Re: [wdvltalk] [wdvltalk]Further [ Using SSH ]

2005-02-12 Thread John Hughes
Yeah, that sounds right. I think it's generally port 23 isn't it? On the version of Putty I have there is a field beside the host name field to enter the port number. As an addendum, I had to use a program called SCP to transfer files securely between machines. To the best of my knowledge SSH is

Re: [wdvltalk] markup for poetry

2005-01-26 Thread John Hughes
Hmm, How are the poems being stored? Is it directly in a html file or can they be processed before being diplayed? If you could do some processing on the file then perhaps you could write a script to replace all the new lines with br/ and all the spaces with 'hard' spaces and then wrap the whole

Re: [wdvltalk] Changing IE address bar shortcut Icon

2004-12-08 Thread John Hughes
Robert, Here's what I use link rel = shortcut icon href = /favicon.ico Have you double-checked that your href is pointing to the right place? Also have you created the icon using specific icon builder software like Icon Forge? You're likely to run into problems otherwise. John. -

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

2004-12-07 Thread John Hughes
Stephen, I can test on a mac on netscape 7 in the morning if you have the time for that? John. • 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/

[wdvltalk] Re: quick index.php question

2004-10-26 Thread John Hughes
Joe, Don't know if you have apache as server or have access to httpd.conf, but if you do have a search through the file for a line that looks like this (on apache 1.3.19 at any rate). IfModule mod_dir.c DirectoryIndex index.shtml index.html /IfModule Basically where I have entered

[wdvltalk] Re: Free FTP HTML Editor software for MAC

2004-08-17 Thread John Hughes
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[wdvltalk] Site Check - Scene.ie

2004-08-06 Thread John Hughes
Folks, Here is the site I've put together for the newspaper I'm now working for. http://www.scene.ie/ It's nothing wild at the moment, just something to get us up and running. I'd welcome any feedback people might have on it from whatever perspective. I developed on Mac. I used BBE Lite,

[wdvltalk] Mac HTML Editor

2004-06-24 Thread John Hughes
Folks, I'm back and in my new job now, so, hi ye from Sligo. I have finally figured out where the on/off button on this Mac and now I'm starting to get my bearings on the yoke. Does anyone have any recommendations for a free HTML editor for the Mac. All I need is something that does code