Email conversation
| From | David Wilson |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | thank you very much for your help with html & scripts |
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| Date | 22 December 2005 18:38 |
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Sir:
having read your guidelines i am not sure you will bother reading
this,but if you do - the whole message was in the subject line - what
a relief and a pleasure to find your site, get knowledge and
instructions that worked and were well explained, i have not seen the
like anywhere on the web, it makes me wonder how you support yourself
a very merry christmas to you, very merry indeed
best regards, David Wilson.
| From | Me |
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| To | David Wilson |
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| Subject | Re: thank you very much for your help with html & scripts |
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| Date | 22 December 2005 18:58 |
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David,
> having read your guidelines i am not sure you will bother reading
> this
Beautifully worded - Of course I will read it :D
> what
> a relief and a pleasure to find your site, get knowledge and
> instructions that worked and were well explained, i have not seen the
> like anywhere on the web, it makes me wonder how you support yourself
Thankyou for the compliments. Good to hear you find it useful.
> a very merry christmas to you, very merry indeed
And Merry Christmas to you. Remember to take a holiday from all the Web
work ;)
Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jones - author of http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/
| From | David Wilson |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | it is all so easy once you have the key |
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| Date | 22 December 2005 23:56 |
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it is all so easy once you have the key
you might think of doing something with imageTitle - I put it in the Title
property, actually would have preferred to add it as a caption
and if the focus of this is pictures, then interpreting any click as a +
would be useful
thanks again
| From | David Wilson |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | pop up image window |
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| Date | 9 January 2006 13:12 |
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Tarquin:
i have been fooling with your image pop-up window, a useful tool for anyone
blogging
a lot of IT folk have utter contempt for end-users, i find this attitude
understandable but silly since without end-users we would all be without
work and the associated paycheques, i design systems with the adage
"cooperation is good, but control is better" - trying to design interfaces
that supply the needs without leaving loose ends that breed frustration and
apparent stupidity
i think the pop-up needs some additional features, it is a uphill struggle
for me, this business of writing programs with programs is frustrating to
debug
two features - zoom up & down and provisions for a caption
i will try to nodify the "close" button you did to do the zoom
the caption is a little more difficult - i would like to take the caption
from properties on the image itself - windows has a comments property, and
adobe photomanager uses another one called description (i think), this is
the obvious place to put the caption but i dont know how to find the
property - are you willing to help with this?
best regards, david.
| From | David Wilson |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Re: pop up image window |
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| Date | 25 March 2006 23:42 |
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Tarquin:
I see you have re-done your website - neat
You never came back to me on the thought of making the PopUp window REALLY
super ... not interested?
I have been trying (entirely unsuccessfully) to make the changes I suggested
my MAIN problem is that I do not have an environment set up to quickly test
code changes - the only way I know about is to pop the script into the
template of my blog and then republish the blog and then ... need I go on?
it takes forever and forever to get anywhere
can you tell me what a development environment for this stuff looks like?
what do I do? get something like FrontPage or the like?
any help will be appreciated - I am giving your site a plug on my blog btw
:-))
regards, David Wilson.
| From | Me |
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| To | David Wilson |
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| Subject | Re: pop up image window |
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| Date | 26 March 2006 08:02 |
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David,
> You never came back to me on the thought of making the PopUp window REALLY
> super ... not interested?
More like I don't have the time :)
> two features - zoom up & down and provisions for a caption
Good browsers (Opera for example, but IE 7 will also have zoom) have their
own zoom functionality, so it is best to allow users to use that.
The caption can be provided by the extra HTML. Your server will need to have
a way of extracting the caption, which you can then build into the source of
the page. I am sure that PHP will have an easy way to do this. It cannot be
read from Web page JavaScripts.
> can you tell me what a development environment for this stuff looks like?
> what do I do? get something like FrontPage or the like?
Generally, I do not recommend any specific products. Most of my Web
development is done by hand using little more than a text editor. If you are
using a server side script, you will also need a server with support for
that. I have an Apache server with PHP support installed on my computer,
which I use for testing.
The one thing I can say for certain is never, ever, _ever_ use Frontpage for
anything. I find it difficult to put into words just how bad that program
is. A plague on the Web - the source code should have been burned before it
was ever allowed to materialise.
If you must use a development environment, I suggest looking at some of the
Macromedia products, such as DreamWeaver. However, do not use it to create
page layouts - that should be done by hand.
| From | David Wilson |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Re: pop up image window |
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| Date | 26 March 2006 14:08 |
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ok, thanks anyway, be well, David.