Chip Johns
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Font Page is its own animal. I strange ugly looking animal at that. It’s usually best to stay away from using FP as a tool for designing sites. Unless you have a site that was designed with it, and is hosted on a server that requires you to use it, ust best to avoid it. And, personally, if someone wants me to make design changes to their site and FP is required, I charge more. It is going to take more time to get things done.
…. Bottom Line: Avoid it….
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Chip Johns
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If you decide that you want to be compensated, get an attorney from the very beginning.
Less aggressive approach: Contact the owner of the site. Tell them that they must pay you for the work, or the site must come down. If they refuse to take any responsibility you will then need to get an attorney.
You can also take seperate action against the design firm. They sold property that belongs to you!!
The law has really increased in favor of the web develoer and site owner when it comes to copyright infringement. If you can prove your ownership of copyright property you can go straigt to the hosting company, and they have to pull the site.
Take some kind of action. This design company has probably been doing this to many of us. If you have a case, take ’em down!
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Chip Johns
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Hi MiLiNd,
I thnik I finally understand what you are trying to do. You have built many, many templates that you are going to sell, and some of them will be for free. You have already made most of the templates.
If I understand right, that’s all you would need to do is make sure that each one is in its own sub directory. Then it won’t matter if the graphics on each of the templates have the same names, or even if all of the tempolates are named the same. I would keep each template seperate, in its own subdirectory. It’s actually best to keep your site organized this way anyway. try to keep as little as possible in the _root directory. THis helps to Keep some kind of architectural structure to the site as well…
Personally, I would also think about listing all of these template subdirectories (or better yet put all of these directories in another subdirectory) in your robots.txt file. This will keep search engines from getting lost on your site looking at files with basically no content of any good to you..
If this isn’t it try me again..
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Chip Johns
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I’m trying to get this straight. You have 5,800 files and each of them require their own specific set of images? And, these html files need to reside in the root directory?
What is this site??
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Chip Johns
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Are you making the changes inside of Dreamweaver?
If you make the changes inside of Dreamweaver, it will update all of the files for you.
You can rename files, move them to a different folder, etc. Dreamweaver tracks everything and will update all files when you do this..Hope this helps..
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Chip Johns
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Hi Pat,
Good sources of feed back:1 – Customers… if you’re making the money, you’re good.
1 – Your Wife…
2 – Colleagues…
3 – Take a training course with a reputable instructor. Ask him/her.
4 – On the cow, you will get honest feedback. After being here a while you get a great sense of who knows what they are talking about. If none of those respond, well, you’re usually not quite in the league that warrants a response from them. Then you know you have to gain experience and skill, when thehy start responding and giving straightforward advice you know that you are getting close… The cow is a great forum…
** MOST IMPORTANT **
5 – Be a student of what is GREAT. When you truly learn what is GREAT you will be able to understand the level of your own work…—
Chip Johns
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Just to add a few inspirational notes about bridal shows.
I have seen people stand almost in the middle of the aisle giving out their pamphlets. really gets on my nerves when they are across from me and they are diverting virtually everyone’s attention away from me. Not a good thing to do. However, on the other hand you need to talk to people. Get people engaged in conversation. Talk about your video that’splaying. Get them talking about it. Ask them what they want in a videographer. Become a friend.
It’s a crowd, and just like Rodney Dangerfield said, “You gotta work the crowd.”
Don’t be afraid to sell yourself… tactfully of course…
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Chip Johns
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I did a show in Phoenix in January. it was a 2 day show, 8 hours each day. I put together about a half an hour’s worth of clips to watch. It got to the point i really hated it because I ended up listening to the thing 20 times a day.
However, next time I am going to make it shorter. I will be so sick of it by the end of the show- but, i can see where a shorter video would have worked better.
Make a short demo and take a pair of ear plugs.. 😉
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Chip Johns
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