[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

maybe with a flash wrapper but generally no – best to just put it below the movie somewhere…

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

a sample url would do wonders for us to help debug… 🙂

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

way back when, the domain folks tried to limit org domains to non-profits and the likes, but that didn’t really work so well…so no – there are no legal limits or anything for a company that wants to have an org domain… 🙂

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

if you have a scripting language available and your promotions are graphics on the server, then the developers could easily open the promo graphic ahead of time dynamically in the code and determine it’s size and then adjust the window width/height call params accordingly…

or (and this is probably easier and only requires javascript), you can resize a popup once it’s open to the size of it’s content. this is a very old example, but it gives you a rough idea:

https://www.irt.org/script/686.htm

the basic concept is to load the popup with the promo, determine the size of the promo and resize the popup window to fit around it. this can happen as soon as it loads, and there will be a minor visual hiccup, but it will work. the benefit of the first solution above is that the dimension of the promo graphic is known ahead of time and the window call can be adjusted before it’s used…

make sense?

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

ok – so your macs can’t see anything and your pc can’t see the macs. a final test to isolate the issue would be to plug another pc into the network and see if the 2 pcs can see each other. if they can, then it’s going to be a case of the mac boxes and the new router not playing nice.

this is certainly possible. i have one of those older wireless linksys all-in-one routers here and my mac could not connect to it until i installed a firmware upgrade that linksys wouldn’t even say was for macs specifically. your new router potentially could not “support” macs (which is really stupid and all that, but surprisingly a lot don’t for some reason – they are written and set up for windows and little nits in windows that macs and the unix underneath don’t have). at this point, i would hit the web site for the manufacturer of your router or also try google with the brand name or the product number and “os x” in quotes just like that. more often than not, you’ll find somebody who has already dealt with this and can confirm or deny that your specific router is compatible with macs and what to do to get them happy with each other…

i know – routers being compatible with computers sounds dumb and it is, but whatchagonnado?

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

well hmm. let’s see. since you tracked down that you can connect via ip, this means that it’s more a dns issue and you can’t get machine names for your boxes. this could be an issue with your new router, since (as you noted) nothing else has changed…

a few things i can think of to try:

1. reboot both machines so that they get new ips and refresh themselves to the new router (if you haven’t tried this yet)

2. plug a non-mac box (or 2) into the network and see if you can see it or vise-versa (or if you have 2 if they can see each other). that will help determine if it’s a mac problem or a router problem or a specific computer problem

3. try connecting via your recent servers list to the other box- does the machine name resolve that way?

4. enter the path manually via the finder -> go -> connect to server – you can check the recent servers list for a proper value, or use a samba connection string like “smb://[machine]/[share]”

5. you could also at least temporarily just take 2 ips for each box – dhcp servers will start at 1, so if you have 10 computers in your network, you can safely take an ip above 10 and just keep it. that would at least get you connected…

just an early morning brain dump – with hope it’s useful! 🙂

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

you will need to use javascript, as it is the only client-side tool that can change urls in other frames. i whipped up a small example here:

https://sitruc.com/cow/js_frame_load/index.html

that should get you what you need from a copy-paste standpoint. the above example only uses one frame, but it has a example of changing two frames at once in the initial right frame and it also could be easily expanded to daisy-chain frame loads if need be…

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

you could have an ethernet hub that connected to another hub (just plug an out cable from the one hub into the other hub’s in cable instead of another computer) – ethernet cables will wear out if left in the elements, but you could bury one in a conduit underground and it would work…

wireless is also an option – with outdoor space between the buildings, it should make it that distance, but it would depend on your wall type, etc…and you’d want to lock down your wireless connection via ip blocking or password to stop your neighbors from using your connection…

hope that helps!

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

it sorta depends how far down the road they went with all the propritary front page features…front page adds a lot of stuff to pages that is sort of a pain to weed through…

macromedia offers a few conversion tools:

https://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14031

but that will kill the front page effect for the client. i don’t use either, so i can’t offer a ton of info, so you might also want to try our dreameaver forum…

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

you could load a blank page or a page with a color on it for all frames except the one that you wanted to load first – then add a javascript “onload” call to that frame and have that frame change the url of one or more of the other frames to the correct url – you could then do a chain (i.e. have each frame load another frame when it’s loaded) or just do the nav frames first and then in the js onload event set the urls for all the remaining frames…

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