Curtis Thompson
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hello…
[Thomas Hughes] “Can anyone explain what I should do about this? Should I be concerned that they’re able to send emails using my email address and may send them to other people and do damage to me in some way? How do I get rid of this?”
it’s not completely from you (i.e. your mail server) – i can send email to anybody and make it from whatever address i want, but it’s not _really_ from them (i.e. change the display name and the reply-to and you are “sending” from that person)…if you look at the full mail headers you’ll see it coming from another server that is not your own…
and people will use your address in spam – it’s gonna happen. not much you can do about it unfortunately. note also that spammers send mail to you from you to do just what happened – junk filters typically don’t block mail from the users themselves, so that’s how they get around the filters…
sitruc
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hello…
the only thing that stuck out in your code was the line-height: normal setting – see:
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/05/06/line-height-abnormal/
maybe try using a fixed pixel or em value for that…
sitruc
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hello…
a few comments that come to mind:
– the high-tech look is probably not the best for freelance customers, although it does depend what your freelance work would entail (which brings me to the next comment)
– i’m not sure from visiting your site as to what i would hire you to do – commercials? design? something else? it’d be good to get that sort of thing out there on the home page or at least create a services-esque section for visitors to learn what you can help them with
– the galleries are very hard to navigate (you did say you were working on them, but i don’t mean from a not-working standpoint here) – i would definitely do thumbnails instead of text links, as i lost interest in clicking after about 2 pictures…with thumbnails i would definitely look around more
– back to the first comment – your site should reflect your expertise that you are trying to get freelance work doing. if you are an expert 3-d renderer, then the design should showcase that…
– from a usability standpoint, you should always give the user’s eye a place to quickly land and you should try to avoid large blocks of white text on a dark bg – when i hit your home page, i don’t know what to do…announcements are very prominently featured, but i wouldn’t imagine that i’d get much from those for a freelancer (that’s more of a big company style section)…so i’m back to not knowing where to go or how to learn more about you to decide if i want to hire you or not for my project
just a few thoughts – hope that helps!
sitruc
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hello…
looks like from the screen shot that your vidright_column div at the start is missing its closing “>”…that’d be my first guess…
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alas when i go to that page, i get the “i need the latest flash” message with a download link, despite the fact that i have the latest flash…but on a bright note, that should reveal to you what type of technology was used to make it…
there are plenty of free or relatively cheap gallery browsers out there available in flash, but i’m pretty sure that one was probably custom made by home depot…but google up flash and thumbnail or gallery or the likes and you should get plenty of hits to start you off…
hope that helps!
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you could put it in the startup items to open it every time the box started – not sure if it has an auto-login feature, but i bet it does…that would do it…
fancier than that you could use a unix cron job to check to see if it’s open every X minutes and re-open it if not, but the above would be a good start i’d think…
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hello…
1024 is somewhat the norm these days, but i tend to make designs around 900-940 or so, because with the larger monitors, people aren’t as likely to have the browser window maximized to their full resolution any more…when people were running 800×600 monitors, it was more likely that they’d have the browser maxed out, but with the higher res, they might not be as likely to…
hope that helps!
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[mark cookman] “what I presume is your great work on”
actually not mine…but glad you like the cow feature!
always glad to help out when i can… 🙂
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you should be able to extract them from the install cd – there’s a tool called “Pacifist” (https://www.charlessoft.com/) that will let you get files from single archives on the install discs…then go here:
https://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html
and look for “restoring your fonts” inline – they recommend pacifist as well, and give you more detail on what to do…
hope that helps!
sitruc
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hello…
if you are hiring a designer, then by all means it is recommended that you ask for a list of sites and/or a gallery. in addition (as with your industry, i’m sure), it’s critical to find out _exactly_ what the candidate in question actually did on the project…
if they will be coding anything for you, it’s also an option to give them a coding test. alas, if nobody in your office knows the right answers, it’s trickier, but if somebody says (for example) that they know javascript, it’s very appropriate to give them some js coding questions to see how they do. you can find some with answers here:
https://www.techinterviews.com/?p=288
and also, this might be helpful to you:
https://www.google.com/search?q=web+developer+interview+questions
good luck hiring – your position is a tricky one to fill… :-/
sitruc