Curtis Thompson
Forum Replies Created
-
-
hello…
it depends on the file that you’re downloading – if it’s a file that the browser won’t know what to do with (zip, etc.), then you can just do something like this:
https://sitruc.com/cow/download_file/
however, note on the 2nd word doc link – if you click that in anything but ie, you’ll get the same download dialog as the zip…however in ie (if you have office installed), it will open inline in the browser, which is what you don’t want…
so if you have a file that you want to download that the browser knows, you’ll have to do a separate php file that streams the content in a mime type that the browser is guaranteed to not know, which is application/octet-stream…this is a more complex solution, though, so here’s hoping that you can just the zip example above…
sitruc
-
hello…
the default port for outgoing mail (smtp) is 25…
sitruc
-
hello…
if you want screen pics, you can use grab (included in the os in apps/utils), or for video, this is a nice product:
https://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/
hope that helps…
sitruc
-
-
hello…
you can use a div with a css attribute of overflow:auto – see this post:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/191/856065
for more info, just google the keywords div, overflow and auto and you should get all the info you need..
hope that helps!
sitruc
-
hello…
easiest thing to do would probably be to buy a cheap monitor picture from istockphoto or even just grab one from a google image search and break it out in photoshop – then you can use an html table to build the page, with 4 slices:
– 1 top (including corners)
– 2 sides
– 1 bottom (including corners)then you can put your movie in the middle cell and you’re good to go…
hope that helps!
sitruc
-
hello…
ahh – i gotcha. ya – it is typically better to break down larger images if possible, as the browser can then get them individually – even a progressive jpg still won’t render nice until done, so if you have smaller images then they will ultimately show up a smidge faster for users with a faster connection…
sitruc
-
hello…
[Gordy Grundy] “Is there ever a benefit of cutting a 40kb image half? Does that download quicker?”
not sure i’m following this – smaller is always better, but i suspect that you have something else in mind?
but yes – page total is key – if you have 75kb of images on every page (nav, etc), then you are much more tied up if you want to devote 40kb to a single image – but if you have 10kb of fixed content on every page then you certainly have more wiggle room as needed…
sitruc
-
hello…
it’s more page total than per image and it also depends on your audience, the presentation at hand, etc. etc…very hard to give you a specific average, but i think these days anything over 100kb of non-cachable images on a given page is pretty big…
(but i’m a little old school, unfortunately)
hope that helps!
sitruc