[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

if it’s just html, all you have to do is make all your links and src paths non-absolute (i.e. for a pic – make the href something like “images/foo.gif” or “../images/foo.gif” instead of “https://creativecow.net/images/foo.gif” or “/images/foo.gif”)…then you can just open up pages in a browser from your local drive (or a burned cd or whatever)…

if it has php or the likes, you can download and install the apache web server on your laptop – it’s a very common way to make your laptop into a simple webserver that can serve up the files. for more on that, look at http://www.apache.org and google up “install apache windows” or the likes.

(and if you have os x, apache is on it by default – just google “os x webserver” or the likes to get hits on that)

hope that helps!

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

[Mary Ann McClure] “For building a website w/excellent video quality and reliable playback of that video…, does anyone have an opinion on the best place to build one? .Mac or something else?”

it’s not really the host that has any impact on the quality of the video – it’s how you encode/compress it to begin with – once you do that, where you serve it from is not relevant at all…

(sorry if i’m not following your question – but the only thing a host can impact is bandwidth and time it takes to d/l the file – not the quality of the video itself)

[Mary Ann McClure] “I have also heard it is easy w/video to exceed your allowable data rate is that true & costly? “

it’s a pretty simple math thing – say you have a 2mb movie file and your isp allows you 1gb of monthly transfers. a gb is 1024 mb, so you could have 512 downloads of your movie before you broke the monthly limit. this of course is not a perfect example, because your site has other bandwidth usages like the other pages on the site, your email, etc. etc., but the above is a basic way for you to figure out how much you need. if you have a ton of videos and have a very popular website, you can add up on the bandwidth pretty quickly, but if you have your demo reel and are looking for a job, you can probably get by ok…

hope that helps!

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

ya – any tag that has a usemap attribute that goes to an empty map like that – do the english one and you should then be able to see the difference and fix the other links after that…

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

i think when you say

[rob hindley] “The client wants the ‘from’ field to appear as his company name rather than the email address”

that he means when he gets the mail, he wants it to say it came from the specified address instead of the address of the person who clicked the link and sent the mail?

if so that can’t be done, as the mailto link just triggers a mail window for the user on their specific box, and you can’t tell that mail client “don’t make the mail from the user but rather make it from address [X]”….

sorry to not have a better answer for you…

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

it’s not the image itself – you have an empty usemap that is tied to the image itself – for example – with the english link, it’s:

usemap=”#englishc42fb47f”

but that usemap is actually blank – safari and firefox do ok with this, but ie expects a link in the map declaration, so it overrides the href in the link with what it finds…when it finds nothing, the result is nothing happening…

so just remove those usemap attributes from the tag and it will work…

hope that helps!

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

can you expand on what you mean when you say they don’t work? like they don’t show up or transparency isn’t preserved or what?

sitruc