JP Stones — Sun, 04 Apr 1999 21:49:00 +0000

Cyberdog,
Thanks for the note but the new design is only a template (not live) and is only approx. 20% complete at present.

Also thanks for the notes on the hosting providers, I will have a look into those issues later.
JP

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[This message has been edited by JP Stones (edited April 04, 1999).]

cyberdog — Sun, 04 Apr 1999 17:36:00 +0000

BTW, JP, I checked out your new page that has website hosting information, and I notice that several links lead to "page cannot be displayed" page, including the one that is intended for contacting you. Hmmm.
Also, I know that Web1000 is an adult oriented source of free hosting (as in my site) but they offer 25 Megs of free space, and supply daily hit stats via email for you. If people don't want the adult content in the form of banners on their site, then Webjump offers 25 Megs as well. Just go to
www.web1000.com or www.webjump.com
I think that this is an incredible amount of free space, and your web address can still be quite short...re: cdmodels.web1000.com
Not too shab.
CD

cyberdog — Sun, 04 Apr 1999 17:08:00 +0000

Again...sorry JP...I guess my "newbie-ism" is kicking in again!! I wasn't sure just where to post my original question, I just chose the web-builder's section, and picked the first category I saw. heh heh. I'll kmow for next time. I have learned alot here already though, thanks. I will try your jpg--->gif trick and see what happens. Thanks again!!
CD

JP Stones — Sat, 03 Apr 1999 22:04:00 +0000

CyberDog,
...shouldn't this post have been in the Grapghic/Design forum?
For future refference post in appropriate forums as it means that you are likely to get a better response.
JP

JP Stones — Sat, 03 Apr 1999 22:02:00 +0000

Cyberdog,
As .jpg files have 16 M colurs a shortcut would be to get it up in a browser, right click on it > copy it > paste it into your paint program > reduce colours to 256 (for .gif) and then save as .gif.
unorthodox maybe, but it might just accomplish what you need.

BTW, thanks John for your comments on the new design. I'm goinf to change all +2 fonts to size 12. ... and see if that works.
JP

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cyberdog — Sat, 03 Apr 1999 21:11:00 +0000

BTW, I am still trying to figure out how to change a JPG file into a GIF file. If I download a gif, I can work with it in either of my photo editors (Corel photo shop or ulead express) and save it as anything. BUT, if I have a jpg, JPG, JPE, jpe, JPEG, TIF, BMP, or any other image file, I can't save it as a GIF or gif, and I really need to know why not, or how to do this. Anyone? I have tried....lord, how I've tried.

cyberdog — Sat, 03 Apr 1999 21:03:00 +0000

WOW, you just never know when you will start a large discussion here eh? Kewl.
As to matching text size for both IE 5 and Netscape 4.5, well, all I did was switch from HTML font size +2 to font size 12 in Netscape Composer. Magic! Also, it came to me in a dream...for images, I must also upload the image file to the server along with the new page...what a dummy!! As soon as I did this, the image appeared! (Big time).
I have several "free graphics sites" listed on my site already, and I will check out the ones you have suggested as well. I have a few new websites in the works right now. I also tried to find out just how many websites are actually on the internet right now worldwide, and the nearest figure I can get is just shy of 160 million! If anyone can obtain more accurate figures, let me know. Thanks all. Bye now.

John Pollock — Sat, 03 Apr 1999 04:27:00 +0000

The new design looks good. It seems to load faster as well. Well done.

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JP Stones — Fri, 02 Apr 1999 22:39:00 +0000

Thanks John, I intend to link to you when I put the new design up soon.
Have a look at the template at:
http://www.what-next.com/new/ .
JP

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JP Stones — Fri, 02 Apr 1999 22:10:00 +0000

John,
Just thought I would add that I like your site, I remember visiting a while back but did not bookmark it, a mistake I have just rectified.
JP