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Thanks to both of you for clearing that up. Regrettably, I don't have this option in my version of PS, so I'll have a look at GIMP options. As for the text shortening, I've re-written the code so it truncates to the nearest word within a given number of characters... much slicker. My...

Thanks Essellar (do I see a clever photography letter-play in your username BTW?? :) ) I didn't see any quick responses so guessed this was probably out of the field of the helpful guys/gals on here. I did post on the paypal forum - with NO response at all. Yes - the script wasn't too tricky...

I must be being stupid here. I thought png's were uncompressed?? I can shave a ton off if I saved as jpg, but then lose the transparency. Am I missing something? Apart from a few tweaks, the client is happy so... I guess I am!! SEO is going to prove tricky but I've done what I can for the...

Very slick indeed. Great flash job. Only three problems.... 1) the audio background, which I hate. 2) The background world looks grainy - almost like a poor quality gif image. Shame. 3) Search bots can only read your keywords.... which aren't used anymore by google. Fantastic site. Pity...

@cybrax - thank you for this. As a marketeer, I understand data protection and anti-spam, but the other were relatively new to me - not having set up my own business before online. I have informed the client and await their instruction. @essellar I've used substr() to truncate the string by...

Yup - agreed. The true background is actually pretty small. It's the uncompressed .png header,footer and main content backgrounds that eat into reserves. Shame there isn't a compressed image format that supports alpha channel. (and no.. I'm not using gifs!). As far as I'm aware, the page...

Yah - The background is a simple repeating jpg, but to get the effect of the paper, I'm using 3 png's with alpha channel One for top header, one for footer and on y-repeating main content strip. I've tried interlacing as well but with little difference to the browser. Top and bottom logos...

I agree with the above comments. This looks like one of my first pages, so I don't blame you on this huge learning curve. The lack of imagery is the most hard-hitting aspect of this site. It lacks colour and cohesion. As mentioned earlier, using a pre-built template will probably be your...

Thanks Darkmere. Yes the design is a bit clunky, but this was discussed at design stage and the clients wanted it to have that old newspaper feel. At this stage, it was important to get navigation right and make it as robust as possible. I'm not overly happy with the item listing css though -...

Great job and good simple use of css. There are some minor errors in site2.css while parsing with gecko browsers. Have you tried validating? check out the error console in FF. Width is interesting - if I was viewing in 1024x768, I'd struggle. This would be my only criticism. Flash...

Hi all It's good to be back as it's been a while since my last website launch. This new one is at www.skinnerandhyde.co.uk and was done for a client for a ludicrously small fee. It is designed to have an old, slightly grungy, dark, macabre feeling - almost like something you'd find in a back...

Hi all I'm confused and tired and need some help.... I have an ecommerce site, which is pretty much done now - providing a CMS for the client and then dynamically generating item lists. I'm using the PayPal buttons "add to cart" form/hidden variable technique, which works great and has been...

I'm trying to create a basket on an e-commerce site and am using sessions to store item id's in a temporary row in a "sessions" table. If an item from the "items" table is clicked, the MySQL insert (in the additem.php) adds the id ($_GET), separated by commas, to the "item_ids" column in table...

Thanks Misson. That worked a treat. I was getting some wrapper errors during testing so that explains a lot. Still trying to get my head round PDO's.... :S Rich

Thanks Misson - I knew I could depend on you. OK - good start! but I need to cover one thing at a time... :) Good point about filename - I'll concatenate some info to distinguish it - like the id. Now my issue seems to be much more fundamental even with one upload.... //specify targets and...

Haven't been on for a while but I'm stuck!!!!! I have a table with 3 image links in MySQL In the add record page, I want to 1) upload the images to the server and 2) insert the paths to the database. I'm referencing a tut at http://php.about.com/od/phpwithmysql/ss/Upload_file_sql_3.htm The...

Damn - image similarity was how I was approaching it previously!!! I was just getting weird results - maybe I didn't have enough comparison data. I think this needs a major re-think.... Case closed for the time being.

This is evaluating in real-time: more reliable, but much slower - probably unacceptably slow. I like your idea though. It would be simple enough to store a suitable/risk variable in the database. The toggle system I have already though of. Adding a preferences page, with a server variable...

Sorry for the double post, but this has undergone some serious mods. Class now returns a simple image URL (Original or pixellated), together with pass/fail variable. the class entry variables are now source URL, sensitivity, pixellation amount. Example can be seen working at...

I have to agree. The background texture is too contrasty and distracts the eye. Colours should always be kept to 2 and tones of the same colours - maximum 3 if using an accent colour. Colour saturation is far too bright and hurts my eyes! Too many font types - a common issue. Try to retain...