2009 Archives




		Report for meeting on December 19 2009 We discussed knee replacements. It seems Bill may need one? We then looked at NetObjects Fusion and made a small typo change - not mine. We then looked at my “new” site, and examined the GO Menu option. It was interesting and we found out how the main one works. We looked at making a hierarchy menu but unfortunately this version does not do it. We think Ver 10 does. Next meeting is the 17th January 2010. See you there. Regards Robert Report for November 2009 We reviewed our work on cookies and discussed some uses for them. Stephen’s friend had a problem with a web-site which had download links. Some were in a different format, but didn’t work as they should - giving 404 Not Found messages. We were able to open the download directory as it had been left unprotected with an index.html file in that directory. We found that the files were not there, the different format for the links seems to be from Dreamweaver when it couldn’t find the files. We looked at the new features in IE8, developer tools accessed by F12. They allow highlighting of various structure elements to see what overlaps. Many more functions are available to play with. We loaded the K-Lite codec pack from FileHippo but this didn’t help our video problems. For our problem with images (noted last month) we erased the local publish and server copies of the site and re-published to see if that fixes the problem Meeting next month on 19st December is on for those with time to attend. Robert & Peter Report for Meeting on 17th October 2009 We revisited the Video page which was not working on some browsers. It seems that this is the normal behaviour. For a .MPG file it seems you need to use the Real Player plug-in. This works on Internet Explorer, but not Firefox or Opera For a .MOV file you must use the QuickTime plug-in. This works in Opera, Internet Explorer and Firefox. We were unable to get the Windows Media Player to work correctly, even after downloading the browser plug-ins. Although Opera did play the WMV file, but not the .AVI file. So .... use a .MOV or ??? We then went to the w3schools page on javascript cookies. We found it very easy to paste the java scripts into the <HEAD> tag and almost as easy to modify the <BODY> tag to run them. The Cookie Baking page demonstrates these cookies. We corrected the problem of some images not appearing by editing the filenames on the server side - correcting links.gif to Links.gif. Why this was needed is unclear. Peter Report for Meeting September 2009 We used the new computer for the first time and downloaded the NOF files from the old HD. Peter set up the folders. We opened the Websig file and tried to see the video. We were initially unable to make it work. Bryan suggested using Real Player and using MPG. This worked fine. I will be away in October and Peter will run the meeting. His love of Netobjects Fusion should make an excellent meeting. Next meeting is on October 17th. Regards Robert Report for Meeting of 15th August 2009 Warren asked if we could look into how to add a video vile into Fusion 9, he supplied us with a file with an extension of flv. We had no luck at all getting this file to work. Peter to the rescue. He had a conversion program and converted the file to a mpeg. This file is now visible in the Websig site. We updated to Explorer 8 and a mass of XP updates. Next month we will look at Firefox and possibly install it. By next month we hope to have our new computer set up ready to upload our SIG files. The next meetin is on Saturday September 19th. See you there. Regards Robert Report for meeting 18th July 2009 A good roll-up today. We decided that guest books were too difficult in the short term and may look at it later. We looked at a site for spam protection for forms. After some difficulty we added some new reports to the site and we uploaded the site to the SPCUG web site. Steve asked us about multilevel menus for page layout. We found it could be done via the menu property box. Steve is using Ver. 11 of Netobjects and needed to use custom menus. Next month Warren asked us to look at inserting video files into Netobjects. Should be interesting. The next meeting is 15th August an early meeting next month. See you there. Regards Robert Report for meeting 20 June 2009 We looked into despamifing our guestbook. After much discussion we decided it was too difficult. It would require external modifying of code. NOF 10 can do this internally, we await NOF 10 eagerly! We looked at a guestbook plugin from Bali but were unable to make it work in Fusion 9. Looking at www.protectwebform.com we may have come across a Java script which did not have time to try out. - Next month. Meeting is on the 18/7/ See you there. Robert Report for May 2009 We started the meeting (only a small turnout) by reviewing some of the proposed formats for an updated SPCUG website. Joomla based clone of the existing site, A site that emulates the old Frames format with fixed outer zones and a scrolling inner zone. And some ideas about using Captcha to block spam in guestbooks. After tea we had a look at how to include cookies in a website, to welcome back a past visitor, or to modify behaviour when re-browsing the site in the same session (eg turn off a welcome sound on the home page). We followed the tutorial at w3schools.com using javascript. Peter Report for Meeting April 18th 2009 We checked the Guestbook that we uploaded at the March meeting at the URL: http://www.fotopagedesign.com.au/websig/index.html It appears to have been taken over by spam-bots, adding as many as 350 rubbish entries per day, starting from April 1st. We looked at a different type of Guestbook which needs scrambled letters to be deciphered by a human before guest comments are accepted. This scheme uses "Captcha" images. One such Guestbook called PhocaBook which runs under Joomla! was demonstrated on the following URL: http://picclub.factors-online.com Stephen handed out CDs containing four interesting Web programs for us to try. 19/02/2009 10:00 pm 2,886,409 hksetup.exe 17/04/2009 10:21 pm 2,307,018 icon-editor.exe 27/03/2003 12:57 pm 2,967,667 ts25pro.exe 26/03/2009 10:57 pm 1,526,800 ts3lite.exe Next meeting is on the 16th May. See you there. Robert Backstrom Report for meeting 21st March 2009 A very interesting meeting this month. Warren asked us to look into inserting a guestbook on a Fusion site. We used our own Websig site. It did take a little time and a bit of confusion but we achieved it !!!!! I will be on hols next month. A cruise around the Mediterranean and a stay in Spain - life is tough. Bob Backstrom will run the next meeting in my absence. We might look more into Joomla. The next meeting is on the 18th April. Regards Robert Report for meeting 21 February 2009 We looked at Fotopage Design’s new site. We edited the banner and changed the page layup. We selected pictures for the site and added a background colour pattern. Also we found out how to put a border around a picture and match the colour in the picture using the colour selector. Next meeting we will look at inserting a guest book and continue building the ‘new’ site. The next meeting is March 21st, See you there. Robert Report for meeting January 2009 A good roll-up today, very pleasing. We checked out our site and upgraded the reports. We then looked at my ‘new’ site and discussed options for designs. We made up a series of text styles using the CSS function in Fusion. We discussed if there are any new PDF files to update the MWRPA site. Nothing at the moment. Next meeting we will look further into my ‘new’ site? The next meeting is Saturday 21st. See you all there. Robert