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DXMachina - Sep 21, 2007 5:59:42 am PDT #2816 of 25496
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I've discovered that I can upgrade to InDesign from my Pagemaker 6.5.

Does it make sense to do so when my greatest need is to create and update promo materials and webpages?

Probably not if you're happy with Pagemaker. I have upgraded, and InDesign does add a lot of useful stuff that Pagemaker just couldn't do. I really like that you can change pages just by scrolling down the work space. However, there are a couple of things it does that annoy me. I still use Pagemaker a lot for smaller projects, just because I've been using it for almost 20 years, and I'm used to it.


Jon B. - Sep 21, 2007 6:04:49 am PDT #2817 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Beej -- With the html, it looks to me like you're not linking properly to a stylesheet. The html pages are looking for a stylesheet called "style.css" which doesn't exist (or is in a different path). The same thing may be true with the javascript page "css_browser_selector.js".


Ginger - Sep 21, 2007 6:11:02 am PDT #2818 of 25496
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

The reason the web pages are opening that way is that the css style is missing. There should be a file called style.css in the same folder as these web pages.

If you'd like a cheaper graphics program, this [link] is pretty good. I end up using both it and Photoshop.

If you send me the jpgs, I'll see what can be done with them. Profile addy is good.

(Inevitable cross post. I neglected to mention the js file, but I think it controls the rollovers.)


beekaytee - Sep 21, 2007 6:29:27 am PDT #2819 of 25496
Compassionately intolerant

Dur. Of course the css and js files were in that folder for a reason.

I uploaded them, and all the graphic bits I could find, but the pictures are not showing up (the leaf and flame, etc.) Do I need to put them in a subfolder or something for the html page to grab them?

Ginger, you are a goddess among women. I'll get those images to you toot sweet. I'd like to upload them to vistaprint...for the cheap printing, of course...but when I put up the image I created, it was all kafloogitty.

Bless you all!


beekaytee - Sep 21, 2007 6:32:02 am PDT #2820 of 25496
Compassionately intolerant

Oh, and xara looks like it would do me fine, except that I'm all mac all the time. Sometimes that reality makes me go 'oh, woe.' But, I'm dyed in the wool, so...stuck!


Dana - Sep 21, 2007 6:32:54 am PDT #2821 of 25496
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Yes, it looks like the images should be in a subfolder called "images".


Ginger - Sep 21, 2007 6:33:17 am PDT #2822 of 25496
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

The graphics need to be in a folder called "images."


DXMachina - Sep 21, 2007 6:47:17 am PDT #2823 of 25496
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Oh, and xara looks like it would do me fine, except that I'm all mac all the time. Sometimes that reality makes me go 'oh, woe.' But, I'm dyed in the wool, so...stuck!

You could try GIMP for Mac OS X [link] It's free.


beekaytee - Sep 21, 2007 7:02:20 am PDT #2824 of 25496
Compassionately intolerant

All the images are safely tucked away...but a few seem missing. I'll have to hunt them down. But...it's getting closer!

I'm off to check out GIMP and see a client. Back soon.


le nubian - Sep 21, 2007 8:08:27 am PDT #2825 of 25496
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

FYI for anyone who may need this tip later.

On my computer with Vista I noticed that my capacity was getting eaten up. I started with about 25gigs free and then when I looked up a few days ago, I only had 4 gigs free. I thought it was a virus, or adware and I did a complete inspection of both issues. Still no dice. I downloaded a program to examine my hard disk and it showed about 50gigs occupied, but there nothing showed up that would explain the phantom 25 gigs.

Until I did some more google searching and found out about Vista's system restore feature. Apparently, that feature was gobbling up space, so I had to stop it altogether (which suddenly recovered my 25 gigs of space) and then I put a maximum limit on how much space the feature could take up (3 gigs max) and then I turned the feature back on.

Just in case someone encounters this problem here.