Completely & Utterly OT; Handyman charges

[Adrian]

That's what I felt - but modesty forbids

Oh yes - that dates us both, doesn't it ? Gentlemens' Suits, as well.....

Twas on odd unit - the guinea - according to wiki "the term guinea survives in some circles, notably horse racing and in the sale of rams" - so there you go ....

Yes - that's sort of what I meant - but the algebra defeated me...

Oh I do hope so........

Interesting, if not a little disturbing really... I was at an event before Christmas where I was selling my handmade glass - pair of one-off earrings on silver for 20 euro - that sort of price range.

Nice fellow on the next stall was very proud of the fact that he'd bought all of his stock wholesale for the USA (and presumably they bought it from China). Showed me a beaded bracelet priced at 30 euro - proudly told me that it only cost him 4 dollars - and indicated that was the level of markup he expected on all of his stock....

Thing is, I'd not be happy just buying it in, marking it up and selling it on - it's the making / creating that's the kick for me...

...guess I'd be a lot richer, though !

Ho hum Adrina

[The Medway Handyman]

The time actually spent at the customers. In the paragraph above it says "The first hour on site is charged at £45".

Do you feel that clears it up? Or could you suggest some better wording? Open to ideas :-)

[Dave]

No problem at this end downloading the page. It is presented instantly.

Dave Using bt openworld.

[Dave Liquorice]

The logo image took a few seconds to be fully loaded over an average broadband connection. Not surprising as it it over 1/2 a Megabyte. For fun I resized it to 295 x 146 (same size as the one on the web page is scaled to) the resultant file is just 14 kilobytes and actually looks better )no jaggies) as the graphics package resize does a better job than the browsers on the fly rescaling.

[The Medway Handyman]

Point taken. Sorry to be dim, but how would I resize it? What software?

[Clive George]

It's 80K on my machine. Ah, no, it's 80K on the main page, vis 0.5M on the "www" one.

you've already sorted it out, you just need to get rid of the "www" version.

cheers, clive

[Dave Liquorice]

80k is still a bit excessive for fairly small and simple image. It also =

still suffers the browser rescaling jaggies as the image is still 1560 x=

748 pixels...

Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro will do the resizing or any number of other =

probably freeware utilities out there. I'll see if I can demunge Dave's =

address and send him my rescaled 14kb version.

On the charges look OK to me. Table is "complicated" for what is essentially saying =A320/hr after the first hour with a =A310 discount f= or an

8 hour pre-booked day.

Why is there a back tick after the =A3125?

[The Medway Handyman]

And thank you very much Dave. I've changed the image. I appreciate your help.

Many people are simply bad at math :-) Its a summary for the hard of thinking.

No Idea - but its gone now!

Once again, many thanks.

[Clive George]

295 x 146 pixels here...

cheers, clive

[Dave Liquorice]

That is the size your browser is scaling the image to fit.

I've sent David my small version which he now (1013) has online on both copies of his site(*). Curiously even this small image is being rescaled to 254 x 132 rather than leaving it at it's native 295 x 146 that was the orginal scaled size on his site. This produces some wobbles in the "straight" lines, looks like the artist had the shakes when they drew it. B-)

[Si]

Nothing curious - the tag still reads

[Dave Liquorice]

Well yes. What is curious is why the image is being scaled at all. It doesn't need it. The image I sent was the same pixel size as the scaled, massive, one on the site. Scaling even the small version produces some artifacts.

I forgot to ask why there are two copies of the site as well most peculiar and probably makes maintenace twice as hard as it should be and error prone.

[The Medway Handyman]

Two copies? I know not of what you speak?

[Dave Liquorice]

depending on how your server is set up they may actually only be one copy but somewhere down this thread the logo was a different file between the two URLs. Which indicates they aren't a single copy with two URLs referencing it.

[The Medway Handyman]

No idea what thats all about or how it happened. Does it matter?

[Dave Liquorice]

Only if the serch engines find two sets of pages and you aren't keeping both sets up to date. Or if you are paying for disc space and have a duplicate set takes you into higher charges (unlikely).

[The Medway Handyman]

I think I've got rid of it now :-)

[Si]

One of the useful things PSP can do is selective cloning. The user selects a paintbrush (size/shape/density/opacity etc.) then right clicks an area in an image to select the source. Left clicking elsewhere then clones from one place to another with all the attributes previously selected. This useful for hiding minor blemishes in a textured area. I was unable to find this facility in the Gimp when I tried it.

[Ian White]

With suitable 'fractal' backgrounds such as lawn and Leylandii, it can hide blemishes the size of a garden shed.

Well, of course you couldn't.

[John Stumbles]

The gimp's rubber-stamp-icon tool lets you 'paint' an area (selected by the brush type) from one location (selected by ctrl-click) to another (click, or click & drag to copy more than one blob). I use this for touching up blemishes.