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OT: DD's Cake Website

Hi Guys, Wanted to take a minute and brag on DD (remember, she's a chef). She has finally gotten her catering website online at

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. It's not finished yet -- still some bugs to iron out but there are a few photos of some of her cakes in the Portfolio section. She also does catering but doesn't have any food type photos up yet. I know none of you would need her services. I just wanted to brag on her a bit :-). She has just finished the Masters Course at the Wilton Center outside of Chicago, IL. If you look at the cake photos, the one of the large white wedding cake with the purple flowers is the piece she did for her "final exam". The cake is not cake, it's styrofoam, but the frosting and all of the decorations are made from royal icing and look almost real. This stuff is NOT like the regular roses, etc. that you see on most cakes and it really lovely. Also, there is a cake with absolutely darling bumble bees that DD made from fondant. I told DD that next time she makes them she needs to add what we call "fairy dust" to the wings to make them sparkle. I'm not sure what the fairy dust is made from (probably sugar) but it is edible and sparkles beautifully. Anyway, that all. Just wanted to take a minute and brag on DD. CiaoMeow >^;;^<

PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties) Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their whiskers! Visit my Photo albums at

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Tia Mary
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You are right to brag ! I've just added several pounds by just looking at the photos ;o) Well done to your DD, and I wish her success !

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Parrotfish

Wow! Those are beautiful. She's very talented, Mary. Congratulations to the both of you.

Cindy

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teleflora

It's so nice to be able to make a career out of what you love to do! Best wishes to your daughter.

Dianne

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Dianne Lewandowski

The cakes are gorgeous. You might suggest, however, that she edit her home page -- she says "I enjoy working people". Perhaps it would be better to say "working with people."

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elspeth

LOLOL -- I was on the phone with her for almost an hour going through the text and that was one of the things she was going to change!! There were several other typos, missing words, etc. and that one obviously didn't get fixed. Thanks for letting me know -- I will send her an e-mail about it. Bruce e-mailed that when he looked at the site, it took forever for the photos to open up and they were full size!!!!!! THAT must have been a total P.I.T.A. Has anyone else had this problem? When using aoHell, I have no problem and when using Netscape the photos are a bit slow but they aren't full size. I'll have to go to the site using the DSL provider link (can't remember what that one is) and see if there's a problem. CiaoMeow >^;;^<

PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties) Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their whiskers! Visit my Photo albums at

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Tia Mary

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Shirley Shone

You have every right to brag on your daughter. Those are lovely cakes. And very tastefully decorated (pun intended).

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Carolyn McCarty

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Dianne Lewandowski

Beautiful cakes! You have every right to be bursting with pride in your daughter.

The pictures opened a little slowly for me and were not full size and I couldn't click to make them open up to full size. I'm using firefox.

Judie in Penfield NY

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Judie in Penfield NY

First off, I apologize for cross posting -- at least that's what I think I did since I see the RCTN people over at RCTQ and vice versa. VBS -- I'm a dolt sometimes!!! Next, the website is not an aol thing nor is it free. I'm pretty sure DD said she pays $12.00/month to Web.com, the people who host the site. CiaoMeow >^;;^<

PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties) Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their whiskers! Visit my Photo albums at

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Tia Mary

I have e-mailed DD about the problems some are having with the photos. I'm not sure what can be done about it but it will give her something to look into. As for slow loading, I have instant photos when I go to the site using AOL, almost instant when using Internet Explorer and it takes a bit longer (but not much) when using Netscape. Not being any sort of computer person, I have NO idea why this happens!! But thanks for the heads up -- I'll make sure DD looks into it. CiaoMeow >^;;^<

PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties) Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their whiskers! Visit my Photo albums at

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Tia Mary

In my former life, I was somewhat of a geekess ... the pictures are slow to load because they haven't been actually resized and optimized for web viewing. The very large pictures have been dynamically crammed into little spaces on the web page. For example, the daisy cake picture is actually 2560 by 1920 pixels; however, her web page code is saying to display it 130 pixels wide. To be user friendly, your daughter should use a photo editing program to lessen the number of pixels and to create real, not psuedo, thumbnails.

Email me if you want more information.

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anne

It's important not to confuse the size of the image on the screen and the size of the file that creates the image. In this case the top centre photograph has an image size of 130 x 195 pixels and a file size of

12606 bytes whereas the top left photograph has an image size of 130 x 98 pixels and a file size of 1,132,887 bytes; all the other photographs have a similar small image size and a large file size. I presume that all the photographs were intended to be of a similar (small) image size and (small) file size as the top centre photograph and that clicking on these small images would bring up a much larger image created from a much larger file. Phew! I hope that has made things a little bit clearer - basically it's using a small image & small file size (a "thumbnail") as a link to a large image with large file size
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Bruce

Mary, I visited, and what I could see was just lovely! But now I'm wondering about a couple of things. As with Bruce, the photos did take a long time to open, but -- as you said -- they were small. Were they supposed to be clickable links to larger pics? They didn't seem to be, but I was wondering because of what you said about Bruce's experience.

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Sandy

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Dianne Lewandowski

Better still use Jalbum - it's free. See

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Bruce

Interesting, but that's a gallery, not a slide show. Amazing how many things are free on the Internet. We can have just about anything we want. I'm surprised it doesn't put a dent into the mass marketed sites.

I meant my original statement to be sent as email. Sorry about that.

Dianne

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Dianne Lewandowski

Jalbum can create a slide show too, see

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Bruce

Nice Cakes but where's the chocolate???

Fred

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Fred

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