Alan says I gotta tell you!

I love it! its great and much easier to navigate. I always look to your site when I am stuck, sometimes it has the answer, sometimes not, but when it doesn't at least its good inspiration and relaxing!

I love the gold gown.....I was waiting for that! P.S.........you are too skinny!!!! Nice collar bones! :)

Michelle Giordano

By the way, if you want to check for dead links, there is a great link checker here:

cheers ~ Denise

Axestraps Vintage Style Guitar Straps

Glad you are finding it easier to get round! :)

Fun, isn't it!

Hehe! I still have about a stone (14 lbs) to lose to get to goal - and I won't lose much this week! I have a mad attack of the munchies! The vital statistics have gone down from 43/38/49 to 36/30/40, so there is still room for improvement. Slowly does it...

Thanks. I did the pages, Alan did all the hard work making them work properly!

He'll see that when he gets back from taking pix of young James at sports day! Thanks again.

Not sure why, but everything I click on says not found....grrrrrrrr

Larisa

Kate Dicey wrote:

If you see the old purple/pink page, you are seeing what's in your cache

- or not seeing it! hit the reload/refresh button, or start again form my sig line.

In article , Kate Dicey writes

Fab, fab site, Kate.

The final construction page of the court gown appears to have the text for a link but not to have the link itself from the ruff page.

Gosh, I wish I lived in your sewing room!

Love

Elizabeth

...

How not to display your costumes doesn't have a link.

Got a hit counter? I just shared your Dickens dress with my CW group.

--Karen M. who'd make a bertha out of galloon lace next time

Right, we'll get that fixed tomorrow. Alan is just off to bed, and I'm about to follow...

It's too small... Not enough room for all the books or sewing kit!

No - it isn't ready yet. It should be green: blue links should be live.

Nah... DH checks the stats every so often.

I'll make it out of taffeta - and forget the pattern!

"Kate Dicey" a écrit dans le message de news: 42cc130e$0$6290$ snipped-for-privacy@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...

Claire in Montréal, France.

Glad it works for you. BB has improved all sorts of things for us! I can now talk to clients on the phone AND be connected to the net, as can DH! :) It also made uploading the new look site much quicker than it would have been.

I think the speed of this at your end is helped by the fact that Alan cut out a LOT of hidden garbage! There were loads of pix 'on the site' that had no hyperlinks to them.

Just to clarify, unreferenced pictures won't be loaded when you get a page, they just occupied a lot of space on the ISP for no benefit. I have reorganised the pages and separated each one with its pictures into a separate directory, as well as tidying up the code a bit.

Some of the speed benefit will be down to the lack of picures on the index pages. Text loads a lot faster than pictures. I have tidied up the html page code a bit, and added a Table of Contents for quick reference - there is a link at the bottom of each page to get back to it.

I don't know how it works in France, but in the UK the telco, the phone company, is responsible for the wiring up to the master socket, the first phone point in the house. The in-house wiring is up to the homeowner, and may have been installed when the house was built, added to by previous occupants, or all be DIY.

In my case it was all DIY, done with the four-wire and six-wire BT signal cable of the time (25 years ago)(by me :-) ). This cable is *no good* for broadband, and I have resorted to connecting one of those little splitters to the master socket, so that the house wiring only gets telephone signals and the broadband router is fed from the splitter. All this is pending my rewiring the house telephones with twisted-pair cabling, which will support broadband.

If your house wiring is not to modern twisted-pair standard, it could affect the reliability of the broadband signal. This should be may noticable as the broadband light on your modem flickering even when there is no computer activity. If you are a long way from your exchange the signal may be pretty degraded already and any slight fault will be critical. Your modem may be falling back to a slower connection speed because it can't get a reliable connection.

Digression: dialup modems work at the same frequencies as the human voice and can connect using almost any voice telephone wiring. Voice frequency transmission doesn't require much in the way of special cabling, just good connections - a piece of wet string can be made to work.

Broadband uses higher frequencies which do require some sophisitication in the transmission line. Twisted pair is a transmission line that uses pairs of wires to carry each signal. By twisting each pair together it becomes much better at rejecting noise and can carry higher frequencies for further (there are lots of complicated electromagnetical reasons for this). One of the deciding factors about whether you can get broadband at your home is how good the cabling is between you and the exchange - if it's old-fashioned straight wires you're usually out of luck.

Um, I do go on a bit. Hope that was some use.

Claire in Montréal, France.

A bit! Huh! Look, folks, it took 3 days - he tidied things up a LOT, believe me!

My hero!

I found one small thing. I can't copy the link because it doesn't seem to have one...I don't understand all this new coding. :)

But, in the beaded dress section, just a hair past halfway down, there is a close-up of the edge of the dress. If I click on that to make the picture bigger, I get a "page not found."

Fascinating tutorial. You make it look easy, Kate.

Try again after hitting the refresh button: seems to be working fine from here when I do that to make sure it's current, not a cached copy...

Great, I do understand that, I'm not to bad at wiring. just a little slow at doing it owing to the thought process. The wiring is all standard telephone cable six wire,done by me in 1998. I hope it's not too old I will look and see if it's two strand or something else.

Our phone line comes in from the Telecom line to one point, from there I have three extensions, one is to a UK box so that I could plug my phone/ fax/ answer phone in, typically the french telephone plugs are a different shape and the Uk combo wouldn't work when we first got here. I also have two extensions one in the bedroom (never used) and one in the office.

The modem box is plugged into the main telecom socket. I don't know if it's what you would call a spliter but it plugs into the main socket with a telephone plug hole for the normal phone on the one side and an smaller socket that takes a cable to the modem underneath, then there is a phone piggy backing off of the modem that gives me "all inclusive " phone calls within france, for that I had to wait a few days from plugging in the modem but it switched on after 3 days I think. I still have phones plugged into the Uk socket and the office socket from which I can call mobiles and or outside France as I have cheaper deals for those calls than the broadband service can currently offer. I seem to be able to send big files very fast so that side of the broadband bit is working but picking up emails or loading web pages via broad band takes forever and I'm not exagerating. Yesterdays trial took 20 mins for one note on the news group to appear!

The modem box has a long start up process when unplugged and replugged and hovers around the PPP stage for several minutes, this is the main part of the problem I believe, so at the moment I am living in hope that it will soon be solved and I can stop geting on my knees to unplug and replug between the dial up and the broad band, just in case it's working today!

Waiting hopefully Claire in Montréal, France.