OT-Killing Pop-ups as a webmaster

and we have cell phone tarrifs of about 1 cent per minute to other cell
phones
(on the same provider) or 1 cent from cellphone to fixed (land based)
phones.

What does this get you in terms of better service?

And if the answer is "nothing", why did you bring their existence up at this
juncture?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

My sweetie and I enjoyed our stay at Alexis Park Inn. The Pan Am
Clipper suite was great and you and Mary treated us extremely well.

Hi John! It was great to have you and Stella stay with us, and the
Blackwatch Porter (that's "beer" for you "Bud Light" fans) you gave us is
truly outstanding. I'm not a big fan of REALLY dark beers, but this one is
just superb. Thanks!

However it was really immature of you to enter the suite just to sink
our floatplanes while we were frolicking in the Jacuzzi.

I was just thankful to see that you were wearing life-preservers. (Those
WERE life-preservers, right? ;-)

The aviation photos and collectables were great and I covet the
Blackbird pitot.

The Blackbird suite is going to be just awesome. I may move in permanently
when we get it done, just to bask in the "Area 51" ambience...

You're not a professional web page designer and "Good enough is
good enough". Pay attention to the content and not those irrelevant
details that won't distract 99% of the viewers.

Thanks. As I slowly get better at this HTML stuff, I'll try to incorporate
what everyone has been trying to bludgeon me with. If nothing else, I've
learned I've got a long way to go before my website is where I want it to
be...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" writes:

It's *your* problem if your site is one of the invisible ones and you're
trying
to attract customers. Which your site is, and which you are.

So I'll stay at hotels that use standard HTML for their web sites, rent
from car
agencies that use standard HTML, etc.

George, please see http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp ,
which show browser use statistics.

As you can see, Microsoft browsers are used by 97% of all internet users.

That's true this week, but next week Microsoft will release a
differently incompatible browser (or maybe next month). You're better
off sticking to standards.

And on the sites *I'm* hosting, while IE is over 50%, it's by no means
dominating. I get hits from a *lot* of different browsers (based on
133,000 page views a day, or over 900,000 "hits" a day).

Another important thing to remember is the search engine "bots"; if
your site doesn't work with them, you're totally hosed.
--
David Dyer-Bennet, , www.dd-b.net/dd-b/
RKBA: noguns-nomoney.com www.dd-b.net/carry/
Photos: dd-b.lighthunters.net Snapshots: www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/
Dragaera/Steven Brust: dragaera.info/

Martin Hotze wrote:


That's techology already in use here in Europe. Regarding cellphones and mobile
technology we are generally at least one generation in advance to the US.

there are coming up mobile phones with about up to 1 mbit/s IP-access, allowing
video phone, data transmission, etc. (calles UMTS). there are GRPS mobiles with
built in browsers (the browser technology is from Symbian), so you can go online
and surf the web. you might search the web for WAP, GRPS, UMTS, G3

This is also a cultural thing. Without a standard keyboard and a decent
screen size web service on your cell phone will never takeoff here.
Right now the camera phones are a joke. The picture quality is
horrible. I realize better camera phones are coming but this too is a
fad. I had web service for a while but you are so limited in what you
can see that it renders it worthless for the masses. All digital phones
have text messaging but it is such a pain in the ass to type out a
message that this will not takeoff either until an easier method is
found. And since I will not carry around a larger phone than the LG
VX4400 that I have now I don't know how this can be overcome.

Martin Hotze writes:

"Jay Honeck" wrote:

That's just *past* statistics. What about the Symbian cell phones that
are selling like hot cakes (at least over here) which DO NOT run
Microsoft software?

Well, they were the most recent stats that I could find.

What's a Symbian cell phone?


That's techology already in use here in Europe. Regarding cellphones
and mobile technology we are generally at least one generation in
advance to the US.

Depends how you measure. I've had web browsing on my cell phone
available since 1999, myself.
--
David Dyer-Bennet, , www.dd-b.net/dd-b/
RKBA: noguns-nomoney.com www.dd-b.net/carry/
Photos: dd-b.lighthunters.net Snapshots: www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/
Dragaera/Steven Brust: dragaera.info/

25 months ago I called Qwest and told them to shove their phone service
up their ass. I have been cell phone only since then. I refuse to pay
$14 a month in taxes and user fees. Take that Al Gore. Haven't missed
the landline and my total phone service bill has decreased. Also no
telemarketing at all.

Jay Honeck wrote:

What's a Symbian cell phone?

That's techology already in use here in Europe. Regarding cellphones and

mobile

technology we are generally at least one generation in advance to the US.


Yeah, I've heard that. The reasons for this remains mysterious to me,
although the explanation always given here is that it's because European
(and Asian) land-line phone systems were so awful that the new (and better)
cellular technology just exploded as a result.

In other words, since the vastly superior US phone system was engineered (by
law) to the "Five Nines" standard (I.E.: 99.999% reliability), there wasn't
as urgent a need for a viable alternative.

What a double-edged sword THAT has turned out to be, eh? Because we did
such a good job with land-lines, we find ourselves in the dark ages of
cellular technology. (Although I'll bet SOMEWHERE in this story it will
come to light that our Gubmint tried to regulate it, and screwed it up.)

"Jay Honeck" writes:

In my world the only question that matters is this: Can it be done with
tools at hand?

Of course it can. Use Wordpad.

Seriously. HTML editors are a snare and a delusion, they produce
lousy code, and they interfere with your ever learning what you're
doing.

I took a quick shot at running the Alexis Park Inn homepage through
the W3C validator, and it couldn't even get started, because there
wasn't a doctype specified. Frontpage appears to be producing total
trash.
--
David Dyer-Bennet, , www.dd-b.net/dd-b/
RKBA: noguns-nomoney.com www.dd-b.net/carry/
Photos: dd-b.lighthunters.net Snapshots: www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/
Dragaera/Steven Brust: dragaera.info/

"Jay Honeck" writes:

Wow. The one labeled "The bedroom in natural sunlight" (Queen bed in
suite.jpg) is 1.3MB, and still has the EXIF information in it (I see
you shot it at 1/20 second at f2.8 with a Canon S100 :-)). It's also
1600x1200 pixels, not resized to a reasonable screen size; I'd suspect
it of being the camera original file, except that the EXIF info says
Photoshop 7 has been at it.

Yikes -- how did THAT slip through? I always re-size them, and rename them.
This one I used the original photo size! (Good thing it was with the old
2.1 megapixel camera, eh?

grin yep.

Time to re-size! (How did you find out all that info on the picture?
When I click on "properties" while viewing it on the webpage, it doesn't
show me all that info...)

My browser doesn't show me the info either, but I saved the photo and
looked at it with Irfan View, which showed that there was EXIF
information present, and when I asked, what that information was.

On the brighter side, it IS one of the nicer pictures... :-)

Yes, that's true.
--
David Dyer-Bennet, , www.dd-b.net/dd-b/
RKBA: noguns-nomoney.com www.dd-b.net/carry/
Photos: dd-b.lighthunters.net Snapshots: www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/
Dragaera/Steven Brust: dragaera.info/

Marty - Marty - Marty

I thought it was quite funny. I laughed.

If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you jump too?
Sure, must be something really good at the bottom.

--
Montblack


"Martin Hotze"
millions of flies can't be wrong! folks! eat ****!

For Dog's sake, Martin, lighten up. I happen to agree with most of what
you've said about HTML standards being a good thing, but random verbal
abuse isn't going to win any converts.


sorry if this was insulting, it was not intended. My _WHOLE_ line (and
only read
as one line; don't read each sentence alone) is a saying and often used,
at
least in my area. So this was not an 'offer' to follow, it was a saying.
Once
again _sorry_ if it was insulting. it was not intended.

"Jay Honeck" writes:

You're not a professional web page designer and "Good enough is
good enough". Pay attention to the content and not those irrelevant
details that won't distract 99% of the viewers.

Thanks. As I slowly get better at this HTML stuff, I'll try to incorporate
what everyone has been trying to bludgeon me with. If nothing else, I've
learned I've got a long way to go before my website is where I want it to
be...

While I'm one of the carpers (I've got opinions!), I should say for
the record that the current version of your site works fine for me in
Opera 7.21. And that the high level of *content* in the site is a
strong point in its favor, both about the hotel and some of the
regional aviation stuff.
--
David Dyer-Bennet, , www.dd-b.net/dd-b/
RKBA: noguns-nomoney.com www.dd-b.net/carry/
Photos: dd-b.lighthunters.net Snapshots: www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/
Dragaera/Steven Brust: dragaera.info/