Joss

Yep.

What is at 2.9?

The problem is that the module wont install

Having forgotten all about writing that, I just tried to install it again. Same result, sadly...

Well, I don't want to spend more than four or five hundred to be honest. I need to watch size too - This will replace my current middle monitor and I only have so much space. As you can see. I am just on windows.

Okay, that was sneaky! But thanks. Bit early for whiskey (and yes, it will have an "E" in it - all those Rorkes in my family tree, don't you know), and I am wondering where the tie is? Since I moved a few months ago I am still having trouble tracking a few bits down.

I think that it is not that clients don't care, I think they don't realised they are being fooled to be honest. I have only dealt with tiny little companies recently, perfect Wordpress fodder. When I talk to them about what is what, they really care a lot and didn't realise what they were facing. This is true of all forms of advertising (and websites are just advertising, for the most part). Advertising is such a specialist thing that most clients are completely out of their depth - that is why they subcontract in the first place. But with web design being such a new industry, and SEO seeming to be some sort of "dark art" the field is open for anyone who wants to be less than scrupulous. And that is a shame, not just for the clients, but for all those designers out there that care about doing right by their client.

My main experience in this comes from outside web design. However, clients of web designers are also clients of other people, like advertising producers, composers (me) and so on. So, I imagine they have the same expectations. In music, there is a clear difference between off-the-shelf and bespoke/custom (bespoke and custom are the same things). With bespoke the expectation is that you compose a piece of music from scratch and then will not sell that piece of music to anyone else. With off-the-shelf, the client expects the music to be from a stock source (production library, your own library, wherever) and that they will licence it. The terms of the licence might be that they can just use it (and so can everyone else), or they might licence it exclusively for a given territory for a set amount of time and so on. However, they would expect this to be the cheaper option, unless the music is something famous and in copyright. With the off-the-shelf version, they might well expect some customisation, and those customisations would be unique - for instance, having their name sung. But that would be unique by its nature! (Note the difference in emphasis between a "custom" solution and "customising" an existing solution) With web designers, if a company is using a bought-in template as a starting point, the client would expect to be told that a) the basic design has been outsourced by using a pre-existing template and b) that anyone else, including their direct competitor, are free to source the same template. If a design company is using a 3rd party template and saying it is a bespoke or custom design (as opposed to customising someone elses design), then to be frank, they are being dishonest. If that happened in music (and it has a couple of times) the lawyers do very well out of it. To be completely unfair (or maybe not) to certain web designers, when they use a template and just change a couple of colours and the logo, then they can't have really thought about their client's image. Treating them as just another shoe seller, or plumber, or guitarist shows a diabolical disregard for brand image and client integrity. I have much more time for instant plug and play solutions where the client KNOWS they are not going to look unique, but just need to get on the web with something that is cheap and quick. It might not be the best solution, but at least it is honest.

Template files, by default, need to be in the templates directory, not a subdirectory. But that does not mean you cannot include files from other directories. I don't know what design differences you will make, but assuming that you have detected what device you are on (kiosk or other would be the best starting point), then just serve up the portion of the template that you need. You could either use php to include another page (which could be in any directory for your organisational purposes - there is no technical reason for it to be anywhere particular) or just divide the page up and serve up only a portion. For simplicity, I would probably go for the first. So, for the home page, for instance, you have a template called home.php The only code in this template would effectively say <?php // some detection stuff resulting in getting a $kiosk value - I have no idea what! if($kiosk){ include(./kiosk/home.inc); } else { include(./web/home.inc); All your templates would basically have the same code. The .inc files would then contain everything your normal template file would. Something like that.

What a wonderful world of advice - this should be archived somewhere! Eventually I will get my personal site back up and then I must reprint some of these threads on there. Eventually......

Thanks Yellowled, I will look into that. I know what you mean about checking on ordinary monitors. I have done that for years with film and sound, but I also like a reference point, especially when doing photography and matching to external graphic sources accurately. For instance, with sound I will always check the final mix balance on a range of nasty speakers in the studio. But I still needed dead accurate reference speakers to fine tune the sound before the balance process started. Likewise in video and film editing, the editors I worked with used a TV in the corner to check it would look fine on peoples old TV at home, but they used a reference monitor to work with the original footage.

We used the same idea in video editing years ago, but those were really super-high end calibrated monitors that would actually respond to the adjustments. (very out of date now, of course) The DELL that I list above and a couple other I have now looked at seem to get pretty close to the adobe specs and have hardware calibration. Having said that, I don't have the best card out, so I will get better than I am currently, but not as close as I would like. It is probably the result of years in production, but I like to have confidence in my machines so I don't have to think about it, even if it is not as vital in my current line of work. Habit, really.

Oh, I know that - but with my current set up it is more of a case of "I haven't the foggiest!" It would be at least nice to have one monitor where I can say, well, at least I know that is right and can blame everyone else for it looking wrong on their monitors! Antti, I need another computer like I need a hole in the head! @photowebmax - that is the other side of it; I want to use it for my photography which has nothing to do with the web. But I am not rolling in cash, so I need to find the compromise. Mind you, my speakers for my music cost, er ... a lot of money!

Ooh, I will go look!

Ummm ... I think I just want accurate colours, not be pasted onto my back wall!

The trouble with my set up is that it was originally for music produciton - lots of monitors, not good quality. So, I need to replace the middle on with something better. Any clues? I cant spend a fortune, am on PC and haven't got room for larger than 27 inch. One I have been reading about is the Dell u2713h - not the HM.

With modules so easy to install, I think it is better not to have more than absolutely necessary or very, very commonly used in the core. I think I have only used the YouTube embed once. Personally, I wouldn't even have an RTF in the core, except that for some reason everyone expects one.

Ok, me need to sort out button pushing - I thought I had done that!

Seeing the forgot password, I want a "forgot module" module. Basically, it automatically installs the module you forgot about......

I think you are in the wrong forum for Opencart issues. Try http://www.opencart.com/

HI changwuf31 As kongondo says, ProcessWire leaves not only the markup to you but also the way you structure the site. That means all the tricks that are available to the static website developer are available to the ProcessWire developer, without having to try and convert it or bend it to a particular way of doing things. I recommend that you not only read the ProcessWire tutorial linked to above, but also the one on how to install a CSS Framework http://processwire.com/docs/tutorials/installing-a-css-framework/ You might also want to read up about device detection and so on. Basically, anything you could do with a static site, you can do with PW without a learning curve. Isn't that nice?

Hey, Macrura Want to write down exactly what you did for anyone else who wants to do the same thing?

I have also found them pretty stable. They had a problem last year once or twice when they got hit by attacks and had some other issues, but that seems to have gone now and I haven't had any outages since then at all. Previously I was with Zone Edit and I had problems with them all over the place.

Horst, you had a long day?

I am trying to put together my own icon set so I don't keep nicking everyone elses. So, these are primarily for use on a website - navigation, parts of the site, just a few social bits and so on. What others should I do? Without ending up doing hundreds! With companies, I am using their official logos, though not necessarily the right colours! For the moment I am just doing them in Illustrator in grey with no backgrounds. I will mess with them later and put them into neat sets. But these are my core images: