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    Optimising Background Images for a Website

    Hey all, Some interesting posts, thanks for everyones suggestions. So after much debating and tearing hair out not to mention quite a few late nights. I had to make a decision as there was a tight deadline for the 22nd of decemember so I managed to split the background into three sections. A...
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    Vector Maps

    thanks all for the replies. Time doesn't allow for tracing the maps from scratch for the amount of work that they need as there is more to the job that i posted. i have found this website which has the level of detail they they require and would allow maps details to be overlayed if necessary...
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    Vector Maps

    Evening All, Looking for some advice, I have a client who has contact me with a project regarding counrty maps. They are looking for: 5 country maps to start - China, India, Indonesia, Russia, Bangladesh 1 map which shows the top 5 countries together (with other countries visible, but...
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    Anyone used CMS Made Simple?

    this is a little late, but it is very easy to use. It has a built in menu manager that controls the menu, it has support for vertical drop down or horizontal pop out. Creating a template is simple. Create a new template, add your html, add the tags that pull the data from the database which are...
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    Optimising Background Images for a Website

    Hi all, I am using the save for web to export the slices and have been using gif for non-photos. Problem i am having is that the background is so big and comes out at about 647kb at quality of 50 SO i just wondered if there were any others ways to reduce it. Its kind of like the background...
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    Optimising Background Images for a Website

    Evening All, How is everyone, hope you are all doing well in the run up to xmas. Ok i was wondering, I need some help with optimising graphics for a website. I am currently working on a website and its heavy on the graphics, with a big background, a heavy header containing photos and a lot of...
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    Vbulletin Customisation

    Hey greg, Thank for the link to the vbulletin manual and templates seciton, i found that before and didn't find it very useful, there doesn't seem to be a place where they describe what each template is. I found the side columns code and it did what i wanted straight away, until i wanted to...
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    Best opensource CMS?

    Hey all, I have to say i quite like umbraco as a complex CMS or cms made simple which is really easy to use. I am just developing a site in cms made simple and for the first time using it I am finding it fairly pain free. Umbraco is a different story it's such a complex beast, but fantastic...
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    Vbulletin Customisation

    Hey All, Hope everyone is having a nice tuesday evening and not working too hard :P So as i was saying in my introductions post, I am a developer and not a designer, and dabble in graphic design, as in a know a little bit but not a lot. My business is sponsoring a forum, by providing hosting...
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