Recent content by JohnRoss

Good man. If everyone were so considerate as to pass on what they had learned in this kind of investigation, the world, or Internet at least, would be a much better place.

British industry did close down, mostly due to Margaret Thatcher. The mines, the shipyards, the car factories, the textile industry, all gone. The UK is now a service economy, which includes printing. That is so hugely, gratuitously offensive, I almost find it difficult not to be as...

It could, and it could mean you got better value for money. Seeing as how you've introduced the wine analogy, there are an awful lot of champagne-style wines in the world (not just my own favourite Spanish cava) which are at least as good as French champagnes, and, not being French, are cheaper...

I repeat, I am sorry about the financial struggles of printers', esp. small firms, but I am not surprised by them. I wasn't really thinking of Internet businesses, I meant ordinary printing firms in China or Korea or wherever. I have a book project up my sleeve, so I've been looking around a...

My sympathies for struggling printers everywhere, but I believe this is a 'global' thing, in at least two senses of the word. For one thing, why would anyone use a local printer for, e.g., a book run, when they can get the same thing done with the same quality for x% less in China? For another...

a) Worth doing, though, and the second time round it's a lot easier. b) Most people don't template from scratch, even when they should, they take someone else's template and adapt it. c) It is also perfectly legitimate, even for a designer, to "resell" a commercial design, and there are some...

I've translated quite a lot of high flyers' CVs, international corporate execs, even the odd senior European bureaucrat, and I have some idea about what works. I'd say list your logos, letterheads, etc. Literally, in reverse chronological order, and in detail: what the brief was, who your...

I think it could be done but it would need to be from the Shopify end, not yours. The easy (and slightly unethical) way round this would be for you to put the shopify page in an iframe of zero dimensions so it's invisible. That isn't something I would do myself without thinking very hard about...

The problem with switching hosts is that every one has slightly different Apache and php setups. The OP seems to have switched from one running an oldish version to one running php 5.3, but probably with stricter memory restrictions. Or something like that, you'd have to compare different...

The page works, nothing on it does. It is trying to find everything in the wrong places. Read up on "absolute" and "relative" URLs and come back. I'll give you a clue - your css file is not at "http://www.tastytreats.org.uk/thispagedoesnotexist.html/css/styles.css" but at...

I suppose when you say 'main text' you mean headers and such, Bebas being only upper case unless I'm mistaken (which is very probable, I'm not an expert either). So when you say 'descriptive text' you mean what I would call the body of the text. Sans serif fonts are a tad trickier than serif, so...

Oh dear, you are in a muddle, aren't you? There is no such thing as WordPress for Mac, that I've heard of. There's WordPress for Linux and WordPress for Windows, which mean the operating systems that may be used by your hosting company's servers (Mac is not good for that purpose), not the one...

I might be misunderstanding, but this sounds as if you are planning on using the Macbook for serious work, rather than for just taking to clients. In which case, I'd say don't - if you've got that sort of budget, get an iMac for home, you can get a brilliant 27-inch for 1400 quid now. Then spend...

All shared hosting companies are erratic, all are better at the outset and go downhill, and all are likely to fail you at some stage. There's no point in fighting it, it's the dynamics of the business model involved, they oversell in the same way as airlines do, and when the real world...

Agree with both. Also, there's a bug which seems to be common involving an old forgotten print job trying for months to get itself done on an old forgotten printer - google "Mac fan noise." Though that dead screen looks like Kernel Panic due to memory seating or something.