Posts made by alan wood

Hi Joe,
Thanks for that. Love your web site to.
Another one added to my favourites. Its just amazing what is out there on the web.
cheers
Alan.
http://www.hand-cut-dovetails.com

Hi Remus,
I'll be happy sharing some of my sketchup models at some stage as well, as a 'how to do' type of article. I'm finding sketchup an ideal way of communicating.
cheers
Alan.
http://www.hand-cut-dovetails.cocm

Hi Guys,
Just a quick hello. I'm doing a fair bit at present on the topic of dovetailing by hand and will be able to give pointers on this topic if anyone is interested.
cheers
Alan
http://www.hand-cut-dovetails.com

Hi Guys
My experience with both the 'intersect with model tool' and 'follow me tool' is that you sometimes need to scale up the model by a factor of 100.

So my suggestion would be
make the model
group it
scale it up by a factor or 100
carry out the intersect with model function
remove all of the unnessary stuff. When you have worked on it until you are happy
form a group of that model, scale it down by a factor of 100
the model is then usable with the rest of your model.

I'll keep an eye of this thread. If that does not work if you are happy posting the model i will see if there are any other problems.

cheers
Alan

that was fun
Alan

Peter Charles,
That was not a rant, it was plain common sense.
Alan

Well done guys
cheers
Alan

Hi Lewis
Welcome back.
cheers
Alan

PS and Hi to Modelhead as well.

Happy birthday to you both,
cheers
Alan

Hi Modelhead,
What a difference a new designer makes. Congratulations on the new format for their web page. So much more interesting with the image at the top of the page.

The idea that memebers of staff can upgrade the web site makes for a more efficient business, updates in real time.

I am working away in the background reducing the size of the images on my existing web page, and working on an iframe presentation for the home page.

Looks like the windows will be fitted today so I will be able to communicate tomorrow.

cheers

Alan.

Hi Modelhead,
Re the models:
I love the idea of you rending some of the models. It would be great to see them come to life.

I decided some time ago that I would stick with sketchup renders. I think woodworkers would be happy to have a very high standard of content, with regard to ‘how to do things’, rather than superb rendering. Maybe one day I will travel that path, but at present I have other priorities.

Long term vision I have is maybe an avi from my sketchup model, with voice over explaining what we will be covering in detail in that lesson, just to give an introduction to the topic.

I have also thought of a tour of my virtual workshop in avi. format on my home page. But that is some way down the line for me.

I am conscious of the fact that you are extremely busy and don’t want to ask you to add more to your workload.

cheers
Alan

Hi Modelhead,
That's clear.
Thanks.
Just to let you know that I will be unavailable most of tomorrow, having some work done on the house, in fact it might spread into Sunday.
(Having three windows fitted)

Have good good weekend.
Cheers
Alan.

Hi Modelhead,
I'm in the process of updating my web page with images.
I have a book by Ken Milburn on photoshop 7, and there is advise there with regard to what type of image to place on a web page.
He talks about the advantages of GIF with regards to animation(havent the foggiest if I will ever use that), and there is obviously jpg.

Now I do believe that I should be placing images that are around 72dpi in jpg.

Question.
Do you see further down the learning curve that maybe GIF would be benifitial to my web page, or should I look at sticking with jpg for now.

Thanks
Alan

Hi guys,
As a newbie to web page design I would like to say that I am facinated with input from the more experienced web builders. I dont think the topic has been hijacked by anyone.
Thanks for your input
Edson,
Re my previous posting as a solution to your quesiton. Sorry, I completly missed the point,and do not have the answer for that.
cheers
Alan

Hi Edson
I had tried that but it didnt work for me.
I'm in the process of upgrading the iframe on my front page using the recent lesson. The navigation bar at the bottom with next previous etc. I will try it again then.

Thanks
Alan

PS I'm working tomorrow, will catch up in the evening.

Hi web builders,
Problem/solution
One of the problems I was having with my web page was accurately positioning my navigation bars on a page, so that sequential pages had the navigation bar in exactly the same position.

The Ctrl C method of copying the navigation bar from one page to the next didn’t work.

Now all pages were the same width, in fact the standard default width of 760pixels.

Today I resolved that problem, and the solution is simple.

Add a text box the complete width of the page, in my case 760pixels. You don’t have to add any text that fills the box, just add a box the full width of the page.

Having done that, use the Ctrl C and Ctrl V method of copying and pasting the navigation bar, or in fact the iframe for my header, and it works perfectly every time now.

Happy page building.

cheers
Alan.

dson,
I believe I have the answer for that.

Select the navigation bar that you want to ‘colour’ to make it ‘active’
double click on the navigation bar, and this will bring out the
‘ Edit Navigation bar dialogue box.’, select Customize.

If you want to ‘highlight’ the page number that someone has clicked on, you want to add a colour to the ‘Active Image’ menu.
Select Browse for the Active image.

Having selected browse, ‘ Choose an image’ dialogue box appears, I selected Clip Art.
From the menu available select the colour you wish, by highlighting the colour and selecting OK.

You will now have a colour behind your image every time someone selects a particular navigation entity.

I think that’s what you were after.
Cheers
Alan
PS glad the first bit of info was helpful.

Hi Kris,
Thanks for that and your help.
cheers
Alan

Edson
I may have the answer for that.
Highlight your existing navigation bar.
go to the top menu bar, tool>advanced navigation bar editor and select that.
In the dialogue box your navigation bars appear.
Double click on each navigation bar.
Look at the top of the editor dialogue box, and you have the option of aline, left, centre or right.

Cheers
Alan

Hi Kris,
I would like you, to add yourself, to my lists of credits.
You mentioned linking to others sites way back in this thread.

My site is no where ready yet, but I emailed the chap who has the top listing if you input hand cut dovetails in the google search engine.

I'm top of his list at present if you enter his site.

I'm working away in the background on loads of issues to do with web building. One issue is my home page. So that will be update soon.

So thanks to you as well.

cheers

Alan