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Well I deleted all the leatherworker.net cookies. I also made sure that I wasn't clearing cookies on exit. Currently it holds my login until I close my browser which is a step up from what it use to do. Previously I would login then go to another site and when I came back I'd have to login again. I'm using firefox and I've got it set to keep cookies until they expire. After looking at the cookies it seems that the one holding my userid isn't set to expire until a year from my last login. However the cookie containing the password hash expires when it was created. Is that normal? Jason

I'm having to login to the forum every time I visit even though I've checked remember me. I double checked my settings and I'm keeping cookies until they expire so I don't believe thats the problem. Anyone have any ideas? Jason

All I can say is WOW. Jason

Tim, I did a search for "boudark" and didn't come up with anything. Do you another name for it or possibly the Latin name? Jason

Bruce, Just wanted to say thanks for introducing me to clear out west. I've been listening to their archives all week at work. I really enjoy it. Jason

Every few months I take take the fans out of our laptops to clean both the fan and the vents. It doesn't take long for the vents to get completely clogged up especially if you drag it everywhere like we do. Jason

A few months back I was going through the archives of the pistolsmith forum reading anything I could about making holsters. During that time I stumbled upon a few threads about this same topic. Here are two quotes from those threads which I believe sum everything up. Jason

Jordon, What kind of laptop do you have? Jason

I've done about 3 upgrades with Ubuntu now. All were successful including the latest upgrade which I did this morning. I would consider my system moderately customized. I've configured apache, samba, etc to my own needs. The key is to always make sure you have an update backup. I'm sure if I had not backed everything up this morning then it wouldn't have gone so smoothly. Jason

The electrolysis method works great. I've used it to clean hand planes before. Try http://www3.telus.net/public/aschoepp/electrolyticrust.html for detailed instructions. Jason

I seem to recall on another forum that the bag punches weren't wide enough to put a double thickness concealed carry belt through. Might want to try one out before you spend the money on something that doesn't work. Jason

I use GnuCash, http://www.gnucash.org/, for my personal finances. It should work great for business accounting. Seems like with each version they tailor it more and more to businesses. It uses the double-entry accounting which I really like. Best of all, its FREE. Jason

Well the pictures look good, but to really critique it I'm going to need you to drop one in the mail for a 1911. I really do like the brown with the black. Looks really sharp. Jason

Mike, Just wanted to say that the gallery looks great. I really like that. I think I'll give that a go on the next site I do. Jason

Well if its taking up to much room I'm sure I could find some room for it. Jason

Sure, just leave out all header information and body tag. So for a menu your file would contain something like this: <ul> <li><a href="">Home</a></li> <li><a href="">Gallery</a></li> <li><a href="">Contact</a></li> <li><a href="">About</a></li> </ul> Eventually you can write a few lines to determine what page your own based upon the url and change your menu accordingly. Easiest way I've found for using IE is to set your doctype to strict. However to do this I believe you have to use css instead of inline styling. Jason

Mike, I'm going to disagree with Ken and say not to have your large images show up as a popup in a new window. I'd suggest using CSS to do an image popup on the page. Check it out: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/csslibra...p-image-viewer/ Jason

Mike, I don't know what I was thinking earlier, but I was all wrong about the 600 px causing the stretch. So just ignore all the previous comments concerning that. Your background images is actually 800px wide not 600px. I think the lack of smoothness is probably coming from the background image itself and not due to any stretching. I noticed that you've have it saved as a jpeg instead of a gif. Any reason for that? If not redo your gradient and save it as a gif. It should look the same. The only time it should look any different is on a wide monitor. Since you don't have access to anything wide then I would just leave your table width at 100% instead of setting it to 1024 or 1280. Thats also the most fluid layout anyway. I went ahead and edited my file for 100%. I'll reattach it to this post. The only problem with that is that it puts your menu all the way over on the right on wide screens, which is just a minor annoyance. Oh and the black line comes from using IE. I believe I have eliminated it. Not sure what your are referring to when you say PHP extension. If your host has php installed the include would only require <?php include '/path/to/menu.html' ?>. I guess to make a long story short, all my rework did was eliminate the line between your header and your body. If you do getting to messing with PHP and run into any problems let me know. I might be able to help. Jason Edit: I didn't eliminate the black line. I'm sure its just padding or margin that needs to be set to 0, probably top and bottom. nightowl.html nightowl.html

Bruce, Thanks for taking the time to post this. Basket weave is something I've never been able to get right. I'll give this method a try. Jason

Mike, I hope you don't mind, but I had some free time this afternoon so I did a little playing around with your code. Mainly all I did was the suggestions I talked about previously. Overall I think I've managed to keep the same look, it just looks a little cleaner on higher resolutions. I didn't get a chance to look at it on lower resolutions so I might have missed something there. If I did I'm sure it would be an easy fix. You really should take a look at learning some PHP if you have the slightest interest. I'm sure within an hour or two you could come up with some code that would really help you out. I know you said you wanted to use tables, but even with tables its really easy to have your header, footer, and menu's all pulled from separate files. That way when you add a page, you only have to change your menu in one file, instead of all of them. Jason nightowl.html nightowl.html

To be honest I've got a wide screen at 1280 x 1024. I didn't take a look at it at 1025 x 768. A lot of people are using wide screens these days so I at least try to design so sites don't break bad. You don't loose a lot of smoothness on large screens, but you were asking for critque so I'd thought I'd mention it. I've never used a pad, but I would imagine a quick fix would be to just increase the tool size and rewrite it. I'd like to have the option to play around with a pad. I'm glad to hear you write your own code. Makes me feel somewhat normal. I'll keep an eye on your site. I really like seeing a site come together and you really do have a good start. Jason

Gesa, Nice work. I'm not a carver so I won't comment on that, but your stitching and edging looks great. Jason

My thoughts exactly. Somebody went back for seconds when talent was being passed out. You should be either be that good with leather OR photography not both. Seriously though, that is an absolutely beautiful rig. I've admired your work every since I got into leather work. Just curious, but is that belt single or double thickness. I can't tell from the pictures, but seems like to me that would be a lot of weight for a single ply belt. Jason

There is Harris Leather & Silverworks in State Road. They make high end show saddles. There is also another guy in the Yadkin Valley area. I don't recall his name or address right now. If I can come up with it I'll let you know. Jason

Mike, Overall the designs looks very good and clean. I'm really a fan of classic lines and black and white. I think you've got a good start. That being said, I'd like to point out a few things. From what I gather you are writing your own code and not using a wysiwyg editor. Therefore I'll try and give you some specific fixes. You've got your header sitting on top of your background which is fine. However there is a harsh change in color where your header ends. I'm a little rusty on using tables for layout, but I believe you can pull your background image down from your body tag and place it in your table tag. Then set your background color of your body to black. Also your background image is only 600px wide. If your visitor's browser window is wider than 600px your background images becomes stretched and looses its smoothness. You might consider setting your table width to slightly less than 600px instead of 100%. If you set your background color to black in your body your overall look shouldn't change, you menu just won't be at the far right at larger resolutions, but will look the same at 600px. I really like the idea of having your signature on your site. However as it is you can't read it. If you have any graphic skills what so every you could try tracing what you've scanned with an airbrush or pen tool. You might also trying writing your signiture with something that writes a little thicker, say a sharpie. That should scan a little better. Well thats just my .02 cents. Take it for what its worth. Just so you understand where I'm coming from I've done quite a bit of web development and a little bit of designing. If you have any questions let me know. Jason