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Great to hear things are going well, Mark

You've hit the nail on the head, Neville!

I will look forward to it!

Perhaps we can have a remote meeting, because I may be in Timbuktu by then!

Mark, I can totally empathize with your enthusiasm and exhilaration - it is so gratifying when you see the fruits of your labour of love!

When you look back to the time when none of this existed, except in your imagination, and now it has been realized, you feel like a true creator - making something out of nothing, because of the choices you have made.

I sense that you and I are on very similar and parallel paths - I look forward to comparing notes in a year or two from now. You might need to travel to Pofadder to meet with me in my mobile home though!

Thanks Ian.

Nice to have the printer's point of view too.

Although you may prefer Coreldraw, designers tend to follow Adobe like a religion. The debate is endless, but you're right, it is more expensive. That is why I linked to Inkscape for people who don't have access to Adobe Illustrator.

Thanks for the clarification on all the colour information. It's quite interesting how a printer and a designer's views can differ on things that they deal with every day.

Mark
Just some pointers from a printer.
Our main design programme is Coreldraw and it is more reasonably priced than Adobe. Most of the smaller printers use this as it is an all in one solution for us.
Then for colours we refer to them as process colours (CMYK) for full colour printing and spot colours (pantone). You can get consistent colours from full colour process printing it is just more expensive as your printing will be run on it's own and have a longer setup time to dial in the correct colours. A lot of full colour printing on litho presses is gang run where up 48 different full colour business cards are run on 1 sheet. Then 500 sheets printed and cut to the individual cards. On these runs the colour will vary slightly as you set your ink for the total run.
Spot colours are slowly being replaced by full colour runs on both gang runs and digital printers as colour control systems are being improved all the time and it is much cheaper to print short runs on a digital printer.

Thanks again Dave. I tried to break it up as much as possible, knowing full well it was going to be a long one. To be honest it was a collaborative effort between my partner and I, and we spent a good couple hours just outlining the different topics we needed to talk about!

Glad to see that our hard work hasn't gone unnoticed

I reckon this being a long entry was probably unavoidable, and your layout strategy really helped keep it a pleasant read. Pretty clear you put some thought into it.

Thanks, Dave! It's a bit lengthy, but I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Ah, well there you go! I love logos with those little hidden symbols/meanings. They really inspire me seeing as they aren't easy to conceptualize!

A great blog, Mark. I literally had ideas popping into my head just reading it.

And no, I hadn't picked up on the hidden arrow in the FedEx logo before.

Thanks, Dave.

Too true! Ironic that as web designers, we don't have our own website up yet. At least we've got past the logo and business card design stage!

The exams went well in general. Just the exam dealing with consolidations of group financial statements was a real killer, as per usual! Nevertheless, I'm expecting to progress

Good to have you back, Mark

Reading about clients' websites coming first reminds me of the line that the plumber's tap always drips and the sparky's house always has some electrical problem that needs sorting out.

How'd the exams go?

Thanks, Dave! With the minimal amount of studying I've been putting in, I'm going to need it!

Good luck with your exams, Mark.

Thanks for the suggestion Dave. I will definitely put that down on my list of to-do blog posts.

Mark, it would be cool if you did a blog on what you consider as the must-have Joomla! extensions.

Aha! Thanks for clearing that up Dave. I used white dashes in order to create an invisible line. (No line breaks) Just my luck that the "invisible" line ended up being a visible black line. :P

Eureka - it works!!

OK - so to be clear. If you type in this (minus the spaces inbetween): - - - - -
you'll get this line below:

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I reloaded a text replacement function today that I discovered had disappeared with the upgrade to the 4.x series. 5 x - =<hr />. Unfortunately it's not displaying correctly in forum posts - something to do with a css setting I expect.

Wonder what it does here...

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I'm actually not at all sure why that line is there all of a sudden? It wasn't when I posted it. On one of my pending posts there's about 6 of them and I have no clue why!

I inserted the image inline using the attachments function. Wasn't aware that there was another way? The images had to be uploaded from my PC and weren't taken from a URL.

Edit: I see it's automatically generated those <hr /> tags and I have no clue why. Did you enable html? I've just removed the tags now and all seems to be in order. Strange though.

Looking good

Did you think of floating the top image into the text using the IMGR tag or am I missing a trick? I haven't seen that HR line come up before...