On 20 Apr 2012, 4:44 pm, eus wrote:
oh boy… i do need some of my screencasts… where oh where can i find Dan… DAN…come back… we miss you!!!
So do I…
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Last time he answered to this threat he said he would get things back up before the beginning of November…I can understand he got a job and everything and he’s probably very busy to keep his store and etc and I am glad for him, but I don’t understand why if these screencasts are so important for this Freeway community he and Softpress can negotiate and find a way or to put these videos back or make new ones from Softpress…I might be wrong but the felling I have is that there’s a little of inconsideration on it. I really hope we could get these videos back or new ones…
thanks
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I meant this “thread”, not threat…
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Someone suggested to me recently that I might be able to make a little income offering my services to the Freeway community… I’m not sure what happened to Dan, but the last time I was around here he appeared to be the very model of professionally compensated effort. Now, I’m not so sure I have what it takes…
Anyone want to dish or fill me in, probably best to do it off-list. See my contact info, or mail me directly at thebigerns at gmail dotcom.
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I know for sure you will, I’ve used your skills al lot in the past, and I still do browse through your Freeway archives every now and then. Thanks a lot for stepping up, don’t worry about Dan’s shoes … they’re about your size.
I hope Dan is doing fine, he has been a very big inspiration for me personally recently, as Ernie and Walter have been been as well since I joined the FW community.
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I was just thinking the same this weekend …I needed Dan videos and online help
Dan hope your well and really missed your pages as they were very …no very helpful for Freeway … lifeline
Come back online soon
Walter is a star with advice and help
But the best way I have found to learn is to see the code and mark ups of the pages thus hands on approach … really understand what and why its happened in code
Stu
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Thank you Ernie! i’m a bit lost since both you and Dan where not around anymore! I hope Dan is ok, am greatfull for Walters help, but sometimes his advise goes way over my head!
thank you for returning!
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Lol, Eugenie - my advice usually hits people in the head, instead of
going over! Thanks for your welcome. 
Everything is so different - I am re-learning how to use Freeway (or, at
least all the new Actions). I’ve tons of personal and practical issues to
work out, like how to support the community without suffering the fate of
Mr. Jasker… a story that I suspect I have yet to learn the full extent of.
–
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On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:10 AM, eus email@hidden wrote:
Thank you Ernie! i’m a bit lost since both you and Dan where not around
anymore! I hope Dan is ok, am greatfull for Walters help, but sometimes his
advise goes way over my head!thank you for returning!
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How, then do you explain my 15-year tenure in that position? My natural Zen-like calm? Was it all that time among the Jesuits learning Eastern philosophy?
Walter
On May 15, 2012, at 12:28 PM, Ernie Simpson wrote:
Lol, Eugenie - my advice usually hits people in the head, instead of
going over! Thanks for your welcome.Everything is so different - I am re-learning how to use Freeway (or, at
least all the new Actions). I’ve tons of personal and practical issues to
work out, like how to support the community without suffering the fate of
Mr. Jasker… a story that I suspect I have yet to learn the full extent of.–
Ernie SimpsonOn Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:10 AM, eus email@hidden wrote:
Thank you Ernie! i’m a bit lost since both you and Dan where not around
anymore! I hope Dan is ok, am greatfull for Walters help, but sometimes his
advise goes way over my head!thank you for returning!
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Walter, I’m all ears. Any advice or direction you have to give is welcome.
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On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Walter Lee Davis email@hiddenwrote:
How, then do you explain my 15-year tenure in that position? My natural
Zen-like calm? Was it all that time among the Jesuits learning Eastern
philosophy?Walter
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People, especially clients, are not stupid. They will ask you to do stupid things, and they will intend those things for the very best of reasons. Your gift to them is to explain why they really don’t want that. Their gift to you is the chance to maybe learn something new. I can’t count the number of times someone has asked me something and my immediate reaction was to dismiss it as a really awful goal. But every now and then I have found something new and amazing by taking a second look.
Everything takes almost twice as long as you think it will. Price accordingly. Sadly, this is also a recursive law, and so even your doubled amount will be wrong by ~95%. Get over it.
Scope creep is a bitch. “Just one more thing”, you hear, and what you really need to say is “I’ll be happy to estimate that for you, but it’s not covered by our initial agreement.”
Sometimes Freeway is the wrong tool for the job. Get a text editor and make it your willing collaborator. TextMate is almost infinitely configurable and programmable. I love it dearly. It can do things in an instant that Freeway struggles to do at all. CSSEdit also. Learn the Actions that combine text files with your Freeway page: External JavaScript, External CSS, PHP External Markup, etc. Purchase and install QuickCursor, which lets you (nearly seamlessly) edit any text field with your favorite editor. Freeway’s nasty HTML editor fields are magically transformed by using TextMate or BBEdit or TextWrangler instead.
There’s more, and I’m sure I’ll think of it later.
Walter
PS: Read everything. Remember some of it. Figure out how to find it again later in a hurry.
On May 15, 2012, at 7:10 PM, Ernie Simpson wrote:
Walter, I’m all ears. Any advice or direction you have to give is welcome.
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All very wise Walter, and thank you for your perspective. However, I must
be unclear or am not understanding the conversation. I know how to work
with clients, manage projects, learn new things and rely on old tricks…
what I don’t know is how to support the Freeway community without going
broke or crazy doing it. How do you do… that?
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On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Walter Lee Davis email@hiddenwrote:
People, especially clients, are not stupid. They will ask you to do stupid
things, and they will intend those things for the very best of reasons.
Your gift to them is to explain why they really don’t want that. Their gift
to you is the chance to maybe learn something new. I can’t count the number
of times someone has asked me something and my immediate reaction was to
dismiss it as a really awful goal. But every now and then I have found
something new and amazing by taking a second look.Everything takes almost twice as long as you think it will. Price
accordingly. Sadly, this is also a recursive law, and so even your doubled
amount will be wrong by ~95%. Get over it.Scope creep is a bitch. “Just one more thing”, you hear, and what you
really need to say is “I’ll be happy to estimate that for you, but it’s not
covered by our initial agreement.”Sometimes Freeway is the wrong tool for the job. Get a text editor and
make it your willing collaborator. TextMate is almost infinitely
configurable and programmable. I love it dearly. It can do things in an
instant that Freeway struggles to do at all. CSSEdit also. Learn the
Actions that combine text files with your Freeway page: External
JavaScript, External CSS, PHP External Markup, etc. Purchase and install
QuickCursor, which lets you (nearly seamlessly) edit any text field with
your favorite editor. Freeway’s nasty HTML editor fields are magically
transformed by using TextMate or BBEdit or TextWrangler instead.There’s more, and I’m sure I’ll think of it later.
Walter
PS: Read everything. Remember some of it. Figure out how to find it again
later in a hurry.On May 15, 2012, at 7:10 PM, Ernie Simpson wrote:
Walter, I’m all ears. Any advice or direction you have to give is
welcome.
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Charge enough. I’m not convinced the crazy part hasn’t already happened to me, so you’re on your own with that one. Seriously, charging enough keeps the whole thing on an even keel, and weeds out the people who would otherwise make you crazier. I’m sure you know this already, but every job ends up taking more or less the same amount of effort (and often time) and when you charge too little, you don’t end up doing less of a job to compensate. You’re a craftsman, and you don’t make crap.
Walter
On May 15, 2012, at 10:18 PM, Ernie Simpson wrote:
All very wise Walter, and thank you for your perspective. However, I must
be unclear or am not understanding the conversation. I know how to work
with clients, manage projects, learn new things and rely on old tricks…
what I don’t know is how to support the Freeway community without going
broke or crazy doing it. How do you do… that?–
Ernie SimpsonOn Tue, May 15, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Walter Lee Davis email@hiddenwrote:
People, especially clients, are not stupid. They will ask you to do stupid
things, and they will intend those things for the very best of reasons.
Your gift to them is to explain why they really don’t want that. Their gift
to you is the chance to maybe learn something new. I can’t count the number
of times someone has asked me something and my immediate reaction was to
dismiss it as a really awful goal. But every now and then I have found
something new and amazing by taking a second look.Everything takes almost twice as long as you think it will. Price
accordingly. Sadly, this is also a recursive law, and so even your doubled
amount will be wrong by ~95%. Get over it.Scope creep is a bitch. “Just one more thing”, you hear, and what you
really need to say is “I’ll be happy to estimate that for you, but it’s not
covered by our initial agreement.”Sometimes Freeway is the wrong tool for the job. Get a text editor and
make it your willing collaborator. TextMate is almost infinitely
configurable and programmable. I love it dearly. It can do things in an
instant that Freeway struggles to do at all. CSSEdit also. Learn the
Actions that combine text files with your Freeway page: External
JavaScript, External CSS, PHP External Markup, etc. Purchase and install
QuickCursor, which lets you (nearly seamlessly) edit any text field with
your favorite editor. Freeway’s nasty HTML editor fields are magically
transformed by using TextMate or BBEdit or TextWrangler instead.There’s more, and I’m sure I’ll think of it later.
Walter
PS: Read everything. Remember some of it. Figure out how to find it again
later in a hurry.On May 15, 2012, at 7:10 PM, Ernie Simpson wrote:
Walter, I’m all ears. Any advice or direction you have to give is
welcome.
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Walter is right - Dan charged way too little for his very excellant tutorials. I revisit the CSS box model video every time I come back to Freeway.
From the posts here, you can imagine that Dan is a nice guy, who wanted to support his products thoroughly, but got eaten up by it in the end. Maybe he hasn’t brought back the tutorials because he doesn’t have the time to support them. Perhaps he hasn’t brought them back because of circumstances beyond his control.
Whatever the reason, it is great that someone wants to help out. But really we should all be helping - not depending on a few guys who then get burned out.
So if you know something, learned something - share it! Participate! That is what forums are for.
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Is there anyway for those of you that downloaded Dan’s free tutorials to make those available to others? It would be such a BIG help to us newbies that have started with Freeway after Dan’s sites were all taken down.
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Hi Dianne,
I haven’t read Dan’s “Terms of Sale” properly, but I doubt that those, probably have them are allowed to pass them through without any word of allowance of the author - free or not free.
Dan isn’t reachable, better said he dropped off the face of the earth, so I don’t see any chance to bring them back without running into some kind of troubles.
Knowing his screencasts and the way he did, I can anyway reassure, that the “free-ones” weren’t that much in number and honestly I can’t anyway no longer distinguish them between free and paid.
That’s the past - now the today and future:
As a “maker of screencasts” I know, that producing them isn’t a really easy deal. You have to work, speak, look and listen at one go. And of course one thing should be noted as well:
In your case, it should be a cast about accordion - a thing that wasn’t requested that much in the past. So a cast-maker has furthermore to decide what themes are worth to have a deeper look in (and especially to decide which way to go down the road).
But the good news:
I am 100% sure, that there are examples out there to download an example of a proper built accordion - so I am pretty sure that you will have some answers simply requesting them on the FreewayTalk list.
Cheers
Thomas
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Big thanks for your reply Thomas. I would even be happy to pay for tutorials. I have requested Freeway tutorials at lynda.com. It is just the quickest, most thorough way for me to learn something new! I have read over and over how great Dan’s were… I will continue reading and asking questions for now. Thanks again, Di
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On Jan 16, 2013, at 2:30 AM, “Thomas Kimmich” email@hidden wrote:
Hi Dianne,
I haven’t read Dan’s “Terms of Sale” properly, but I doubt that those, probably have them are allowed to pass them through without any word of allowance of the author - free or not free.
Dan isn’t reachable, better said he dropped off the face of the earth, so I don’t see any chance to bring them back without running into some kind of troubles.
Knowing his screencasts and the way he did, I can anyway reassure, that the “free-ones” weren’t that much in number and honestly I can’t anyway no longer distinguish them between free and paid.
That’s the past - now the today and future:
As a “maker of screencasts” I know, that producing them isn’t a really easy deal. You have to work, speak, look and listen at one go. And of course one thing should be noted as well:
In your case, it should be a cast about accordion - a thing that wasn’t requested that much in the past. So a cast-maker has furthermore to decide what themes are worth to have a deeper look in (and especially to decide which way to go down the road).
But the good news:
I am 100% sure, that there are examples out there to download an example of a proper built accordion - so I am pretty sure that you will have some answers simply requesting them on the FreewayTalk list.
Cheers
Thomas
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Hi Dianna (sorry - spelled your name wrong uahhhh),
probably this topic is then of interest as well:
http://www.freewaytalk.net/thread/view/119720#m_119925
My screencasts are probably not for the “very starter level”, more for them that already built pages successful but want to challenge the next step (from the construction view). And it’s stuff that Freeway shares, but not on the first view. And I sometimes even leave the Freeway path … uahh.
But tell Softpress and the rest of the gang what kind of screencasts you would like to see.
Cheers
Thomas
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I’m not a beginner… 10 years with Adobe GoLive, I’ve converted 3 sites in Freeway so far, so I will check out your pages! Thanks again
On Jan 16, 2013, at 9:22 AM, Thomas Kimmich wrote:
Hi Dianna (sorry - spelled your name wrong uahhhh),
probably this topic is then of interest as well:
http://www.freewaytalk.net/thread/view/119720#m_119925
My screencasts are probably not for the “very starter level”, more for them that already built pages successful but want to challenge the next step (from the construction view). And it’s stuff that Freeway shares, but not on the first view. And I sometimes even leave the Freeway path … uahh.
But tell Softpress and the rest of the gang what kind of screencasts you would like to see.
Cheers
Thomas
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On 16 Jan 2013, 2:22 pm, Thomas Kimmich wrote:
Hi Dianna (sorry - spelled your name wrong uahhhh),
probably this topic is then of interest as well:
http://www.freewaytalk.net/thread/view/119720#m_119925
My screencasts are probably not for the “very starter level”, more for them that already built pages successful but want to challenge the next step (from the construction view). And it’s stuff that Freeway shares, but not on the first view. And I sometimes even leave the Freeway path … uahh.
But tell Softpress and the rest of the gang what kind of screencasts you would like to see.
Cheers
Thomas
I’m impressed by what you’ve accomplished so far Thomas, but I have to say that I’m not very keen on the (video) quality of the screencasts. Mostly very small, and blurry. Dan has spoiled me, I’m afraid. However, I’m very curious to your responsive site example. It looks impressive.
Cheers, Richard
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