| LED Digest 2023: Image Theft and Froogle |
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================================================== The LED Digest Moderated Discussion List "Effective Online Advertising, Since 1997" pair Networks: The LED's Web Host Hosting and Domain Reg. from a Trusted Leader pair.com for Hosting | pairNIC.com for Domains ================================================== List Moderator: Published by: Adam Audette LED Digest post, led-digest.com http://www.led-digest.com .............................................. September 13, 2005 Issue #2023 .............................................. .....IN THIS DIGEST..... ==== CONTINUING ================= --== Who to Hire? ==-- ~ Ian Dickson "...programmers cost double their quote..." ~ R. Neilson "Check out Miva Merchant shopping cart." ~ Ahmed Saad "Adding modules in Miva is a breeze." --== Dealing with Image Theft ==-- ~ Richard Graham "...how do you let Froogle show your images." ~ John Smart "...it was juvenile, but honestly, it was fun!" ===== CONTINUING ================================= From: Ian Dickson Subject: Company or contractor > I am trying to decide between hiring a company to > create the website or just... hiring a contractor to > help install / modify it, and then create the other pages. - Mark Rogers, LED 2022 If you REALLY need the bells and whistles then whether company or contractor makes no difference, so long as you are the owner of the results. It's a contract issue. BUT Ask yourself very carefully whether or not you do need them, because as soon as you modify code you are locking yourself into a long term maintenance process that will cost money, whoever does it for you. (For example I can extend Drupal by writing php Blocks, and tweaking the code, but I tell all my clients that they really don't want me to, unless absolutely vital, because as soon as they do, I'm likely to have to keep tweaking for every new release, and that will cost them money). Also note that the rough rule of thumb - "programmers cost double their quote" applies because in most cases the spec turns out to be incomplete - ie you take delivery and realise you need a few tweaks, or that what you asked for isn't quite what you need. Huge Generalisation - contractors tend to be more forgiving than companies. Hint - make sure that you insist that the work is fully documented so that ANY other suitable programmer can take it over, (long term maintenance /upgrade ). Programmers hate documenting - just look at anything open source! Allow budget to test this by having a suitable programmer look at it and tell you if it is completely documented. Cheers Ian Dickson Emint.org - the community for online community professionals. -------- new post - same topic --------- From: R. Neilson Subject: Company or contractor Check out Miva Merchant shopping cart. It has a lot of variety and ablity to be tweaked for just about any storefront imaginable. It is a bit pricy but it has all the bells and whistles and more options that you can add on then any other shopping cart I have found. R. Neilson H. L. Supply www.hansons.net -------- new post - same topic --------- From: Ahmed Saad Subject: Company or contractor Miva is a great ecommerce software and there are many designers who can modify it to your liking. We have a tutorial site for it at http://mivahelp.com You will find some designers listed at http://snipurl.com/hmtw [dmoz.org] and module vendors who sell addons to the cart at http://snipurl.com/hmtx [dmoz.org] Adding modules in Miva is a breeze. The hardest part is decidng which credit card you want to pay with... and that is not too hard considering that most modules sold are below $50. Ahmed Saad giftbox.com -------- new post - new topic --------- From: Richard Graham Subject: Image stealing > ... some images are being used (ie referenced direct so > they are using our image on our hosting - not copied to > their own server) by other sites... Is there an easy way > to stop this? - Emma Mackintosh, LED 2018 You can stop all image stealing using the .htaccess files see http://www.htmlite.com/HTA013.php which explains how to do this. Now the only question I have, is that if you stop the bandwidth stealing as above, how do you let Froogle show your images. Richard Graham http://www.kultureshock.co.uk -------- new post - same topic --------- From: John Smart Subject: Image stealing We suffered a similar problem, and the page showing our image was getting a lot of hits. I sent an e-Mail to the sites owner politely asking them to at least host our image themselves if they were going to steal it. There was no response. This is where DreamWeaver is wonderful! (I am sure other programs can do this). I renamed the image, all the references to it on our site were changed by DreamWeaver. Then I changed the original image to one that said 'We steal art from other sites at their expense'. It took them about 2 days to take the link out, but they never stole from us again! And yes, I do know it was juvenile, but honestly, it was fun! John Smart, Technical Director InternetDesign.com ------------------------------------------------------- The LED Digest is sponsored by pair Networks: pair.com for Hosting | pairNIC.com for Domains Copyright 1995-2005 Orange Wheel, LLC. 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