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Clive E Taylor Posts: 450 Registered: Jul 2000	posted 03-12-2005 09:51 AM re: New Forums I think I have posted a similar comment in the past but I do feel we need a category of SILVER RELATED WEB SITES RECOMMENDATIONS. I frequently find the odd gem amongst all the dross and am sure members have done the same -but with different websites. I recently was researching to find something about Newcastle (unsuccessfully) and came by accident on one on SHEFFIELD. This gives a series of superb articles on the Sheffield Silversmiths by Edward Law, which frankly is the most useful I have ever seen on this subject. (Despite him claiming Winters only produced candlesticks - maybe but they certainly put their mark on plenty of small buckles !) Clive IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 03-12-2005 09:52 AM Clive -- Last November, I beleive at your and swarter's urging this was done. See: SSF member recommended web sites I just added your current recommendation. IP: Logged
swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 Registered: May 2003	posted 03-12-2005 09:53 AM Scott - this thread is buried so far it won't be noticed by many. Since it is not unlike the book thread in that the sites involve documentation, perhaps it can be transferred to the Ephemera and Documentation Forum where it will be easier to find. IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 03-12-2005 09:53 AM Which thread? IP: Logged
Clive E Taylor Posts: 450 Registered: Jul 2000	posted 03-12-2005 09:55 AM Sorry Scott, did not see it ! IP: Logged
Clive E Taylor Posts: 450 Registered: Jul 2000	posted 03-12-2005 10:00 AM Sorry I hadn't noticed it. Which is a problem. Could I respectfully suggest a new forum category. In particular it is vital for other members to easily comment on recommendations. There are one or two sites out there that appear useful and appear accurate but, experience has told are totally misleading.Or copied from someone else. One other site I can really recommend CHANNEL ISLAND silver. (Jersey etc) It's massive , somewhat over academic in places , but gives a massive list of all known Channel Islands silversmiths IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 03-12-2005 10:48 AM Suggestions are always appreciated. I have just so much time and often take on more than I can do. So sometimes it my seem like suggestions are not appreciated but they are. It may be that I am distracted by other forum priorities or have to focus on something else. My advice to everyone is to get one or more moderators to support your suggestion. The moderators know how to get my attention and they know how to push something up on the "to do" list. I almost never do anything without moderator input and vetting so if they aren't talking to me about something then a good idea could slip by. Your other recommended site about Channel Island Silver is already on the list. You will also note that there is an e-mail address to submit recommendations for the list. IP: Logged
swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 Registered: May 2003	posted 03-12-2005 01:35 PM Scott: the thread I was referring to is the Web Site thread (Nov 2004) currently under discussion. The General Forum has so many posts in it that the thread is lost. As it is similar in content and intent to the book thread in the Silver Ephemera and Documentation Forum I thought it might be transferred there where it could be found more easily. IP: Logged
IJP Posts: 326 Registered: Oct 2004	posted 03-12-2005 02:15 PM On the other hand, this kind of thread involving suggestions to the moderators and other administrators about the operation and organization of the forums, and how it may be made to work more efficiently, might of itself warrant a category of its own (I imagine that probably this is the sort of discussion that goes on in the very exclusive club that is the Silver Salon Moderators forum), but then, I don't know how often an ordinary visitor like myself concerns himself with such things. I only posted my original suggestions (about reorganization) in the General Silver Forum because they're issues that don't belong anywhere else that is accessible to regular members. These are certainly not general concerns about silver, but as it stands, where else would I go? IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 03-12-2005 02:44 PM Swarter- You usually make this sort of recommendation in the Moderators Forum. Any particular reason for not doing it there, where we can more freely converse? I'll look for your reply in the moderators forum. Nevertheless, I think Web Site thread will fit nicely into the earlier unfinished idea of a ten list". I suggest you add it as a candidate for the top 10 list. If we ever get 10 and a consensus on which 10 I will then investigate a way for the list to be more noticeable which in turn will make the Web Site thread post more easily found. IP: Logged
Clive E Taylor Posts: 450 Registered: Jul 2000	posted 03-12-2005 07:18 PM WEV Sorry for the typo, touch of old age I guess. How did you save it - when I go to the FILE buttom I get the usual list, but the "Save" and "Save As" buttons are greyed out and hence non-operative IP: Logged
wev Moderator Posts: 4121 Registered: Apr 99	posted 03-12-2005 07:29 PM I have my browers set to ask before opening PDF files, which gives the options to open directly or save to disk. You can do the same by right clicking the PDF button and selecting "Save Link As." IP: Logged
Clive E Taylor Posts: 450 Registered: Jul 2000	posted 03-13-2005 10:32 AM Thanks WEV. That sounds like my problem Sorry to be thick , but where do I find the PDF button . I use Internet Explorer 5.0 and Windows 98 SE. I've looked on Explorer/Tools/Internet Options and failed. I've even tried Help but if ever there was a misnamed program !!!!! Clive IP: Logged
wev Moderator Posts: 4121 Registered: Apr 99	posted 03-13-2005 11:03 AM Sorry Clive -- I meant the PDF download button on the Jersey Hertitage page. I know there is a way to re-set your browser to make sure it asks permission, but I'm damned if I can find where. Help file, indeed. IP: Logged
Clive E Taylor Posts: 450 Registered: Jul 2000	posted 03-13-2005 01:59 PM Many thanks WEV - it worked !!!! Clive IP: Logged
swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 Registered: May 2003	posted 03-13-2005 02:03 PM Clive - if you are able to read a PDF file, but cannot print or save it, could it be that you are attempting to use the icons or menus on the Explorer bar rather than the ones on the Acrobat Reader toolbar? Reader will not respond to Explorer commands, only to its own. IP: Logged
Clive E Taylor Posts: 450 Registered: Jul 2000	posted 03-17-2005 02:16 PM Thanks Swarter Unfortuneately although I have now found the PRINT button on the Acrobat Reader toolbar the FILE dropdown Menu does not have a Save line - only Open and close. Very Strange ! IP: Logged
swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 Registered: May 2003	posted 03-17-2005 02:40 PM That is a problem, but you can do a "copy and paste" into a word processor, and then save the document. IP: Logged
Arg(um)entum Posts: 304 Registered: Apr 2002	posted 03-17-2005 04:02 PM Clive, To save a pdf document from within the Acrobat reader you use the diskette icon. On my version (5.0) it is the second from the left, that is on the Acrobat bar not the browser bar. IP: Logged
Clive E Taylor Posts: 450 Registered: Jul 2000	posted 03-18-2005 02:42 PM Many thanks to everyone for their help. At School ,many years ago, I had to take an additional course. I chose "The Psychology of Women" because in sounded useful . I was told - not for you - far too advanced and difficult -chose another . I chose "Use of Windows" - and they put me back to my first choice. With apologies to the ladies !!! IP: Logged

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