Future Shock Forums

Site navigation: hosting hosting Dedicated servers

Professional Internet Hosting Services

Powerful reliable web hosting

Future Shock provides web hosting on powerful Microsoft Windows 2003 based servers - we do not provide Linux hosting. We offer a number of different hosting plans to suit every budget, with prices as low as £20 per year for basic hosting.

Our servers are provided by Rackspace UK and are located in London data centres operating with at least 99.99% uptime. We provide domain registration and management services - we are a Nominet Member and tag holder (for .uk domains) and JANET Approved ISP Member (for .ac.uk and .gov.uk domains). We are a Comodo SSL partner allowing us to add fantastically priced HTTPS secure encrypted communication to your website in just minutes.

web development web development WebDevelopment

Clean and Intelligent Web design

Good-looking and user-friendly websites for companies of all sizes

We specialise in the production of reliable, straightforward and easy-to-use solutions which cater to the needs of users.

Whether you just want a simple contact form or a full e-commerce site, we can code it for you.
Expert level programming in ASP.NET, ASP Classic, JavaScript, XML/XSL, HTML and CSS, SQL Server and Microsoft Access. WCAG Accessibility to AAA conformance where required. Search engine friendly and easy to maintain HTML markup. Static Sites, Content Management Systems, and many other project types delivered on time and on budget.

marketing marketing

Search Engines and Offline Marketing

Gaining competitive advantage

From the black arts of web marketing to improving your brand, we can assist in getting your website, and your company, the attention it deserves.

We don't pretend there's a big secret to web marketing. Using basic principles and ethical techniques, we've helped many companies move up in the search engine rankings in competitive markets such as Spanish property and children's clothing. We offer everything from straightforward advice to full online marketing services, including link campaigns and Adwords management. Whatever your budget, and whatever your market, we can help.

We also help with traditional ("offline") marketing - writing press releases, or working with your managers or external marketing consultants to achieve brand objectives.

Our most recent news

18^th December 2009 - we have gone live with the complete redesign of our corporate identity and our new website

14^th December 2009 - we have gone live with a massive revamp of our client's wallcoverings product site Tektura.com

5^th November 2009 - we have just gone live with a significantly redesigned search and product system on our client's children's
e-commerce store TheKidsWindow.com

18^th September 2009 - we have added another server to our hosting service, speading the workload to improve performance and bandwidth for all customers.

about us about us Future Shock Ltd

Working with the Internet since it began!

Knowledge, experience and the ability to listen

We are a small family-run business situated at the edge
of the Peak District in the centre of the UK. We've been trading as Future Shock since 1995 and became a UK private limited company in 2004. We have a very broad range of experience in the design, programming and marketing of both web-based and more traditional media.

We have worked with clients of all scales, ranging from international investment banks and multinational PLCs
to sole traders and personal home sites. We've built
e-commerce sites, estate agent sites, bespoke content managed systems, and information websites. We pride ourselves on delivering sites which best meet our clients' needs - whoever they may be and whatever their budget.

Here to help

9am - 5pm GMT Mon to Fri, call 01629 825550

For urgent out-of-hours hosting support only
please text 07545 338414 (include your contact
number if different from phone used to send SMS).
Please do NOT call this number directly.

Email: post@future-shock.net

Address: Atrium Offices, Town Hall, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, DE4 4EU, United Kingdom

Or drop us a quick message:

Your email address
Brief message

Forums Index / Date Selector - General Discussion

Username

Password

Signup Now!
Forgotten?

Topic: MS Expression Web

User: adethebuilder (view profile)

4 Oct 2008 - 07:16

I have been using a (licensed) copy of date Selector for several months quite happily at http://www.baconandeggs.co.uk/reservations.htm I am just changing from using FrontPage to MS Expression Web and as soon as I made a modification to the page with the date picker on it has stopped working. Expression web did /does want me to make some syntax changes (such as script not SCRIPT). I have tried ignoring the need to change and following it. No change. Any ideas please?

User: adethebuilder (view profile)

5 Oct 2008 - 18:31

Update. I have managed to get the date picker to work again by reverting to a plain HTML page at the link shown previously although it does not display as it used to – the bottom section now appears transparent. However, this is still only half-way to a solution because I am converting my web site (and all the others I host) to XHTML 1.0 Transitional. The page I need to work is http://www.baconandeggs.co.uk/The_Firs_B&B/bookings/make_reservation.htm and on this page the date picker will not display at all. Is it compatible? Any suggestions gratefully received.

Thanks
Adrian
Imagekings Ltd

User: Julian (view profile)

6 Oct 2008 - 09:54

Firstly MS Expression Web - I have not used this program but if it is reformatting script (not just HTML) it will very probably break any existing JavaScript/ASP/PHP code in pages. Whitespace in such code is critcial and any reformatting by any program is bad news - it should be disabled or problems will occur.

Secondly XHTML, I have just changed the "HTML 4.0 Transitional" doctype to "XHTML 1.0 Transitional" in our example.htm file supplied with the Date Selector; the page displays fine and I believe that Date Selector is XHTML compatible. You can view this page at http://software.future-shock.net/html/DSxhtml.htm; the doctype I have used is:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

Your link to http://www.baconandeggs.co.uk/The_Firs_B&B/bookings/make_reservation.htm is not working so I cannot comment further on the exact problem with your page.

User: adethebuilder (view profile)

6 Oct 2008 - 10:33

MS Expression Web is the new industry-standard software for writing W3C compliant webs from MS - I think itis very good and I am sure a lot of your future/existing customers will use it. It does not change any code on its own - it just points out syntax or old tags which are not compliant. I have used PHP/java etc extensively with it.
I forgot the "L"at the end of the link. Try http://www.baconandeggs.co.uk/The_Firs_B&B/bookings/make_reservation.html

many thanks

User: adethebuilder (view profile)

6 Oct 2008 - 10:36

Sorry, I am using
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

User: adethebuilder (view profile)

6 Oct 2008 - 15:12

Hi Julian

I hope we can get the date picker to work with the new page but if not; any idea why the format, size & tranparency of the date picker has changed on the original page at http://www.baconandeggs.co.uk/reservations.htm?

User: Julian (view profile)

6 Oct 2008 - 15:47

I think the Date Selector is not working in your new XHTML page because the path is incorrect in the script tag:

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="FutureShockDateSelector/scripts/FSdateSelect.js"></script>

Wil be looking for the FSdateSelect.js file in the following location which returns a 404 error when accessed via a web brwoser:

http://www.baconandeggs.co.uk/The_Firs_B&B/bookings/FutureShockDateSelector/scripts/FSdateSelect.js

If that is incorrect then I assume the images path in the Date Selector function calls is also incorrect.

Also I couldn't see any link to the Date Selector CSS file in your page.

User: Julian (view profile)

6 Oct 2008 - 15:51

I have just checked http://www.baconandeggs.co.uk/reservations.htm and this page is also missing the link to the Date Selector CSS file (without which the selector will obviously be missing and styling).

Did you acidentally delete the CSS link or was it removed by Expression Web?

User: adethebuilder (view profile)

9 Oct 2008 - 10:25

Hi Julian, sorry for the delay - had to go to Africa for three days with 2 hours notice!

I am not sure why the css link was removed - could well have been my mistake. However I have got the original page working again now as follows:

Putting your css link:

<LINK REL="stylesheet" HREF="FutureShockDateSelector/styles/FSdateSelect.css" type="text/css">

back as instructed made no difference. I then tried using the “adding a style sheet” to the page option from expression web which put the line in as follows:

<link href="FutureShockDateSelector/styles/FSdateSelect.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

Interestingly the 2nd option was coloured correctly the 1st was not. Perhaps the permissible syntax has changed?

Anyway, the original page is now working and I am sure it is now just a matter of sorting out the paths to the new page (paths changed to make the page W3C compliant). I shall report back!

Thanks again for your excellent help.

User: adethebuilder (view profile)

9 Oct 2008 - 11:40

Hi Julian
My new page is now working fine! I had to use the “insert css file” option again but it now works perfectly.
It might be worth a note for Expression Web users about the syntax of the css ref? Perhaps a note as well about the need to have all the files in the same folder as the page where the date picker is located?

Once again many thanks.

User: Julian (view profile)

10 Oct 2008 - 09:42

The syntax of the CSS link has not changed, it is just that Expression Web is insisting that it all be lower-case as per the requirements of XHTML (and indeed the XML specification itself). I would have assumed that Expression would automatically change any code that you input to make it lower-case, otherwise you will very easilly break any page if you (or another webmaster) edits the HTML source directly.

As for having all the files located in the same folder as the date picker page, that seems rather ludicrous (it makes the file/folder structure organisation and maintainace a nightmare - you could easilly end up with hundreds of files in the same folder). Are you sure Expression can not handle putting stuff in different folders?

I don't mean to disprespect Microsoft product, I did glance at it when it was first released (it looked like a professional web editor, though it crashed all over the place for me). Whether it can be described as industry standard is questionable - Dreamweaver holds that title as a established product, though many professional webmasters will insist on hand-editing code in a text-editor. Expression, though not a new product (it evolved from Front Page) has yet to prove it's calibre. If it lacks the features you have outlined above, then I have serious doubts that it will become industry standard amongst professionals in its current state.

User: adethebuilder (view profile)

10 Oct 2008 - 10:23

Hi Julian

This is the 2nd version of Expression web released only a month or so ago and seems to be getting very favourable revues (interestingly a lot saying it was easier to use and in some cases more capable than Dreamweaver) which is why I went for it – coupled with the fact that it will support web sites made using Front Page (I have 30 or so which I am converting) but will not allow you to insert any new FrontPage components. I have found it very user friendly now and have not had any crashes. All new code that you enter is put into the correct format it is only when you modify the type of an existing page that it highlights the errors for you to correct.

The requirement to have all pages in a structure format is nothing to do with Expression it is a search engine (Google) favoured option. You can have files anywhere you want. What caused me the problem was that I put my new booking page in http://www.baconandeggs.co.uk/The_Firs_B&B/Bookings/ but left all the FutureShock files in the base directory http://www.baconandeggs.co.uk and your code did not find it. That was what I meant by a note about where the files should be.

Thanks again

User: Julian (view profile)

10 Oct 2008 - 10:50

Thanks for the update and the clarification on new release of Expression Web; I'll check it out when I find a bit of spare time. Although our company hand-edits all web code, it is obviously important for us to be aware of the abilities of all major web editing software in popular usage.

Search Forums

Most Recent Topics

Note: You must be logged in to post replies and create topics.

Registered Nominet Member and Tag Holder

mon-fri 9am-5pm call
+44 (0)1629 825550

or email us at
post@future-shock.net

urgent hosting support
SMS: +44 (0)7545 338414