Thanks all. I figured it out - it was a text highlight in the original word doc that the copy came from and when the copy was placed into indesign it must have retained the character style.
Annoyingly it wasn’t showing in any of the style panels as having been imported and changing the assigned chatacter style didn’t remove it.
It’s a 116 pages that should have gone to print yesterday, but i didn’t want to risk it printing so have just had to go through and manually retype every instance just to be sure, and there were a lot.
Question regarding GDPR - Does EU law require the ability for users to be able to reject website cookies, or can you just have a “by proceeding you consent to using cookies” notice? If the latter are there any downsides to this?
If you google anything on this you will find almost everything is preceeded by the disclaimer “this is not legal advice”
…so based that.. this is not legal advice but to be fully compliant I’m fairly sure you need a reject button which is equally as prominent as the accept button.
I’m fairly confident those “if you continue to use the site” type of ones are…verrrrry iffy.
For our clients sites I’ve changed it so that even things like Google Analytics doesn’t fire until the user hits the accept button. For my clients having this black hole of missing data is worth it rather than being a top page news story.
The smaller the site the more you can get away with it.
What’s the chances of someone finding your site and realising you drop the FB pixel on a page load before a user consents? (And reporting you to the ICO?)
GDPR is a massive fucking pain in the arse tbh. It’s horrible to implent too on the website…connecting tracking tags based on cookies. Took me weeks to work out how to do it.
The more prominent you are, or if the site is funded with public money I would suggest going all out and not dropping any third party cookies until a user opts in.
If your site is low traffic/not public sector you will surely get away with firing analytics on a page load but be cautious about other tracking pixels (well lets face it…the Facebook Tracking Pixel is the only one people give a fuck about but maybe TikTok pixels these days too).
Thank you Les, yes I did a bit of reading after posting and figured that was the case. Our site isn’t huge but probably big enough not to take risks especially as we’re a charity. I’ve also read that you can be pushed down by Google for not having the right things in place, not sure how true that is.
I think this goes beyond my capabilities, time to tell the boss to bring in someone specially to get it all in place as I don’t want to be responsible for us getting fined out of existence.
Also .. can someone please spend half an hour with me working through a CSS code addition for some Shopify banners if possible - I will pay in PayPal for beer or whatever lovely drink you would like or keep the cash!
Recommendations for decent laptop able to handle illustrator and a graphics tablet. Basically I had illustrator and a wacom tablet at my old job and now need to get similar to do freelance because they wont give me a work one so trying to get something decent spec to just use for redrawing static images on illustrator.
If you’re just doing vector/illustrator work something like a MacBook Air would be alright.
The air’s start at £1k new for a 13 inch I think (still not cheap), and I’d just up the ram to as much as you can afford for the sake of longevity, so it might be about £1200 or so, or maybe like £1500 if you went for the 15 inch screen.
Or actually, maybe look at a refurbished last gen air, with the m2 chip instead? That would be much cheaper - I got a refurbished iPad from musicmagpie a couple years back and it saved me quite a bit. You could probably get a last gen air for like £600 ish
Someone can probably advise on a cheaper pc laptop tbh
Very occasionally I have to use Word (rather than Pages), so I’d open Word from the Applications menu, do whatever it is, and close it. Went to open it there and it’s asking me sign into Office, and pay for it. I know there’s a web version that’s free but how come I had it on my desktop for free forever and now it’s not?
Free, open source, uses less computer and electrical resources and is apparently more accurate.
Kicked the shit out of Nvidia’s stock price today, which is pretty mad as Nvidia were supplying them with their 2nd tier gen-AI GPUs up until sanctions last October. This video, complete with annoying editing style, explains it really well.
