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Etymon
Advanced Member
United States
2395 Posts |
 Posted - 22 May 2002 : 01:19:13
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First, I recommend that you make a new folder on your hard drive and call it something different than what you currently have your forum's folder named ... something like c:\test_snitz.
Then copy your forum and db folders over to it. If you are using Personal Web Server, after you copy them over you will also have to change your config.asp file's connection string to reflect the new location.
Now, to answer your questions.
1) You will find that the width of the forum is set in the inc_top.asp file.
In version 3.3.05 look for line #175. The table begins there and should look like this:
<table align="center" border="0" cellPadding="0" cellSpacing="0" width="100%">
The width is set at width="100%". You can change it there, but if you want to see a roadmap of all the table borders in your forum, you might want to turn the lights on by adjusting the width of the border as well.
This is how you do that. The border is set at border="0". Change it to border="1", save it, then look at your forum in the browser, and you will see where the borders extend to. The border should wrap all the way around your forum.
There are several tables within that table.
If you want, do this for all of your table borders, and you will see where all of the other tables are. Just remember that the border width increment (border="1") takes up space, so if all of your table borders are set to "1", the forum will be much wider than normal. Remember this as you are adjusting things. It's easy to forget.
To get familiar with the borders I would set all the table borders to "1", then I would set them all back to "0". Then, I would set them to "1" as I needed to.
You can also change the background color of a td cell by using <td bgcolor="pink">. This might help you identify the cells. And, also you can do <table bg color="lime"> if you are just highlighting the tables. Standard colors work (black, blue, yellow, lime, etc.)
2) For an editor, I may be old school on this, but I prefer TextPad. I have version 4, which is probably older than dirt. With TextPad you can view line numbers, open, close, and save a zillion files at once, and once a file is saved with an extension (.htm, .html, .asp, etc.) the codes become highlighted so you don't lose your place.
One of the features I find very handy is the "Compare Files" tool. For instance, if I wanted to compare version 3.3.04's inc_top.asp with version 3.3.05's inc_top.asp ... no problem. I open the two files, choose "Tools" then "Compare Files", the query runs, and a report is produced. Beats having to eyeball back and forth between two files!
I am sure there are other editor favorites out there as well. 
TextPad is fun and has add-on's. http://www.textpad.com/add-ons/index.html
Look here for screenshots: http://www.textpad.com/about/screenshots/index.html
Have fun,
Etymon
Edited by - Etymon on 22 May 2002 01:50:59 |
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