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x_Soul_x
Starting Member

Australia
9 Posts

Posted - 19 September 2003 : 02:25:02

hi everyone

thought i would stick my head in

i know im probably in the wrong section for this post but im sure someone will get up me and steer me straight

im just a beginner at web design but i been messin around with free servers trying to learn stuff. i honestly have no idea what most of u r talkin about half the time with the programming talk. i had to do a search in google today to find out what a portal was.. dont laugh i am so green at all this.

im actually just a chatter from msn that got sick of the msn communities and started playing with geocities till i got this crazy notion that i wanted a forum so my friends could post messages like they do in the comms. about 10 days ago i dun a search on free forums knowing i had no cgi-bin and found snitz. i had no idea what a asp file was lol and it took me like 3 days straight to get my head around the set up cause i tried doin it in iis but couldnt get the database to load. i found a server that hosted asp so i tried on that and away it went lol. anyway hear i am i few more days later loading asp mods and im learning heaps. i been in theses forums scouring thru the posts, doin searches when ever i got stuck on a mod. now i know why my drop down in mod setup and my photo album dont work... forgot the 3 letters nikkol called it but i figure my server dont have it configured.

i stumbled across something useful that i havnt seen in the forum and im sure u programers already know this but other dummies like me might find handy is that when i put the background url in the font/table control panel the background didnt stay fixed like in my home site so i added this on the end in that control box...http//domain/images/image.jpg" bgproperties="fixed"
now it stays fixed

lol i was proud of finding that so shuddup

but i do have a couple of questions lol

1. can someone remember that im really stupid and tell me how to move the position of the menu and logout links at the top of the page in the inc_headers.asp?

2. is it possable to have the actual forum cells and headings say at 75% transparent?

3. do people actually donate on those paypal donate buttons ? if they do i might get one lol

4. can someone steer me to a link or something that i can learn more about portals?

think thats all at the moment and i know i probably annoyed people by such a crap post.
i been so addicted on this forum and the setting up of my own that i havnt slept in about 60 hours, but i would like to thank every single one of u for having such a strong support group. i have learnt so much in the last week it aint funny and i hope oneday if i ever learn enough to be able to make my own mod and share it

if ya wanna check out my site and tell me everywhere i went wrong then please go ahead cause im still setting it up and i would rather know now than later when its up and running... http://e.1asphost.com/SoulsWebPage/

soul

wot do u mean we r out of coffee [:|]

UGBC
Junior Member

143 Posts

Posted - 19 September 2003 : 02:52:49

Well it is absolutely a good start, first on the home page I'd set the animated logo to loop just once or maybe twice, otherwise it starts to get distracting and once there's more content that'd be a problem.

On the forums, I think if you tinkered with changing the header bgs to gradients it would really be a great and simple improvement.

Also, Signatures is spelled wrong as forums, not a major prob, but thought you'd like to know

To move things around in the header, you'll have to go to inc_header.asp and try and read through the code to get a feel for what it does. to move the links, look for where it says call sForumNavigation and if you paste that somewhere else, it'll have the links come up in that different location. So maybe after the main table opens you could put


Response.Write "   <tr>" & vbNewLine & _
               "     <td align=""center"">" & vbNewLine
call sForumNavigation
Response.Write "     </td>" & vbNewLine & _
               "   </tr>" & vbNewLine

This would center the links above your forum, in adition you could do it below the first row where it has Forum, Topics, etc.

Just play around with it and try different things out just make sure to backup your files before you start editing them because it's very easy to mess things up and forget what change you made.

Edited by - UGBC on 19 September 2003 02:53:26

UGBC
Junior Member

143 Posts

Posted - 19 September 2003 : 02:55:17

Oh and for more tips and basic web building advice, check out http://www.w3schools.org

They have some great free tutorials to help with beginner web designers and coders.

x_Soul_x
Starting Member

Australia
9 Posts

Posted - 19 September 2003 : 03:23:59

wow! what a fast turn around this forum has

im impressed!

i would like to thank u for your kind remarks on my page

and im gonna get rid of the flash soon cause i really wanna implement some portal features now i know what they r hehe but i have a lot of mods to set up first.
signatures is fixed lol (a reasent studdi has showen that peapel hoo aar amezing in bed arr crap at spellink) lol

and yup i was gonna gradient the headers as soon as i got the mod setup.

thanx for the tip with the code

i'll deffinately try that soon.

thanx for the link... gonna go look at that now.

and thanx incase i missed a thax up there ^^^

soul