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xx ENIGMA xx
Junior Member
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 Posted - 19 November 2003 : 09:27:25
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I have chopped up my forum.html example to the
best of my knowledge (ie; all code into seperate files)
and it still comes out whacky.
Is the problem possibly not having a full table in
each seperate file? Because the way my page/tables
are designed, they use alot of images: right/left/
top/bottom all in their respective <td> and <tr> etc.
As I tried it and went back over my html, I have
some <td...> in the header, while others in the
left_side/right_side files etc.
example of site_left file (left table images)
<td width="106"><img src="new_images/header_1row_left.gif" width=106 height=21 alt=""></td>
<td><img src="new_images/header_2row_left.gif" width=106 height=11 alt=""></td>
<td><img src="new_images/header_3row_left.gif" width=106 height=3 alt=""></td>
<td width="4" rowspan="2"><img src="new_images/left_side.gif" width="4" height="30"></td>
I put corresponding <tr></tr> into header file and so on...
Am I going about this completely wrong? 
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D3mon
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1685 Posts |
Posted - 19 November 2003 : 09:48:11
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Owing to the way you've constructed your layout for the website, you will need to reorganise the table layout in each of the includes to immitate the look of the website.
each include file must have a complete table structure. It is not possible to have <td> and <tr> tags on their own as they will interfere with the layout of the mod.
Think of the content of each include file, not as a cell or row in a larger table, but as a complete table. |
Snitz 'Speedball' : Site Integration Mod : Friendly Registration Mod
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RichLondoner
Starting Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 19 November 2003 : 10:14:12
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Ok, now maybe I'm being stupid, but all I did was resized the current forum in a different IE window and placed it over the top of the new design to see what are the major issues were for size.
The ONLY issue from a quick inspection is main forum logo image being too wide. As you already will have the PB logo in the new design you could lose the current PB logo totally and use the IFRAME tags to just point to the current forum which will load in whatever size you state in the IFRAME tag...
Simple and keeps the original format from the current forum intact if you so want.
So, you would have your IFRAME looking something like: <iframe src="http://www.pointblankrecon.com/bbs/default.asp" height="350" width="100%" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">Your browser does not support IFRAME</iframe>
I'm doing the same for a site: http://www.twlightleague.armdesign.co.uk and am just going to be plonking in a new forum in the frame space within that design.
Hope this bit of lateral thinking helps... |
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xx ENIGMA xx
Junior Member
166 Posts |
Posted - 19 November 2003 : 10:47:21
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thanks RichLondoner, I originally had the idea
of using an iframe but dayve said this:
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the forum uses cookies and I believe using an iframe will screw that up, I know it does in regular frames.
apparently cookies have changed the way they work in frames, now considered a microsoft feature
So I am unsure about that, but I really didnt want another
scrollbar other than the browser is why I was trying not
to go that route. But I know I need to confine it to approx.
a 765 width or so if possible to keep my table images in line
and to accomodate the normal 800x600 most people still use 
But yes, I would be removing the general forum logo and
editing the format for the: Home | Profile | Register | etc.
I may just give it a go and see what happens, can anyone
verify the cookies/iframe/snitz issue that dayve mentioned
above?
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RichLondoner
Starting Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 19 November 2003 : 10:56:57
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Well I have the forums at work here running for a month
in a very heavily framed based intranet system, currently
our forums sit inside 9 (yes nine!!!) indiviudal frames
and I've had no problems yet with cookies at all... |
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xx ENIGMA xx
Junior Member
166 Posts |
Posted - 19 November 2003 : 11:12:34
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I just tried it, and yes I would need to do some modifications
to the forum a bit but it does seem to have a problem
with cookies using an iframe.
It didnt notice that I should have been logged in already, and
when I logged it, it said it was successful but I am really not
logged in and need to again 
example of iframe in my design: http://www.pointblankrecon.com/forum_iframe.html
so at this point considering that issue and the vast
changes I'd need to make, I'll probably just leave it
as is 
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