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  • September 2, 2005 at 2:57 am #1084
    Garibaldi
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    lwrwench brought up a good idea about moving Off Topic to the top of the forum, therefore bringing more users and making it easier for car buffs to chat about stuff other than cars when they feel like it. What do you think, good idea or bad idea?

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  • September 4, 2005 at 11:49 pm #17910
    Anonymous
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    Why don’t you just download the offtopic button and highlight it a different color??? Can you mod a single button instead of all them?

    Good question, maybe there’s a way to do that, I’ll have to look into it.

    I think I have a compromise, I’ll move OT to the top of the Other Section, above Current Events and Scifi, how’s that sound?

    You can insert HTML directly into the Admin CP where you manage the category names, forum names, descriptions…. etc. I’ve tested it before formatting text and substituting images but I’d imagine you could insert any HTML.

    September 5, 2005 at 12:57 am #17911
    Garibaldi
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    I could give it a try, its an interesting idea…

    September 5, 2005 at 1:33 am #17912
    Garibaldi
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    Does anyone have suggestions for a different icon for off topic? If so post the images here!!!

    September 5, 2005 at 2:44 am #17913
    Garibaldi
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    What do you think of the new off topic button like this:
    ot.jpg

    September 5, 2005 at 2:46 am #17914
    Anonymous
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    Cool! You’ll have to show me how you did that :)

    September 5, 2005 at 3:00 am #17915
    Garibaldi
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    Its easy Yoda! Just make an image like that in Photoshop or whatever with background color [code:1]EFEFEF[/code:1] and then use this instead of the forum title:
    [code:1]<img src="http://www.yoursite.com/images/yourforumimage.jpg">[/code:1]

    September 5, 2005 at 3:07 am #17916
    Anonymous
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    Thanks. Which file? Is it in the main phpbb2 directory?

    September 5, 2005 at 3:24 am #17917
    Garibaldi
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    Not a file, in your AdminCP when you manage the forums, you can enter a title and description, put that in the title

    September 5, 2005 at 3:43 am #17918
    Anonymous
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    oh thanks! :)

    September 5, 2005 at 11:48 am #17919
    Anonymous
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    [code:1]<img src="http://www.yoursite.com/images/yourforumimage.jpg">[/code:1]

    Hmmmmm.. that’s causing a error for the viewtopic pages. There’s a

    [code:1]" /> " />[/code:1]

    Up in the left corner, never noticed that. Can’t think of a way to get around it at the moment sdince removing the ” > in the CP will break the HTML for the other pages. It breaks the jumpbox too, oh well, it was just a suggestion. I didn’t notice that before, I only tested it briefly. dontknow.gif

    It’s adding extra tags…. See the ones where the image tags are.

    [code:1]<link rel="prev" href="viewtopic.php?t=1076&view=previous" title="View previous topic" />
    <link rel="next" href="viewtopic.php?t=1076&view=next" title="View next topic" />
    <link rel="up" href="viewforum.php?f=6" title="<img src="http://www.wiscollectorcar.com/forum/images/posts/ot.jpg">" />
    <link rel="chapter forum" href="viewforum.php?f=10" title="Car News" />
    <link rel="chapter forum" href="viewforum.php?f=5" title="General" />
    <link rel="chapter forum" href="viewforum.php?f=4" title="Pictures" />
    <link rel="chapter forum" href="viewforum.php?f=12" title="Swap Meet" />
    <link rel="chapter forum" href="viewforum.php?f=2" title="Restoration & Performance" />
    <link rel="chapter forum" href="viewforum.php?f=19" title="Accessories" />
    <link rel="chapter forum" href="viewforum.php?f=21" title="Motorcycles" />
    <link rel="chapter forum" href="viewforum.php?f=6" title="<img src="http://www.wiscollectorcar.com/forum/images/posts/ot.jpg">" />[/code:1]

    September 5, 2005 at 3:15 pm #17920
    Garibaldi
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    Oh, so maybe its not such a good idea huh?

    September 5, 2005 at 4:41 pm #17921
    Anonymous
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    Oh, so maybe its not such a good idea huh?

    Well, it’s not going to cause any problems, just looks like crap.

    September 5, 2005 at 4:50 pm #17922
    Garibaldi
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    Oh, so maybe its not such a good idea huh?

    Well, it’s not going to cause any problems, just looks like crap.

    True. Do you know of any html (ie color changes) that won’t cause errors?

    September 6, 2005 at 1:53 am #17923
    Anonymous
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    Oh, so maybe its not such a good idea huh?

    Well, it’s not going to cause any problems, just looks like crap.

    True. Do you know of any html (ie color changes) that won’t cause errors?

    No because it has to be enclosed in a tag and when insert it into the CP it gets enlosed between ” ” which is incorrect markup. Besides the fact it’s also putting HTML in the head tag which is also incorrect markup.

    September 6, 2005 at 2:19 am #17924
    Garibaldi
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    Ok, thanks for the info!!! thumbsup.gif

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