1 Topic by Panos

  • From: Athens, Greece
  • Registered: 2006-04-10
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Topic: Support-FreeSoftware.org

After 2 months of exhaustingly trying various CMSs and Discussion Boards, I finally ended up implementing Joomla and PunBB for our website http://www.support-freesoftware.org.

Support-FreeSoftware.org is a website created by the webmaster of the "late" promote-opensource.org, that is, yours truly. Our site's goal is to promote further and advocate Free and Open Source Software and by posting easy to read and understand tutorials and various articles, bring it to the masses.

As for the site, it consists of two parts. The main page, which is powered by Joomla and the Community page which is powered by PunBB. Anyone can join the main page and become a publisher upon contacting me, but everyone can register and use our PunBB-powered forums, post their questions and so forth.

The site's theme is very simple. Minimalistic design but semantically correct output, to the best possible extent has been my goal and one I hope that I have accomplished.

I would like to thank you for reading this, and above all I would like to thank the punBB developers for an excellent job! Keep up the great work guys!

Panos

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  • From: Leuven, Belgium
  • Registered: 2005-06-14
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Re: Support-FreeSoftware.org

Looks like a great site, I'll sign up later ^^

3 Reply by Panos

  • From: Athens, Greece
  • Registered: 2006-04-10
  • Posts: 10

Re: Support-FreeSoftware.org

Many thanks elbekko smile I really appreciate your input and as a matter of fact, I must check out your site and mods as well. I am fairly new to PunBB but with my knowledge of PHP and MySQL all I can say is that it's one of the most cleanly-coded BBs out there, if not the cleanest!

Thank you again for your input and I hope to see you at the forums smile

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4 Reply by Paul

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Re: Support-FreeSoftware.org

You need to sort out the text size in IE.
http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=7181

5 Reply by Panos (edited by Panos 2006-04-11 14:19)

  • From: Athens, Greece
  • Registered: 2006-04-10
  • Posts: 10

Re: Support-FreeSoftware.org

Thanks for the heads-up Paul! I don't use IE and have completely forgotten the text-resizing issue. Sorry about that. I don't like absolute font sizes either and am planning on changing the style sheets later and implement relative font sizing. Now, I hope that everything works as expected. I inserted the code inside my main.tpl file. The changes are as follows:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html dir="<pun_content_direction>">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<pun_char_encoding>" />
<pun_head>
<!-- My site's CSS -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://www.support-freesoftware.org/templates/sfs/css/template_css.css" />
<style type="text/css">
/* Fix for IE versions that do not support text-resizing - Many thanks to Paul from the PunBB forums! */
/* IEWin Font Size only - to allow IEWin to zoom. Do not remove comments \*/
* HTML .pun {FONT-SIZE: 68.75%}
/* End IE Win Font Size */
</style>
<!-- My site's CSS -->
</head>
....

Please let me know if it works. Cheers! smile

Edit: Issue fixed... finally! See post below smile

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6 Reply by binou

  • Registered: 2006-03-15
  • Posts: 28

Re: Support-FreeSoftware.org

First of all, great job! I share the goal of your site and hope it will have some success

Then, for your font size problem, I don't see any changes right now...

But i'm not so surprise because I don't think adding the code in the main.tpl will change anything as far as it is already present in your "forums/style/Oxygen.css" (in section 2.1)

7 Reply by Panos

  • From: Athens, Greece
  • Registered: 2006-04-10
  • Posts: 10

Re: Support-FreeSoftware.org

Many thanks binou smile

Now to the font size issue, I managed to solve it by making things a lot less simpler than they were, by removing any unnecessary CSS properties and values (especially the font-related ones) from my main pages stylesheet.

in essence, what I did was clone my site's stylesheet, strip it from any unnecessary properties and values, save it by using another name and re-linking it. This way, the PunBB forums wrap up nicely and furthermore, the styling is assigned to the Oxygen.css stylesheet. Simple as that. I decided to test it on a friend's machine who uses Windows and it displayed correctly on IE. That was after my previous post of course.

On another IE-related note. Those of you that use IE, should know that prior to IE 7, PNG Alpha-Transparency is not supported. Unfortunately, my site uses images in .png format. IE 7 however can display png images correctly.

Thank you very much for the help guys! smile

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