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I was wondering what the setting for this site was.  It may be that I am taking more than ten minutes when I reply while at work.  damn phones.

divs.  MM Dreamweaver called them layers.  Back in DW version 3.0  they used to have a table to layers button and vice versa.  Never worked well.  As far as the doctype, I am aware of this, and the test upgrade has the doctype corrected. the 1.1.5 version is inside a table row, and worked fine because that version was done with tables & nested tables.  I know (correct me if I amway off base here) that tables can exist and work fine within Divs, but do not work so well or at all when they are outside of divs.  It there a way that I can totally get rid of the tables outside of punBB. (the banner & nav button area as well as the rounded boarder edges.)  Paul, I am going to be completely honest and say that I am new to tableless designs.  I think they are a great idea because it not only makes code/markup easier to read, but also reduces file sizes.  In the past I primarily used style sheets to set text look and feel for the whole site.  I am just starting to use it for layout.

I am sorry, I posted this in the wrong area, can a mod or an admin please move this to "troubleshooting"

thanks

Moved

What rob has described is what PHP developers seems to be heading towards.  OOP & Keeping a seperation between design & application.  I sometimes work with another developer.  this is how we colaborate.  I can mess with markup all I want and never have to worry about the application breaking because I mistakenly deleted a . or a ; or a ", etc..  the only thing I have to worry about it making sure my building blocks of design include the calls to the right objects.  Main.tpl is an example of how we colaborate.  Of course there is some markup in the PHP that  outputs the data/information, but I let him worry about that, and I just supply the div's or tables to wrap around them.  It seems to work well for us since we do most of our colaboration on-line. 

On that note.  I hate mixing markup with PHP expressions.  I never know when I need to put a  . or ' or " or () , etc..  I always seem to break stuff   If some one could point me to a tutorial or a site that explains all different ways to mix the two, that would be great.  I have seen it done so many ways.  Where I really get screwed up is where you build links from arrays that are queried from a database, and you mix mark up with php. the whole quotes thing really messes me up.  Iknow that if you do

$username = "Johnny";
echo 'Username is $username';

will display: Username is $username

and

$username = "Johnny";
echo "Username is $username";

will display:  Username is Johnny

I get mixed up when you mix and row from an array with mark up, and also when you are using variables in Query statements.

lol. in other words, thanks but no thanks?

Rickard: I see your point.  Keeping the data separate is not the issue, its how to insert the bits of code into the existing layout to give it a seamless appearance.  My experiences with installing mods on other forums and cmss (is that a word? ) has been toughest when it comes to an upgrade of the core app.  Sometime I actually had to print out the original files that get modified by the mod install, and check line by line against the new version of the same file to find where I needed to insert and/or tweak the code to work with the new version.  That?s not a task for any novice to want to go through.  Some of the better mods, used mod specific variables and commented sections of code that where updated so they stood out against the core logic.  Others made their own DB tables to keep data separate.  The biggest thing I wanted from other mods was not to break the rest of the site if something went amiss during the upgrade.  When looking through the code of punBB I see its mostly procedural code with some sprinkles of OOP.  To be honest, I still am one of those persons who like to look at procedural code.  I am an engineer by day, and thats how my brain is trained to think.  So I like to look at the punbb code because I can understand it. (Most of it that is).  Where I am going with this is that a module system seems like it would be best suited to be applied with an OOP approach.

Conner: I took a look at that post, and it seems like PunMod is a step in the right direction.  Anyway you slice it.  its a fine line to tread when you have to code an application and have the foresight to think about how mods should interact with the core app.  I guess if I were to code a PM system, I would try to be as unobtrusive as possible to the core files, and take the minimalist approach towards the scope of the application.  For instance, when a user logs in put an icon next to his name where it says ?logged in as username? indicating that user has a private message.  Click on that link, and have it bring you to the module itself , etc..

Let me talk to my client, and I will see what I can do.  This theme/style is based on the default Oxygen CSS file, and a modified main.tpl for 1.1.5, and has not been tested on 1.2 yet.  I plan on doing an upgrade test on my dev server in the near future (next couple of days).  Since my client has paid me for their design and overall look of their site, it would really be up to them to decide if I can release this theme to the public.  If you are just looking for the forum style w/o all the other graphics (banner, menu buttons, etc).  I don't see a problem with releasing it to the public since its just a punbb revised style.  Basically, let me see what I can come up with.  Thats all I can promise.

If you are talking about my theme, I would love to, but I don't think my client would be to keen about it.

Ahh, I can see clearly now .... you sing the rest.

4. Fullproof.  Disconnect your internet connection

Is it true that MS will be charging for this service?

deusiah, You are correct it is a matter of opinion.   Didn't me to sound bigoted.

If you wanted everything with the color #0066B9 to be changed, you could always open the CSS file and Ctrl+F for #0066B9 and replace it with #004A80. I am not a css aficionado, but thats easy enough to do.