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have to say i like simkins original attempt, in fact i've used it on a couple of sites already (although i have altered the CSS slightly to alter the colourscheme to match the forum or site theme) - one site i've built, it was requested by the owner to the same design for a standalone coppermine gallery as they liked the layout on one of my own sites. 

my site - with punbb forum click here
Customer site - currently without forum click here

Rod's design looks impressive but doesn't really match the look of the original PunBB

I know this is an old thread, but if you want an editor for .tpl files or things like .php or even .asp etc, download Araneae (it's a free program) & open the files with that. 

It's a bit like notepad to use but with more features specifically for editing & creating web files. 

http://www.ornj.net/araneae/

That's what i use for editing .tpl, CSS files & doing the PHP coding changes in forum mods & i've never had any problems.

at the moment i'm uploading the SQL via a client on my hosting control.. the only other way i know of is to use an upload restore facility but i tried this & it still won't go over the 5mb threshold.

it's a case of i know what to remove, just i can't find a way to remove it as the SQL database file is just one big lump that i can't break down to delete the tables I don't need.  Good call though on the search tables, something i'd not thought of... no doubt i'd have to rebuild the index anyway so i suppose it makes sence to remove the original search tables as well to free up a few more valuable bits of unneccesary data.

Thanks Nibbler..

to be honest i hear various rumours that the development team on the 2 applications when launched is the same & the next minute you hear they aren't related & just look alike in layout terms.

However knowing all the bother i've had with phpBB & trying to stop spammers & hackers, i'd sooner be safe than sorry.

anyway, i've done the database migrate & scrapped the phpBB site in favour of PunBB on the site i had it on - www.stokebikeruns.co.uk

your suggestions are very much appeciated

have to say i do have dreamweaver but for some reason always favour NOF... probably for ease of use, however learning the package is a bit tricky but once you get an idea of how it works, it becomes quite simple.

there is a reason why i do the /html folder... mainly because the package i use for site designing (NetObjects Fusion) does it by default - it can be altered to set it for other methods but pretty much these day's i've grown to like the original idea & then it has helped me because then i can set the different stuff in the relevent folders... the homepage is always in the root directory, all the HTML pages go in the HTML folder & then any applications (such as forums, guestbooks, directory pages, mailing managers for newsletters etc) go into seperate folders.. this mainly keeps the whole site neat so i know if i have to alter on part of the site i just go into the relevent folder so if for example i have a index.php file in a seperate folder, i'm not going to fall into the trap editing a guestbook index file when i'm altering an index file from a different folder.   At one time i used to drop all the HTML files into the root directory but usually got into a terrible mess!

Plus I'm able to keep seperate folders for images, flash files & javascripts.. like i say just for my own convenience... it doesn't make navigation any more difficult.

LOL i'm going to (eventually) just I keep putting it off as it means i've got to faff about with that damn phpBB forum again! 

Also, just a quick one while i have it in mind (yes I am a pain), is there punBB version of Coppermine gallery available?

bearing in mind Coppermine & phpBB seem to go hand in hand ( so to speak) so i assume has the same problems with hackers, coding errors & exploits exist on both phpBB & coppermine.  I don't fancy using coppermine alongside punBB

That'll be the one i'm after then, cheers Pogenwurst

just going back to this... (i know it's an old thread)

is what you want to do actually show them on the online users - which usually lists members who are online - when the search engine spiders are visiting.. I've seen this as a mod for VB but if used on PunBB for instance I would imagine it needs to appear something like:-
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Registered users online: 1
Guests online: 0

Online:   Pun Member, googlebot, yahoo! slurp, msnbot, google adsense

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(that was a quick reply)

that's great & just what i'm after.. thanks.