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No, it should say #punwrap {width: 700px; margin:auto}. What you currently have is invalid and meaningless.
You also need to remove the percentage width from the css I gave you previously. I've tried it by editing your css in Firefox and it works fine.
1. You didn't follow the instrucitons properly. If you check your css statement for #punwrap you will find it is invalid.
2. This is in your css which is overriding the fixed width
BODY #punwrap {
margin:auto;
width: 82%;
Basically, you tried to make the board a fixed width with one css statement and then have another css statement which tells it to be a percentage width.
And to be strictly accurate this is SEF not SEO, the latter of which involves statistical analysis of search patterns to optomise content and is therefore out of the question for any site which has user contributed content.
Try adding #header td img {display: block} to your embedded style block.
Its not a PunBB issue, its an issue that has arisen because your site and PunBB use a different doctype. The different doctypes cause browsers to render the same makrup and css differently.
From a markup perspective, .tpl files can be easily altered to include additional items for the purposes of integrating them into your existing website e.g. you can add banners, site menus and sidebars. It also makes it possible to easily move replaced items around without having to edit the php files.
Yes it does. Moved.
This belongs in the modifications forum. Moved.
Header.php sets up the merging. You would have to copy the relevant bits from header.php to register.php.
You can't. PunBB pages are produced by merging gnerated markup with main.tpl. No main.tpl, no page. You could create a custom .tpl file and then alter header.php to use that for selected pages but there has to be a template file to merge with.
No problem here using IE6, FF 2, FF 1.5, Opera 9.
There isn't one. You fake a dashed overline using a top dashed border.
Since there is no PunBB option for this, moved to modifictions.
Frameworks like YUI might very well be the way website and web application building is going. For the past few years everything has been about semantics and cutting out anything which was not semantically meaningful. However, there has been something of a backlash. More and more people are beginning to take the view that provided content is marked up semantically then the fact the it may be nested in a few unsemantic divs doesn't really make any difference. I can quite easily see people increasingly taking an approach of reducing web sites and applications to a series of markup + css widgits which can just be assembled by cutting and pasting. This doesn't necessarily have to have an adverse impact on design either since the design and therefore the visual appearance of a website has more to do with how the various elements are assembled. One obvious place where this trend is really taking off is in web forms where you could argue that there really is only one best way to markup and style a form.
From a productivity point of view I think the framework approach is far more valuable than anything a css editor can do.
I've tried it and dismissed it like all the others. CSS just isn't difficult enough to need specific tools. I just find they get in the way and far from aiding productivity they slow things down. The time consuming and tricky aspects of css are the parts that none of the available tools can cope with anyway and I don't see the point in installing software just to do the easy stuff. The only advantage I've ever found in using a tool like topstyle is when dealing with relative addresses, it does make it easier to get all the links to background images right the first time.
The text editor I use is Textpad though I occassionally use Ultradedit, but neither are free.
P.S. I may not like their editor but Westciv's tutorials and documentation are terrific and free.
Whether this topic is staying or going its certainly in the wrong forum. Moving.
I mostly use any old text editor though if there is a bug I can't spot quickly then topstyle pro which can go straight to the inevitable missing semi colon.
When you install PunBB there will already be a test forum setup for you. You create new categories and new forums through the administration interface which you reach via the administration link in the main menu. You can also edit the forum that was initially setup for you by changing its name and description. You can also setup user ranks through the administation interface.
You can delete, close or stick topics via the links which are the at the end of the forum and topic pages.
You may find the admin interface a little hard to use. It uses tables for layout and form controls are not as well marked up as they should be. Having said that, its probably easier than a lot of other forums.
You should be pleased to know that the next version of PunBB (including the admin interface) is aiming at compliance with accessibility priorty 2 checkpoints and has been tested on Jaws and Homepage Reader. You are the first screen reader user I've come across who has actually installed a forum from scratch which makes me think I might need to take a look at the installation procedure and the help that is available. Incidentally, do most Jaws users use Internet Explorer for ftp because it is linked to Jaws?
Filezilla is free.
http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
Whether it is easy to use with Jaws (I assume you are using Jaws) is another matter.
Smartftp is also free.
http://www.smartftp.com/
Of the two, Smartftp seems to have the most straightforward and easily navigable interface.
Last month the developpers where not really active, is there anything we as normal users can do to speed things up a bit?
:-)
Short of paying us large enough amounts of money to take time off work, not really.
You set file permissions with your ftp client sofware. Go to the folder you want to set permissions for. Your ftp client will usually have a submenu for folder properties which includes permissions or it may have a submenu for commands which includes chmod.
The .svn files are the subversion logs. I would guess they are there because somebody used checkout instead of export when they put the package together.
If you have a free package with bravehost this does not support either mysql or php. That means it is not capable of running punbb or any other forum script. Really all it can do is host basic web pages.
Clearly a major advance in forum technology.
What you were supposed to do is as follows
1. Go to your website using your ftp client and create a folder under your sites main folder called, for example, forum.
2. Upload the contents of the upload folder to that folder
3. Create an empty database for your forum install
4. Open your web browser and go to yourwebsiteaddress/forum/install.php
Is that what you did?
If your host does not support php there is really nothing you can do about it. Its something that has to be installed by your hosting service. Its a real problem because most forum (PunBB, phpBB, Vanilla etc) are written in php as are most gallery scripts, blogs and other web applications. The short answer is you really need a different host because you are going to find it rather frustrating not being able to run any applications.
If you give us a link to the hosting provider we can confirm whether php support is included.
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