1 Reply by marc234

(5 replies, posted in Feature requests)

thanks for that guardian34

i noticed that it is proposed to create "fancy urls" with mod_rewrite.

I don't think the developers would need to go that far, last year google announced that it doesn't have a problem indexing urls with a query string in them. In fact i dont think google ever did. all i would like to see is that the pages are referenced by their title in the url not by the id of that record in the db.

im convinced that:

?post=your-page-title

is just as good as

punbb/post/your-page-title/

here's a relevent blog post: http://blog.tripledogs.com/?p=76

in my view mod_rewrite brings unnecessary complications like file referencing and server issues which would probably require significant revisions to the application code.

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2 Topic by marc234

(5 replies, posted in Feature requests)

forgive me if this has already been mentioned, im new to this otherwise excellent software.

but it is apparent to me (as an seo professional) that punbb could really be improved by search engine optimized urls.

for example:

http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=44507

replaced with:

http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p … f-the-post

can punbb be modified in this way? are there any plans afoot to do this?

I know a lot of forums dont do this but urls written in this way make a big difference to Google which takes account of (and regards as significant) the title of urls in assessing the merit of a page's content.

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3 Reply by marc234

(2 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

ive had another root around and found this in the template stylesheet (default: css/Oxygen.css)

/* 5.1 Page margins */

HTML, BODY {MARGIN: 0; PADDING: 0}
#punwrap {margin:8px 8px}

seems to do the job. are there any other setting i should be aware of guys?

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4 Topic by marc234

(2 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

Hi all

im trying to make the forum design fit better with my existing site.

the width of my site is slightly greater and the distance of the page from the top of the screen is slightly less.

can anyone tell me where the settings are for the width  of the div tags that wrap around  the page content for every page and for the distance of the first div tag from the top of every page. i need to be able to change settings such as the css width, positioning from the top, padding or margins, however it is set?

thanks

marc

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