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(3)Third, no one really likes the effects anyways.

I don't really see a point in getting a free .com domain for a bunch of ads at your site...Domains are cheap. If you have money to use Internet from home, you should spare to register and pay for a domain.

I don't like this... Personally I'd probably stop reading a feed if it started to have ads... Even if they were "relevant" (by google...). If there's really need for ads why not shorten the feed item text and point the users to the website to read the whole article, and to see them ads. Just not in the feeds please.

No it doesn't. It's just a common practise to do so. In the link tag you could also add type="image/x-icon" It's not required but good coding style.

It's not like some domain say https://www.google.de/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=BwkjVKfAD8uH8QfckIGgCQ&gws_rd=ssl or https://www.microsoft.com/de-de points to a single server. No, there a lots of them. There are various ways of distributing the traffic between the servers. It is actually very interesting topic. There's no perfect algorithm for this task and which one is the best depends greatly on the type of traffic. Anyways I'm not going to go off-topic here, but if someone's interested about these algorithms start a thread and I'll give you a longish reply.

Yep, that and also make sure you delete the directory where FF was installed. The uninstaller might leave some stuff (like plugins) there. Then there's the usual tip... Scan for spyware & virii.

I'd like to point out that uni.cc does no longer take registrations for domains with customizable DNS. You can still get a redirect or a HTML entry page.

If your site was suspended the url should lead to a page telling that. For me it seems like your account got deleted...

I think what you want to know is that can a SSI included page include other page with SSI. AFAIK it can't. I'm not too familiar with SSI, I used them few years ago and I think I attempted including another file from included file and it didn't work. However this could be done with server side scripting, like php or asp. Correct me if I'm wrong but they'd be a faster opinion too.

I use a pop-up blocker at my own computer but when I didn't or when I'm at uni and popups come up I usually close them before I even realize what's there. The only occasions when I actualyl watch popups is when I'm entering a site that I already know or trust. For example CNN.com popups a dialogue which asks what version of the site (US or international) I want to see. Also some record label sites tend to have competitions that popup so knowing that I often disable the popup blocker in firefox or don't instantly close them.

Well yeah of course you'd need to be knowing what you're doing. But if there already is a phpBB theme then no worries.

Yeah, seems to be working fine. Gladly I had no urgent email.Oh and I could update my site all the time too because I use key-authentication for SSH.

I haven't ran out of credits, if I were wouldn't my site be suspended? The site itself is working fine.

I can't login to cPanel or fetch my email. I however can login with SSH. Today I also got email saying that I have used over 100% of my space which is not true.What's going on?

Can the computers see each other? Ie. Can you perform a ping from the one to the other? Can you view them at the network neighbourhood? And to copy files windows explorer style you need to have set the sharing permissions right. While doing this, keep securty in mind! You do not wish some fromt the internet to be able to access your files...

PhpBB was probably written with security in mind... But it was in 2001! And you know that in computer world four years is an eon. It's kind of sad to say but I think phpBBs days are numbered. The comnplete re-write has been taking so much time now that webmasters, including me, got bored on waiting and switched to better, safer, faster and most importantly developing systems. I personally picked SMF and I'd be surprised if other didn't do the same. You'll see in few years that SMF will be the number one forum software in the web. vBulletin and Invision are also good systems but they're not free and thus won't never reach the same popularily as a OS system can.

I did the same switch (phpBB->SMF) a while ago (I gloated about ti on these forums as well) and I actually got some negative feedback as well. One of my users felt, although the categories and forum hieararchy were exactly the same, that the new board looked too complicated. So I took some action, I removed and merged few forums and eliminated some categories. I also pointed out to him that in the front page, you could collapse the forums. This made the forum look simpler and he was a happy poster. :rolleyes:Instead of switching back to phpBB, I'd recommend alternating your theme. Just try to ape phpBB look as closely as possible. There are loads of phpBB button sets available from which you can easily find one suiting your colours. And if you're sticking yto your old phpBB colours, just use the buttoms from its theme. The classic forum header with logo on left and forum name, description and box of text links with those small icons should be really easy to do. If not by doing it from scratch, copy & paste the code from the phpBB theme, it's open source . Just remember to alter it into valid XHTML. The forumview is actually quite close the same and topicview would need only small adjustments. The posting views are quite different but given that they're very simple in both system and thus easy to get yused to, these probably don't need changes.

While you're (the reader of this topic) are getting into full CSS designing, you might aswell forget the old HTML 4 and get writing XHTML. XHTML is a step towards XML, a document format that it self doesn't contain any style information. XHTML is very close to old HTML, just keep in mind not to write any style information (such as <center></center> or <font>) and every tag must be closed and that's pretty much it!

Hmm... this actually sounds quite cool. I have noticed that while I like working with IDEs, it is usually too time consuming to learn to use a new one. A recent example: I have an assignment on a GUI programming course at uni to create a GUI for some game. No language or platforms specified. I have quite a little experience with Java but I knew enough that GUI programming is quite easy with it, compared to say C++. So off I went and downloaded a JDK and then decided to try out a IDE that was recommended on another course webpage. Few tries with it and I went F it, I'll go good ol' text editor and command line compiling. Had it been a C++ project and I wouldn't even think doing it like that, it'd be all VC++ since I'm very used to it. But with this... If I bother to learn to use it I can always bring new languages to my arsenal without the need for learning a new IDE.

This kind of system isn't very difficult to program. A good language would be PHP. You did not mention if you have any programming skills but if you do you should be able to program the system if you are willing to learn the basics of SQL (Structured Query Language. A rather simple language for doing queries on realtional databases) To get started I'd recommend creating a MySQL database (can be done from the cPanel by just setting a databasename and username & password pair) and then heading to phpMyAdmin (also from cPanel). PhpMyAdmin is full graphical web utility for managing your databases. You shold be able to use it with no problems. First select your just created database (from the pull down menu at left) and then create some tables in it. A table structure for your album database could be somthing like this: Albums table:_______________________________________________________album_id | artist_id | album_name | year | record_labelArtist table____________________________________artist_id | artist_name | country | The fields of course can be anything you want... But it is smart to have id's for all rows (and setting them to auto_increment) so that each album and artist has an unique ID. After you have created the tables (you could create just one for testing) then add some data to them. This also can be very easily done from the phpMyAdmin. But pay attention to the SQL code that phpMyAdmin prints out. This is the form that your scripts should be using when they insert/get data to/from the database. After few inserts you should be able to get the idea how SQL works. It is really that simple. Then you could read more about SQL and MySQL DBMS (database management system) from http://dev.mysql.com/doc/. Next step would be to create scripts to do queries from the database and printing out the data in a suitable manner for your site. I personally use PHP, but I'm sure ASP or JSP are just as good options for this. If you don't know any of these languages yet but have some previous programmign experience, pick the one that's closest to what you've been doing before. PHP is quite similar to C, if you know C you'll learn PHP real easy. JSP is Java for server side scripts so if you're java-man you'll feel home with JSP. At least PHP has excellent online documentation (http://php.net/) with lot of examples. Also for dealing with databases. I hope this helped. Dealing with databases is whole lot easier that you might think, but like everything new, it takes time to learn and get used to it. And if and when you ran into problems remember that these boards are filled with people willing and capable to help out.

Wow!I just installed it and it's just amazing! To answer my own question: the change is really easy to do. I think you could train a frog or something to do it. The conversion tool did everything perfect except categories hierarchy. What it did was put all forums in the same level (ie. no child boards). But it's not a big deal to go and fix them in the admin panel. What suprised me the most was that the conversion tool actually imported phpBB attachments. For those unfamiliar with phpBB, attachments are only available as an hack. I'm changing to SMF for good when I get my theme finished and some of my self programmed utilities on my site converted to support SMF database structure. And Trekkie the SMF admin panel looks like a dream from the first glance for someone's who's been administering phpBB.

Thanks. Once I get my current project at uni done I'll be installing SMF and trying out the template designing. If I like it it's gonna be a forum change for my site.

There's got to be at least a basic level impotrter/converter written for phpBB->SMF. These usually exists for all major boards. What I'd like to know is that is there a tool which can handle a modded phpBB so that I could keep my categories and attachments.

Hello SMFers.SMF looks really tempting.. and as I'm a bit fed up with phpBB I'm thinking about changing forum system. Vbulletin would be my first pick but there's no way I'm paying that much for a forum software. So SMF would be the way to go...However, I just spent and almost entire day getting the new version of phpBB working with all the mods and imported the old posts/users (needed to be done through phpmyadmin manually...). And I'm not going to go through that kind of work again any time soon...So my question is, has anyone here gone from phpBB to SMF and how well can the posts/users/forums/categories be imported to SMF? Bear in mind that I have used categories hierarchy (an absolute neccessity for me) and attachments mods. I have understood that these features are built in the SMF (like they should) but are there import tools for this much modified phpBB database? Also how would you compare the template/theme designing between phpBB and SMF?

I didn't mean that Windoze is total crap, it was before 2000 pro. I'm running 2000 pro in this system and it is really stable, it barely never crashes. Sure it does funny stuff now and then and gets a bit jammy at times but hey it wouldn't be windows if it didn't . The sad thing for MS is that once they got a decent OS done, then they went for the wrong direction with XP. It's not the windows' instability problems that I'm basing it for, it's the unwise designs in it's architecture which on it's behalf has increased the security problems. Windows is kind of started to build from the wrong end; fancy walls and decorations before a good base.