Jimmy

Well, I kinda wanted to do this too;I know you need to pay for a ssl certificate from a (big company is better) such as visa or verisign etc.Then get the page to use encryption.You get the encryption to work yourself, but you need a certificate that costs a tiny bit f money!!!I think trap DOES support SSl for you, but there's not a simple, automated setup...

I love it!It's a great banner, elegant, simple, yet somehow relaxing.The best thing is that its not like those In your face banners that force you to avoid them. It sort of looks like a part of the page if y'know what I mean :)Good Work!!!(I really don't mind if you want to keep this for yourself as it's such a nice design, but is there any way I could convince you to possibly share the psd file or just pm it please!!? I'm rubbish (I can't do anything) at animations in photoshop, but if I had something I could easily edit it and change it all around would really help me out - My edit would bear no resemblance!!!, promise! Thank you.)

Well, I went on a brief moment of insanity and decided I didn't care and bought the templates anyway!!!so dailyrant.org.uk now has a new template. I have sort of moved things around / made some changes

Have to say the forums look very nice now! and somehow slightly brighter - maybe the orange does this to the eyes!!! It certainly makes it easier to be on those forums :unsure:The main page looks better, and that drop-shadow background works so well. It makes a huge difference!Nice

Does anyone play on Thunderhorn EU server here? If so I'd like to team up, thatd be cool :unsure:Got a fairly-high lev char that is okay for helping people out too!my new main: 19 Mage - goes by the name of Cranius, itd be awesome if your around or near that level for a team!

Hey garbage! I just tried to send you a message from your site, but I got a 403 forbidden error when I clicked send! I don't know if it went through or not, but I lost the message: so here's pretty much what I was saying!

Your site looks nice, and I see you got that new template from joomlajunkie! - One improvement would be to make the text colour slightly darker, its a little difficult on the eyes 0_o I'm not blind though!!!! Other than this slight improvement, its really nice and I like the content. Good job!

I was wondering if you want to trade links, my (and some friends) new site should prove to be really well filled with content and achieve a nice pagerank in google As I like your site, itd be cool for us to swap links! I'd put your link (one of the only ones as far as it goes) in the links tab displayed from the main menu on every page... The site is http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ - *Almost forgot to put it in *)

mail me at james . mcguire {{[ a t ]}} talk21 . com
without the spaces of course, sorry if that looks stupid!!!! (I recieve more than enough spam already, I'd rather not get any more)

Looking forward to hearing back!

Are you still having the problem with user's not recieving their activation email?If so this may be because you havn't got the mail function to work!If your contact me form (providing you enabled it!!!) works for you,then this is not the case! just another idea hope it can still help you.

Should do some browsing and see what templates you can find that fit your theme.Rantings Page: text broke outside the template should check the coding on that.

Thanks everyone for the comments!

Nah, the joomla logo was simply a jpeg that I photochopped! But I'm glad you think it won't matter - I even stole their font too Its great you like the idea Smack, we've had it for a while just never got round to doing it until I came along with my expertise (and I found about joomla) :(!!

Thanks kery for the positive enthusiasm and voting on the poll!!! I'd really appreciate the help for the templates!! and I'm sure you'd appreciate some credits

I have had a very long look, opening millions of tabs in firefox! but found no decent templates (free) I'll keep looking nevertheless.

to SM: I already know about the wrapping problem and it has been fixed in all areas of the site... but thanks for pointing that out!
Its completely fixed now, there should be no problems... please tell me if it is still not working properly, as it seems fine now to me and ben. The problem was long titles. The rantings section suddenly started using columns once the third article was published. (1 main, rest in columns) So I changed it back to 1 as it should be. (this allows longer names for the titles, preventing the problem!) I had already changed it to single column for blog where there was already more than three articles and I had seen the problem, but hadn't noticed the others until like 10 mins ago when he posted the new rant!!!!

Hmmm. I have decided along with Ben to keep the standard template. Its very clean and not too bland, so It will do!
I modified the background colour slightly from blank white to a slight blue / grey colour. This makes an absolutely HUGE difference, as it differentiates the main content part from the background! If you use the default template I suggest doing this, it really makes your page look better! just use colourpicker on the colour I used if you do like it...
All text wrapping problems gone completely! and the daily e-Mail section looks pretty cool!

biggrin.gif does anyone else have any views on our site?

Hi, I've got a website going with a group of friends with 2 of us managing atm - I'm the admin and design guy, although I'm sure I will be ranting as well

 

review here

 

The site is for us to write ranting articles and also for users to submit their own annoyances. I think we've ironed out all the problems, and it seems to be running very nicely. I've done it in Joomla, and our site also has a shiny new template since this edit...

 

Please review this site at the above thread and what you think of the idea, also possibly even send some of your own rants to us!! They can be on anything, and don't hold back the anger! I'd appreciate the help!

 

Thanks

Good Job!
When I first went to the site no offence but it made feel like I misspelled a web address. Very nice pictures though, I myself was trying to get a picture of squirrel today.Now whenever i went to the links I sorta felt lost,but i get lost in my own house sometimes.When i clicked on contact me I thought this is what your site needs to look like.I know if i made a site that looked like that I would be pacing the floor smiling and smoke 10 cigarettes.

lol thanks! actually I had changed the design, and the one that you can see on the front page is the "newer one" lol, it just got gunned down no offence taken!
The old one was my own produced one, and yes its different for the contact me form, as I don't know how to write strict xhtml valid forms, so I just left that page!!!!
Is smiling, pacing around smoking 10 cigarettes a good thing for my site lol, or does it mean that its a bit dingy

Unfortunately I let my site drop. It may not work for you as a couple of days ago I'm gonna stop it.
The new site I'm managing: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Thanks about the photos! I've got two nice ones of squirrels if you want a cool background the cheeky blighters get so close I could almost grab its tail >:#

A mod may now close this topic please!

Try to send them another message! They responded to my support requests (5) within 1 hour most, during the day, maybe your message got lost ot them (try using a different subject this time to avoid it being flagged as spam

Site URL?

In the title Imtay!
anywhoo, I must say that I think the design looks fairly nice overall.

1. Maybe try to make the outer solid background grey for your homepage slightly lighter. By this I mean the thick borders either side of the main content area
2. Your homepage takes years to load, this is because you have saved the entire page as tonnes of images! Yeah, I'm on relatively fast broadband, but still it even timed out whilst loading and I had to refresh to get the rest!!!!! This is the largest issue, as most people visiting your site may simply go elsewhere if they can't get it to load within 8 or so seconds (average time people are willing to wait)

For your forums:

1. The ISA top banner image you have for your forums is really nice and clean... I like it! (then again its quite a large image, so maybe try compressing it, as far as possible withought it looking any different.)
KEEP YOUR TOP BANNER IMAGE!!!!!!
2. I don't think the red design of the forum is great though. This could be made better by applying point 1. in my first paragraph here and also try to get less black on the page, or either change the red.

OK, hope this helps!
Basically size of your site +l oading times is the issue, but thats a lot!

Lol nice to see this is spreading quickly. I saw this video this morning, as teachers have also been passing it around at my school!!!Very funny stuff OMG Don't put any more stuff in the iRack, it will collapseoh... you want me to take things out of the iRack?Yes... Yes!!! yes!!!errr. No I think I'll put some more stuff in the iRack lol

Hmmm try conkers bad fur day - pretty goodor for xbox 360 - Kameo its a great gameAlso possibly consider:another xb.360 - try the final fantasy game thats coming out (if thats your sort of game)

Rval... Nice Butterfly II sig there... looks cool!

I just added a 1px border around the images (using css) I was thinking of doing it
and it does make everything and those images look significantly better.
Its especially nice using css so that I don't have to photoshop it into the actual image - also means I can compress my images more without blurring the surrounding border!

this is the css it takes - for an external css file:
change the bit where it says imageborder (leave the dot) if you wish to change the name of the class to link images that you want a border around.

} .imageborder img {   padding: 4px;   border: 1px solid #999999; }

Put the img in a div with a class like this and it immediately adds the border!

<div class="imageborder">   <img src="yourimage.jpg" alt="image" /> </div>

Any more suggestions? maybe change each header colour from grey to something a little more colourful?

Imperial Stormtroopers... LOL! thanksThanks for pointing out the CSS errors rval (Warnings? I got six warnings and no errors when I ran it just now!? - interested to hear what errors you got) I'll get on it... If it was the warnings you mentioned, I decided to ignore them as theyre all "same colors for color and background-color in two contexts .. and .." or "same colors for background-color and .."As you can see it looks ok in the actual thing ;)So do you reckon that the main body text colour is clear and readable..?I was sorta thinking (its OK for me, but..) that it may be slightly difficult shade of grey to read?

SITE CHANGED TO MAKE WAY FOR DAILY RANT

Review here please Thanks for the reviews, much appreciated!

I may well be interested... I have a question that would help most people... where are you in the world for example UK or America... etc. And are you happy to ship to the uk thats where I am !!!If you see this please PM me the list (saves me trouble of writing this in PM as well!!!)

Immaturity is one of the best ways to be funny, it's only dull if you don't have a sense of humor the fact that it just ends so abruptly just adds to the humor, and I don't think the point of it is really to get a girl, it's just supposed to be retarded and funny.

lol yes it certainly was retarded; nevertheless it got a laugh from me - possibly helped by the image of someone getting slapped for it!!!

why not man, i actually like the look of that site, it loos good, i like th banner, and he did a good job at editing joomla's css template, so ya, i guess there is something to review

I think what tetra is trying to say is... It looks nice

Just a couple more usefull commands.
regedit - Registary editor...
msconfig - edit the startup menu and other options

lol clarky those were already in the list!!!!! anyhow yeah, I try not to get in the habit of using regedit.. much or ever

Well thats pretty cool! (sorry to hear about the surgery) but cat disease!I'm interested to hear how they told you it was cat disease? any type in particular like scraggy cat disease? infected paw disease? cat cancer?Did the doctor actually say cat disease?!?

WOOO! Happy Birthday BuffaloHELP how has your day been...?

 

Load of birthdays going on around -

BH, you do a great job managing this place and happy birthday away from the trap!

 

May I suggest a trip out snowboarding as birthday celebrations!!!!?

(I'm going tomorrow you're free to come along if you can make it to england !)

 

*** BIG CAKE!!!***

Hi, I think you are Indonesian, coz taht worms(maybe virus) is "made in indonesia"

Lol that cracked me up "made in indonesia"
back on the subject: I suggest starting up in safe mode; then go run>>type in "msconfig" (without quotes)>>services and check there is not an unusual program running at startup, and just look around your main drive to see if there are any unusual files. Then start exploring the registry (be careful).!

It's impossible to change a bmp file to an icon! You can only do that with the .gif extension with some kind of software(forgot name)!

Wrong! I just tried this and it works absolutely fine.I made a 16x16px image in photoshop, saved it as a bitmap and renamed it .ico

It worked perfectly just look at the favicon for http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ If the favicon is a blue blurred circular thing... then there you have it. (my favicon i know its rubbish! but still it proves the point.)

I decided to dig this up now I know it works