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Ares
Posted on 05-19-10 05:15 PM (rev. 2 of 05-19-10 05:21 PM) Link | Quote | ID: 131325


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Last view: 5084 days 		Yo, can anybody link me a walkthrough/or just explain on how to make one of these board's fun little custom posts so that I may live my nostalgic posting experience to the fullest?

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paulguy
Posted on 05-19-10 05:18 PM Link | Quote | ID: 131326


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w3schools is what I used to learn. Start with HTML, then do CSS. There are other sites around, too if you google if you don't like that one.

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Ares
Posted on 05-19-10 05:22 PM Link | Quote | ID: 131327


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Posted by paulguy
w3schools is what I used to learn. Start with HTML, then do CSS. There are other sites around, too if you google if you don't like that one.

Many thanks.

Kawa
Posted on 05-19-10 05:23 PM (rev. 2 of 05-19-10 05:25 PM) Link | Quote | ID: 131328


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In the profile editor, you'll find a field labelled "Header", and one labelled "Signature". In both, you can place a piece of HTML markup code. The w3schools link Paulguy posted can tell you more about HTML if you need.

Mind you that you should not put newlines inbetween your tags:
</span>
<div>"
may be readable at first, but it becomes 
</span><br><div>
which looks like crap.

It's efficient to keep your layout as small as possible. If you use CSS (which you should), I suggest starting your Header with 
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://url to your css file" />
instead of inlining it with a style tag.


Oh, and one more thing: don't put plaintext in your header instead of an actual layout. They'll gut you for it.

And "signature" is a bit of a misnomer if you ask me. Should be "footer".

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Posted on 05-19-10 05:37 PM Link | Quote | ID: 131329


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I have to disagree with Kawa's sentiment on external linking of CSS - at least unless it's hosted on the board uploader. Historically, people's layouts depending on files on servers that went down or otherwise became inaccessible were a major source of unneeded lag on thread loading as browsers tried to retrieve something that wasn't there before proceeding.

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Posted on 05-19-10 06:06 PM Link | Quote | ID: 131331

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My layout is an external stylesheet, and it didn't cause problems afaik, except when my account was suspended, but then I removed the layout until I could find a solution. Otherwise, the free hosting service I'm hosted by is quite reliable, and I don't think they will be down often at all.

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Kawa
Posted on 05-19-10 06:11 PM Link | Quote | ID: 131332


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And when my ten bux a month server goes down for a spell, or some other thing happens to make my CSS unavailable, everything collapses into no layout at all, just some links in a plaintext sig.

It's called "intelligent design"

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I still think the uploader is the better and more reliable option (as it is down precisely when the board is and, most importantly, shares the board's SSL abilities, thus removing all the warnings about unsafe external links in SSL mode).

Well, I'm using proudly using inline CSS anyway.~

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Posted on 05-19-10 06:15 PM Link | Quote | ID: 131334

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I still think the uploader is the better and more reliable option (as it is down precisely when the board is and, most importantly, shares the board's SSL abilities, thus removing all the warnings about unsafe external links in SSL mode).

Well, I'm using proudly using inline CSS anyway.~

I would use the board's uploader or inline CSS.

But, you know, my layout CSS is generated by a PHP script, and the uploader wouldn't accept PHP files for obvious security reasons

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Ares
Posted on 05-19-10 06:34 PM Link | Quote | ID: 131335


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Last view: 5084 days 		Okay, more noob mistakes. I'm slowly plugging away at this. I looked over the tutorials, and I cribbed a bit from blackhole 89 (uh...temporarily) and began working backwards from there. However, I've gotten it working well on the Tryit Editor but not on here. The forum says that it wipes my layout due to "Table tag count mismatch in post layout; wiped."
Here is what I've got so far, however my noobishness renders me unable to tell what is needed and what is in error. Also, I don't know what parts to put in header and what in sig. Yes, I'm that hopeless.



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Posted on 05-19-10 06:37 PM Link | Quote | ID: 131336


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Everything before the text goes in the header and everything after goes in the signature.

Also, the error means you have an opening tag, but it's missing its matching closing tag.

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Posted on 05-19-10 06:40 PM Link | Quote | ID: 131337


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It's dangerous to go alone. Take this.

Kawa's layout maker is a work in progress. Kawa cannot be held responsible for destroying your profile, your computer or your life.

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Ares
Posted on 05-19-10 07:45 PM Link | Quote | ID: 131338


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Last view: 5084 days 		Unfortunatly, the layout maker isn't helping much and I'm continually frustrated by the fact that my coding works on the tryit editor but not here. Could I post the coding here and have you guys point out my stupidity? Admittedly, I think it would be create a messy post/image so I ask before I do.

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Posted on 05-19-10 07:56 PM Link | Quote | ID: 131339


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Go ahead. Just put it inbetween "[code] [/code]" tags or things'll go crazy.

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Posted on 05-19-10 08:27 PM Link | Quote | ID: 131340

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Posted by Ares
The forum says that it wipes my layout due to "Table tag count mismatch in post layout; wiped."

I was not aware we had a protection against that. I tried it, and the damned thing actually wiped the whole post layout. Isn't it possible to make it only wipe the offending <table> tags? Happily I had a backup of my layout

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Posted on 05-19-10 10:42 PM Link | Quote | ID: 131342


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The offending table tags always are all table tags present, though. If their counts don't match up, you can't exactly match them against one another in a meaningful way.

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Posted on 05-19-10 10:52 PM Link | Quote | ID: 131343

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Last view: 3012 days 		You're right.

But still, destroying the user's layout like that when he might have spent hours making it, doesn't have it copied elsewhere, and made one tiny mistake... I suggest editprofile just redirects to itself, with an error box on the top or something saying "your layout is fucked up dude", and any unsaved user input kept intact, instead of doing what it's doing now...

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Posted on 05-19-10 10:55 PM Link | Quote | ID: 131344


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You could always, you know, edit it in another document like the OP is doing, then paste it in when you're done. It's not that hard or a particularly far stretch in problem-solving.

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Ares
Posted on 05-28-10 03:20 AM Link | Quote | ID: 131520


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Last view: 5084 days 		Hello, all. I tried to put down the coding with the necessary code tags on it and even previewed the post to make sure everything was kosher (it was) but when I went to post it for realsies, it did this:

This post would disrupt the board's table layout! The calculated table depth is -1.

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Posted on 05-28-10 03:22 AM Link | Quote | ID: 131521


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Paste the code to pastebin or something, and link it here.

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