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jnasta (User)

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newbie setup questions 4 Months ago

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I'm very handy w/ code and since I don't see anything in admin that would allow me to alter the appearance I'm assuming I have to edit some files. I see that Matty did it somehow. What am I supposed to be editing to change the look?

Also, is there a way to deactivate categories rather than delete them, or is there a way to check off a bunch of them to be activated/deactivated/deleted simultaneously? Starting out there are too many categories for somebody who has basically no sites but it's possible that I would want such extensive category mapping if the site got tons of links.

Thanks

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jnasta (User)

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Re:newbie setup questions 3 Months, 4 Weeks ago

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Ok I'm getting somewhere but it's really hard to get all the tables to line up properly because the widths are in percentages and the code gets "re-used" in more than one place on the same page.

Specifically, the "" code in tables.php is problematic because it is used in nested tables which means that the only way you can possibly make it work is with percentage widths.

The script seems to basically work well but to make it look good seems pretty torturous so far. There are so many tables that have to be manually massaged for any given page. Maybe the best thing to do is nest all of it in a fixed-width table somehow. I pretty much spent all night on this and will end up unhappy with what I have been able to accomplish in that amount of time. I am still holding out hope that there is some practical way to make this script look good. I can't spend 20 hours fixing a script to make it display properly.

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Re:newbie setup questions 3 Months, 4 Weeks ago

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Awesome. A new member, but better than that, a new member that has already gottn his hands dirty tinkering under the hood

Some brief history on the script.. it's based on phplinks circa 1999 which I didn't write. This coincides with PHP 4.1, CSS was still in it's infancy and Internet Explorer was beating out Netscape in the browser wars.

I've made a few attempts to make the current version tabless, using CSS positioning but wound up writing the core of the next version instead. (which will rock by the way

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Hrm.. no, currently no way to deactivate categories, but that is a pretty good idea.

As far as changing the general look.. Lots can be done by editing the style sheet.

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jnasta (User)

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Re:newbie setup questions 3 Months, 4 Weeks ago	Karma: 1
Thanks. I've already gotten a taste of editing the scripts. I still have to do some fine tuning. Also, I take back what I said about the recurrent nested tables requiring percentage widths. They can be the same fixed width as long as all the cell spacing and padding are taken out. It's getting there...

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Re:newbie setup questions 3 Months, 4 Weeks ago Karma: 3

jnasta wrote:

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I'm very handy w/ code and since I don't see anything in admin that would allow me to alter the appearance I'm assuming I have to edit some files. I see that Matty did it somehow. What am I supposed to be editing to change the look?

I would suggest for look and feel customization on your site that you look at a few files:

"directory" is core, it will point to (files) or contain the code which gives you some options on altering the appearance.

on your directory file look for the

Code:

<body>

tag -- a few lines above and below the body tag you will find the reference to the

Code:

<link rel = "stylesheet"...style.css'/>

tags...this is your CSS file which is inside your selected theme folder(s). Remember that this site really runs off the "directory" file and one peice of it is the container of an HTML file. Look at all the nested tables in the "directory" file, you can do alot there!

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