Eric

And only IE and IE-based browsers support ActiveX so not everyone on your site would be able to see this EXE file you want to use.What exactly is the EXE file anyway? I don't think you ever meantioned what it does.

I don't like IPB because Matt lied about it "always being free".He used to say "PHP is free, MySQL is free, so why pay for a message board.... IPB will always be free". Oh well.I wouldn't get IPB unless you want to pay money for a message board that is buggy (IPB has more bugs than anyother Bulletin Board Solution I have ever seen).If you want to pay for a Bulliten Board Solution, I'd suggest VBulletin, because it has less bugs than IPB.*****If you want a free Bulliten Board Solution however, I'd go with one of the following:PhpBB, SMF, NBBS, YaBB*, YaBB SE**I know the guy that started the NBBS project, it's still in BETA so I wouldn't download it just yet (unless you want to help test it), but when it is in its "Final" version it should be pretty awesome. Even in BETA it already shows signs that will be far greater than IPB could hope to be.* YaBB can still be downloaded but is outdated and replaced with YaBB SE** YaBB SE is also outdated and replaced with SMF, but can still be downloaded

Oh well, I'm lost as to what a "image template" is, I never made one before.I'll try again thoughEdit: how's this?I added a navagitional menu

Oh ok, what forum software are you using that only lets you edit the header?

I don't think <marque> was ever valid, even in old HTML.It's a vendor tag, created for IE and later adopted for other browsers.I don't think it was ever part of the W3C Recommondations for HTML.And converting doesn't that too long doing it by hand. It only took me like 2 days to convert all my pages from HTML to XHTML.And if you use XHTML Transitional than there's not much to convert, Transitional allows depreciated tags and other things from HTML.If you're going to take the time to convert, I'd convert to XHTML Strict (and I wonder why W3Schools never went that way, they said "Strict is too strict" that's total bull.... it's not that hard to make a page XHTML Strict Valid)This page http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/xhtml_howto.asp explains how to convert your pages.

What is "media mail"?And I'll give it a shot. So I'll be next to add to the image :)Edit: Here you go, red white and blue stars

Let's say you have a layout like this:You could make a seperate file just for the left panel, call it whatever you like.In all your pages you could have an include() or require() (whichever one you use is your choice, "include" will still load the page if the file being included fails to load, but "require" won't load the page at all if the file being required fails to load)have something like: include("filename.extension"); within every page on your site.Then if you want to change something in the left menu, you just change that ONE file, rather than every page.This is similar to just changing the left frame if you have frames.You don't need PHP to do this though, you just need SSI (Server-Side Includes) enabled on your server.If you want to use SSI but don't want to use PHP script to do it, then just name the extension on your pages to .shtml have have something like this<!--#include file="filename.extension"-->That works similar to include() in PHP, although not as advanced.

What if I just have something like "free hosting" linked to example.com?I didn't say what you're getting, or even that I want you to check it out.If all I had was the words "free hosting" linked to example.com would that still be advertising?

<!--[if !IE]> <--> <p>This is treated as html in other browsers, but part of a coment in IE</p> <!--> <![endif]--> <!--[if IE]> <p>This is treated as html in IE, but part of a comment in other browsers</p> <![endif]-->

So if I put something like this as TEXT signature, it would be "advertising"?***If you need a free host that offers250MB Disk Space5GB BandwidthFree sub-domainFree email accountsThen go to this address example.com***That would be advertising?

So if I'm understanding this correctly, this is allowed:But this isn't:Is that correct?

You could do:<!--[if IE]> Content to see if using Internet Explorer<![endif]-->The content will only show in IE. You can play the IE-only code there

.... why don't you want the table to be at the bottom of the source code? If it works, why does it have to be at the top of the source code, it's going to be at the bottom of the page.

Welcome to the forums

does PhpBB have template files (.tpl files) or how do you edit the template?However you do it, whereever the "signature" part of the template is you can wrap it in the <div> tag posted above.I'm not really sure how PhpBB works.I've only managed IPB, SMF, & NBBS

Don't be discouraged if Google turns you down the first time, just fix what they say and resubmit and you usually get excepted if not on the first try, on the second

There are some free scripts here you can use.http://www.thesitewizard.com/wizards/feedbackform.shtml

I think links in signatures are "ok".I don't even remember what I put as my avatar <~ I'll look when I post thisThe avatars are tiny though so I don't know how much advertising you can do on them.

Well, it's 'knowing' the IPB CSS classes and ids :)But it's not 'knowing' full use of CSS and what it can do as a whole.

That could be, I thought at first it was the liqudify one, and he dragged the some of the black to make points :)I'm probably wrong though.

My first website was 1 page big.It had no graphics or any formatting (the web host didn't allow that for free accounts).It was a BIG thing back then because at the time I didn't even know that "average" people could make one, I thought you had to own a business or something Then after that, I moved on to Geocities which was a little better (I was able to add colors and pictures and music and such).I'd say my first "real" website (when I finally got a free host that allowed pure HTML) was pretty bad.By the time I paid for my own website though, I was pretty good at HTML. But with a paid website came new tools, I finally was able to experiement with PHP.Now, I'm able to design professional-looking websites with the best of 'em

I just checked the board to see if I could copy the code for you.Seems like someone removed it, probably one of the other managers.Oh well, this will hold you over until you get something better. It's a DIV that will cut-off anything past the dementions specified.<div style='height: some numberpx; width: some numberpx; overflow: hidden;'>your signature</div>If you're using IPB, then I know there will be a .signature class in the style sheet, so you can just add this to it.signature {height: some numberpx;width: some numberpx;overflow: hidden;}I know the CSS cut-off isn't the same as a script to shrink the image, but oh well. It should work just fine, it will prevent people from having HUGE signatures in posts.

yeah, it's a pretty good banner.

There should be a TYPE attribute to let the browser know what kind of "script" it is.SCRIPT by itself can be ANY kind of script.Look at the bold red I added what you forgot.

I prefer to come up with my own designs.(premade you find online)Web templates are for people with no vision who like generic-looking websites instead of being unique.Just a personal opinion, I don't want any negitive replies because I said that, please.