TP Question

[sturmkatze]

Hi all! I have some questions about TP. A friend was helping me set it up and I think it's looking okay, but.... I am wanting to change my website to a CMS. The website www.reenactor.net is sort of big and rambling and hard to keep control of. Here is the tp site I have got going now.

Another friend had me look into joomla and I even set it up here to try and make it work... I DO like its possibilities, but I am having a WAY horrible time w/ it too. At least I can sort of understand SMF having used it on my Forum for over a year now.

Anyway, what I am tryig to do is: I need to be able to make the new site not only be a content management system, but also basically replicate how my website IS now. By that I mean, I have a number of different areas which cover different time periods -- I set those as categories in TP, but I don't see how to have different menus for each time period. I also need a way to link to articles inline.  Are you still with me? I can't figure a way to do this stuff in TP.

Also, in the different time periods, I need it to break down into about 5-6 pages that will have links from different historical reenacting groups on them. I need it to be easily editable by my assistants and even to have visitors be able to add their links (yet, they need to be "approved" first so we don't end up w/ spammer's crap). In these links, I want them to be able to upload a small group logo... How, how, how?

How do I edit the metatags? I tried it on the template and messed it all up and had to re-load the backup. As you can see, I'm not a coder, so I have a hard time w/ stuff like this until I understand it.

How can I add stuff under the copyright like this site here?

I am getting discouraged. My friend who was helping is just WAAAAAY too busy in her life and doesn't have time to really help w/ this. 

Is anyone still there? Is what I am looking for possible? Will it kill my google rating to change the site around like this?? (we have a #1 ranking for what it is and I'd like to keep that).
So now, after blathering on and probably driving everyone away, I'll end this.
Thanks for anyhelp you can give... Best, Marsh

[JPDeni]

I don't see how to have different menus for each time period.

You can create your own menus, just by using an html + BBC block. It's not difficult at all and it gives you complete control over your menus. (I'm sure others will have a different answer, but I think some things are just easier to do yourself. )

I also need a way to link to articles inline.

I'm not sure what that means, but if you want to link from one article to the next, just add a link from Article A to Article B. It's all just html.

Also, in the different time periods, I need it to break down into about 5-6 pages that will have links from different historical reenacting groups on them. I need it to be easily editable by my assistants and even to have visitors be able to add their links (yet, they need to be "approved" first so we don't end up w/ spammer's crap). In these links, I want them to be able to upload a small group logo... How, how, how?

There might be something in TP1.0 that will do that. (I haven't kept up with what the new version is going to have.) If not, it's not that difficult to create something like that through a php article.

How do I edit the metatags? I tried it on the template and messed it all up and had to re-load the backup. As you can see, I'm not a coder, so I have a hard time w/ stuff like this until I understand it.

You were on the right track. You can edit the index.template.php file to add meta tags.

How can I add stuff under the copyright

Again, you edit the index.template.php file.

Will it kill my google rating to change the site around like this??

I don't know.

We can help you as you go along if you do something and run into problems.

[sturmkatze]

I don't see how to have different menus for each time period.

You can create your own menus, just by using an html + BBC block. It's not difficult at all and it gives you complete control over your menus. (I'm sure others will have a different answer, but I think some things are just easier to do yourself. )
okay... but how do I DO that? I only see one menu? If I make a block like that, will it let me make a new menu in it?

I also need a way to link to articles inline.

I'm not sure what that means, but if you want to link from one article to the next, just add a link from Article A to Article B. It's all just html.
Again... how? Am I going to have to pull up the article, then find the direct link? This kind of thing is totally new to me. Normally, I do my site in Adobe GoLive... (I bet you thought I'd say FrontPage huh!? ) I just don't know where the articles are AT so as to make the link...

Also, in the different time periods, I need it to break down into about 5-6 pages that will have links from different historical reenacting groups on them. I need it to be easily editable by my assistants and even to have visitors be able to add their links (yet, they need to be "approved" first so we don't end up w/ spammer's crap). In these links, I want them to be able to upload a small group logo... How, how, how?

There might be something in TP1.0 that will do that. (I haven't kept up with what the new version is going to have.) If not, it's not that difficult to create something like that through a php article.
And there we have it. I do not understand php in the slightest and when I try looking at books on php, my eyes glaze over and little puffs of smoke start coming out of my ears... it kinda throws them for a loop in Borders when I do that. Seriously, I wouldn't even know how to start on that. And if I can't do it, my assistants won't be able to. 

How do I edit the metatags? I tried it on the template and messed it all up and had to re-load the backup. As you can see, I'm not a coder, so I have a hard time w/ stuff like this until I understand it.

You were on the right track. You can edit the index.template.php file to add meta tags.
After the fiasco the other day, I am sort of, shall we say, wary (scared) of trying such a thing again... Of course, I did it inside of SMF. Are you saying to do it outside of the program? Still don't know what I'm doing and when I did the metatags (just trying w/ keywords first) all I did was cut and paste, being extremely careful NOT to change anything but the keywords. BOOM! SMF not work... ack!

How can I add stuff under the copyright

Again, you edit the index.template.php file.
above...

Will it kill my google rating to change the site around like this??

I don't know.
I am trying to do this, it's just waaaaay more complicated than I thought. I like SMF... I was/AM hoping to be able to get this to work.

We can help you as you go along if you do something and run into problems.

Am there now 

[G6Cad]

The only way to get the picture sometimes is to make your self a nice cup of tea, sit back, browse the diffrent hideouts we have here, i would start in the block code and snippets board as it holds almost everything you ask for in one way or the other

[sturmkatze]

The only way to get the picture sometimes is to make your self a nice cup of tea, sit back, browse the diffrent hideouts we have here, i would start in the block code and snippets board as it holds almost everything you ask for in one way or the other

The only way to get the picture sometimes is to make your self a nice cup of tea, sit back, browse the diffrent hideouts we have here, i would start in the block code and snippets board as it holds almost everything you ask for in one way or the other

I have been looking over the boards-- smoke is starting to emit from my ears. I am not a coder and although I can sort of mess w/ html, I don't think in it. CSS is a black art to me and to even use SOME of that, I have to spend a lot of time fooling w/ it. PHP? Might as well ask me to use the Force. I am all for trying stuff, but if it's a lot of code, I can't do it. I don't have the time in my life :-(

[JPDeni]

okay... but how do I DO that? I only see one menu? If I make a block like that, will it let me make a new menu in it?

You create a new block, of the type html + BBC. Then you make a bunch of links just like you would make in a forum post. You can use the exact same code (BBC = bulletin board code) in the block as you use for posts.

Am I going to have to pull up the article, then find the direct link?

That's what I do, if I don't know the URL of the article off the top of my head.

I do not understand php in the slightest and when I try looking at books on php, my eyes glaze over and little puffs of smoke start coming out of my ears... it kinda throws them for a loop in Borders when I do that. Seriously, I wouldn't even know how to start on that. And if I can't do it, my assistants won't be able to.  

You have a whole forum at your disposal. You're "standing" in it right now. We do custom programming all the time. All you have to do is to fully describe what you want and someone -- me or someone else -- will likely be able to come up with something for you to use.

All you will have to do is copy the code and paste it into a block. You don't have to understand it, although you might begin to get some understanding of it just by osmosis, whether you want to or not. 

After the fiasco the other day, I am sort of, shall we say, wary (scared) of trying such a thing again... Of course, I did it inside of SMF. Are you saying to do it outside of the program?

I've actually never tried to modify a file within SMF. Well, I looked at it once and got confused, so I gave up. I like having the whole page available to me at the time. Yes, open up your file in a text editor -- not a word processor!!! -- and edit the text. If you have probems, you can ask for help. We do help people here.

[G6Cad]

Not to be rude to you now, but that last sentense are somewhat nessesary for you to make time.
We will not build your forum for you, only help and guide you through the process if you get stuck.
If you dont have the time to build your forum that you use, why should we take our time and build it for you ? 

Most of the codes in the block code and snippets board are just copy and past in to blocks and save and it will show up in your blocks, the same goes for the php codes that you can use in phparticles as you like and place as both pages, iframes and articles in "boxes" 

[sturmkatze]

Not to be rude to you now, but that last sentense are somewhat nessesary for you to make time.
We will not build your forum for you, only help and guide you through the process if you get stuck.
If you dont have the time to build your forum that you use, why should we take our time and build it for you ? 

Most of the codes in the block code and snippets board are just copy and past in to blocks and save and it will show up in your blocks, the same goes for the php codes that you can use in phparticles as you like and place as both pages, iframes and articles in "boxes" 

I don't think you're being rude and I'd never ask anyone to build my site for me. Well, not unless I was paying them to do so. Part of my problem is that there is no manual I can just read. I looked at all the docs on the site. I resisted even posting for a few days. When I say I don't have time, I mean I do not have time to learn php or coding. It's like jumping in and swimming when you can only dog paddle.

And I did look at the snippets... 3/4 of them didn't make sense to me. I am sure I need to take it one step at a time, but it's not like I can make this thing live until it's done.

I understand iframes, but doesn't IE ignore them if set to a higher security level?

Blocks... I did look at them and I have used some, but this whole thing is a bit alien to me -- you think I'm arguing w/ you when I am simply telling you that I don't know what I am doing.

Where to start? I saw where it had a links manager, but it says "not implemented" :-0 That sounds like it would be what I want, but it's not set up yet?! Right? Errrk! New glasses, headaches and the inability to get the structure right means I can't even do the site work yet. Did you look at my site? I mean the real site and not the TP or Joomla ones I am trying to make work. It's fairly big and it does ramble, but I need to be able to make the tp one work like it. I have the traffic, I need the ability to organize it and make it simple for others to assist w/ doing so.

[sturmkatze]

And looking at the admin area... where do I find the location of each article?

I see this:
http://www.reenactor.net/duplisite/index.php?action=tpadmin;sa=editarticle13

Okay, I see that it has "tpadmin" and "edit" in it, so that's not the article, but my link to go edit it. How do I call the actual article in a link to be able to go right to it? I don't want a box (like I have now) w/ links to articles. I want to be able to just throw a link in the text and have it go there. What am I missing?

[JPDeni]

When I came to SMF and TP, I did exactly what you are wanting to do. I had an existing site that I wasn't happy with and wanted to re-create it in an easier way. I did know a little bit of php at the time, but I learned a lot while I was working on it. It took me nearly six months to get it done.

I saw where it had a links manager, but it says "not implemented" :-0

Right. At the moment, TinyPortal is in a public beta release. The final version has not even been created as yet, even though the beta works pretty darned well.

Where to start? Decide how you want to organize it. Create an outline of the structure you want to use. That's how you stop it from being rambling.

Once you know how it's going to be organized, start with the front page and decide what you want to be there. Start building some blocks for the front page. If you can't figure out how to create a block that you want, ask for help.  

[JPDeni]

How do I call the actual article in a link to be able to go right to it?

http://www.reenactor.net/duplisite/index.php?page=13

[sturmkatze]

Okay, here we go... I would like to make a separate menu for every time period, plus one for articles in general. I will draw some kind of flow-charty lookin' thing in Corel today and make it a graphic (yes, I like Corel vs. Adobe Illustrator... weird, I know...). I'll make it show at least one of the time period's structure (they all have most of the same structure -- sorta). I will post it on my server w/ a link here so you can see what I mean by my ramblings.

W/ the separate menus, I want them to point to TP articles (that will look like these) that are basically going to have an area at the top about that page, a lot of links w/ logos and, of course, ads on the page. How's that? The links are in table snow and I'd kind of like to have some kind of easy way to do that. !@#$&%(?!#$  :up: a useful link manager would be a GREAT thing.

Oh, and I really need to know where in the template the header is as my friend had put a diff banner there and when I changed it, the size is a bit off and parts are cut off. And I wan tto fix the metatags and the stuff I want below the copyright. If I could get this kinda thing done today, I'd feel like I accomplished something.

[sturmkatze]

How do I call the actual article in a link to be able to go right to it?

http://www.reenactor.net/duplisite/index.php?page=13

OH, you're a GODDESS!!!!!!!!!!     One question, where do I find a list of the articles so I know the article # or must I write that down when editing them? (see, I am a dork!)

[JPDeni]

a useful link manager would be a GREAT thing.

There will be one. It's just not ready as yet. There is some link thing in the snippets board, but I don't remember the name of it. And I built one myself for my own site. I don't have graphics, because I didn't want them, but it's not that hard for someone with php knowledge to do. When you get to the point where you have to have it, post a description of exactly what you want and we'll probably be able to give it to you.

where do I find a list of the articles so I know the article #

Admin > TinyPortal > Article Manager

If you hover your mouse over the link to edit the article, you should see the number for it at the bottom of your browser. The number is whatever is after editarticle. You can also set a "query title" for the article when you create the article and use

http://www.reenactor.net/duplisite/index.php?page=querytitle

assuming that your query title is "querytitle." If you give your articles query titles that are appropriate to the article, they'll be easy to remember.

Oh, and I really need to know where in the template the header is

That would be between <head> and </head>, but that isn't where a banner would be. Look down further for <img src which is where an image prints out.

It's hard to tell you where exactly without looking at the file because you are using a different theme which likely has different stuff on it.

The meta tags go with the other meta tags. When you first install SMF and TP, using the default theme, there is a line that looks like

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<meta name="keywords" content="PHP, MySQL, bulletin, board, free, open, source, smf, simple, machines, forum" />


You can change the keywords in that line. Just be sure that you put your keywords within the double quotes and don't use anything with an apostrophe in it.

the stuff I want below the copyright.

This is a little trickier and you have to be careful about what you're doing. From your text editor, search for theme_copyright(). It'll be towards the bottom of the file. Look down further from there until you see a closing </table> tag, followed by a single quote and a semi-colon. So the line I'm talking about looks like

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</table>';


(although it's indented a bit)

What you're adding should be just plain html, so there shouldn't be any problem. Go to the end of the </table> tag, between the > and the ' and hit your enter key twice. Now you should have something that looks like

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</table>

';


In that blank line that you just made, paste the html for whatever you want below the copyright. Be sure there's no single quotes or apostrophes within it. (You can have them, but you have to do something special with them and it's easier just to avoid them if at all possible.)

Now save your file and upload it to your server.

If you have problems, let us know.

[sturmkatze]

Cool! Will try when I get back. Thanks for your help! You rock!

[sturmkatze]

Alas, I cannot find this bit (used search and all):

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</table>';

Here is what I have (end piece after copyright):

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// Show the "Powered by" and "Valid" logos, as well as the copyright. Remember, the copyright must be somewhere!
echo '
<div id="altk">
<div id="altky">
<span class="smalltext">', theme_copyright(), '
<br />', tportal_version() , ' | Theme by <a href="http://www.fussilet.com"><b>fussilet.com</b></a></span>';

// Show the load time?
if ($context['show_load_time'])
echo '
<br /><span class="smalltext">', $txt['smf301'], $context['load_time'], $txt['smf302'], $context['load_queries'], $txt['smf302b'], '</span>';

// This is an interesting bug in Internet Explorer AND Safari. Rather annoying, it makes overflows just not tall enough.
if (($context['browser']['is_ie'] && !$context['browser']['is_ie4']) || $context['browser']['is_mac_ie'] || $context['browser']['is_safari'] || $context['browser']['is_firefox'])
{
// The purpose of this code is to fix the height of overflow: auto div blocks, because IE can't figure it out for itself.
echo '
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"><!-- // --><![CDATA[';

// Unfortunately, Safari does not have a "getComputedStyle" implementation yet, so we have to just do it to code...
if ($context['browser']['is_safari'])
echo '
window.addEventListener("load", smf_codeFix, false);

function smf_codeFix()
{
var codeFix = document.getElementsByTagName ? document.getElementsByTagName("div") : document.all.tags("div");

for (var i = 0; i < codeFix.length; i++)
{
if ((codeFix[i].className == "code" || codeFix[i].className == "post" || codeFix[i].className == "signature") && codeFix[i].offsetHeight < 20)
codeFix[i].style.height = (codeFix[i].offsetHeight + 20) + "px";
}
}';
elseif ($context['browser']['is_firefox'])
echo '
window.addEventListener("load", smf_codeFix, false);
function smf_codeFix()
{
var codeFix = document.getElementsByTagName ? document.getElementsByTagName("div") : document.all.tags("div");

for (var i = 0; i < codeFix.length; i++)
{
if (codeFix[i].className == "code" && (codeFix[i].scrollWidth > codeFix[i].clientWidth || codeFix[i].clientWidth == 0))
codeFix[i].style.overflow = "scroll";
}
}';
else
echo '
var window_oldOnload = window.onload;
window.onload = smf_codeFix;

function smf_codeFix()
{
var codeFix = document.getElementsByTagName ? document.getElementsByTagName("div") : document.all.tags("div");

for (var i = codeFix.length - 1; i > 0; i--)
{
if (codeFix[i].currentStyle.overflow == "auto" && (codeFix[i].currentStyle.height == "" || codeFix[i].currentStyle.height == "auto") && (codeFix[i].scrollWidth > codeFix[i].clientWidth || codeFix[i].clientWidth == 0) && (codeFix[i].offsetHeight != 0 || codeFix[i].className == "code"))
codeFix[i].style.height = (codeFix[i].offsetHeight + 36) + "px";
}

if (window_oldOnload)
{
window_oldOnload();
window_oldOnload = null;
}
}';

echo '
// ]]></script>';
}

echo '
</div>
  </div>
</div>
</div>';

// The following will be used to let the user know that some AJAX process is running
echo '
<div id="ajax_in_progress" style="display: none;', $context['browser']['is_ie'] && !$context['browser']['is_ie7'] ? 'position: absolute;' : '', '">', $txt['ajax_in_progress'], '</div>';

echo '
</div></div></div>
</body></html>';
}

// Show a linktree. This is that thing that shows "My Community | General Category | General Discussion"..
function theme_linktree()
{
global $context, $settings, $options;

echo '<div class="nav" style="font-size: smaller; margin-bottom: 2ex; margin-top: 2ex;">';

// Each tree item has a URL and name. Some may have extra_before and extra_after.
foreach ($context['linktree'] as $link_num => $tree)
{
// Show something before the link?
if (isset($tree['extra_before']))
echo $tree['extra_before'];

// Show the link, including a URL if it should have one.
echo '<b>', $settings['linktree_link'] && isset($tree['url']) ? '<a href="' . $tree['url'] . '" class="nav">' . $tree['name'] . '</a>' : $tree['name'], '</b>';

// Show something after the link...?
if (isset($tree['extra_after']))
echo $tree['extra_after'];

// Don't show a separator for the last one.
if ($link_num != count($context['linktree']) - 1)
echo '&nbsp;>&nbsp;';
}

echo '</div>';
}

// Show the menu up top. Something like [home] [help] [profile] [logout]...
function template_menu()
{
global $context, $settings, $options, $scripturl, $txt;

// Work out where we currently are.
$current_action = 'home';
if (in_array($context['current_action'], array('admin', 'ban', 'boardrecount', 'cleanperms', 'detailedversion', 'dumpdb', 'featuresettings', 'featuresettings2', 'findmember', 'maintain', 'manageattachments', 'manageboards', 'managecalendar', 'managesearch', 'membergroups', 'modlog', 'news', 'optimizetables', 'packageget', 'packages', 'permissions', 'pgdownload', 'postsettings', 'regcenter', 'repairboards', 'reports', 'serversettings', 'serversettings2', 'smileys', 'viewErrorLog', 'viewmembers')))
$current_action = 'admin';
if (in_array($context['current_action'], array('search', 'admin', 'calendar', 'profile', 'mlist', 'register', 'login', 'help', 'pm', 'forum', 'tpadmin')))
$current_action = $context['current_action'];
if ($context['current_action'] == 'search2')
$current_action = 'search';

if (isset($_GET['dl']))
$current_action = 'dlmanager';

if (isset($_GET['board']) || isset($_GET['topic']))
$current_action = 'forum';

if ($context['current_action'] == 'theme')
$current_action = isset($_REQUEST['sa']) && $_REQUEST['sa'] == 'pick' ? 'profile' : 'admin';

// Are we using right-to-left orientation?
if ($context['right_to_left'])
{
$first = 'last';
$last = 'first';
}
else
{
$first = 'first';
$last = 'last';
}


// Show the start of the tab section.
echo '
  <ul class="menu">';
 
// Show the [home] button.
echo '<li', $current_action == 'home' ? ' class="chosen"' : '', '><a href="', $scripturl, '"><b>' , $txt[103] , '</b></a></li>';

// Show the [Forum] button.
echo '<li', $current_action == 'forum' ? ' class="chosen"' : '', '><a href="', $scripturl, '?action=forum"><b>' , Forum , '</b></a></li>';

// Show the [help] button.
echo '<li', $current_action == 'help' ? ' class="chosen"' : '', '><a href="', $scripturl, '?action=help"><b>' , $txt[119] , '</b></a></li>';

// How about the [search] button?
if ($context['allow_search'])
echo '<li', $current_action == 'search' ? ' class="chosen"' : '', '><a href="', $scripturl, '?action=search"><b>' , $txt[182] , '</b></a></li>';

// Is the user allowed to administrate at all? ([admin])
if ($context['allow_admin'])
echo '<li', $current_action == 'admin' ? ' class="chosen"' : '', '><a href="', $scripturl, '?action=admin"><b>' , $txt[2] , '</b></a></li>';

// Edit Profile... [profile]
if ($context['allow_edit_profile'])
echo '<li', $current_action == 'profile' ? ' class="chosen"' : '', '><a href="', $scripturl, '?action=profile"><b>' , $txt[79] , '</b></a></li>';

// Go to PM center... [pm]
if ($context['user']['is_logged'] && $context['allow_pm'])
echo '<li', $current_action == 'pm' ? ' class="chosen"' : '', '><a href="', $scripturl, '?action=pm"><b>' , $txt['pm_short'] , ' ', $context['user']['unread_messages'] > 0 ? '[<strong>'. $context['user']['unread_messages'] . '</strong>]' : '' , '</b></a></li>';

// The [calendar]!
if ($context['allow_calendar'])
echo '<li', $current_action == 'calendar' ? ' class="chosen"' : '', '><a href="', $scripturl, '?action=calendar"><b>' , $txt['calendar24'] , '</b></a></li>';

// the [member] list button
if ($context['allow_memberlist'])
echo '<li', $current_action == 'mlist' ? ' class="chosen"' : '', '><a href="', $scripturl, '?action=mlist"><b>' , $txt[331] , '</b></a></li>';

// If the user is a guest, show [login] button.
if ($context['user']['is_guest'])
echo '<li', $current_action == 'login' ? ' class="chosen"' : '', '><a href="', $scripturl, '?action=login"><b>' , $txt[34] , '</b></a></li>';

// If the user is a guest, also show [register] button.
if ($context['user']['is_guest'])
echo '<li', $current_action == 'register' ? ' class="chosen"' : '', '><a href="', $scripturl, '?action=register"><b>' , $txt[97] , '</b></a></li>';

// Otherwise, they might want to [logout]...
if ($context['user']['is_logged'])
echo '<li', $current_action == 'logout' ? ' class="chosen"' : '', '><a href="', $scripturl, '?action=logout;sesc=', $context['session_id'], '"><b>' , $txt[108] , '</b></a></li>';
echo '
  </ul>';
}

// Generate a strip of buttons.
function template_button_strip($button_strip, $direction = 'top', $force_reset = false, $custom_td = '')
{
global $settings, $buttons, $context, $txt, $scripturl;

// Create the buttons...
foreach ($button_strip as $key => $value)
{
if (isset($value['test']) && empty($context[$value['test']]))
{
unset($button_strip[$key]);
continue;
}
elseif (!isset($buttons[$key]) || $force_reset)
$buttons[$key] = '<a href="' . $value['url'] . '" ' .( isset($value['custom']) ? $value['custom'] : '') . '>' . $txt[$value['text']] . '</a>';

$button_strip[$key] = $buttons[$key];
}

if (empty($button_strip))
return '<td>&nbsp;</td>';

echo '
<td class="', $direction == 'top' ? 'main' : 'mirror', 'tab_' , $context['right_to_left'] ? 'last' : 'first' , '">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="', $direction == 'top' ? 'main' : 'mirror', 'tab_back">', implode(' &nbsp;|&nbsp; ', $button_strip) , '</td>
<td class="', $direction == 'top' ? 'main' : 'mirror', 'tab_' , $context['right_to_left'] ? 'first' : 'last' , '">&nbsp;</td>';
}

?>

[sturmkatze]

And I do know about sending big chunks of code to forum (SORRY!!!) but I cannot find the piece you said to change... has IT been modified or something? I don't know if I'll get the flow chart done. Have to work early... we'll see.

I DO wish to thank you. I got the metatags fixed just like you said. Once I started looking, there were a couple of apostrophes...  [/b]

Now on to the bottom stuff I wish to add.
Best, Marsh

[JPDeni]

It looks like it's your theme that has changed things. That's the trouble with trying to tell someone how to alter theme files. They're all different.

First, could you not put everything in blue? It makes it hard for me to read. (That picture in my avatar was taken in 1968!) Also, if you're going to post code, please use the code tags. On the posting form, that's the button with the # on it.

I'm not sure exactly where you want it, but I'll give it a shot.

After

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', tportal_version() , ' | Theme by fussilet.com</span>';


Add

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echo '

';


Paste your html in the blank space.

[sturmkatze]

Okay, I usually use some colour to differentiate text. I fixed it. I also did not know about the code button. I fixed that too. How's that? I just tried this and got this message:

Template Parse Error!
It seems something has gone sour on the forum with the template system. This problem should only be temporary, so please come back later and try again. If you continue to see this message, please contact the administrator.

You can also try refreshing this page.

[IchBin]

That means you have a piece of code that you either broke an echo statement or just didn't do it perfect. Go over all the edits and make sure you got them PERFECT. If you can't figure it out, attach your file here. Please do not post the code, attach the actual file to your next post and we'll take a look.

[sturmkatze]

Okay, here it is. Copied as told. 

[JPDeni]

I found your problem. Remember what I said about apostrophes?

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<!-- Begin the Gunny Ermey's USMC Web Ring HTML Code --><!-- DO NOT ALTER CODE AS YOU MAY BREAK IT NUMBNUTS!!! -->
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.rleeermey.com/images/GunnyErmeysWebRing1.gif" usemap="#GunnyErmeysWebRing1.gif" width="400" height="120" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0">
<map name="GunnyErmeysWebRing1.gif"><area href="http://www.rleeermey.com/cgi-bin/webring/prev.pl?ringid=rleeermey;siteid=reenactornet" shape="rect" coords="8, 92, 96, 116"><area href="http://www.rleeermey.com/cgi-bin/webring/list.pl?ringid=rleeermey;siteid=reenactornet" shape="rect" coords="101, 93, 166, 115"><area href="http://www.rleeermey.com/cgi-bin/webring/newsite.pl?ringid=rleeermey;siteid=reenactornet" shape="rect" coords="169, 93, 230, 114"><area href="http://www.rleeermey.com/cgi-bin/webring/rand.pl?ringid=rleeermey;siteid=reenactornet" shape="rect" coords="234, 94, 325, 115"><area href="http://www.rleeermey.com/cgi-bin/webring/next.pl?ringid=rleeermey;siteid=reenactornet" shape="rect" coords="330, 92, 391, 113"><area href="http://www.rleeermey.com/cgi-bin/webring/newsite.pl?ringid=rleeermey;siteid=reenactornet" shape="rect" coords="162, 37, 233, 85"></map></p>
</div>
<div align="center">
<!-- DO NOT ALTER CODE AS YOU MAY BREAK IT NUMBNUTS!!! --><!-- End the Gunny Ermey's USMC Web Ring HTML Code --><a title="Reenactor Website Development" href="http://www.reenactor.net/main_htmls/webdev.html" target="_blank"><img src="../r-Net/rnet_admin/admin_images/webdev_bttn.gif" border="0"></a>


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(like we'd say <u><i>no</i></u>...)</font></p>


Either get rid of them completely --

Gunny Ermeys USMC Web Ring and like we would say no

or (there's a word that goes here that I can't remember) -- put a slash in front of the apostrophes --

Gunny Ermey\'s USMC Web Ring and like we we\'d say no

Either one of those should work.

[sturmkatze]

Great! THANK YOU!!! Now, if I could figure out the button ads coded in there :-0 Surely didn't work how I thought they would, even after a bunch of fooling w/. I took out until I can get it straight.

I guess next I would like to try adding different menus for different time areas. You aid do it by adding blocks... do I do this to each category? I was wondering about that. I'll fool w/ here in a bit -- just got back form trip to Ohio

[sturmkatze]

Urrrrk, if you go look at this page (the main WWI one) It now has two site menus (my goal is to kill the main one when in this category) and not only that, it has ALL the categories in there. How does one get the sitemenu to do what I am asking? There HAS to be a way I'm too stupid to find.

[JPDeni]

I'm not sure what it is exactly that you want, but, if you recall, a page or two back I suggested that you not use the site menu, but instead create your own menu. That will give you complete control over the contents of the menu.

[sturmkatze]

Ahhhhh, I missed that part... I remembered "block" okay. I can try that. Eventually I DO get things  Tomorrow will work some more. Today was first day back to driving... very calming, no stupid phone calls, etc. Anyway, I really DO appreciate your help!!!! I will fool w/ some that way.

[sturmkatze]

Okay, had a bit of time to fool w/ the links vs. the menu item thing and it seems to work well, but (and you knew I'd have one right?)... I can get it to show up on this, the main WWI page, but it won't show up on the WWI Units page that I made here?! It's also not showing on the WWI German units page either. Is there some kind of setting I am missing? That's part of what I'm after, having the separate menus show up in each time period and only in that time period I want them in.