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I want to thank Bill (Head Guru) for all the tremendous help he gave me in restoring my forums. The fact that he took out personal time to help me was beyond anything I expected... so thanks Bill for the help. It's much appreciated! A few notes to those using PHPBB: 1.) If you upgraded the board from cPanel be forewarned that it is NOT the latest version of PHPBB. I made the mistake of thinking that this was the latest release and that the hack holes would be filled, but it is not. According to my conversation with Bill, cPanel is the one who bundles the installs and upgrades and they are a few months behind in updates. Don't rely on cPanel for the latest PHPBB upgrade! 2.) Go to PHPBB and download the latest version and install it. http://www.phpbb.com/downloads.php 3.) Back up! Have fun and let's hope these hacker dudes and dudettes learn to put their obvious talents to better and more productive use!

Bill, The version I had was 2.0.13. That's what it said on the bottom of the board last time I logged in. Well, there is no use crying over spilt milk. What can I do moving forward to ensure this doesn't happen? And I did do an entire site back up a few weeks ago. Could I re-upload everything to the directory and then upgrade again. Would that restore most things? It is such a bummer, but it's not the end of the world and it certainly isn't TCH's fault... you didn't write the software.

Bill, The sad thing is that I did get that email and I did do the upgrade via cPanel when I got the email. Was there yet another upgrade that I missed hearing about? I went right to cPanel and clicked upgrade, then went back and the version number changed on the bottom of my board. Was there something else I was supposed to do?

Man... I went to visit the forum on my board today to find it's been hacked into and wiped. http://www.natalie-brown.com/forum/ Anyone know how to restor this and is there a way to make sure it doesn't happen again? I've submitted a trouble ticket to TCH, but I am not sure if this is in their realm of things fixable since it's an addon. Why to idiots do these things? Made me a little sad and grumpy, that's for sure! Nat

David, Thanks so much for taking the time out to fiddle and see what was causing the problem. I have adjusted the Height and Width to show pixel sizes instead of percentages. It is indeed a strange bug. Now the only other thing I would love to find out is how to get rid of the bottom scrollbar in IE. I tried making the width smaller, but it doesn't seem to eliminate the bottom scrollbar in IE. In Firefox, however, it is perfect and there is only the side scrollbar for areas with more text. It's not a huge deal, but it would look a lot nice if the bottom scrollbar weren't there. Thanks again to everyone who shared info on this topic.

Thanks guys. The form is coming, but there are also a zillion emails that need to be on several pages throughout the site. That is the way the site owner wants it to be. Each time there is an instance of an email I can't have a form. For the contact page, I can... so that is in the works. Jim showed me a way to encode it using a PHP include, so I am going to try that and see how it goes. Thanks for the tips and explanations.

Alright... after reading up on XHTML a bit and seeing as my scrollbars show better when using that DocType... I converted a site to XHTML and am having a strange issue with my email encoding. When the site was HTML 4.01 Transitional everything worked fine. I am encoding the e-mail address through the use of Character Entities. I have a Dreamweaver Extension that does this for me. The method can be seen here: http://www.wbwip.com/wbw/emailencoder.html For some reason when I converted and uploaded the pages the email addresses won't work and the codes are all wonky. See here: http://www.indiemanagers.com/contact.htm If you scroll over the email addresses you will see they are prepended with the domain name and the characters all show up. That is not how they are supposed to be. It also renders the email link unusable. Any ideas why this is happening? Is there a better method to encode emails? Thanks

Ok so I should use that DocType for iframes. i thought it meant the other kind of frames and not inline ones. Thanks!

So what happens with a page that has no DocType and therefore cannot be validated by the W3C checker? Is this the end of the world? Can browsers not display the page correctly if the doctype is not there. This is a very small site and the target audience is a village in Uganda. Most of the target viewers use IE 5.5 and above.

Hmmm what's strange is that the page Validates in the W3C Checker, but I can't see my iframe content when I use IE6. I can see everything fine in Mozilla 1.1 though. Any reason this would happen?

Thanks for that link Tim. I just landed there in my search for info on iFrames and XHTML. Still reading...

Seems like they don't like one another. My iFrame content is not showing now that I have made the pages xHTML compliant. http://www.deilsys.com/index1.htm Any workarounds? ><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>DEiL Systems | Your Best Entertainment In Town!</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://www.deilsys.com/styles/deil_main.css"/> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

Do xHTML and iFrames play nicely with each other?

Bruce, Where can I find more info on closing my tags in XHTML? I know that there is a feature in Dreamweaver where when I create a new blank HTML page I have the option of making it XHTML compliant. Oh, and also, if my memory serves me correctly from another question I asked some time ago, would I have to change my stylesheet to show: HTML { instead of BODY { The new basic page code looks like this: ><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <body> </body> </html> If I created the new pages in DW making them XHTML Compliant would DW take care of closing the tags appropreately?

Take a look at PDA and eBook readers. They are about the size of a paperback and you can download books into them for reading on the road. You can check out these sites to see what type of books are available. http://www.mobipocket.com/en/HomePage/default.asp http://www.barnesandnoble.com/help/ebooks.asp http://www.palmdigitalmedia.com/welcome <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Bruce! That is awesome! Just what I was thinking of last nite. Is it too early to add it to my Christmas wish list? LOL I wonder why Barnes and Noble discontinued selling e-books?

Yes, indeed it is the DocType Header that is causing the scrollbars not to show. ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> See: http://www.deilsys.com/nodoctype.htm So, my question is... can I remove this from my website pages and still have browser know what to do. Or is there a different Doctype header that is more appropreate to use?

Ok.. I have been doing some fiddling and come accross something I don't understand. I took your test and replicated it by using your source code. I am using Dreamweaver to code the pages. I was able to replicate exactly what you did using your source code here: http://www.deilsys.com/test.htm Then, I went ahead and created a new page within Dreamweaver MX leaving in the formatting they give. They add the following to each new HTML document created: ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <body> </body> </html> When I created the pages keeping in the preformated DocType info and metta http- equiv I got this: http://www.deilsys.com/main.htm The CSS formting on the scrollbars does not work. Why would the DocType header or the meta http - eqiv do this? That seems to be the issue. I am going to try removing Just DocType and then removing hust the meta http - eqiv and see what that does. I thought it was better for pages to have this DocType info in them? Can I remove it safely or must it be there for all browsers to interpret the page correctly? Or, should the DocType say something else? Strange...

Toxic Parents is a great book, though emotionally exhausing as it really makes you 'see' into yourself and the wreckage a Toxic parent has done. Opened up some sore spots, but was a great book for me to take some action! I read Learned Optimism: How To Change Your Mind and Your Life by Martin E.P. Seligman a month or so ago and that is a very insightful book.

I was just talking to my boyfriend about this last night. For me, the feel of a printed book in my hands is wonderful, BUT if someone developed a tablet type of book device that was the size of a paperback novel, I think that would be awesome. It would be cool to be able to download books and have them load into the tablet and even have it so that it is illuminated for those who like to read in bed at night w/o distubing their significant other. I do love turning pages, but it is noisy and can be a pain in the wrist. I love printed books, but I would for sure purchase and use a tablet type of novel where I could just load in book after book. As for what I read... I love classic novels, thrillers, mystery books, sci-fi, adventure type novels. I love periodicals as well. I read pretty much anything and everything I can. There is nothing like getting lost in the printed word and making movies in your mind as you read.

I've just finished: A Falcon Flies by Wilbur Smith I am an avid reader. I read about a book a week.

The only real difference I see is that you applied the style inline in the body of the page and I have my global stylesheet linked. Could this be an issue? I don't understand it if it is. Everything else that I coded the style sheet to do is working. The only thing not working is the scrollbar stuff. Strange...

That is so strange. I see your test page scrollbars exactly as they should be. I wonder what could cause the code to be in conflict? Here is the code for the second page (the blue one): http://www.natfunkmusic.com/deil1/index.htm ><html> <head> <title>DEiL Systems | Your Best Entertainment In Town!</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://www.natfunkmusic.com/styles/deil_main.css"/> <!--Fireworks MX 2004 Dreamweaver MX 2004 target. 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height="100%" frameborder="0" border="0" scrolling="auto"></iframe></td> <td><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="30" border="0" alt=""></td> </tr> <tr> <td rowspan="13"><img name="index_r7_c1" src="images/index_r7_c1.gif" width="10" height="185" border="0" alt=""></td> <td><a href="specials.htm" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore();" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('home','','images/home_f2.gif',1);"><img name="home" src="images/home.gif" width="146" height="18" border="0" alt="GO HOME"></a></td> <td><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="18" border="0" alt=""></td> </tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><img name="index_r8_c2" src="images/index_r8_c2.gif" width="146" height="16" border="0" alt=""></td> <td><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="15" border="0" alt=""></td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt=""></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="about.htm" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore();" 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Steve- The 1st does just have the regular browser scrollbar. And it is a long page. Is the scrollbar the same color as the page? It should be a maroonish color. What about the second one? Are the inline scrollbars a blue color? Thanks

Hey gang, I've been working on a few new projects and everything has been going great.. except a few days ago I stopped being able to see the Scrollbar coloring that I wrote into my CSS stylesheets. I have no idea what could have happened. Any ideas? Are the custom color scrollbars showing for any of you? See here (IE): Indiemanagers.com http://www.indiemanagers.com/index1.htm The scrollbars are just grey for me and they used to be the site colors. >BODY { color: White; background-color: #663333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; scrollbar-face-color: #663333; scrollbar-3dlight-color: #993366; scrollbar-arrow-color: Black; scrollbar-track-color: #663333; scrollbar-shadow-color: #663333; scrollbar-highlight-color: #cc9999; scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #cc9999; scrollbar-base-color: Black; background-image: url(../layout/scanline2.gif); } table { background-color: #663333; } h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bolder; color: #cc9999; } A { color: #D8D8D8; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; } A:HOVER { color: White; font-weight: bolder; text-decoration: underline; } #header_and_text { text-align:left; } #footer { font-size:11px; text-align:center; } #info { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps; font-size: small; font-weight: bolder; color: #B47373; } Same for this new one I just did today: New Mockup http://www.natfunkmusic.com/deil1/index.htm This one uses iframes but I have the stylesheet linked as follows in the iframed page: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://www.natfunkmusic.com/deil1/styles/deil_main.css"/> >BODY { color: Black; background: #b8bcf8; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; scrollbar-base-color: #b8bcf8; scrollbar-arrow-color: Black; scrollbar-face-color: #b8bcf8; scrollbar-highlight-color: #FFFFE0; scrollbar-shadow-color: #969696; scrollbar-track-color: #b8bcf8; scrollbar-darkshadow-color: Black; scrollbar-3dlight-color: #2F3E4F; } A { color: Black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; } A:HOVER { color: White; text-decoration: underline; } h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bolder; color: #00027f; }

Bruce and Don! Thanks for the help! I got it to work! Nat