LisaJill

If none of these are what you want, you could do what I do. It's painful though. I go to www.hotscripts.com and hit up the php image gallery section. (I prefer php to cgi, so I don't even bother with the cgi stuff). I think there's approximately 23 pages; most have examples and a lot of information. Some sound good but stink. =) I used to do this every few months until I worked up my own solution using movabletype. It's not nearly as automated as those scripts, but it works for me. =)

I recently saw someone link to Photostack which has a really elegant output. I was very impressed with it. My photo gallery is already custom built with movabletype so I won't switch it (putting it together was a lot of work!) but this one seems very nice. The examples page does have some fairly different usages, so.... If you want to use Flash I was also incredibly impressed by Airtight which seems fairly easy to implement. One of the most popular programs is Gallery which I believe meets your requirements, the above two may not I haven't looked at them in depth, was simply impressed with their output. =) Because of your requirements (on the fly creation etc) the script is likely to be somewhat complicated, but most of them can be customized if you delve deeply enough. I hope that gets you started. =)

There are a few things to bear in mind when adding a banner: 1) kilobytes. Ideally this should be under 20k; but for many sites its around 50-60k. Just remember, the larger it is the longer it takes to download. Not usually an issue on high speed connections; but many people are still on dial-up. 2) If you are using a very wide image, it will affect the required resolution to NOT have horizontal scroll; which you want to avoid (people hate scrolling side to side). for instance, on the site that you linked, because the header image is so wide, at 800x600 (still a very common resolution) there is required sideways scrolling. It's fine in 1024.768 and if you want to build for that, it's up to you to decide if thats your target. 3) The rest is really design choices; do you want to choose a color scheme or banner first? I usually choose a banner first then build the color scheme around it, but that's just my personal style. Does that help? I'm not entirely sure I answered your questions, so let me know.

Moved to scripting talk for organization.

I already have about 20 pairs of speakers laying around; and the lcd's are expensive; I'd rather put that money towards a nicer laptop. But thank you for the suggestion. I want this to take as little space and be as quickly portable as possible. If I was going to get an lcd I'd probably just drag my box up there and save about a grand.... I don't mind the notebook monitors though, I was using one a fair bit when I was in D.C., so that's not a big deal.

Thank you to everyone for your suggestions! I'm happy I asked this a few months beforehand, I'll be an expert by the time I'm done. As for the extra peripherals; part of the reason for doing this is to NOT get caught up in lugging up a monitor etc etc. The only peripherals I'll have will be the ones mentioned, there will not be an external monitor. There will be an external mouse of course; probably speakers and/or my headset. But the monitor is one of the big, bulky things I'm trying to avoid bringing. Oh, and I want wireless because it may come with me from time to time, say if I travel for more than a few days (I like travelling a lot) it just won't be a daily toting type deal. I have several cards laying about but I'd really rather have as much inbuilt as possible. All my peripherals, except one which I'm replacing before I get this, are USB; I'll need a 7 port usb hub, but they're available and not expensive, so not a problem. I like gadgets, it's really an expensive hobby. Thank you all again, I really appreciate the suggestions and help!

My static web path is a full url, http://www.lisa-jill.com/mt-static/ Have you tried that? But you said you made yours /mt-static. If you uploaded mt-static to /mt/ then you need the static path to be /mt/mat-static/ Or you could try a full url like I'm using; mine definitely works. Does that help?

*turns an incredibly bright shade of red* It was my pleasure! It was great to (sort of) talk too. =) *is too embarrassed to think of anything else to say* Rock Sign Rock Sign

I don't do any heavy graphical editing, mostly making photos do what I want them to do. I'm terrible with photoshop though, and it strips out exif data *grumbles* Thank you for the info Robert. I'll have to consider that. The $1500. is a gift from my father for this purpose; I can probably put another $500 towards it to make it a more powerful box. =) Thank you schussat! =)

Hey all! I have been allotted $1500.00 with which to purchase a notebook pc to take to school; rather than toting a humongous tower and monitor etc. I don't have to make this decision til August when I move up to Northampton, MA (I got into Smith College! =) ) so this is just some pre-research that I'm doing. Now, I'm spoilt. I'm used to a fairly high powered machine and large monitors. I do *not* intend to tote said laptop around with me. Except for trips home, it will stay perched on a desk. Weight, therefore, is not an issue. What do I want? I want the biggest monitor that I can get. I want something with plenty of cpu and memory and a decent graphics card. I also want the best wireless that I can get in built for ease, if that's available. It needs to be a PC. I'd prefer a mac, honestly, but I have too much software that I've paid for that is PC specific; simply too much invested. That being said; if someone wants to tout macintoshes - I love them, go right ahead. Maybe I'll change my mind. =) What do I do with said pc? Internet browsing of course; streaming webcam (the software I paid for, this is one of 'em) to my site, html/css programming, word processing/spreadsheet, graphics editing. I have hardware that must be able to interface with the machine; including a Nikon Coolpix 5700 and a Quickcam Orbit; as well as an Olympus D20 digital voice recorder. I also intend to get a PDA for taking notes during classes, so it will be important that can talk to the main pc and synchronize flawlessly. Well, given my rather painful requirements, anyone have any suggestions or starting points? =) Thanks!

The static directory will point not only to the images, but to the documentation and the stylesheet for the MT Admin page. You can call it whatever you want, but you do need to update the mt.cfg entry and make sure you remove the # from the beginning of the line. In this case I'd suggest that you upload mt-static with docs, images and styles.css as suggested by the manual; just to avoid confusion. But just realize that it's not just images, and the documentation is very handy to be able to get to. I would also suggest keeping the mt-static stuff seperate from your design's contents, such as images etc. This is just personal preference but it can help out in the long run. Does that help?

Happy that helped! Feel free to post if you have more questions. =)

You should logon using the admin login and password (if you installed it manually, then that is in the instructions) and click on "administration panel" toward the bottom of the forum listings. Go through those screens and set up the options that you want. The very first of these should be changing the admin password from default. Two great sites for phpbb are http://www.phpbbhacks.com and of course, http://www.phpbb.com. Those have all sorts of mods and addons. My personal favorite of these is EasyMOD which allows you to auto-install easymod friendly mods; there are quite a few out there. =) Does that help to get you started?

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Moved to the installing scripts forum. =) To install phpbb is very easy; just go to cpanel, click on "bulletin board" and then follow the instructions. Then login and configure it and you're good to go. Let me know if you need more assistance with this. =)

Pretty much, yes. I've gotten quite a few of those as well. It's just people searching for the form to exploit it; nothing to worry about since you don't have that script.

*nods* Alan is right. It shouldn't take more than 24 hours. If you look at the top of the forums you'll see a link to the support desk. If you submit a ticket it will get straightened out more quickly. Welcome to the family! Rock Sign

I believe that you can change the exec command by adding a / before the cgi-bin, so that it pulls from the root directory. I am not great with shtml includes, though. Try this: ><!--#exec cmd="/cgi-bin/randhtml.cgi"--> Hope that helps. =)

I replied before you posted this. *whistles very innocently* I'll be here, not a worry kasey. =)

It does work. Your pages will have to have the extension ".shtml" for it to work. You put the exec command wherever on the page you want the random information to show up. That's up to you. =) If you need more help with placement, post a link to your site and tell me where you want it, and I'll try to help.

I'd be more than happy to step you through this. You can pop into IRC or IM me if you have specific questions and want faster help. I went with the full version when I installed it; just in case. =) It's not really any more complicated and doesn't take up that much more space. How you install MT won't affect where you write your weblog to. That is done per weblog in the configuration screen for each one. My installation is in cgi-bin/mt which has worked out quite well. I have one weblog in a subdomain, although I could set up the others easily to be subdomains too, if I was so inclined. This is where yours should go too, and like I said; it won't affect what subdomain (or none) you output the weblog to. Hope that helps. Like I said, feel free to contact me. =) I've done this a few times now.

Moved to scripting talk for organization. There are some common problems listed in the phpbb FAQ. If you look at 23, that might be the problem: I also did a search on their forums for '404 when logging in' and came up with several threads: here here here That should get you off to a start. Here are the search results too. Hope that helps. =)

'twas my pleasure, glad that you got it worked out! Thumbs Up

Try 755. =) After you do that, try accessing it - if it fails, go to cpanel and click 'error log' and report back here what the latest errors are and we can help further. =) Also, double check that the .cgi files are still 755 while you're in there.

*giggles* I just typed "what is my ip" into firefox's URL bar. That came up... Happy that helped!