Several Question...

[LastCallGames]

I have a few questions about putting certain things on my site.

 

How do I get a live counter that updates per page view or how many people are on the site at the time?

(ie. Updates everytime someone clicks on a link/visits a page of my site that goes to a certain game, or something such as "This game has been played XXX times"/"There are XXX people online at this time")

 

When I add games to my game page, they never line up and look bad, I tried using a td code but it didn't do anything, and everytime I try setting up the games vertically (1 per line and about 10 per page), it doesn't work and just streches out the page. Is there anyway I can fix that?

 

My site is http://www.lastcallgames.com

 

Any help is appreciated.

Edited August 20, 2006 by LastCallGames

[TCH-Bruce]

Welcome to the forum LastCallGames

 

You could find counter scripts over at www.hotscripts.com. I personally don't use them since I have access to AwStats through cPanel that tells me every page hit.

 

The page you linked to looks fine to me. What are you wanting to do?

[LastCallGames]

Thanks, I'll check out hotscripts for them.

 

The page I linked to is the homepage, but the games page is at http://www.lastcallgames.com/games.html.

What I want to do is instead of having the games set up in a grid style (which would be fine if I could straigten them) is have about 10 or so on each page and line them up along the left with descriptions, screenshots, etc next to each.

[TCH-Bruce]

If you add width to your

cells for the rows setting them to width="25%" should align them. You have 4 columns. Using will make each cell 1/4 the size of the row.

[LastCallGames]

Ok, I tried that and it worked. Thanks for the help.

[LastCallGames]

I still have a few questions, if that's alright;

 

How do I put a..

- Favicon in the address bar, for all pages

- Ads on the side of the forums

- Login form for the forums on the homepage

- Search bar for the site on the homepage

 

- Borders on highlighted links (I want the border on the links to match the ones on the forums. Everytime I try putting a border on them, it stretches the links and makes them move)

[Samrc]

Wow...what a list.....

 

I'll start with Favicons:

1. Create or find the image (.jpg file preferably) that you wish to use.

2. Crop it to a 32x32 pixel size using your favorite graphics editor.

3. Use the FREE Irfanview or other image program to save the file as an .ico file.

4. You must name your file favicon.ico (no caps, no spaces, all lowercase)

5. Upload your favicon.ico file to your web site using an FTP utility or the built-in File manager, and place it in the same directory with your home page (index.htm / index.html).

 

Note favicons are finicky in Internet Explorer. From a post made by Kevan:

"Internet Explorer caches the favicon.ico file in the "Temporary Internet Files" folder, so when you empty the cache folder, you'll delete the fave icon files. IE7 still works this way. Some alternate browsers, like Firefox, keep the icon files."

 

 

Choosing a search option for your site can be complicated and confusing because there are SO MANY variables to consider. You need to decide what your site needs. Again hotscripts offers many alternatives.

 

Search boxes come with many different options:

- Free or paid

- onsite or offsite

- with or without ads

- script or 3rd party service

- and combinations of them!

 

Examples:

- google, freefind.com and others offer free searching but they come with ads to competitor sites/products.

- several sites will offer to host your searching, free with ads, paid ad free (freefind.com offers both).

- scripts can be free or paid for and installed on your hosted site. The paid scripts have more file types, options and may have better security.

 

 

I also should mention that if you need your PDF files, etc searched, you need a more robust version of search software/script! And not all search scripts work on all servers, some require MySQL databases, some do not...

 

Before downloading/purchasing/trying any script or service, you need to carefully check the REQUIREMENTS list. Usually the type of server and many other items are listed to help you determine if that option will work for you. And if not sure, contact host with list of requirements and ask if you could use it.

[knate5000]

A quick and easy way to do Favicon is visiting this site I found:

 

http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/

 

It creates Favicons and motion Favicons! And it gives you the code. You can download them in a .zip file. It's very handy!

[TCH-Don]

knate5000, Nice site