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Hey folks, I'm writing to ask your opinion about this forum template. As you can see, we are using a dark template, with a black/near black background, chrome-like borders, and some other neat features. While I like this forum template, I'm considering making a change to a different default template. The reason is that this site is eating up a lot of bandwidth – over 700 megs this month, and that's with a relatively small amount of visitors (I believe the reason is Googlebot and MSNbot).Anyway, I think that a simpler template, without the extra neat things this forum has, would reduce the size of the bandwidth of this site. Also, I think that a lighter, more basic template could be more inviting to users over the long term. What are your thoughts? Should I change it? Add your comments below.
You are the emperor. Why ask the plebes their thoughts? (lol)By the way, I opted for the simple subsilver at my forum, but I manipulated the style at the file level. I added new icons and edited some of the index body .gif's in paint to get the color I wanted. It is still a simple template, but not a vanilla subsilver either. I don't like extreme templates although I did like the one you had. This one is easier on the eyes though. I think that is more important than being all fancy. Just the humble opinion of a plebe.
Thanks for the input. Your point is taken number one. 😆Changing the template seems to have reduced the load on bandwidtch that was occurring with my old theme. I still have to spruce the place up with graphics and fix an error. I just need to schedule it in somewhere. Ironic - a forum about civilizations throughout time, and yet I can find no time!
Yeah I'm seeing some blank image boxes on the post screen. You are missing a file here or your code is corrupted somewhere. Probably in a .tpl file like the viewforum file or the post body file or whatever is SMF's equivalent to phpbb.
Actually it should be the logo.jpg file that I deleted because the default one was one that I didn't want on my site. I'll just need to upload a created one of my choosing. Problem is that I can't really do much coding or graphics work during the week – only on the weekends, and my weekends are usually busy with other things to do.
Just how much SQL do you understand? Are you fluent in php? You know what I mean. Can you write scripts or are you like me and just follow the instructions of the writers and change the things you know won't hurt anything like the images or adding a text field here and there?
I am about half way between the two ends of the spectrum you mention. I am in no way a “coder” (the term for a php whiz who can program his own code), but I have more knowledge than just moving images and such around in code. Why, is there some particular thing you are looking to have done?
I can't get some modules to work on my postnuke site so I tried to get open source software to use and just link it to the site. I tried to install Coppermine and Gallery. Both require GD library to manipulate the images, and I couldn't get that to install either. I am thinking 1and1.com doesn't support it, but they say they do. I want the gallery so that when I start my auction, users can start virtual galleries of their products or have multiple pics of their listings etc…I obviously don't know how to do this and I need some help. Of course maybe the auctio program I buy will have such a function but I still need the GD library for any image manipulation for thumbnails etc…
Why are you going to buy auction software? I thought you said you were going to use phpauction. That's free.
Why are you going to buy auction software?? I thought you said you were going to use phpauction.? That's free.
No it's not. You have to pay a one time fee for it, then you are free to resell it or distribute it as you see fit, or alter the software as you wish. It costs $24.00 for the GPL license and no installation. It costs $104.00 for the GPL license and installation. It costs over $200.00 for GPL, installation, and customized templates. It's still far cheaper than the other major auction software running around. Here's the link: http://www.phpauction.net/user.registration.php?account=4&package=10
Donnie, - check this out:
Are you telling me you got your auction up for free? It's pretty cool by the way. Can you upload pics once you register?
Okay I see I can upload pics. Duh…Okay I need details. Database size, pruning capability, etc...Do I need ImageMagick or some other image manipulation software or does it come with the auction package? Basically tell me everthing I need to know to install this myself.
