Customisation (General)

by pema, Friday, July 18, 2008, 11:29 (5733 days ago)

Hi, firstly i'd like to say thankyou for such a great forum, here's to all your hard work :-)

Ok, I need to know how to set a 'introduction' page for my home page which everyone will go to when they visit the base url of my site; is this possible? without redirecting to a sub directory i.e /forum/?

Further more the font on the image captcha is too small, i found out how to change the background.png but not how to alter the size of the font to be bigger for my poor sight. Also what font extensions does this module recognise.

One last thing, the images in my posts, there uploading through the popup window and displaying in the popup window but not appearing in the posts, any likely reason for this?

Thanks for your time and help,
Long live 'my little forum'

pema :)

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by Alfie ⌂, Vienna, Austria, Saturday, July 19, 2008, 02:48 (5732 days ago) @ pema
edited by Alfie, Saturday, July 19, 2008, 20:16

Dear pema!

Further more the font on the image captcha is too small, i found out how to change the background.png but not how to alter the size of the font to be bigger for my poor sight.

Try to increase the size from the default (23px) in /modules/captcha/captcha.php (line 45):

    $font_size = 23;

Also what font extensions does this module recognise.

    *.ttf (untested)

Ok, I need to know how to set a 'introduction' page for my home page which everyone will go to when they visit the base url of my site; is this possible? without redirecting to a sub directory i.e /forum/?

You know that search engines 'hate' it - and most visitors also?
If you don't like the folder, you may create a subdomain instead:
    www.example.org/forum/ (folder)
    forum.example.org/     (subdomain)

A subdomain is advanteous, because you may set directives in the server's (Apache assumed) .htaccess file, which is different from the domain. Therefore it may be possible to link to forum.example.org/ (which is a nice url) opening e.g. an intermediate file default.html. From there it should be possible to link to index.php. Any automatic redirect (JavaScript) must be avoided, because of the annoyance stated above.

If you can come up with further informations; we may help you better.

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Cheers,
Alfie (Helmut Schütz)
BEBA-Forum (v1.8β)

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