Especially when that person is a newbie coming in and trying to tell people who've been here for years that we're using our forum wrong.
You get paid to put up with shitty annoying questions. We don't. We're going to do whatever the hell we want with our time, and for me, it's tell someone they're being a moron when they can do
echo stripslashes($imgrow[blocks])." <br/>";
echo "<div class='blocks'></div>";
But it takes them a full day to figure out how to put the div around the function, and they still do it wrong. Are you seriously telling me that you have a professional career as an educator, and you can't extrapolate that if you can do
echo stripslashes($imgrow[blocks])." <br/>";
You can do
echo '<div class="blocks">'.stripslashes($imgrow[blocks])."</div>";
Furthermore, you need to turn on error reporting to E_ALL because your current code should produce some warnings. If your plan is to hire someone to finish the project, why not hire them now to do it right from the start? Anyone worth their salt will look at your existing code and scrap it anyway.