DarrenReeder Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Hello, i am making a site for a school project and i want to make forums from scratch however last time i made some i had a problem with it... www.soldierswarfare.co.cc is the site i made a long time ago (and it is very messy and crap if you see it) and on there i have got some forums i made myself although the problem with them is when you are on firefox, the forums work perfectly and all...although when i use internet explorer the tables i used for the forums mess up and the text starts to pile up on each other...if u log on www.soldierswarfare.co.cc with these details, u can see forums on firefox and internet explorer so u know wat i mean.. user: phpfreaks pass: 1234567 ----- just go straight to 'main forums' and take a look at em Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarrenReeder Posted January 24, 2010 Author Share Posted January 24, 2010 P.S i wanna know how i can make them neat on all browsers or another way of setting them out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webmaster1 Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 I recommend using SMF. It's free, powerful, compliant and php-based. This forum, phpfreaks, is an SMF forum. View here: http://www.simplemachines.org/ There's a decent amount of work involved in customizing the forum both in terms of it's appearance and functionality but if you want to use it 'as is' or use another designers theme then even a novice can install it and have it up and running in less than 20 minutes. If you really, really, really want to build a forum from scratch then the problem you're currently having is with CSS. I took a peak at your source code and it looks like you're designing your forum in a fairly out of fashion manner. There is no separation between the design and content of your site which is most likely why it's messing up in different browsers. e.g. you're applying background images directly to your body element and wrapping font tags around the content of your list items in the sidebar section. With CSS, only your content dwells in your html/php document and everything that effects how the content appears (background images, font colors, page width, links etc.) is coded in an external document known as a style sheet. It's not at all complicated if you have a little time to school yourself with hundreds of free tutorials online. In conclusion, if you want a powerful and free solution for a forum, use SMF. If you're interested in building it from scratch then spend an hour or two learning how to use CSS. You'll be shocked how much your caliber as a coder will evolve if you dedicate a minimum amount of time towards learning CSS and the contemporary standards of the internet. Start here: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_intro.asp EDIT: I'd personally avoid the use of frames. After reviewing your site, it looks like you can achieve the exact same thing using a CSS layout (http://www.code-sucks.com/css%20layouts/fixed-width-css-layouts/) and the PHP inlcude function (http://www.tizag.com/phpT/include.php). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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