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TekEss
post Sep 7 2006, 09:00 AM
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Sorry folks, I'll try to explain this as best I can. I would like to add, in the top left section of www.bbqtalk.ca/forums , an area where I can have some text that would rotate news or info that I could add on a daily basis. I have approx. 140 x 240 area to do this in.

In short, it would be a stationary 140x240 box with a static title, but the contents would be text and rotate.

Hope that was clear, cause it sure was painful to write smile.gif

Any help on design is really appreciated. I'm very new to this, so please explain it in detail.


Thanks in advance.
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post Sep 7 2006, 09:35 AM
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Hi! smile.gif

http://www.bbqtalk.ca/forums/

You have a cell on each side of the logo image. They just contain empty paragraphs now. You could use one of those.
HTML
<td width="130" align="left" valign="bottom" height="126">
<!-- USE THIS SPACE -->
<p align="left">&nbsp;
<p align="left">&nbsp;
<!-- // -->
</td>
<center>


<td width="150" height="252" valign="middle" align="center" rowspan="2"><a href="http://www.bbqtalk.ca/forums"><img border="0" src="http://www.bbqtalk.ca/forums/templates/NoseBleed/images/bbqtalk.jpg" width="400" height="227"></a></td>

<td width="130" align="right" valign="baseline" height="55">
<!-- OR THIS -->
nbsp;
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</center>
<!-- // -->
</td>



Do you want the text to rotate automatically? In that case you need a script. If you just want to update when you have news to post you could use SSI (Server Side Includes), or better a PHP include since your forum is written in PHP.
http://www.htmlhelp.com/faq/html/design.html#include-file

BTW, you have a some errors in your code. For example you can't use CENTER as you have done in the snip above. Most of these errors probably come frome phpBB so they can be hard to weed out, but the above doesn't look like phpBB.
http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/
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post Sep 7 2006, 09:48 AM
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QUOTE(pandy @ Sep 7 2006, 10:35 AM) *

Hi! smile.gif

http://www.bbqtalk.ca/forums/

You have a cell on each side of the logo image. They just contain empty paragraphs now. You could use one of those.
HTML
<td width="130" align="left" valign="bottom" height="126">
<!-- USE THIS SPACE -->
<p align="left"> 
<p align="left"> 
<!-- // -->
</td>
<center>


<td width="150" height="252" valign="middle" align="center" rowspan="2"><a href="http://www.bbqtalk.ca/forums"><img border="0" src="http://www.bbqtalk.ca/forums/templates/NoseBleed/images/bbqtalk.jpg" width="400" height="227"></a></td>

<td width="130" align="right" valign="baseline" height="55">
<!-- OR THIS -->
nbsp;
<p> </p>
</center>
<!-- // -->
</td>



Do you want the text to rotate automatically? In that case you need a script. If you just want to update when you have news to post you could use SSI (Server Side Includes), or better a PHP include since your forum is written in PHP.
http://www.htmlhelp.com/faq/html/design.html#include-file

BTW, you have a some errors in your code. For example you can't use CENTER as you have done in the snip above. Most of these errors probably come frome phpBB so they can be hard to weed out, but the above doesn't look like phpBB.
http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/



Thanks for replying!

I would like the text to rotate, where can I find a script ? Is that difficult ?

Which "center" is in error ? There doesnt seem to be any issues. What should I do about it ?
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