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Is the FAQ Database a good idea?
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No (please say why)
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 8:53 pm    Post subject: AbyssUnderground.co.uk FAQ Database Reply with quote
Ive started making a FAQ database for all those people who hate answering those simple questions all the time. They can simply give out a link from the database and post it on the forum. You wont have to spend lots of time going through old posts to get the answer.

http://www.abyssunderground.co.uk/awsfaq.php

Ill keep adding to it as questions come. If you have any questions to add, post them here or send them to me via e-mail.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 9:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I think it would be a good idea, for all newbies like me
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 9:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks for the positive feedback. Have any of the FAQ's helped you yet?
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 9:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yes installing the PHP, i just download the one of the link it installed then i followed what it said to do
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 2:36 pm    Post subject: Re: AbyssUnderground.co.uk FAQ Database Reply with quote
The Inquisitor,

Very good initiative. One remark though: on Opera the answers are always on single line which makes reading difficult as one has to horizontally scroll the page. This is because your pages have small CSS/HTML formatting problems:

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http://www.abyssunderground.co.uk/awsfaq.php?page=how_can_i_backup_my_abyss_settings

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2&warning=2&uri=http://www.abyssunderground.co.uk/awsfaq.php?page=how_can_i_backup_my_abyss_settings
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 2:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I think its Opera being stupid as it simply doesnt support those CSS commands, just as FireFox doesnt, but FF ignores them.

EDIT: Fixed the CSS, but last time I tried fixing the HTML errors, I messed up the template. Id rather not do that. I might try it by moving it to a new subdomain tonight.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 2:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
The Inquisitor wrote:
I think its Opera being stupid as it simply doesnt support those CSS commands, just as FireFox doesnt, but FF ignores them.

EDIT: Fixed the CSS, but last time I tried fixing the HTML errors, I messed up the template. Id rather not do that. I might try it by moving it to a new subdomain tonight.

Opera is not stupid. It is the most standards compliant browser.

Your HTML code is lacking a lot of declarations (as stated by the validator), with closed tags that were never been opened before (</pre>), and a lot of other little mistakes (DOCTYPE should be in the first line in the file not after <html>). So blame your code and not Opera. :-)

Opera is simply not very tolerant with bad HTML as IE and FF are (which is good thing). By the way, your pages were not rendering fine on Safari (MacOS X) and Konqueror (available on KDE) too.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 3:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
The thing is, even if compliant, pages will never display 100% perfect on every single browser in the world, its virtually impossible, ive tried it before. I stuck to IE and firefox as the two browsers I would make my site work for.

I have fixed the CSS errors (pre has never been opened before in the code, the validator is to fault this time).

I will try and work on the HTML errors but like I said the last time I did I messed up the template, and again, even if compliant, not all browsers will work.

I only have FF and IE installed on any of my computers so testing for any of the other browsers is impossible.

EDIT: About the DOCTYPE, if its not in the head then some functions dont work on FF. If its in the correct place it doesnt work properly. Unusual yes.

Also the home page has 119 HTML errors, and thats going to be one hell of a pain to sort out.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 3:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
The Inquisitor wrote:
The thing is, even if compliant, pages will never display 100% perfect on every single browser in the world, its virtually impossible, ive tried it before. I stuck to IE and firefox as the two browsers I would make my site work for.

I have fixed the CSS errors (pre has never been opened before in the code, the validator is to fault this time).

I will try and work on the HTML errors but like I said the last time I did I messed up the template, and again, even if compliant, not all browsers will work.

I only have FF and IE installed on any of my computers so testing for any of the other browsers is impossible.

EDIT: About the DOCTYPE, if its not in the head then some functions dont work on FF. If its in the correct place it doesnt work properly. Unusual yes.


If you put the DOCTYPE in the right place, IE and FF will stop working in quirks mode and will follow the standards scrupulously (as do other browsers by default):
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/

The problem seems to be fixed now.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 3:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I completely changed the way the answers are displayed getting rid of the <pre>'s.

I just started getting a stupid error in IE now.



Any ideas what is causing this? It does it on every refresh I do after the first time ive visited the page (which works fine the first time I view it). Ive cleared the cache and it didnt help.

Works fine in IE.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 4:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Just encase you kept a backup, you're original FAQ pages loaded fine in Opera 9 TP2 (technical preview) (http://labs.opera.com). So within a while Opera will be able to display the non- standards complaint HTML coding better than the current stable release.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 4:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks for the info. The new code displays in all browsers fine as far as Im aware so it doesnt matter too much now.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Umm one small complaint if I may :)

Your secondary Nav Bar and it's new wallpaper. It does not always reapeat properly on the y axis. (the one that goes down)

EDIT (MONDAY): The following code maybe usefull. I use it on my own site. :)

Code:

body {
     background-image:url(images/index_r3_c1.jpg);
     background-repeat:repeat-y;


EDIT (A FEW MINUTES LATER...): It would appear you have resolved this issue.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
The Inquisitor,

The HTML is cleaner now and works fine on Opera 8.54.
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