EQMac.com

The front page has a lot of useful tools/links aside from that, I guess this option would work.

I agree 100% about the hard coded table-based layout, but that is how the layout for the front page is currently controlled, so that is what I replicated.

I only assumed it was an index.html file, because http://www.eqmac.com/index.html exists and displays the front page, whereas http://www.eqmac.com/index.php gets a custom 404 page.

Hell, as a php developer, now I just want to see the code to see what makes it tick. I have never seen a page generated dynamically by php, that has an .html extension.

What portal software is this using? It definitely generates some "interesting" code.

The trick is not in the portal software, it's in the host. When your browser requests an index.html file, eqmac.com's host gives me an option to either pass a different file, or to execute a script. The script that does get executed is the index.php file, but for security reasons, it's a protected file which you can't access directly.

The software we're using here is the open-source, PhPBB software (v2.0.x -- I'm in the process of upgrading to 3.0.x, as soon as my semester is done).

The front page is something Khama (or maybe Ganlarq before him) set up with some funky hooks to do the news and browser links. Once I have time, I'll see what I can do.

Try not to Break anything! Make a backup. Oh and something I've learned the harder way, Make sure you know how (practice on something) to restore a backup.

Yeah, come on Nik!

It's not rocket science. It can't be an astronomical amount of work.



/ducks

Here's a suggestion - Why make more work for Nik? Frankly keeping up with what he does already has been alot of work, which I am sure we are all appreciate; updating the homepage hardly seems worth it. The meat of the site is inside the forums - I am going with the old saying "if its not broke, don't fix it."

I think it would send a good message to prospective players if the front page were updated at a regular interval. I remember seeing this site for the first time this spring and concluding that if this is the only site dedicated to the server, it must be as dead as a doornail. A "this year in Al'Kabor" feature would go a long way toward making it appear to the casual observer that this isn't simply an abandoned site with a semi-unabandoned forum attached to it.