All right: Who messed up the template?

minstrel · #1 (**permalink**) 11-12-2004, 09:41 PM

1. who decided it would be a good idea to biggie-size the fonts -- the pages now look like they were created using an Etcha-Sketch -- they also take about 4 times as long to load as normal

2. suggestion for WPW coders: do NOT make changes on Friday afternoon -- first, because it's never a good idea to make changes to the live website after that Friday beer and burgers lunch, and second, because now we have to look at the damn result until you get back to work on Monday

Note: this is NOT my system -- nothing here has changed and every other forum using phpBB or vBulletin works just fine, as do normal web pages

**mike** · #2 (**permalink**) 11-13-2004, 12:24 AM

Wasn't a change. We had a problem with our image server late Friday which meant the stylesheet that brings you all the webprogoodness you're so accustomed to was unavailable. Hence... jacked up presentation. Trust me, it wasn't our idea for the thing to croak on Friday night.

and for the record....
1. If the template is broken there's a 99.9% chance that I did it - not the programmers.

2. Beer? I think not. Bourbon maybe... but no beer.

3. Nothing ever has to sit over a weekend anymore. I'm ALWAYS here (with my bourbon).

**mike** · #3 (**permalink**) 11-13-2004, 12:28 AM

On an unrelated note... if I don't get the stupid time fixed soon, it's going to drive me completely insane.

So, if the time is wrong no matter how you set it, don't worry, I know. I have made the appropriate change 3 times now.... for some reason it is not 'sticking'.

mushroom · #4 (**permalink**) 11-13-2004, 02:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mike

On an unrelated note... if I don't get the stupid time fixed soon, it's going to drive me completely insane.

So, if the time is wrong no matter how you set it, don't worry, I know. I have made the appropriate change 3 times now.... for some reason it is not 'sticking'.

The answer to your time problem lies with "NTP: The Network Time Protocol" and once set up will keep your time accurate to the second, info can be found at http://www.ntp.org/

**mike** · #5 (**permalink**) 11-13-2004, 03:11 AM

Thanks Mushroom, but my problem is in the php on this phpBB board code. There were apparently a lot of things 'done' to this (to make it better you know...) when we put it up. I'll find it sooner or later.

Easywebdev · #6 (**permalink**) 11-13-2004, 07:55 AM

Quote:

On an unrelated note... if I don't get the stupid time fixed soon, it's going to drive me completely insane.

So, if the time is wrong no matter how you set it, don't worry, I know. I have made the appropriate change 3 times now.... for some reason it is not 'sticking'.

Just last night I was modding a new board for a client and was going nuts over $board_config['default_dateformat'] (I was adding a mod to make the time format select more readable to humans rather than the output from the php date function)
Every time I made a change in the admin panel the board time stayed the same, checked the database, new time format was there so I was tearing out whats left of my hair then I remembered that the user can also select their time format.

So if your changes don't appear to be happening then launch another browser and see what a guest user sees (board default)

Might not be your problem but then again it might.

minstrel · #7 (**permalink**) 11-13-2004, 11:57 AM

That's right. I had a similar problem when I tried to change the time to daylight savings time. I kept changing it in the ACP for the forum and it wouldn't make any difference...

...until I realized that I am also a member and changed both the overall forum info in the admin control panel as well as my own info in my member profile to match... THEN the times were correct.

At which point I believe I said to myself, "Well, duh!"...

**mike** · #8 (**permalink**) 11-13-2004, 02:51 PM

....

OK. Now I can go duh too.