HELP....FORUM DISPLAYING WRONG

by morf13 May 6th 2010, 6:50 pm

Regarding the appearance/display of my forum,There are large sections of white empty space in between each posts. This is happening in each thread, as well as in Pm's. How can I fix this? Is anyone else aware of this?

by dr.sport May 6th 2010, 6:51 pm

Can i see what it's like, can you give me a link?

by morf13 May 6th 2010, 6:57 pm

http://zodiackillersite.forummotion.com/index.htm

The site is set to private, so for you to loo, you will have to signup.

by dr.sport May 6th 2010, 6:59 pm

Well, im not really wanting to regester for even more sites, can you take the private thing off for like 10 minutes?

by morf13 May 6th 2010, 7:02 pm

by morf13 May 6th 2010, 7:03 pm

wait...how do i do that again?

by dr.sport May 6th 2010, 7:09 pm

Admin panel>General>Catagories and forums> Then just modify a topic(any topic)>Permissions>and you can go along from there, just try it with one topic, and tell me wich one you modifyd. Wink

by morf13 May 6th 2010, 7:09 pm

JUst did it

Go to the site, scroll down to the section called THEORIES. (4th from the bottom)

Then click on it and go to THEBES THEORY.

Then you can read the posts and see the large blank white areas under each posts

by dr.sport May 6th 2010, 7:12 pm

Still not able to see it? Did you set every thing to "all"?

by morf13 May 6th 2010, 7:15 pm

just dedid it you can see it now

by ~Audrey~ May 6th 2010, 7:19 pm

That's EXACTLY what mine has been doing since yesterday...I've eliminated the cause being which browser is being used...IE7, IE8, Firefox, Chrome, they're all doing it and switching to "compatibility view" doesn't correct the problem.

by morf13 May 6th 2010, 7:20 pm

Mine has been doing it since yesterday too

by dr.sport May 6th 2010, 7:21 pm

Ok, I see the problem. You should probally change versions, or mabey the skin.

by morf13 May 6th 2010, 7:22 pm

dr.sport wrote:Ok, I see the problem. You should probally change versions, or mabey the skin.

How do i do that? This skin & Version has not given me problems before. Plus, the poster above in this thread has had the same exact problem, and she may not have the same skin or version

by dr.sport May 6th 2010, 7:25 pm

Some times it can just glitch up, to change the version:

Admin panel>Display>Skins> Choose a theme>Version>Change it to "phpBB2"

Not 100 percent sure it's gonna work, but, it probally will.

by morf13 May 6th 2010, 7:26 pm

Also, if i do change the version, or skin, will it delete any materials i have on the forum?

by dr.sport May 6th 2010, 7:32 pm

You mean topics? No.

If you change the skin or version though, yea, it's change the skin eather way, and it'll change the pictures, like the things telling you if theres a new post on something.

by ~Audrey~ May 6th 2010, 7:33 pm

dr.sport wrote:Some times it can just glitch up, to change the version:

Admin panel>Display>Skins> Choose a theme>Version>Change it to "phpBB2"

Not 100 percent sure it's gonna work, but, it probally will.

I hope this isn't the "fix" that "tech" is coming up with because I don't want to switch from phpbb3 to phpbb3. From what I've read this is a big problem, affecting many forums and I believe I read in another thread that "tech" is gonna have to fix the problem. There are several threads going on about this, I suggest everyone read all of them to get the gist of what's going on. I wouldn't change anything at this point, give them time to work it out.

by morf13 May 6th 2010, 7:38 pm

Now all my privacy settings dont work. I have it set so only members can see the topics and posts. But, i am viewing without being logged in and I can see it all. Now what?

IT DID SEEM TO CLEAR UP THE BIG EMPTY SPACE

by dr.sport May 6th 2010, 7:40 pm

[quote="~Audrey~"]

dr.sport wrote:Some times it can just glitch up, to change the version:

Admin panel>Display>Skins> Choose a theme>Version>Change it to "phpBB2"

Not 100 percent sure it's gonna work, but, it probally will.[/quote

I hope this isn't the "fix" that "tech" is coming up with because I don't want to switch from phpbb3 to phpbb3. From what I've read this is a big problem, affecting many forums and I believe I read in another thread that "tech" is gonna have to fix the problem. There are several threads going on about this, I suggest everyone read all of them to get the gist of what's going on. I wouldn't change anything at this point, give them time to work it out.

It's just a sugestion.

Also, you could try re-sinking your topic?

Yea, there was a problem that him my forum, not this same kind of problem, but another very anoying one thats even worse than what he has. And how I "fixed" that problem for mine is I changed the verssion. though these are just Idea's, that in my opinion should work...

@Morf: yes, you can set it back to the "private" thing, it'll take a few minutes, not to long though. You know the spot were you changed it so guests can see it on that one topic? Just set everything so members can see on every topic, then everything should be back to normal. Wink

by morf13 May 6th 2010, 7:50 pm

I think I will leave it back the original way until it gets fixed by tech. I appreciate the help. One last thing, could you tell me how to add a photo to the top left of the front page of my forum? I had one there, but when I tried the other skin, the photo was deleted.

Thanks

by dr.sport May 6th 2010, 7:53 pm

yea. You'll need to have the picture saved onto your comptuer though. All you have to do is:

Admin panel> Display>Pic's manegment>Advanced mode>Forum main logo>upload picture> and after your done with that, hit save, and it should show up. Wink

by bonzalala May 6th 2010, 8:28 pm

dont change anything soooo many of us are having the same problem but forumotion hasnt answered us with a solution.

by dr.sport May 6th 2010, 8:39 pm

Sooo...If you guys don't like my idea, I guess you sholud find another?...

by Tobii May 7th 2010, 12:20 am

Do you have more then one admin? If so maybe they changed the appearance of the forum!

by Darren1 May 7th 2010, 2:33 am

Hello,

Can you please provide a screenshot of the problem, as we cannot see it?

if it's a problem of the quotes please view the opnly topic about problems with quotes
=> https://help.forumotion.com/script-code-problems-f43/only-topic-quote-function-not-functioning-t69724.htm

by morf13 May 7th 2010, 3:06 am

When I have the forum set to version phpBB3, thats when the problem arises. Whein it is set to version phpBB2, the problem goes away.

by morf13 May 7th 2010, 3:10 am

morf13 wrote:When I have the forum set to version phpBB3, thats when the problem arises. Whein it is set to version phpBB2, the problem goes away.

Here is a screenshot. You can see the excess space under the posts. But this is only a little of the excess space, it goes way down until the next post. Its like that on several different pages and posts, and only gets corrected by switching to the other version.