Accuweather has some good free content for your site. Here's a link to it:

http://netweather.accuweather.com/adcbin/netweather/netweather_index.asp

I just paste the code in a TinyD page and it's now part of my site. They don't have any type of weather button, but you can use the one from Wunderground and change the link to point to your accuweather page.

John

PS. You can see an example at www.dconline.org

You might want to try looking at it from a different browser, or clean out the cache of the one you're using. I have the same problems with Firefox occasionally. It caches my theme, and changes don't show up in it.

John

When you unplacked the TinyD zip file, spaw should have been in a folder called "common". Upload the common folder along with all of its contents to the XOOPS root directory.

That should take care of it.

John

Right now, the banner code assumes that it is linking to an external site. To link to pages within the site involves modifying the banner code.

It would be nice to have a way for each banner to specify the target (self or _blank).

John

Herko,

Sent you a PM.

John

Peekay,

I bet you didn't know what kind of a "discussion" you were starting when you posted your question, did you?

Talking about Linux distributions is worse than discussing religion or politics.

So, since everyone else threw their suggestions in the bucket, I figured I might as well too.

Your best bet would be to try a few and choose whatever you like the best. It's really that simple. The ones you choose to try first should be based on how much time you want to spend learning the OS versus how much time you want to use it.

Back in the day, you really didn't know Linux unless you were using Slackware or Debian. Installing Debian was like a right of passage. Now, with the latest release (Sarge), I've read that it's not nearly as difficult as it once was.

Now the new favorite of L33T H4X0rs everywhere is Gentoo. If you go for a stage 1 build, it's a real pain the butt, which is fine if that's what you want to do. The supposed big advantage is that it's so much faster because it's compiled for your machine. The studies I've read indicated that the performance gains weren't all that significant. You do still get the bragging rights however.

At work, I manage about 100 Red Hat boxes. Personally, I don't care for Red Hat that much, but that's just me. Probably because I hate Gnome (as I hastily put on my flame retardant suit).

At home I've used Red Hat (before I knew better), Mandrake, Libranet, PCLinux OS, and now SuSE 9.2 and 9.3. For the time being, I'm sticking with SuSE. It does what I want it to do, and I like the way it looks.

Really, try a few to get an idea of what you like and what you don't like, and go from there. You might want to check out Distrowatch. It's a great site to learn about what's going on in the Linux world.

Linuxquestions.org is another good place to visit.

As for html editors, those have been pretty well covered in previous posts. I've used Quanta+ on a few occasions, and it worked well for me. Of course, The GIMP is the big choice for graphics.

Good luck to you. I hope you find the one that is the right one for you.


John

I was going to suggest that you post a question on GIJOE's forum (http://www.peak.ne.jp/xoops/), but I see you already have.

That's probably the best way to get help with pical. Just keep an eye on your post over there.

John

@ackbarr: Thanks. I'll take a look. When I looked at the admin.php file, the numbers in the [ ] for each module did appear to be in the correct order, but displayed out of order.

The whole reason this became an issue is because of TinyD. I wanted them all together in numerical order. Big deal? No. But just enough to bug me. If I can't fix this somehow, I'll probably blow the site away and start over, or it will bug me forever.

However, this seems like something isn't working right, so I think I'd rather look at it first to see if there is a bug that needs to be fixed.

Can I assume that module IDs are not reused? That once something is installed and deleted, that ID stays in the database? If so, would a reinstalled module pickup it's old module ID or the next one available?

Thanks.

John


@kaotic: Thanks for popping over and having a look. I found that thread too, but when I realized that blowing away the adminmenu.php only resulted in it being recreated the same way, I knew that the incorrect info was being stored somewhere else, and wanted to fix it there.

Thanks for looking into it for me.

John

I'm trying to change the order that the modules are listed in the admin section. I even tried uninstalling modules and resinstalling them in the order that I wanted them, but they were always listed in the original order.

I tried deleting the cache/adminmenu.php file, but logging back in regenerated the file just as it was, which means that the order is stored somewhere else.

Can someone tell me where that information is stored and how to edit it so I can group the modules as I would like in the admin section?

Thanks!

John

deepti -

Hi! Glad you found one that works for you. I'm using the "Pro" version of that menu (needed relative positioning), and couldn't be happier with it. I gave lemomo the dynamic drive site because they have a number of free menus, one of which might have worked for me had I known about it at the time.

lemomo -

Crossing frames, are you? Unfortunately, that is one of the "features" that tends to separate the free versions of menus from the ones that cost money.

The link I'm including is for a menu that works either horizontally or vertically, and claims to work across frames.

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/hvmenu/index.htm

If that doesn't do it for you, then you may do well to click on the link that deepti gave you. You'll need the "Pro" version to handle frames, but if it's worth $49 to you, I'm sure it will work. Unlike some of the non-free menus, you only pay for the menu once, not per domain, and you can use it as much as you like.


Keep us posted.

John