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Some queries for the technologically competent.

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:02 am
by Girathon
Hey, I have a couple questions for anyone even half-decent with computers as I am as useless as a deaf guy at a rock concert with them, so any ideas/answers anyone has would be much appreciated.

1. The "remember me" function is not working for any of the forums I post on, which means that I have to retype my name and password alot, and although it sounds like a small thing, its really becoming annoying. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix it? I am checking the "remember me" box but my comp just refuses to keep me signed in.

2. How do you link a site to a set of words you type? ex. If I wanted to make a sig that said, Click here for my blah-blah-blah account/site etc. , how would I go about doing that?

As I said before, any help is much appreicated.

Girathon

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:08 am
by Mr. anderson
1) maybe because of your cookie-policy (but i really have no idea, mine doesn´t work either)

2) you go like this: [url=(insert complete link)]type whatever you want people to click, like "my übercool armypics"[/url]

you end up with:

if you want to find out how to link a site to a set of words,
click here!

(simply quote my entire message and see what this link looks like)

HUZZAH!

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:34 pm
by Nagathi
The BBCode FAQ is helpful about the link thing: http://www.druchii.net/faq.php?mode=bbcode

As for the "remember me" function, we need to know what browser and what version of it you use. Firefox, IE, Opera, IceWeasel, Konqueror, Epiphany or any other browser?

~ Nag

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 6:13 pm
by Girathon
Cool, thanks for the he lp guys. As far as the browser I use Nag, Im on IE and just updated to the newest version a week or 2 ago. I think its 7. something.

Girathon

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 6:19 pm
by Nagathi
Hmm.. IE sucks at everything it is supposed to do, so I'm not surprised it fails to remember your passwords and login. I'd check the security -> cookies settings.

~ Nag

Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 1:13 pm
by King coombs #1
Youe internet browser might be clearing its cache and its temporary files at the closing of the program.

while your on the internet does the browser save your passwords. so say if you logged off here and you came back without closing your browser does it remember your password.

if it does then you should go to internet options > advanced. there should be a long list, there should be a box that says save temporary files, if it isnt selected select it and it should work.

if it doesnt, well, all i can say is IE sucks

i can understand if you dont give a crap about what i just said.

Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:26 pm
by Vallorn deathblade
i have to agree with King and Nagathi on this as i updated to mozila firefox and never looked back. it remembers my passwords and i only have to log in manually very few times :D

Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 4:25 pm
by Girathon
@ King Coomb's: Thanks for the idea man, tried it, doesnt work lol.

So I think Im just going to try firefox, IE is too much trouble.

Again thanks for the help everyone.

GIrathon

Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:44 pm
by Nagathi
Mozilla is and will always be far far FAR superiour to Internet Explorer. I'd say Firefox prevents some75% of all viruses from entering your system, and it shows all webpages as they are designed to look (I've spent many many hours trying to make the pages work in IE due to the odd friggin' way it handles webdesign).
Once you go Firefox, you'll never go back :)

~ Nag


EDIT; WIEE! 8000 posts :D I'm such a nerd with no life :p

Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:12 pm
by Rork
Nagathi wrote:Mozilla is and will always be far far FAR superiour to Internet Explorer. I'd say Firefox prevents some75% of all viruses from entering your system, and it shows all webpages as they are designed to look (I've spent many many hours trying to make the pages work in IE due to the odd friggin' way it handles webdesign).


Firefox can have its quirks when it comes to layout too, believe me. I still think it's far better than IE, but there are some things that don't work too well in Firefox (sometimes due to ActiveX, or just the bad behaviour of Verified by Visa).

Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:20 pm
by Nagathi
Linux pwns Vista any day :D
Let me put it this way then: Anything Microshit produces has a scaringly high error count, especially in terms of security and online processes. If one avoids Windows and IE, you'll get rid of almost all virus there are.

As for Firefox messing with layout, I haven't noticed anything that could be blamed on Firefox. Although,I use IceWeasel instead of FireFox, but the principle is the same..

~ Nag

Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:25 pm
by Vel demere
Safari, the best of all of them and the one Firefox was based on

Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:14 pm
by Rork
Nagathi wrote:As for Firefox messing with layout, I haven't noticed anything that could be blamed on Firefox. Although,I use IceWeasel instead of FireFox, but the principle is the same..


Well, what I've been doing is probably fairly obscure/minor. I'm trying to centre a flash animation on an HTML page using dreamweaver. In IE it centres without issue, but the same page always has the animation set to the left in firefox.

It annoys me ;).

Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 6:08 pm
by Nagathi
You design in Dreamweaver? Then we've found the error :D
I do all my design by hand in a simple txt document (or several, rather). Dreamweaver is known for adding stupid code snippets where it likes to, and being designed for IE 6 makes it even worse (can't recall a newer version of DreamWeaver than MX, might be wrong though).
Do the code by hand and you'll have no issues with anything :p

~ Nag

Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:06 pm
by Rork
Nagathi wrote:You design in Dreamweaver? Then we've found the error :D
I do all my design by hand in a simple txt document (or several, rather).


I really can't be bothered to be that hardcore.

Dreamweaver is known for adding stupid code snippets where it likes to, and being designed for IE 6 makes it even worse (can't recall a newer version of DreamWeaver than MX, might be wrong though).


I think DW 8 and CS3 (which certainly does) follow on from MX, and I'm using CS3. It's not that I don't understand HTML, it's that I like to avoid any form of coding as much as possible.

(If I had a hat, it would have "Codder" sewn on it :!:)

edit: Although oddly it just started working. Maybe threats of physical violence do work after all.

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 3:03 pm
by Nagathi
Rork wrote:edit: Although oddly it just started working. Maybe threats of physical violence do work after all.
As the good saying goes:
"Anything works with some will, violence, vaseline or viagra"
:D

I used to design in Dreamweaver (just look at the poor monthly pages), but later gave it up as I had to manually poke at the code to make it work as I wanted to. All those div layers used on the monthly pages just jumped around. I'd do it much better if I could redo them :)

~ Nag