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Ian Haney
Ian Haney Jul 20 '13
Hi


Sorry been stuck on this for a while now, not sure why it is not working


I created a intro.html page and in the admin settings have set it to appear first before Join and Main page and made it visible to guests and registered users but is not doing it and is going right to the login form


The page content I put in is below


<!DOCTYPE html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><title>Ultimate Forces Intro</title></head>
<body>
<img src="images/logo2.jpg" alt="Ultimate Forces" title="Ultimate Forces" />
<img src="images/ultimateforcesintro.jpg" alt="Ultimate Forces" title="Ultimate Forces" />
</body></html>


Any ideas, please help


Kind regards


Ian

dave Leader
dave Jul 20 '13

probably need to split up the coding.  There are two parts to a page add, one is for the header info and one is for the html.

 

so in the head section put this

 

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

which you dont even really need so leave it out if you want.   you can use other meta tags and stuff though.

 

the doc type is taken care of so no need to use that, and the title is taken care of by the page title you choose in page add form.

 

Then in the html part put this


< img src="images/logo2.jpg" alt="Ultimate Forces" title="Ultimate Forces" />
< img src="images/ultimateforcesintro.jpg" alt="Ultimate Forces" title="Ultimate Forces" />

 

And thats it no need to put body or html or anything like that as those are assumed values and taken from Oxwall and your main css theme.  Unless you want to change the body then you can do that thru css,  just put the css in the head section  <script type="text/css"> blah blah </script>  and then use your class or whatever in the html section.

 

Hope that helps.

The Forum post is edited by dave Jul 20 '13
Ian Haney
Ian Haney Jul 20 '13
Hi Dave


Thank you so much for the info, all works perfect now


I had a setting as well that was turned off, It was the site not being visible to guests setting in global permissions so turned that on and now works perfect, the welcome page is the first page users see now rather than the login form


Thank you so much for your help and info


I only started using this yesterday, are there any good plugins you recommend


Kind regards


Ian

dave Leader
dave Jul 20 '13

So glad that is working for you and glad to have helped. 

 

regarding plugins, yes of course there are several that work great for my needs, its all based on your needs.   First i would go thru the free options and grab those that you need.  Then look at the paid plugins.

 

Some of the plugins (free or paid) that work great in my case are:

 

abuse report

adminnotify

adminpal

advertisemet

antibruteforce

back to top

Cache extreme

chatrooms

country flag

games plus

google analytics

greetz

hint

ivideo

login notify

logout notify

macabre theme (i love this theme - it is dark)

message all

top users

privacy

profile progress bar

questions

reminder

smartcaptcha

tinychat

userip

userpurge

 

i do have others but honestly i had to do some visual mods to them and its probably over your experience level right now to do same.   But just keep learning and youll be a wiz in no time. 

 

Hope this helps.  :)

 

The Forum post is edited by dave Jul 20 '13
Ian Haney
Ian Haney Jul 20 '13
Thank you Dave for the list of plugins, am going through them now


How do you install them, is it done from the admin side

Ian Haney
Ian Haney Jul 20 '13
Ahh got it, see is from the admin side and just installed the games one
dave Leader
dave Jul 20 '13

The install process is different for some as there are various ways. 

 

Some people upload the zip file and then use admin to unpack and then install.

 

I prefer to unpack it locally so i can review it a bit before i put it on my server.

 

So what i do is unpack it locally to my pc

Then i upload it to the ow_plugins dir via ftp

Then i go to the site admin plugin sections, available plugins and choose install for that plugin.

Then i check the installed plugins section to see if that plugin has any settings i need to set.

 

Done.. :)

Ian Haney
Ian Haney Jul 20 '13
Cool


Thank you so much for the help and list of plugins, are really good ones


I will keep learing about oxwall and hopefully not post as much asking for help etc


Thank you again, really appreciate it


Kind regards


Ian

ross Team
ross Jul 21 '13
Dave, as always +1