Tom

Well, what I thought (or maybe someone else said and I just adapted) was having an external, independent skin host (or just somewhere on phpVMS/VACentral) and API keys for users, then all skins are delivered from that site. That way, free skins can be uploaded (and properly managed to remove ones which don't work or are no longer supported) and licensed to everyone, and skins can be uploaded by the designers/whoever to be licensed for a single user. If someone tries to use a skin they're not licensed to, they'll just get a lovely big warning all over their airline. Not really put a lot of thought into how it'd work though.

Try emptying your cache etc... both of those work for everything (the one you had in the beginning is actually the way Microsoft recommends you do it, so...)

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" /> <link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" />

Navigation needs some work; links that go nowhere, links I shouldn't be able to see... Couldn't find a link to any schedules so I had to use the one you gave.

Having users register via facebook will mean a lot of editing in core files, however you could have a module to link their account and facebook and use event listeners to post when they complete a flight?

Good luck. You'd be better off skinning your forums.

Yup. Move all the information that you want on the home page only to frontpage_main.tpl For the map, have a look both in local.config.php and the map template file for map height and width settings, change those.

What on earth are you doing? You don't need maps! <div id="body"> <div id="innerwrapper"> <div id="topBanner"> <a href="http://vatsim.net"><img src="http://www.canforce.org/lib/skins/crystal/images/VATSIM.jpg" width="166" height="63" alt="vatsim" usemap="#vatsim" /></a> <a href="http://vatcan.org"><img src="http://www.canforce.org/lib/skins/crystal/images/VATCAN.jpg" width="158" height="62" alt="vatcan" usemap="#vatcan" style="float:right;" /></a> <div id="topLogin"> <?php if(Auth::LoggedIn() == true) { $pilotid = PilotData::GetPilotCode(Auth::$userinfo->code, Auth::$userinfo->pilotid); ?> <strong>Pilot ID: </strong> <?php echo $pilotid ; ?> <strong>Rank: </strong><?php echo Auth::$userinfo->rank;?><br /> <strong>Total Flights: </strong><?php echo Auth::$userinfo->totalflights?>, <strong>Total Hours: </strong><?php echo Auth::$userinfo->totalhours;?> <?php } ?> </div> </div> <div id="topNav"> <ul class="nav">

You can quite easily add more functions as each have their own queries, yes

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=horizontal+css+menu+tutorial

There's absolutely no reason to be doing that in flash. Use something appropriate, i.e. HTML, and it'll work.

I also found Internet Explorer has this 'view-source' feature that lets you read ALL of the code... I think it should be banned from the internet completely. (I'm sorry I couldn't resist)

On the div the content goes in: height:auto;overflow:hidden;

Or get it for free with cloudflare, who specialise in this service... cough cough.

http://forum.phpvms.net/topic/6426-header-hotspots/

Right. I prefer to teach the idea of how to do it right rather than "how it's possible to do it but you probably shouldn't do it that way in some cases so you'll have to learn another method too" - it just gets people into bad habits, like using image maps at all.

Ew no don't do that. It's so outdated. Use a separate image and float it over the header, wrapping it in an anchor as you would a normal link.

I think something is very, very wrong.

That is an awful metaphor, and I have no respect for people who take that attitude. If you want something and it's not free, pay for it like you're supposed to.

Rip off Also the site you linked doesn't even seem to do hosting... if they do, they have the worst site ever (it's pretty much impossible to find anything anyway). It's possible to run a VA for free, but you'll have many problems fixing it because of the weird hosting configuration, a pretty nasty looking skin (unless you know HTML + CSS + a little PHP and have some sort of design sense yourself) and a free domain name... but who doesn't trust a free domain name right?

In case either of you didn't realise, you're both infringing American Airlines' copyright by using their logo without explicit written permission. Thought I'd throw that out there.

You shouldn't assume an .it domain is hosted in Italy, or a .de domain is hosted in Germany, and so on. I have .co.uk, .eu, .it domains - all hosted in the US... It's probably most likely hosted in the US because it's cheap and popular Other thing is geographical location will have a minimal effect on load times... he should be more worried about his code Problem solved.

I would tell you how to speed it up but even Google Page Speed can't load the page.

Oh, didn't notice you'd put the extra $ in before firstname when I quoted you. <?php echo Auth::$userinfo->firstname; ?>

Someone can't copy and paste?