Ok guys I still haven't managed to find a way around this issue and need help or for enough people to vote and get this idea implemented

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Craig

I agree. I'm not sure if this was a mistake or not. If it was done on purpose, it's not quite fair to make a user choose between having a homepage or a forum.

I think you guys are making your html pages in the wrong place!!
an html page cannot replace your forum... that is impossible.

if you make a html page properly then the homepage is displayed as:
your address.com, and your forum would be
your address.com/index.

placehold, the html cannot replace the forum. Go to your modules, create a portal, but make only 2 boxes. a footer and header. then paste your ready made HTML page in the header ... this will replace your portal with your html page...

your forum will be under youraddress.com.index...

I did this with my old site... i had a homepage with CSS and HTML loaded on a free FTP provider... whilst my forum stayed as it were.

Nope its highly possible







Think we're thinking about two different things lol

I dont want a portal, i want a homepage, a customized welcome page which then links into the forum

I have programmed for years now however because i am not willing to pay for the html templates at the moment i cant adjust or address the problem codes lol




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Craig

Jalokim wrote:I think you guys are making your html pages in the wrong place!!
an html page cannot replace your forum... that is impossible.

if you make a html page properly then the homepage is displayed as:
your address.com, and your forum would be
your address.com/index.

placehold, the html cannot replace the forum. Go to your modules, create a portal, but make only 2 boxes. a footer and header. then paste your ready made HTML page in the header ... this will replace your portal with your html page...

your forum will be under youraddress.com.index...

I did this with my old site... i had a homepage with CSS and HTML loaded on a free FTP provider... whilst my forum stayed as it were.

Actually, it does. Select Yes in the "Use as homepage?" field while editing one of
your HTML pages. You'll find that your forum is now redirected from the index to the HTML page, which is quite annoying.

Also, in my case, I wanted to keep the portal "as is" and have the on-forumotion HTML page as the homepage(I'm greedy like that ), but this glitch/problem prevents it.

No you are doing it wrong....

look at what i wrote... you can't save the html via the forumotion...!! well you can write it there but you mustn't save it....

what you do is have the html in a notepad for example... just the html code... you can write it in the forumotion editor... modules -> html management

but you take the code from there... copy the entire code...

then go to modules -> portal structure -> new
create 2 boxes accross the whole portal... no columns...

name 1 box footer, name the other header...
paste your html into the header on the portal structure and save


^^ that will replace the portal... don't click any use as hompage...
if you want to add more pages just use the built in html page creator... but don't set as homepage... copy the links to your portal hopmepage

I hope this is clear

I'm gonna have to redo the whole code now

www.techwebsupport.com/portal.htm

Non the less tho the option is there in the HTML section and still needs rectified

Thanks for your help Jalokim

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Craig

No problem... it's good that you understood me...
I see your portal is almost ready ... just a couple centering problems...
I remember there was a thread on how to remove the top bar , nav bar and footer from the portal.... but i don't remember it now.


i like your html page... it looks sexy

thank you

I cant seem to get rid of most of the tables and such, m going to play around with the css a little and make a template to make it easier for everyone else. I feel it should still be raised so you can use the "Make this my homepage" link in the html section , it should replace the portal perhaps?!

I created the page using html and css however its supposed to look like this

www.placehold.webs.com

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Craig

Ok guys the tables wont move, if i change the CSS it works however it effects the forum cause its all from one CSS sheet

What i am requesting is the option in the HTML section of the admin panel to set the HTML page as the homepage actually activates and replaces the portal when selected!!!!!


Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee do this one thing for me

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Craig

Jalokim wrote:No you are doing it wrong....

look at what i wrote... you can't save the html via the forumotion...!! well you can write it there but you mustn't save it....

what you do is have the html in a notepad for example... just the html code... you can write it in the forumotion editor... modules -> html management

but you take the code from there... copy the entire code...

then go to modules -> portal structure -> new
create 2 boxes accross the whole portal... no columns...

name 1 box footer, name the other header...
paste your html into the header on the portal structure and save


^^ that will replace the portal... don't click any use as hompage...
if you want to add more pages just use the built in html page creator... but don't set as homepage... copy the links to your portal hopmepage

I hope this is clear

but what happens is that my logo is also added in the homepage....kan i get my logo in forums ut not in the homepage?!
in one of my forum i made a html page and redire ted it thorugh my portal!

Ok guys i went that step further and duplicated both the CSS and HTML used by forumotion for my main forum

I am now going to prove the point!

I added a HTML page using the HTML code used for my main forum section
www.techwebsupport.com (alternatively www.techwebsupport.com/index)
to which i renamed "forum"

I then set my customized homepage to "Index", i then added direct links to "forum" and was advised by several people here that the forum will still work that i was coding wrongly

Ok so say i was coding wrongly, the "Homepage" works brilliant and the "forum" shows as it should, now here's the kicker ...............

...............Non of the links held on the main forum work! This code i used for the "forum" i will remind everyone is the direct HTML code used by forumotion and this is because .......

The main forum is taking over by the HTML page and you loss the main forum!!!!

I also tried the portal, needless to say i wasn't happy with the way it came out, wasn't easy but it looked like hell, all the font sizes all over the place and images out of shape depending on what browser you used.

Can someone pleasssssssssssssssse apply the same function used by the portal to the HTML pages so when you set the HTML page to "Homepage" it doesn't take over the forum.....

you can check this out for yourself by visiting my forum page www.techwebsupport.com and selecting the last link "Forum" if you select any of the main forum sections it will take you back to the homepage but will show you the link in the url bar, strange!
and no this is not advertisement i am trying to get people to understand what is happening here so please don't delete the link...

I also want to thank everyone for their input

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Craig

Just noticed something stange

If i'm logged into my forum using Firefox and then open Internet explorer and visit the homepage its as if i'm already logged into the forum

if i then log out of Firefox then it asks me to log in on Internet explorer and looks like nothing has happened, strange

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Craig

Take it i'm on my own for this one lmao

If anyone wants to contribute or has a fix for this please feel free to post

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Craig

Ok guys i see the votes slowly going up however i haven't yet had any feedback

if someone could let me know your looking into this, that would be great

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Craig

Still no feeback

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Craig

Anything yet guys, this issue is still here and nothing's working

plssssssssssssss just let me know if someone's looking at it

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Craig

I wanna bring this back up lol

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Craig

HELP!
My forum deleted itself when I tried to make a splash page...
I opened it.. and my forum was gone

i'm already see your site craig
are you used any syntax image for browser?
sounds your forum not used any syntax's image for any browser -.-; cause i'm opened used 3 browser:
1.mozilla.
2.netscape.
3.opera.
and the results still same the forum seems like float, you should used that syntax's if you not used that the forum seems like float automatically


thanks