[sknight]

http://homeandaway.myfastforum.org/

I have had my domain mapped to MYFF site. And it worked great. Then someone told me there was a problem with the page when you first visit the site using www.thesoapdish.co.uk. I had a look and it is much like another problem I was having with portals so I removed all the portal codes {MYFF.VISITS} {MYFF.TOPPOSTERS count="5"}{MYFF.LINKSMENU}{MYFF.POPULAR}{MYFF.ANNOUNCE}{MYFF.LATEST}

The page still looks the same, it is as if the portals have duplicated and there is now portals on the left and right of the page. The strange thing is as soon as you click on the site logo the page goes back to how it should look.

I tried making a fresh copy of subsliver to try and fix it but the same problems are there even though I have not entered any portal codes. Could you have a look at www.thesoapdish.co.uk and let me know if you have any idea what the problem could be. Could it be my domain as the MYFF address works perfectly.

Thanks

[admin (no pm's please)]

When someone views the portal view of a forum there will be portals on that page, if overall_header.html also shows portals then you will get doubles.

The trick is to wrap the portal in overall_header.tpl in:
<!-- BEGIN switch_forum_view -->
<!-- END switch_forum_view -->

this will hide the portals when in the portal view.

[sknight]

I have just had a go and this is the very last part of my overall header tpl  

[Zudane]

I'd say make sure the end tag is on it's own line.

[sknight]

[Zudane]

So what is the problem now, having the empty space, or the extra portals?

[sknight]

Both really, if you look at http://homeandaway.myfastforum.org/

that is how I want it to look but for some reason when you use www.thesoapdish.co.uk it looks very different with the extra portals and not seeing the forum as the front page.

[admin (no pm's please)]

www addresses always go to the portal view. That cannot be changed.

The soapdish link does not work for me yet, so hard to say more.

[Zudane]

The portal view is the cms_index.tpl page that is shown.  NOT the default forum page.

If you want that blank spot on the side removed, then put the switch forum view tags around the table tags, not within them.  Otherwise you have a blank table cell on the portal view.

You could put the tags around the "left block" comment tags.  Then you'll know everything in that block is only in the forum view.

Anything else you want changed on that page will have to be changed on the cms_index.tpl template.

And remember: www. or /index.html lead to the portal page, no www. or /index.php or without either of them leads to the forum page.

[sknight]

thanks for your help guys, so if you look at www.thesoapdish.co.uk would you have any suggestions to help tidy it up. For instance, the main menu and soap dish links are ontop of the welcome message. How would i move that to the left?

I am sorry I am asking silly questions but I really appreciate your help and I am trying to self learn too so I don't keep having to bother you here.

Any help would be great

[Zudane]

Remember that anything on that page is part of the cms_index.tpl page.  It's usually set as a table, so research up on tables (Check htmlgoodies.com - they have a few nifty primers (quick-start guides) that's where I first learned HTML many moons ago).

[sknight]

Thanks, great advice as always here, I will do just that.