i got the guestbook to work but..

[destro]

the letters on it are huge..

check it: http://empireofhouse.com/cgi-sys/gue...ser=emp ireof


is there someway to make the letters smaller..
also.. can i contain it in a table.. because when i sign it with a longer email address .. it moved my whole table.. and makes my page look broken up..

help..

maria

[mattsiegman]

Yes, there is a way to make them smaller. Right now, I can't really help because my web browser is acting up, but give me a few hours and bump the thread and I'll beable to help you.

[destro]

awesome.. thanks,
maria

[Vin DSL]

I've doing this with style sheets lately; specifically CSS. Takes a little getting used to, but they are the way to go IMHO. This is the editor I've been using. Makes the job a LOT easier...

http://www.bradsoft.com/topstyle/

[destro]

i use stylesheets for my site..
but.. its not taking what is in the cgi bin???

where do i need to put my css code so that itwill work?

maria

[jason]

The cgi-bin is a special directory where the server tries to execute anything that's inside of it. Therefore you can only put actual scripts in it. You'll need to put your css files in a different location, I recommend a directory in your public_html called css. Then, in your scripts where you reference the css file put "../css/file.css"--the ".." means back up one directory, putting you back into public_html.

Hope this helps.

--Jason

[destro]

hm.. that is where they are at right now..
in the public directory..

and in my code for the message board i put...

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.empireofhouse.com/empire.css" type="text/css">


i just went and added this to the code as well..
no change???



<!--- Don't modify the cgi tag --->
<span class="empire">
<cgi> </span>
<!--- Don't modify the cgi tag --->


do i need to go into the script?? i can't seem to find it either?

[mattsiegman]

it is probably a hard coded font tag somewhere in the script. If you can figure out which tag they are using, you may be able to overwrite the style of the tag in CSS.

[jason]

The Matt's Script Archive Guestbook, which the CP one is based on, was written long before there was such a thing as CSS. In those days we mixed content and style in the HTML without thinking about it. I'm sure Matt's guess above is correct. You may have some trouble customizing it without hacking at the Perl code.

--Jason

[mattsiegman]

Oh, well matt's scripts have pretty obvious HTML sections, it shouldn't be too hard...

[mariadiestro]

when i go to my cgi bin.. i don't see the perl script???

is that where it is? how come I can't see it??

maria

[mariadiestro]

i submitted a ticket.. and this was my answer..
so basically i can not access the file in the cgi folder... has anyone used this before and changed the text font??

any ideas??

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Hi Maria,

The guestbook.cgi script used is a serverwide one in /cgi-sys/ and will
not be there in the cgi-bin. Also this is a binary script and no
changes can mbe made to it.

Regards,
Veena

[mattsiegman]

maybe you can parse the output of it and kill the stuff you don't want?

[Vin DSL]

Um... it's not quite that easy. You have to build a CSS file with, say, a CLASS called , say, GUESTBOOK. You decide what font face, type, size, color and so forth you want to use. Then you save it in a CSS file. Example:

.guestbook{font-size: 16px;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #000066;
} 

Then, in your script, you still need to use tags to change the look, but instead of spelling the whole thing out every time, all you do is use, like:

 <font class="guestbook">

 or...

<p class=”guestbook”>

Everything else is pretty much as described above.

Really, if you've never done style sheets before, you should read up on them a little before attempting them. Once you get used to CSS it's a piece of cake, but like most things, it's a steep learning curve at first...

[mattsiegman]

I'm pretty sure he know CSS, look at the site