March 6th, 2006
DJC’s News Page
So I have been using SSI+ to synchronize the news posts made on DJC’s forums with the home page of the website so I am not posting news twice.
I’m not sure what the current version of SSI+ is I think I am using 3.1 or was it 1.3 one of the other.
Unfortunately I don’t think it uses XHTML which is a pain in the backside. I was using multiple skins on the website so I wanted to have the news posts change too unfortunately the template the SSI+ uses was made of tables, I really don’t like tables. So I decide to change them to use CSS except this created a few issues.
- It broke the footer section of the page.
- It still used tables anyway despite my changing it.
Now this annoys me that it uses tables even though I have opted not to, there must be another template being used somewhere but I don’t know where. Not only that but the Ampersands used in the URL’s of the SSI+ news blurbs aren’t coded as;
&
But instead use a regular “&” from the keyboard, which means that the index page doesn’t pass XHTML validation which annoys me.
Perhaps I can use a hybrid of CSS and tables, I really don’t want to as I would like to get rid of tables completely. But this still doesn’t solve the Ampersand problem, I think to fix that I would need to go rooting through IBF’s root files which to be honest I really do not want to do.