REMOVAL of FLASH PROMO box and borders ....

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Finally figured it out on my own, even though this should have been thought of (and answered) by boonex experts since the html option (when in use) does not actually remove some of the unwanted promo box, like the grey borders or the humongous margins! Here's the solution. The following has been tested to work with IE6, IE7, and Firefox 3.0 browsers.

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I'm going to assume that you know how to upload and download files via FTP, as well as editing files in a decent text editor. If not, you may as well stop reading right here. To completely remove any and all traces of the flash promo box, including flash images, fat margins, and the grey border, there are only 3 steps required and I'm super disappointed that "so called experts" in the forum couldn't post this before me, someone who's been using dolphin for only apx. 10 days.

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Step 1: Disable the flash promo from within the admin panel, settings/basic settings, by enabling the html block. However, do nothing else! Just save and leave the HTML alone. After you refresh your homepage you'll be left with a grey rectangular border below the main menu. Two more easy steps to get rid of that one.

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Step 2: Find the index.php in your root folder ... the one where you installed dolphin. Near the bottom you'll find this code:
$_ni = $_page['name_index'];

$_page_cont[$_ni]['promo_code'] = getPromoCode();

$_page_cont[$_ni]['page_main_code'] = $oIPV -> getCode();.

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The second line needs to be commented out.

$_ni = $_page['name_index'];

///////////// DISABLE FLASH PROMO BOX $_page_cont[$_ni]['promo_code'] = getPromoCode();

$_page_cont[$_ni]['page_main_code'] = $oIPV -> getCode();.

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Almost done, but having changed the above causes a page error/message to appear. Not a big deal since it's very small, but why not get rid of that as well? After refreshing your homepage yet again you'll see this near the top left: __promo_code__

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In order to remove that, go to your template files and locate the page_1.html file. Look under ... templates/tmpl_uni/page_1.html and open up that file, it's a very tiny one. This is the entire content of that file:

__include _header.html__
__promo_code__
__page_main_code__
__include _footer.html__

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Now go ahead and comment out the second line like this:

<!-----    __promo_code__     ----->

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Bingo, that's it.

Go ahead and reload/refresh your homepage and you'll see that every trace of the flash promo is gone!

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Greetings from Germany

 So after 10 days of using Dolphin we're supposed to bow down and race to answer your modification questions?  Maybe the veterans here should also start reading your mind to anticipate what you would like next.  Keep in mind everyone here in this forum gets paid exactly the same amount as you to help answer questions, I'm mailing your check out for March now, it will be the same as mine, Sammies, mrpowless, ArturA and everyone elses'... $0.00...

Due to the fact that we are volunteering our time here, we need to look at the questions asked and decide which ones to answer, those are the ones that will most likely benefit the majority of people.  Often, a redundant question will get ignored by those of us who help, not to be rude but because it has been answered and the search function would show that. 

Now, just for fun and to let you know a little secret...

You could shorten this modification up a lot more by doing it this way:

Go to templates/tmpl_uni/page_1.html

Locate:

    __promo_code__

And either delete it or comment it out.  Your done and the promo box is gone.  Much simpler and way easier....  

As always the longer way increase performance because it reduces server processing.

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Thanks for the flame, but yeah, f_ing absolutely !!!

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Maybe the veterans here should also start reading your mind to anticipate what you would like next.  Keep in mind everyone here in this forum gets paid exactly the same amount as you to help answer questions, I'm mailing your check out for March now, it will be the same as mine, Sammies, mrpowless, ArturA and everyone elses'... $0.00...

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I don't know where you've been during the past 15 to 20 years, but I've been working online since the early 90s. My comment wasn't directed at you personally but clearly you must take some sort of offense for not understanding that first and foremost a forum is designed to be helpful. That's why my comment was directed at boonex and those so called experts. Your response is a perfect example of what's wrong with forums when software vendors decide to shirk their responsibility by dumping their entire support on forums such as this! Sorry, but that's a bullshit cop-out when you expect for people to pay 100.00 and 200.00 and upwards of 500.00 USD for a product ... without being willing to produce fast & concise answers to important questions !!

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Hmmm, so how do we measure such importance ???

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Well, I'd say that if several members repeat the same damn question over a period of 6+ months, it's high friggen' time to produce some answers, like the question about the white background/login block on the homepage. Numerous questions, numerous months ... and not one answer. Like it or not, but that's a load of BS.

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Here's another one for you. Boonex (not I or any of the members who've paid their dues) decided all on their own to create a product on which page widths can be changed. Well, when you create such options, you should provide support for such same functions (if you're really willing to stand behind your product, that is). Now then, how would you feel if you wanted to "go public" with a community that you've invested lots of money and time into, thinking & hoping that some decent support would be available ... only to find out that by changing the page width, the profile photos for each profile get totally screwed up .... MEANING .... that you can't do a damn thing with your community until that problem has been corrected. And so you sit there, and sit there, and sit there ....

That (above) topic too, has been brought up more thna once in several months, a topic that has yet to be answered. Am I supposed to be happy about that? I'm sitting here, blowing a crap load of my personal money and personal time ... and can't get any answers. Just how important do YOU think that question is, regarding the screwed up placement of the photos in EACH profile? I dare say that that is pretty gosh darn important.

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But you know, it's not just me! There are plenty of other complaints that I've come across, people complaining several weeks in a row for not getting any answers .... people complaining that "boonex developers" (the ones making the bucks) never seem to respond, and complaints by members (including ones who pay) who "bump" their question up, over and over ... without getting any answers! And you're really going to sit there and tell me that that is not a bunch of crap?

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Like I said, I've been around the block for awhile, and when you work online as long as I have and when you hang out at places like sourceforge for as long as I have, then you'll find out that dolphin is only as cool as cool can be when you're willing to pay for it and some of the mods, plugins, whathaveyou. And that's perfectly okay, I see nothing wrong with paying for a good product. BUT, you'll also find that 99% of the products that require $100.00 or more to be "really cool" also offer decent support via other means than a lousy forum where nobody provides answers in a timely fashion. Again, the comment wasn't directed at "general users" like you or I, so why take offense? Ever hear of false patriotism ... ???

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And then, along comes "someone" who complains because people like me "dare to vent" their frustration at sitting on a product that can't even be publically promoted after having shelled out 220.00 bucks. Now that really takes the cake. Heck, there isn't even a manual and if you want one of those ... you can buy that too. Dolphin appears to be a classic example (now) of a product that's designed first and foremost to strictly make money, while everything else is secondary. Oh yeah, awesome "community spirit" that I can sense there.

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There's no doubt in my mind that my complaints are legit, and there's no doubt in my mind that quite a few people feel like that ... but are afraid to say so for fear of being flamed or put down, just as I have been !!! Look in the forums, there's plenty of individual complaints out there and when you shell out big bucks for a product with little to no timely support, then you have the right to complain about it too!

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What what waste of time, geeez!

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Um, ah, greetings from germany anyway.

First of all let's cover your issues:

1.  My site has a whole lot more than $220 invested in it.  My server bills break that number every month.

2.  Support from Boonex is very simple to obtain.  E-mail the support department Sunday through Thursday and you will normally have an answer the next morning.  On weekends and holidays it will take until the next business day.  Not bad when you think about the fact they're in a way different time zone than most of us.

3.  If you spent $220 on your licensing and you have 15-20 years experience online, that makes you a slow learner because I hold every license Dolphin has for my site and I only spent $100 on them total.  Now, in October I will spend another $100 for another year...

4.  Boonex staff does come into this forum and answer questions through out the day, even in their off time.  This is because they actually care about the software and the forum is the quickest way to get answers to a large number of individuals in the shortest amount of time.  I will admit, sometimes the answers are difficult to understand due to language barriers, but we normally have people to help translate/interpret it if the need be through those of use you so eloquently refer to as "general users".

5.  You can go do to your local BMW Dealership and spend $70k US on a brand new Beamer and get all the support you want.  But if you modify that BMW from what the factory set up it for or designed it as then your on your own.  In this instance you asked how to modify Dolphin to do something it was not designed to do, specifically to remove an item from it.  Do you think if you asked BMW how to remove the catalytic convertor and still be EPA legal they would tell you? 

***Now, you've been a member of this community for 26 days.  That leads one to believe you've been using the software for "26 Days".  That is far from making you an expert in it.  Don't come in here ripping me apart, or Boonex apart because they or "general users" won't answer your questions fast enough for you.  If you want a custom item you have 3 choices:

1.  Develop it yourself.

2.  Come in here and ask for help and wait until someone with the knowledge has a moment to help you after they notice the question.

3.  Go pay someone to develop the item for you. 

But don't come in here after "26 DAYS" (See I can do that too) asking us to help you and then throwing up a rant about it.  When $220.00 becomes so important to you that you have to go off on a rant like this, then you need to review whether your prepared to build a site and support it from incubator stage to full blown widely known & used.  And so you know, as most here do, my site is built and in production phase.  We passed Beta with it a long time ago, it's used by many to see how mods work and as one of the examples of how versatile Dolphin can be.  I'm pretty sure though that you've bought many of those "Get Rich Now" Advertisements on the internet.  Dolphin is not one of them, it's for those of us who are serious about building a site and investing the future of that site.  Curious, have you checked out the advertising costs for your site on Google yet? 

And as far as resolve time goes, I checked it on my test site.  There is no difference in the resolve time using either version of this modification.  The second version is just simpler for the "Newbies" to figure out how to do.  Dolphin is designed to check the page_#.html and call the items it requests first, if it doesn't call the __promo_code__ in the .html file then it never calls it period, it just flies right over it as the browser builds the entire page. 

***Edit:  Nice job, your adjustments have also fully knocked your logo off so we have to scroll to the right and it's next to where the promo box belongs... Looks Great meinecommunity, very professional looking if I don't say so myself.

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I just got started with the logo about 30 minutes ago and it took awhile to get it placed correctly. No biggie. I was just experimenting around a little.

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You need to learn to read ....

Dolphin was indeed designed to disable the flash header if a user wants to choose that ... but boonex didn't take "the full step" to let users know that in order to remove the flash block margins additional other work was needed, nor what that work would be.

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Dolphin was designed for pages to be narrower ... but boonex didn't feel that users need to be told what to do in the event of profile pages going to crap in the process, a process that was designed intentionally by boonex.

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Dude, what is your problem?

I'm complaining about stuff that dolphin was indeed designed to do.

I'm not altering anything that shouldn't be or couldn't be altered, well except for the new header maybe.

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And please, where do you get off, telling me that BS about boonex developers having come on the forum for help, and quickly at that? I wasn't just blowing smoke. My complaints were based on topics that I've seen with my own eyes, dolphin 6.1 topics, and questions that haven't been answered in months. How do you explain that?

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Last but not least ... you didn't get that part about the 220.00 USD and the free public community either. So let me detail it out a little bit more. We have about half a dozen different types of portals, half a dozen separate subdomains with each their own function on top of that ... all of it working together for free and encompassing more than 40.000 files. Dolphin i.e. the community was just the last of many, many options that we offer for free ... FREE by the way having NOTHING to with a get rich scheme. And if you want everything (including dolphin) actually BRANDED to your project, business, whatever, then that has to be paid for as well. All told we've paid over 8000.00 USD into our project without making a dime and whether you like to hear it or not, dolphin support is the crappiest support that I've seen yet. I've been dealing with dozens of companies and software vendors during the past 3 years and know what I'm talking about as far as "this" support is concerned. This forum is pushed very, very heavily ... but I sure wouldn't recommend it to anyone who thinks that they can buy into dolphin, expecting a beautiful community to be "ready freddy" within a matter of days or even weeks. In case you didn't know ... things that don't work correctly aren't worth a dime and if I have to wait 3 or 4 or 6 months for answers in order to get everything running right ... then as far as I'm concerned that's 3 or 4 or 6 months of community downtime, for no good reason at all. To me, that's inexcusable. But ... whatever ....

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Greetings from Germany

playing the devils advacate here i think there are points in both camps. If you get really stuck you can get in touch with boonex support and they will answer you, but this forum isnt a hot line for demanding answers. no offence here MC but i have seen you post a question and when  a member as said something underneath you, but hasnt provided an answer, just a comment, you have been very dismissive of that member and told him basically if he hasnt anything constructive to say then to shut up. thats not how a community forum works. On the other hand, there is a need for better documentation and instruction, as that is lacking, and that seems to be because somebody is always trying to sell the book, saying that though there are other places that you can learn a lot from, take a look at this list for starters http://www.dialme.com/news/-Welcome- Ive used a fair bit from this brill site on my learning curve.

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I think i get the feeling that what is really going off, is that nobody is really bothered about dolphin 6xx anymore, everybody is just waiting for 7 and then 8, so anything said about 6 is just really temporary, as 7 is due for release at anytime time now, at least that is how i feel. Ive really stopped messing around with 6 now i know there wont be a 6 final to iron out a few problems and just hanging around waiting for 7

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regards

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Tyke

Thanks Tyke for the input.  I think what MC is not getting here is that he has been told how to get support and is simply to impatient to wait for that support.  What's really funny, is he's closer timezone wise than I am and I've figured it very quickly.  What I did notice in that final rant is this:

So let me detail it out a little bit more. We have about half a dozen different types of portals, half a dozen separate subdomains with each their own function on top of that ...

That would imply that your choose to not purchase more than one domain name for your sites and instead like to route people into subdomains and just confuse the crap out of them.  It's already been proven when SEO a site that a subdomain for a community site is a bad idea... But your the pro here, I'm just the idiot running Dolphin.

 all of it working together for free and encompassing more than 40.000 files. Dolphin i.e. the community was just the last of many, many options that we offer for free ...

I'm glad to here that you offer your communities for free, and even happier to hear your offering Dolphin for free, especially since that is how you received it. 

FREE by the way having NOTHING to with a get rich scheme.

I'm glad to see your starting to listen and realize free is not a get rich quick scheme.

And if you want everything (including dolphin) actually BRANDED to your project, business, whatever, then that has to be paid for as well. All told we've paid over 8000.00 USD into our project without making a dime

Now I'm starting to see the issue here.  In 3 years times a group of you has invested $8000.00 US into your project and not made a dime.  Hmmmm... My first month, still in Beta phase, I made $18.81 US.  I guess this means I'm better at marketing than you are.  The month was still a loss, but at least I got that $18.81 US back...

 and whether you like to hear it or not, dolphin support is the crappiest support that I've seen yet. I've been dealing with dozens of companies and software vendors during the past 3 years and know what I'm talking about as far as "this" support is concerned.

We're very proud to hear the your accustomed to support from your parents and saddened to hear that Dolphin support is not as good in your mind as the support you've become accustomed to.  Unfortunately, it still remains that you've had this software for 26 days and so far have failed to really help the community learn anything new about it.

Now, as far as the promo box goes.  Your wrong, it was not designed by dolphin to be fully removed, it was designed to give you a choice.  Let me help you out here.  You can, by Dolphin Design, upload images which will rotate through the promo box or you can create a custom HTML table, layout, text field or even upload tons of images via HTML coding into the promo area.  It was not designed though, for you to just remove it.  If it was, then it would have had things added into the Admin Panel to do that.  So, by removing the promo box you are in effect modifying the script in a manner it was not originally intended to be modified in.  Requests such as that, which are customization requests, are not the problem of Boonex support staff.  They are not going to custom write the software just for you, me, bill, tony, ed, sara, jane, dick and harry.  That is up to us to do if we so choose, individually or as a group.

Now, what will Boonex Support Staff help you with?  Original Dolphin Designed and supposed to be functional parts of the software that are not working.  You achieve this support one way, which I have told you before, this time I'll say it real slow for you so you can fully comprehend it.  Now following me:

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I hope you can follow the arrows.  If you do it politely they will respond, if you are really polite they may even fix it for you.  Now, a good example of this is when Video Profiles are not working, they love to fix this item as it let's them put up videos on our sites.  They're really cool videos you get too.  Things like tapping the mic, making funny faces... They'll even give ya a raspberry on webcam if you ask.

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It's been said before and I'll repeat again ...
@mydatery

You really need to learn to read, and not just skim over the text.

Furthermore, you shouldn't be making so many assumptions about our project.

You do know what they say about ASSumptions, right? Everyone has one .....

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No, subdomains are not confusing at all if they're being used correctly.

The actual project homepage is this one here: http://www.einfachclicken.de/

That's the portal that offers free public access to a ton of free services, stuff like ... Server games, Online Calender & annual planner, video portal, interactive photo albums, seven day weather forecast, computer hardware help, graphical winvista help, screened software downloads (the best freeware out of thousands), musical greeting cards, graphical contact manager, desktop tools, route planner, our own extensive user forum, etc. etc. etc. and all without advertising !!! Again, the community is just one small part of a whole. In total we have 17 TLDs and 6 subdomains. However 9 of the TLDs are just used for mirroring in order to prevent usage of like/similar domains and4 of them are used for our upcoming commercial tie-ins.

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We're getting between 250 and 300 individual visitors per day, each averaging between 4 and 5 pages per visit. Considering that our audience is almost entirely german speaking, that's pretty darn good without any advertising for ourselves. No need for that yet either ....

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It's not about money, but rather, about a better type of internet that's more user friendly with more for free and easy for youngsters, professionals, and also seniors to use. Oh, and as far as your 18.00 USD profit goes ... who cares? We knew what we were developing 3 years ago and our timeline was, yup you guessed it, about 3 years. We're just now finishing the development which was actually supposed to be done by the end of February at which point we decided that a community is also needed ... that being the absolutely last item though (the community won out over a music portal and an auction platform).

Yes, there's a commercial aspect involved too, but that has nothing to do with all of the free stuff that we offer anyway nor the fact that we're offering everything without ads (except for some banners in our video portal, to our own free public stuff).

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@tyke

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Yes, I agree with you at least partially, that in anticipation of dolphin 7, people are generally ignoring a lot of dolphin 6.1 issues that are still around. Sadly, and as said before, there are still many questions out there which have been around as far back as July without any answers. And yes, I do get irritated when people provide topic answers that serve absolutely no purpose aside from increasing ones own forum stats. Sure, a thread can grow just like this one has, that's normal, but it's a bunch of BS when people, regardless of who it is, are asking for help ... and others come along with ingenious comments like ... hey, install firebug and find it .... wasn't this asked somewhere else .... if you contact so and so he might be able to help .... sorry I don't know the answer either, glad you asked though .... and other crap like that. That's all comments like that are ... pure crap!

And yeah, people like mydatery tend to irritate me when they don't read, really pay attention to what's being said, and more importantly, when people like that actually know the answers to certain questions already but won't provide them. He's been on this forum daily as long as I have, probably longer, and the questions about the flash promo have been around for a week or so too ... but it wasn't until today that he decided to say something, after the answers had already been posted by me. That's the behavior that irritates me, people who know something and won't share. That's the whole purpose of a product forum ... to provide answers & information. And a far as my own posts go, take a look at them mydatery, I think that I've contributed quite a bit already for the little amount of time that I've spent here.

Okay, what the heck, this is really it for me. This is all getting too stale to keep on going over.

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Greetings from Germany

It is difficult i feel when you get into dolphin in the middle of  change, a lot of us get a bit stuck sometimes, but its nothing to really stress about, people do their best to try to help, even if they dont know the answer, when somebody comments under a question, i always see that as support for the question, in the hope that it will get answered by someone who knows more about it. In the long run though we are here to help each other the best we can, and if you get help from an experienced member (which im not) then the right way to go i feel, is that somebody is doing you a favour, which they are, getting aggravated doesnt do anything for people wanting to try at least to help you, or support the question you are asking.

I read a comment by a member a while ago, and nothing rings more true that what she said. "Dolphin isnt really an out of the box product, it is a complicated bit of software after all, doing all the things it does with ray and orca, and it takes time to gets to grips with, and does take time to mould to what you want it to do for you", and that so true, i spend 7 hours a day tweeking this and fiddling with that, and you have to love that side of it with dolphin, or you will end up getting frustrated at times, i know i have.

when you see somebody elses dolphin site you can admire, its not apparent the work that has been put into it, and i really dont think you can set dolphin up in a few days and have it the way you want it, not unless you are whizz kid with coding and stuff.

Patience is a virtue, and its certainly needed to get the best out of dolphin.

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regards

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Tyke

Thanks sammie, good news on the 6 final then.... thats a really good move i feel by boonex.

 1.  My reference to money made first month was known as sarcasm.

2.  Your right, I saw your question prior and chose to not answer it.  Todays answering it had nothing to do with anything other than you gave the long solution to a problem rather than taking the simple step.  As far as why you did not get a response from me before, go back and look at all the questions you've posted.  I'd be surprised if I've answered a single question from you because you seem to have a chip on your shoulder.  Now, if your such an experienced coder why should I tell you where to find the answers?  Point is, I choose who to help based on a couple of things:

        A.  How well have they written the question?  I don't need a huge dialogue about how great or poor dolphin is, just ask me the question in a manner that I can actually replicate your problem or make sense out of it.  Notice, I said problem, not customization. 

        B.  What is the attitude of the individual who is asking the question?  Do they come across with a better than thou attitude or do they sincerely need a hand.  I don't charge for the help I give and thus I pay attention to who is asking and help those who truly need it.  If you come across to me as if your a professional programmer I'm probably going to let you go find the answer your self and only correct you if the answer you post is going to either confuse the newbies who really rely on this forum for help or if it is completely wrong and going to cause more issues than it solves.  Now, the answer you gave in this forum required a newbie who tried it to take more risks than necessary by commenting out files (not all know how to do that, though you did explain it), opening various files and jumping in and out of Admin.  It is much easier and wiser to just let them edit one line of 1 page and be done.  It has no effect on page resolve time therefore the other steps are a mute point. 

         C.  I do not respond to questions from people who choose to insult this software or take issues insulting the Boonex staff who really does work hard to answer as many questions as they can and to create a software that happens to be beyond the skill level of most programmers who come in here with attitude problems just like you have demonstrated pretty much since you came in here. 

Now, don't accuse me of not reading your posts, don't come in here and attempt to bash the Boonex Staff (this is there house your in so learn some manners) and don't attempt to act like you know what your talking about when it comes to this software because your as new to it as I was the first day I saw it.  Practice a little etiquette in this forum and treat people with respect and you'll get it back.

By the way, your anchor.css edit is nothing more than telling people to change colors, and the majority of it is wrong.  Very few items actually get edited in.

As far as your question concerning the profile pics... I'll give you a hint:

http://mydatery.com/brandy  It resolves absolutely beautifully in IE.  It's called a 3 column table with a full width column 1 & the other columns floating over it.  My personal design and I'll be happy to share, with everyone but you MC.  Enjoy trying to figure that one out and get everything to resolve perfectly...

As far as Firebug goes, sometimes that is the best answer we have to the issue.  I don't have time to go modify my test site for every single item or track it down.  If I see something is pretty simple I give the same answer Sammie gave to my first question:

Install Firebug on Firefox and go track it down.  Believe it or not, that solves more problems for people than you could imagine.  In addition, it teaches them how to track down other problems in the future themselves and not have to waste time waiting for someone who knows the answer to get to them.  It really does work.  We don't want to spend all of our time helping the same exact people.  We also don't want threads filled with the same exact questions which is why we will refer you to a thread that handles a topic if it applies.  Hell, I've even referred people to threads that were only somewhat related because I knew they could figure out the answer from there.  IE:  Member photo size was referred to a thread on Featured Members Photo Size.  It applied.

Point is, it's not my job or Boonex's job to track down and solve your customization questions.  It's your job.  Maybe your the one not reading here and only skimming the posts.  Did I miss anything here?  Outside of the goal of your site, I don't think I did... But then again, I don't really care what the goal of your site is, I've already subjected myself to it 1 time more than I ever wanted to.  Though I will admit, you did do a good job blending the oranges and browns, that is a tough one for most to do.

Mydatery, why do you always make things so personal and antogonistic? See Sammies answer, she has addressed all the issues and explained Boonex and it's philsophy and not one personal remark or attack. That is how you should address such issues or remain in the background. I want to like you Mydatery, but I cannot help getting annoyed at your attitude. MC, thanks for posting your solution on here. I look forward to seeing more such posts. Please also note what Sammie has said and welcome to the forum.

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Thanks a million tyke, sammie, Stuart038.

At least I feel a little understood. The comment that started this mess ...

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Finally figured it out on my own, even though this should have been thought of (and answered) by boonex experts since the html option (when in use) does not actually remove some of the unwanted promo box ... and I'm super disappointed that "so called experts" in the forum couldn't post this before me

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was absolutely no reason to slam me the way that mydatery did. I stated what I perceived to be fact as well as my own feelings and nothing in that highlighted text excuses all of the mess that followed, initiated by mydatery. I also appreciate the fact that sammie didn't rip me a new one ... considering what I've seen fairly recently. OUCH !!!

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Regarding the anchor.css file ....

I have no idea what you're talking about mydatery. I edited that one and only that one for all of our link colors within the system and it worked like a charm. The proof is on our community page and subsequent links from there. Besides, it wasn't written for people like you but more for inexperienced people who might not know nor understand what they're getting involved with before it's too late. That's why all those commented areas are there. You're just not happy unless you can bust on someone, I guess?

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@tyke ... quote from that other member ...

"Dolphin isnt really an out of the box product, it is a complicated bit of software after all, doing all the things it does with ray and orca, and it takes time to gets to grips with, and does take time to mould to what you want it to do for you"

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Well, the only problem with that is the fact that when you look at the boonex website, in particular the promo for dolphin, there's nothing there that indicates that it could be difficult to work with, or even worse, a nightmare for inexperienced users/programmers. Matter of fact, even worse, dolphin is being promoted as the most astounding user friendly community (kind of, not literally) that's out there, with so many features (too many to list), etc. etc. etc. Now granted, it's a promo to get people interested and of course you're not going to say anything negative about your own product, but in this particular case I think the hype is a bit overdone. It's a lot more work than I would have ever thought, and I am an experienced programmer for several different applications ... but php doesn't rank the top of that list. My knowledge there is just basic which is why I was relying on these helpful forums and such (not wanting to bother the staff with time consuming emails either if the answers had already been found previously by others).

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Thanks again for your professionalism! It's something that I can learn from as well. I've had ADhD all my life (it's not an excuse) and my fuse is pretty short, especially when it seems that I'm wasting oodles of time that I don't have in the first place. But as far as forum searches go, I have to say that I've done tons of single word searches (since those often come up with more results), but only in the 6.1 forum in order to make sure that my found answers won't conflict with my version. Promise, this is it for me for this thread ... I'm outta here!   ;)

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Greetings from Germany

This was answered over a year ago at boonexnerd.com

http://www.boonexnerd.net/dolphin/orca/?action=goto&topic_id=Removing-the-Home-Page-Graphic-Block-Completely-

This answer was there more than a year in expertzzz forum and mod my site, there is no need for a book to be publish based on solutions posted by many dedicated expertzzz who has been there providing solutions .This is something like codyT taking all our solution and make mod to sell it.

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This was answered over a year ago at boonexnerd.com

http://www.boonexnerd.net/dolphin/orca/?action=goto&topic_id=Removing-the-Home-Page-Graphic-Block-Completely-

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This answer was there more than a year in expertzzz forum, there is no need for a book to be publish based on solutions posted by many dedicated expertzzz who has been there providing solutions .

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Over a year ago? Does the answer really apply to version 6.1 too? Umh, sorry though. I purchased this product from boonex and boonex has their own forum. I'm working with over 40.000 files and don't have time to hunt answers down in 3 or 4 different websites. Boonex is where I'm looking, and that's that. Geeez, I thought this topic had been beaten to death already? What more can there possibly be to add?

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Greetings from Germany

Huh? That's a web site moron. Not a book and you are a presumptuous asshat.

FYI, hunting for answers in other websites is a good thing. Not sure why you seem to think otherwise. Get over yourself. Reading this thread confirms my thoughts about you. You are an asshat.

As always when they are exposed of their wolves in sheep clothings intention , they begin to swear.Anyway im not going to retailate because it  aint worth my time and profitable to anyone. Swear all you want in here , a wise man once said when you stop feeding the indecent mouth they would generally feel stupid at the end.

I dont really think there was a need for that kind of flaming there melia, doesnt do any good for the tone of the boards. I think a lot of the time misunderstandings can accurr because of the misconceptions of what this forum is about so when people dont get answers from staff, then it can seem as if nobody is bothered. Plus of course forums are know for misunderstandings because of the nature of the written word (thats why emoticons are used) to portray the posters intentions, but they dont work on here. Then of course we have different world cultures all trying to work together,English not being some peoples first language.That built on peoples frustrations with dolphins complex workings and learning curve involved, then there are going to be times when things get a bit flamey, best not to aggravate it further though eh :-)

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Smile, its better for your health :-)

In regrard to who this was written for... It wasn't that long ago I was cuttin my teeth on this here software and didn't know what a language key was... That's the specific reason I write my help out in an extremely basic manner.  Now, your OP flamed the Boonex staff and that is where this started, let's not forget that little piece of information. 

Moving on... You received the software from Boonex?  You want to only obtain your answers on boonex sites?  Okay, that's good... Can I fill ya in on a little secret there MC?  Lean in real close, we don't want anyone else to know this okay... It's a very very very important little secret...

expertzzz.com is owned & operated by BOONEX for the specific purpose of helping to support this software. 

boonexnerd is endorsed by the majority of dolphin site owners as a place to get answers to many of the questions that people have with dolphin.

Now, go kiss up and try to explain yourself somewhere else.  Obviously, you think the $220 you spent on Dolphin and the $8000 over the past year on your site gives you some specific status as a great guru.  Guess what?  We have tons of people here who have well over that invested in their sites who come in here politely, without insulting/bashing/whining seeking help and they get it as fast as it can be done.  Had you simply stated your question and/or solution to a problem this would not have developed.  But I am completely fed up with idiots coming here claiming support sucks for this software when I know for a fact from personal experience that Boonex support does everything they can to support this software and make the entire thing as user friendly as they can.  Sammie already explained this even further. 

Now pull up your big boy pants and stop your incessant whining. 

And guys... Watch later today, I have some rewards coming to the site owners that I normally give to my site members.  Nothing huge, just a way of saying thanks to everyone who helped me out when I was new.  They'll be posted later today, with the blessing of Boonex staff.

Dont give up MC, its worth the effort in the end, and when it all comes together its a joy to see. you sound a lot more advanced than i am, i couldnt write a working php or css file to save my life, but following what other people have written, and still using the uni-template, in the space of a few weeks ive managed to come up with this.

http://www.adultconnect.net/ (This is work safe by the way) lol

probably still a long way to go, but if i can tame the beast, im sure you can too

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Tyke

Sammie and MD could not agree more with you, and in my humble opinion, THANK YOU for your posts and help, and by help I don't mean "do it for me", I mean "try this I did it and it worked". Sammie's Dolphin for dummies has help me tremendously

I am new to Dolphin, and chose because 1. it's open 2. it's free 3. there is this forum; which is why I leaned towards Dolphin. I really like Dolphin and am at the beginning stages, and I must say that what I have learned since the beginning is thanks to members like you and others (i.e.Okweb, Michel Swiss,etc)

How presumptous to think that your problem should be answered first and is the most important on the forum, you post a question you have after you could not find the answer in the hope that someone would take time to answer it.

But at least show some gratitude if someone takes their time to answer your question

Once again to all that take time from their schedule to help the less fortunate

Tyke your site looks good, like it

MC might have been one of this "off" day

pfft...I just noticed this today.

So esteem, I want to clarify something here are you referring to the Dolphin book I wrote?

Well, so much for clarification.

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U know I read this whole thread and am in COMPLETE agreement withmeinecommunity position on the matter.  Here I am a very highly skilled computer user, not a newbie AT ALL and yet I feel like a dummy when it comes to using Dolphin.  I was in a hurry to get my website up running and live in order to take advantage of the momentum of success I was enjoying from having a popular channel on YouTube.  All the Dolphin promo focused on how Dolphin is FREE. . .  not  EVEN.  Dolphin has turned out to THE MOST EXPENSIVE EXERCISE IN FUTILITY I have EVER experienced.  No way did expect to have to become a damn programmer just get Dolphin to work for me.  N yes its aggravating beyond belief to know u have sacrificed out-of-pocket hard to come by cash to have a site that is difficult for most of my members to navigate and extremely limited unless u submit to purchasing a bunch of d*** mods which that feels like rape considering Dolphin promotes itself as free.  When someone comes along that is actually making money to defray the exhorbitant cost of mods to make ur site work for u please contact at me.

So far, to date, every one I talked to outlayed a lot of cash to make their sites easier and ONLY lost money or barely broke even.  Dolphin need to be honest and keep it real by telling the general public it is NOT for the newbie or the faint of heart.  The aggravation of UNANSWERED questions on this forum as well as no viable reliable  manual 2 refer to so that you can empower your own self when someone can't answer your question right away in the forum IS RIDICULOUS!  I mean damn YouTube is free and they have a forum loaded with unanswered questions but u accept that because it is free.  I think the lack of support is NOTHING MORE THAN GREED.  I think some mod creators are upstanding people commited to support their products but u have to GUESS which ones those are.  Anyone that doesn't pay for the Premium version of Dolphin are just beta test guinea pigs n basically left out of the support equation.

I have nicely emailed people, posted questions in this forum and have yet to actually get an answer/solution that actually worked.  I didn't expect to be up and running out of the box n a few days but it's been a year now and my issue I started with continues to this day.  The agents are MORE than happy to help u FOR A PRICE.  i totally understand the expectation to be compensated for your time and expertise but Dolphin need to keep it real.  I would have rather PAID money for REAL support than to be left hanging to figure out every d**n tech issue that arises with my site.  This DOES create delays and losses in terms of gaining membership and growing.  Can't put a price on it cuz I never actually graduated to charging subscriptions, how could i with a site that is mediocre and embarrasing to promote becuz I don't have the money to pay a programmer to customize it.

I am totally dissapointed that I invested my time, energy and effort into this for this long without even the gratification of the site running properly from day one to present.  I'm intelligent enuf to follow directions IF THEY ARE AVAILABLE, that are thorough and accurate..  This whole attitude of we giving you a FREE product so expect to be treated like dirt is repulsive.  To a website dependent upon non-existent support is a set up to fail.  It's making me reconsider and cough up the money that Nings asking for becuz it's way more user friendly and puts Dolphin to shame on so many levels that its not enuf room to address it in  this forum.

I don't mind having to do a lot of leg and footwork on my own, I expected some trade-offs but this is ridiculous.  I'm confident enuf in my computer skills that I can figure out and master mosts things as it relates to computing.  My position is that if u have indeed given up that arm or leg and stiill get to be brushed aside (biting my tongue n holding back from cursing) well but I have read posts from PREMIUM members still not getting supported.

Billions of dollars are made by Google and for them to run a site with NO SUPPORT has nothing at all to do with anything BUT GREED.  Microsoft makes billions putting out crappy software and rake it in by charging you up the yang, yang, to get support for it.  These forums prove everyday that there are some good people who have a passion to help and I will include myself as one of them.  I think its wrong an took offense to what the poster mydatery said with pride and sarcasm.  I take pride in helping people not insulting people.  Those pages of novel messages slung back and forth HELPED no one and only crystalized the REAL problem which is virtually non-existent support and having to play russian roulette with your website just in order 2 find someone decent and honest for whom  to purchase mods from.

It's a shame mydatery felt more compelled to put meinecommunity down just because expressd a valid complaint about support instead of EMPOWERING THE WHOLE community by just posting the short answer in the first place.  It totally turned me off to read the threads and just fueled the rage I am experiencing with Dolphin.  What good is a script that has EVERYTHING but nothing quite works?!!  I would have preferred to be given a book on php and HTML than to have my hopes all up high thinking I had a COMPLETE product that would operate smoothly from the first day.  Sooo wish I had a crystal ball to foresee was going to become a paid site else I wouldn't have ever even bothered with Dolphin.  I tried at 9 other scripts with quite a few BETTER than Dolphin but got stuck on the issue of adult content and cost.  I don't want my software script company, hosting company, or anyone else determining for me (a very grown person) what is or is not appropriate (which was the case with some of the biggies, (WordPress, SocialGo, etc.)  Of all the ones I tried I found KickApps to be MOST awesome, user interface was slick, pleasing to the eyes and everything was drag n drop easy, even the technical stuf like CSS.  However, their restriction of adult content was a deal breaker.  I wanted the complete control n  my website mobile phone accessible was the ONLY points Dolphin won on.

20/20 hindsight of course, things are much more crystal clear.  As far as I am concerned Dolphin has amounted to nothing more than a way for PROGRAMMERS to pimp unwitting, naive and gullible Dolphin users.  The only ones I can see that's even breaking even or making any money ARE THE MOD CREATORS.  im actually hating on them becuz  I don't have a "product" I can place in the Market. What a clever pyramid scheeme for programmers who to build and create a community of blank profile pics or avatars and members who for the most part only on there to test ur mods.   U don't have to worry about such minor things as marketing (Unity does that for u) or being cordial, social or creative with ur site cuz members aren't coming on there to date.  Kudos to Dolphin for making such a wonderful cash cow for programmers  while the rest of us are herded to these forums like cattle and very little to actually "graise" on.  The average user is NOT gonna go digging through a lot of posts just find the simplest answer  and when u shell out $300 for the branded version ur gonna have an EXPECTATION that some decent support comes along with that hefty price tag.

The promotional stuff from Dolphin didn't include a disclaimer saying "FREE except u gotta pay thru the a** for mods"   Trust me I didn't see any such like that ANYWHERE!  I would have felt better about spending all the money I did KNOWING I would have to.   My primary goal was to have the adult community (fans/subscribers) to have an alternative to You Tube.  I was not  n it just to make money In fact, it was being invited into the revenue sharing program 3 times for my videos is what make me take it seriously.  I didn't have money to go  hire a programmer, marketing specialist or technical support rep, I'm poor, I'm broke.  That's y I fell for the "FREE" picth from Dolphin (good job marketing dept)

This whole thing started out as a hobby n I didn't want to outlay cash I didn't have for what was bascially going to be a back up for my media.  Having my own domain meant I wouldn't be subject to phony hypocritical Community Guides enforced on some but not ALL.  I finally had power to control MY OWN destiny and not worry about getting flagged or deleted (I'm here to tell you THAT'S NEVA FUN!  i did my videos 4 fun, period  It wouldn't have been so bad if there was no free option becuz at least then u expect to have some level of support.  I switched from 5 different hosting companies ALL claiming I could run Dolphin just fine, on a shared server, they all left out that little tidbit of information cuz they was too busy tyna get my sale rather than assure me about their technical support.  however 3 of them I left becuz their mareting/promo emphasized that suport was available when in reality it was not.  The other two that had support that I loved and appreciated did not/or could not figure out how to get my site to work for videos. I think things like ffmpeg and Ray Media significant enuf issues to address to futue people considering Dolphin.  To leave the consumer up to guessing or in some cases not trying to come up with solutions is just plain irresponsible and wrong. I'd rather pay a small monthly fee for REAL support that is ACTUALLY available than to spends hundreds of dollars guessing from a choice of impersonal avatars in the Market as to which one will work, paying and still having a site that's useless.

No matter what position or side u take on this issue, it's clear AND apparent Dolphin IS NOT EASY TO USE) and needs to be supported.  That's the least u should do.  I have been a computer professional for many years and know there is no such thing as a perfect script and ALL have some glitches or bugs.  I built my entire career around becoming an EXPERT end user, NOT a programmer.  In other words, my JOB was to help lay people actually use the complex crappy stuff that programmers put out in a rush to push out a product n without any consideration of the impact on the end user.  I managed to gain several hundred members to my site without any advertising.  Now they over sitting waiting on new content and not posting anything new becuz the common complaint is that they don't know how to use it.  Sure u mod creators may make product that actually works, has all type of bells and whistles but the VALUE of it rises and falls on the ACTUAL experience an END USER has using it. How do u say *cough* Photoshop?  Doesn't matter to me that Photoshop can do EVERYTHING when everyything u do on there is complicated that u have spend hours of tedious time to learn instead of doing.  If I am having  this much difficulty and I am not a newbie, in fact a very skilled computer user with nearly 2 decades of experience providing technical support to all types of users and all kinds of software/hardware and working in all kinds of environments. . . then what do u think my members whom most are average users are doing?  They are NOT gonna come to Dolphin/Boonex Unity for answers. . . they are gonna come to me.  It frustrates me to no end to have an insult my intellgence by reiteraing that a certain question has been answer in other posts, who is gonna search thru tons of files to find that actual post?  Y couldn't the sarcastic commentor have just provided a link to for all the others who stumbled upon this thread and discover they have the same problem?  Nobody but the geekiest and most determined gonna dig t hrough all these threads to find the answer.   It's not like u get a pop up n the reply window indication "that question has already been answered". When u consider Google doen't have a technical support option, EVEN they provide such a pop up and the link to the solution. N OMG if u happen to be the lucky person with a problem not already addressed, u get to be left hanging with an answer at all or u get sarcastic answers and feedback.  THAT'S NOT HELP AT ALL! Thanks but no thanks  I am totally fed up with Dolphin but I can't get refund on my mods and with 300 members n too deep to just cut n run.  I need help, I need solutions, not sarcasm.

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Unity member naluv4u2