CSSZen skin questions again

The character selection box will already be filled in with any sitewide-characters. So, check your characters to see if they're sitewide or not, and if you want them that way.

I think this SurpriseMe thing is probably only happening with you, or maybe other mods. I navigated around and I only got the same skin. Only one was available to me as I'm not a mod and can't see hidden skin. So, about what's happening. Is it randomly changing to any of the skins, regardless of their hidden status? Or is it only some of them? To me it sounds like a cookie problem. Try deleting from your browser the cookies related to your site and starting fresh.

Well, I logged out as ADMIN, and I cleared my cookies.  I reopened the site, and as a "guest" I hit F5 about 15 times and it stayed as CSSZENTest, just as I want it too.

However, as soon as I login under my name, I hit F5, it will start flipping through skins. 

I already have the CSSZENtest set as default,  and I also "hid" the others skins. But of course I can still see them as I am the admin in the "change skin box."

The surprise me has taken over!  😮

Delete the Surprise Me folder and see what happens?

you mean the surprise me folder in the skins folder?

Oh, I found this -  https://efiction.org/forums/index.php?topic=4986.0 

But I don't understand what Tammy means by the "main folder"  Where should I look to see if I have an extra header?

Yep, that's what I mean.

If you haven't uploaded an extra header, then I doubt you have one. The main folder probably means the root directory for the efiction install, in your case public_html/fanfiction. It may appear to be your root depending on what kind of access/hosting you have.

I deleted the skin, and so far, so good.  But now, I get this error when I click on "admin"

Notice: Undefined index: recentblock in /home/***/public_html/fanfiction/includes/class.TemplatePower.inc.php on line 701

Notice: Undefined index: recentblock in /home//public_html/fanfiction/includes/class.TemplatePower.inc.php on line 701

Notice: Undefined index: in /home//public_html/fanfiction/includes/class.TemplatePower.inc.php on line 701

Notice: Undefined index: recentblock in /home/**/public_html/fanfiction/includes/class.TemplatePower.inc.php on line 706

Notice: Undefined index: recentblock in /home/***/public_html/fanfiction/includes/class.TemplatePower.inc.php on line 713

note, I changed my rootname to **.  I trust you all here, I just don't trust icky pooy spammers.  😀

Do you have debug turned on? None of those strike as particularly serious, and they will usually not show up when debug is off. Debug should normally be off anyway as to not help out the icky hackers.  I think you might have recent block set to active instead of index only. The script is running the background stuff for recent block, only since you don't have {recent_title} and {recent_content} on your admin page (as it should be), it's giving you the undefined index warning.

I do have the debug turned on.  I can certainly turn it off,  but the paranoid geek in me would like to fix the error first.  Since I posted the last one, it has repeated itself about 6 more times. 

I have the recent block and featured block both set to index.  Is there anything else that I can do for this?  Thank you so much for your patience.

Not really. I think everyone gets that message. I know my site usually gets that or a similar template power warning at various places. I know it sounds weird, but the best thing is to just ignore it. It's not telling you anything critical; it's to do with how the script is built. I'd be very surprised if it was related in any way to the Suprise Me thing.

Did you delete the Suprise Me folder, and if so, what happened?

Ok, cool. I will just ignore it then.  If you do hear of anything, just let me know.  It doubled itself about 6 more times.  I must have about 30 lines of code now hahahh

The surprise me folder is gone... and so far so good!  I will post if it happens again. Thanks for all your help!

Does your admin account have SurpriseMe set as the skin?  If so it will trump all other settings.

Thanks Tammy

I removed the skin for "Surprise me" and it seems to be fine now. Actually, I removed all the skins except for the one I wanted to be the default, because I had trouble with just one person, having issues with the default skin showing.

I wanted to ask you -  when you have time -

I still would like to change the "buttons" for my skin. I won't be doing this right now, as I am satisfied on how it looks for now. But, eventually I would like to create a new skin.  I am using the CSSZen, but I renamed it to just MBTB.

I know how to add links on the skin as far as what the menu buttons should be...but I just cannot find the template which will allow me to code in a graphic to use as the button instead of using the Div's that are used in the CSS.  Like for example, I wanted to just upload a bullet, and possible organize my links sort of like this:

link link link link link link link
link link link link
link link
link

But, I am just stumped on where to do this, for this skin.  Thank you so much!  

Theresa

It's the menu portion in the header.tipl. 

<!-- START BLOCK : header -->
<body>
<div id="{page_id}">
<div id="banner">
<img src="" http://www.markedbytheboys.com/images/mbtbbanner.png ">" 
<div id="skin">{skinchange_content}</div>
<div id="rss">{rss}</div>
{menu_content}
{login_content}
</div>
<div id="mainpage">
<!-- END BLOCK : header -->

Am I correct then that the {Menu_content} is what appears in the CSS?  Or is that the Variables?

Can I edit the links to the menu individually here?  Sort of like this:

<img src=""skins/MBTB/images/book.png"" width="13" height="13" border="0">&nbsp;<a href=""browse.php"" title="Browse">Browse</a>