Help With Phpbb board...

[Endora]

Hi Anyone-

I have a phpbb board on my site. It works fine but the problem is it is way too expanded. I hate using the scroll bar (left to right) on any web page ...especially my own forum. Does anyone have an idea how to correct this?

I do allow off site avatar links by the way- some are decent sized but not large enough in my opinion to make the pages expand....Then again- I really don't know so....

Since I have no idea what to do, any suggestions are appreciated. :confused:

[pete3005]

What broswer are you using? I am not seeing any horizontal scrollbar, even at 640, it is behaving as it should.

Have you enabled GZIP in the admin control panel? I find PHPBB to be rather slow without it turned on. No reflection on any host, rather a reflection on the board itself.

HTH

Pete

[Endora]

Thank you for the reply Pete...really. I am on explorer and you know..the main forum page and topic areas are ok- but when you actually open a thread - you see this oversized page.... see here:
http://66.227.5.233/%7Ealtern/forums/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6

Does that clarify a bit? If you are able to figure this out- thank you times a million... ;)

PS- I went in and enabled G-zip as you suggested...what is the drawback (if any) by enabling this function... ( I ask as sometimes there are and I dont know enough to know what that might be!)

[pete3005]

It is this name:

Compliments, Comments, Questions, and Other Correspondance Endora Gets Relative to the Site, Its Policies and Management

.... that is expanding the select form menu at the bottom of the page, it is not wrapping because select forms don't.

I suggest you edit that name or edit the menu code and use the PHP substring function to restrict the number of chars in the menu such as substr("string",0,10); where string is a form value.

HTH

Pete

[Endora]

Pete- thank you.

Good grief- do I feel dumb!

Thanks so much for the insight... I follow you on the substring thing also- I will probably just edit the whole thing though..

TY- again....