MyBB vs Wordpress

[Cohen]

Hey guys,

I have a slight issue.

A guy is doing a theme for the MyBB them and i am doing the Wordpress theme.

http://www.discusstech.net - is the wordpress based part, i am using wordpress as a CMS.
http://www.forum.discusstech.net - is the MyBB forum.

As you can probably see the header & menus are a little different.

The code is exactly the same and it still gives me issues....

Wonder if you guys can help me.

Thanks,

Cohen.

[deathshadow]

Well, for starters you are going to have a LOT of difficulty getting the two on the same page since they don't want to use the same HTML, and you have CSS conflicts between both themes. This is the situation at which you have to make a choice, choose one and throw out the CSS for the other.

But, you've got all sorts of other problems like completely nonsensical and redundant markup.

For example:

Code:

<center><div class="menu"><center>
                <ul>
                    <li><a href="http://discusstech.net">Home</a></li> &nbsp; &nbsp;| &nbsp; &nbsp;
                    <li><a href="http://discusstech.net/about">About Us</a></li> &nbsp; &nbsp;| &nbsp; &nbsp;
                    <li><a href="http://discusstech.net/tech-topics">Technology Topics</a></li> &nbsp; &nbsp;| &nbsp; &nbsp;
                    <li><a href="http://discusstech.net/the-team">The Team</a></li>&nbsp; &nbsp;| &nbsp; &nbsp;
                    <li><a href="http://forum.discusstech.net/subscribe.php">Upgrade</a></li>&nbsp; &nbsp;| &nbsp; &nbsp;
                    <li><a href="http://discusstech.net/contact-us">Contact Us</a></li>
                </ul>
            </div></center>

You're using tags you shouldn't even be using in the first place (CENTER), you aren't opening and closing them in the same order, you're using non-breaking spaces and vertical breaks to do CSS' job, you have CDATA in the form of those non-breaking spcaes and vertical breaks OUTSIDE the LI which is completely invalid markup since the only thing that can go inside a UL is LI.

... and that's before we even get to the #page ID. You've got a whole slew of unneccessary DIV, classes and ID's, and so many errors I'm wondering how the devil the validator is only listing 23 unless it's throwing up it's hands and saying "Oh well".

If as you said you've got two sets of eyes on that and haven't caught major boo-boo's like that, you need a third pair of eyes in there, or to at least bother running past the validator which would tell you things like "character data not allowed here"

You also seem to have an invalid character or two that's preventing many browsers from even showing the whole page - AHA, that's why the validator is only listing 23 errors. It can't even see the whole page. Probably why half your 'content' isn't showing up in Opera either (though that could also be my over-zealous adblock)

You can tell you have problems with 5.6k of markup for 502 bytes of content. There is SO MUCH wrong again, as I tell many people - throw it out and start over with VALID Semantic non-presentational markup.

[Cohen]

Thanks Deathshadow.

If i gave you some details, would you be able to have a look and fix it for me?

[Ryan]

Cohen post your stuff let us have a look.

[Cohen]

(Jan-29-2010 08:41 PM)Ryan Wrote:  Cohen post your stuff let us have a look.

what do you mean?

The coding?

[Cohen]

All fixed, we changed the coding.

Thanks anyway guys.

[Pixel Art]

MyBB needs some integration with Wordpress. VBulletin has it's own blog system for members and now a proper home page blog setup. Only problem is that it's too expensive for something that once created costs them nothing. I hope we will see MyBB do something soon. I dont see the problem with a one-off fee.