Just a curiousity, but why are there three rows of white-fonted asterisks after the "Read New/Message Center" etc. links after the last post? I happened to hit my mouse button while headed for Read New in a thread and spotted them. They're here, too, and I'm just curious.

If they're part of the secret world domination plan, then just forget I asked and don't send the Ninja Robot Zombies to my house.

I think they're used to format the page correctly. I do know they're hidden, normally.

Buffistas: dominating the world through asterisks.

It's for spacing. For the pretty.

They're a secret little design hack -- helps maintain the width of the main column at a persistent size. There's surely a more elegant way to do it, but think of the asterisks as our own site Easter Egg -- a nice surprise hidden away for you.

Cool.

msbelle, it's possible for them to work separately, although bits of Rob's work may have to be redone if he finishes first. I'm setting up a test environment for tommyrot this weekend.

The asterisks were my idea. I think it was a Netscape 4.x issue that they helped fix.

I think it was a Netscape 4.x issue that they helped fix.

Pretty sure you're right. I remember the two of us talking about it.

Also, just a reminder that we still don't have archives.buffistas.org working yet. I'm thinking that if it's going to be a while, I'll just update the page on the old archives site, and use that as the primary until we have a chance to figure out how to make the new site work properly.

What we need is to create an FTP account that's independent of a subdomain, since the current webadmin doesn't make subdomains subdirectories. And what we really just need is an FTP account pointing to the archives directory.

However, I'm not familiar enough with the FTP server to do that offhand.

Tom?

Why not temporarily forget the subdomain, and just use the archives subdirectory? I recognize the need for security, but DX ain't going to blow anything up.