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@webmonk, first of all, take a look at this page:

http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE

There is an application you can download there, called Multiple IE, which installs several versions of ie - (6, 7, even 3 and 4!). Do read the instructions carefully, though, before installing.

With regards to your site, for some reason it stretches with ff and ie6. Looking through your css, I cannot confidently say I can see anything wrong with it. My thinking? The image on the page (dls.jpg). Try manipulating that image - resizing, or removing completely - and see the effect. Sorry I can't be of much help, but I suspect the cause of the stretching comes from some issue with the image.

Maybe the word "plain stupid" is to harsh, my apologies but i think the topic here is whether Nigeria is safer than London. I am talking from my experience and i think i am entitle to it. I beleive u don't have a clue when i say i live in surrey( you're a typical Nigerian, u only knw norwood,south croydon and thorthon heath what about guilford,reigate,fetham,epsom.e.t.c). You think the crime in norwood is more than brixton, u need your head checked.

If you think i need prayer living a posh area, u must be sick. I have paid my dues and i am proud to be one of the Nigerians living large in UK and i am not sorry if you are living in peckham or east street.

@cool4ny, your posts (quoted above) make some interesting reading. How much value do you really want people to place on the sincerity of your 'apologies', when in the next few lines you do virtually the same thing? Really, I thought I'd highlight this here quickly, as it seems so common on Nairaland these days:

1. The hallmarks of mature debates always include a focus on the issues at hand - as opposed to the actual persons of those involved. Let's deal with the issue of crime in nigeria and the UK, and leave attacks on personalities aside, please. You say you live in the UK - I'm sure you understand what I mean when I speak about 'mature debates'.

2. Your sentence

I have paid my dues and i am proud to be one of the Nigerians living large in UK and i am not sorry if you are living in peckham or east street.

, to my mind, is just as unnecessary as the insult on @etin's person - we don't really need that much information about your goodself, thank you very much. I am sure your status in the UK - financial or residential- is not the issue here.

Spam is a major issue for public forum admins. Seun spends valuable time deleting such spam threads. The threads are auto-generated by spambots [spam robots] and unscrupulous individuals who can't find anything valuable to do with their idle time.

Really. Well, quite a few, even after this thread, still appear on first pages of many threads, like the one below:

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-84995.0.html

Hey, why not just start a good old fan club going, @niyyie?

@poster, congratulations!
You have done well - your post has attracted such a huge response. Can't say I have achieved that myself! I recommend you give yourself a holiday to celebrate - perhaps to the UK (specifically to Central London), where, hopefully, you will have even more facts for your next thread. Hopefully, your next thread will not be as ignorant as this one.

Is it me, or is anyone else wondering if Nairaland is being spammed? Quite a few of these lately:

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-84995.0.html
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-63978.0.html
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-60859.0.html
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-35703.0.html
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-43060.0.html

Goodluck, have fun!

But common let us face it, the website is not up to standard, don't mean to insult who designed it, but my dog (if i had one) would do better.

Whoa - if you really meant to insult the designer, I wonder what your comments would have been?

Exactly. @Tawnee, PHP is the way to go - in combination with a MySQL database, you have a winning team.

Hmmm - I wonder why this post is STILL here, or why the 'moderators' have not even made any comment about it. I really wonder.

Happy Birthday!

Beaten and bloodied,
Yet you stand;
At forty-seven
A Nation depleted,
A promise yet unfulfilled

Bruised and battered
Still you stagger on;
Your every fall,
A vital push to move on
Now crawling, then again creeping
Down, but never out.

You will arise, O great Nation
Like the proud Phoenix
You will rise
From the ashes of corruption,
Mismanagement and confusion;
From ethnic intolerance
And myopic governance;

You will arise to take your place
When we, your people,
Understand the reason
For your strength:

That we are one Nation
One people, strengthened
By our diversity
A little tweak here, another there
A loose centre, solidifying the whole

Then, in all your glory
You will reign
Fulfilling your destiny
Then we, your people, will take our place
With now open Nationality
In the international Community

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NIGERIA !

Happy Birthday!

Beaten and bloodied,
Yet you stand;
At forty-seven
A Nation depleted,
A promise yet unfulfilled

Bruised and battered
Still you stagger on;
Your every fall,
A vital push to move on
Now crawling, then again creeping
Down, but never out.

You will arise, O great Nation
Like the proud Phoenix
You will rise
From the ashes of corruption,
Mismanagement and confusion;
From ethnic intolerance
And myopic governance;

You will arise to take your place
When we, your people,
Understand the reason
For your strength:

That we are one Nation
One people, strengthened
By our diversity
A little tweak here, another there
A loose centre, solidifying the whole

Then, in all your glory
You will reign
Fulfilling your destiny
Then we, your people, will take our place
With now open Nationality
In the international Community

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NIGERIA !

@mikkytrio, why not signup at http://www.naijascripts.com and help kickstart it? Quite a few good programmers have signed up now, and who knows, it could be just what you are looking for to get clients.

You might get a programmer/developer here:

http://www.naijascripts.com

@my2cents - Hear, Hear! Well said.

You might find one here:

http://www.naijascripts.com

Taking a cue from my2cents and Seuns posts here: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-81915.0.html#msg1537668, perhaps we should start a debate on what exactly can be done to deal with the deep-seated problem of corruption in Nigeria.

Let us look at the issues: what is the cause of corruption? How widespread is it? How has it affected our progress as a nation, and if not curtailed, how can it affect our future? What can we really do about it? Can it ever be eliminated?

Could be a potentially interesting and enlightening debate.

You know, I agree with freedom of expression and all that - but we really need to censor some kinds of topics here on Nairaland. What an utter waste of space!!!

Fantastic info. Well done, @boraddo - thanks!!

Hi @adeniyi83,

I would agree with my2cents. Personally, I would recommend keeping the page width between 760 and 780 (fixed), and centering the page. Boring sort of style, but gives you 'compatibility' amongst perhaps the widest range of audiences.

And the two teams approach the ring - but hey, it appears both teams have the same manager; is that possible? Could these two great wrestling teams be managed by the same person? Ladies and gentlemen, this is getting a bit ridiculous.

why don't we kickstart the new site at

http://www.naijascripts.com?

It's supposed to be a virtual market where designers/developers and clients can meet. Might take a while to flourish, but as an idea, it might work.

@kazey, thanks for your post. If the issue is that he does not have permissions to make the tmp folder writable (which may be the case if he used his web hosts free oscommerce install - and which may be why he needs safe_mode off at least temporarily), he may not be able to make it writeable will he? And it might be wise to try the above before taking he step of reinstalling, I would imagine.

ok, maybe I need to chat real time with u - just yimmed you - can u respond to that, pls?

No, its not possible. You will have to create your own - which is not overly complicated. To do this you will need to edit a copy of a working php.ini 'template' - which you can get if you have a downloaded copy of php. Take a look at this site for steps in creating your own php.ini file:

http://www.dmcinsights.com/phpmysql/phpini.php

Note: Did your phpinfo results state that safe_mode was off? If so, why not consider simply editing the 1 line (the safe_mode line, using the .htaccess way I explained earlier - that's pretty straightforward), rather than creating your own php.ini. Of course, after reading the article above, if you are confident and sure, by all means go ahead and change it. Otherwise, do it the .htaccess way as I explained earlier.

Let me know if you have any further queries.

http://www.naijascripts.com - aims to bring Nigerian webmasters and programmers/developers together in a virtual freelance market. Platform for people to post web projects, and for programmers/developers to bid for them. And free too.

@vigi, perhaps you can register on this site and lets know if what they say is for real?

http://www.naijascripts.com

Hello @webemerald. I think the major issue here is that your web server has got SAFE mode. In basic terms, this is a mode employed by most web hosts now to get around the security issues of shared servers (which is what majority of websites are on anyway). What it does is this: PHP runs a quick check to see if the ownership of any script currently running is the same as that of any file the script is calling. It apears in the case of your files, the ownership is different.

To confirm if safe mode is indeed turned on on your server, enter this command in a php file and run it:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

It should return all the current php settings as stated in the php.ini file. Search for 'Safe_mode' - it should show whether it is on or off.
Now to try and resolve the issue: You can go around your server's php.ini configuration using your .htaccess, located somewhere in the root folder of your website. You can also create another instance of php.ini and place in your webroot, but personally I prefer simply adding a line to the .htaccess file.

Note: Please back up your site.

1. Open up your .htaccess file
2. Add the following to the file in a new line:

php_flag safe_mode off

3. Save the file.

Test the website again. Hopefully, you should not get the same error again.

Please lets know what happens. Good luck.

Hi webemerald. Can you check your script, and post the actual lines referred to on the last lines of each error? That would be helpful.

Just wanted to know - is there currently a regulatory body for Web Hosts in Nigeria?

My honest opinion - the site is simply brilliant! Will certainly do well in an Art Gallery.
But as a website - no, doesn't quite cut it.