EP Warning Error Help please

[schoolboy]

Langer, the original author of the mod, explained in that lengthy support thread, that this error relates to DATE formatting, (there are a number of fields relating to DATE).

The error seems to be thrown out in two sorts of instances:

1. when a column that "ought" to contain date-related data is either empty, or missing.

2. when the date is incorrectly formatted. This OFTEN happens. If you look at a RAW txt file from an EP "dump"...ie: BEFORE you open it in MS Excel, you will see how EP has formatted your date. (The setting is in the EP configuration option in admin). In my case, the raw date format comes out as: 2009-11-28 09:14:59.

However... as we know, the minute you bring the file into excel, that damned program sees it as a date field, and re-formats it!. So even after you re-save that spreadsheet as a TXT file, you run the risk of the date being formatted some OTHER way...

So when you do the EP upload, it sees a format for the date which it is not configured to understand.

Langer appears to have said that this error can largely be ignored... as long as any date-related data is not functionally critical to your upload.

I ALWAYS re-check a TXT file in Emerald Editor to see what excel has done to it. You'd be surprised (or perhaps not) to see what MS does to what should be a PLAIN TEXT TAB DELIMITED file!

[3dsgiftsnThings]

Thanx schoolboy i assumed this would be an irrelevant error in my case anyway thanks for the explanation.

Can you help me to fix the margin errors on my site you can view it at http://3dsgifts.com

[schoolboy]

Currrent:
h3.leftBoxHeading{
color: #323232;
padding: 7px 0 0 15px;
background: url(../images/cat_bg_top.png) no-repeat top left;
width: 205px;
height: 25px;
}

Suggested:
h3.leftBoxHeading{
color: #323232;
padding: 7px 0 0 15px;
background: url(../images/cat_bg_top.png) no-repeat top left;
width: 135px;
height: 25px;
}

You will need to re-crop the BG image too (to 135px)

[3dsgiftsnThings]

ok lol stupid question do i change this in the stylesheet?

[schoolboy]

Yes...

You should use the FireFox browser and then install the following PLUGINS (into FireFox).

Web Developer Toolkit

and

Firebug

These tools will enable you to do a radical off-line "unpick" of a displayed web page - including the ability to see what styles are being applied to a page and its elements.

You can even "edit" a stylesheet while that page is showing on-screen, and apply changes that will reflect immediately in the displayed page.

Of course, this will be an "off-line" edit (you are not changing the SERVER#s copy of the stylesheet - just the one currently in the browser) - so you have to then make desired changes to the ACTUAL stylesheet.

learn how to use these tools. They will save you HUGE amounts of time when you want to tweak designs and do other "webbish" stuff on displayed pages.

[3dsgiftsnThings]

thanx for all the help schoolboy sorry for late response but i have got the problem fixed thanx alot