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As fesworks said, Xepher usually lets applications hang around for a while anyway. To give people time to comment and the like..

Oh, hey, I love O'Malley's work (especially Lost at Sea).

We'll be fine while you are away. Have fun ^^

Thank you all for your help (sorry it took me so long to reply). I think I have gotten everything working now. Posted below is most of my .htaccess file - hopefully it will be helpful to someone interested in doing something similar.

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#turn on the rewrite engine so all this stuff actually works..
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

#redirect http://www.yny-u.com/ to http://yny-u.com/
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^yny-u\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://yny-u.com/$1 [L,R=301]

#clean up gallery URLs 
#make gallery sections accessible via /gallery/section/
RewriteRule ^gallery/([a-zA-Z]+)(/)?$ gallery/index.php?section=$1
#make gallery pages accessible via /gallery/section/id/ or /gallery/id/
RewriteRule ^gallery/([0-9]+)(/)?$ gallery/index2.php?section=all&id=$1
RewriteRule ^gallery/([a-zA-Z]+)/([0-9]+)(/)?$ gallery/index2.php?section=$1&id=$2
#make gallery full-view pages accessible via /gallery/section/id/full-view/ or /gallery/id/full-view/
RewriteRule ^gallery/([a-zA-Z]+)/([0-9]+)/full-view(/)?$ gallery/full-view.php?section=$1&id=$2
RewriteRule ^gallery/([0-9]+)/full-view(/)?$ gallery/full-view.php?section=all&id=$1
#exception for links to image files so that relative image source paths will still work
RewriteRule ^gallery/(.*)/images/(.*)/(.*)(|\.jpg|\.png)$ gallery/images/$2/$3

#clean up top URLs - make top.php accessible via /top/
RewriteRule ^top(/)?$ top.php
#rewrite links like /top/something/something/else/ to /something/something/else/
RewriteRule ^top/(.*)$ $1

#custom 404 page
RewriteRule ^404(/)?$ 404.php
ErrorDocument 404 http://yny-u.com/404/

#prevent people from viewing contents of directories without an index.php/html/etc file
IndexIgnore */*



Your comics and illustrations look quite good, and I like the feel of your site - nice layout and design.

Two (very minor) comments though. First, you need to upload more stuff - I want to see more of your work ^^ Second, you have a link to a page that is still under construction (http://www.jinxville.com/wuxtry/). This is one of my pet peeves.. If the page is not done yet, don't link to it.

But anyway.. If you are planning to redo your site, both of my points would probably become moot.

You have my vote.

... Is flying like that possible? O_O

As for the other.. He was wearing a.. Gas mask!? Not sure I even want to think about the Hatsune Miku one that was previewed at the end either.

Is there anywhere we could see an example of what you can do web design-wise?

OK... I have poked at this a bit, and I am having trouble getting it to work.. To simplify matters, I have started by trying to rewrite gallery/index.php?section=all to gallery/all

Below is a copy of the code I have in the .htaccess file in my web root directory:

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Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^gallery/([a-zA-Z]+)(/)?$ gallery/index.php?section=$1
RewriteRule ^gallery/([a-zA-Z]+)/([0-9]+)(/)?$ gallery/index2.php?section=$1&id=$2


First rewrite rule:
The URLs http://yny-u.xepher.net/gallery/all and http://yny-u.xepher.net/gallery/all/ both forward... But using the second (with the trailing slash) breaks the CSS and images..
The second rule forwards, but breaks the CSS and images either way (with or without the trailing slash).

I am guessing that the problems are being caused by the rewrite adding faux directory levels that are messing up the relative file paths, because the nav links (which are relative) on the broken pages point to the wrong directory level, while the rewrite that works (gallery/all) points to the level that the the pages are actually on..

Does anyone know how to fix or get around this? (other than going through and changing all the relative links to to absolute ones, that is.. -_- )

Thanks for all the help.

Fixed. (I had mis-typed the address somewhere in Thunderbird's settings..)

Thank you for forwarding the domain.

Sorry about this everyone. I should have thought about what I was putting up - that it would be appearing on a bunch of other people's pages, not just my own. I just grabbed two of my recent drawings and...

Thanks for bringing this up fesworks - better to get this sort of thing fixed sooner rather than later.

@Xepher: contacted.

Thank you Shmooi ^^

Yes, I should do something about those links (plain old text, bleh).. For now, I have changed the colours a bit, made the text bigger and bolder, and added an on-hover background colour which should make them a little more legible.. I love what you have done with the links on your site (great work on that site all round by the way). When I get a chance I will try and do something a little nicer with CSS.

Ahh.. The colours of the link text... I was wondering if anyone would bring that up. I had been thinking of changing them. So, I have now darkened the text colour for visited/mouseover links, and lightened the colour for unvisited links. It seems more legible to me, but some of the light-on-light ones might still be hard to see on some monitors.. If so, let me know.

As for borders, I have played around with them, but in the end decided to leave them out, as it made the images blend into the layout better. So yes, matter of taste?

Thank you for your comments griever.

OK! I think everything is up and running now (on the front end anyway - I need to clean up a bunch of stuff on the admin side, but that's another story..)

Please take a look, and let me know what you all think (comments? critiques? suggestions?).

Thanks~

http://yny-u.xepher.net

I agree with griever, allowing a custom link/banner of some sort might be nice (you might require that it be reasonably prominent). That said, given what you offer here, this requirement sounds perfectly reasonable to me. (And I speak as someone who has their own domain and will be subject to this.)

Oh, thank you very much. I should have something up and running soon.. (currently messing about creating the database..)

Ahh, thank you all very much for your help. I shall mess around with this..

Thanks again.