I'm building a site for a client who wishes to have a private forum installed in a particular directory (let's call it "subdirectory"), and make that directory impervious to external linking. He does not plan to advertise its existence publicly, and if someone should try to link to anything within that directory, he wants all visitors to be redirected to the homepage instead.

Well guys, once again I look to your collective knowledge for any recommendations you might offer...

I'm looking for server-side software that's capable of building a library of links to organizations, resources, etc that visitors can browse by category. Since each entry should be able to be listed under multiple categories, I'm guessing what I'm looking for will be database driven (flat file or otherwise).

I've been working to integrate a forum into a web site, and have run across an annoying difficulty.

http://www.mwsu.edu/forums/conservatives/default.asp

As you can see, the table housing the forum itself is not stretching the full length of the browser window. It will do so if the forum contents make the table stretch toward the bottom of the page. I've been trying to toy around with the CSS and Table properties in the HTML, but quite honestly, I'm stuck.

Currently, I make use of Notepad++ to work on my HTML/CSS coding. This bit of freeware is good with color-coding elements and allows tabbed editing. I also make heavy use of includes to help manage my projects.

However, there are times when I need to look at the source code as a final product, when it is all assembled together, so that I can get a view of the "big picture". Normally, I'd have to upload all my files to the server, fire up the browser, navigate to the page, and bring up the source code to see it all working in one spot.

I've been trying to resolve this for hours, and for the life of me I'm having difficulty locating the problem.

I'm working on one of my school's faculty page listings, and I'm having trouble getting the "Bio" text to contract as the browser window is made smaller. Of course, there will come a point when I'll just want the content to spill over "off screen", but as it is, that threshold seems way too wide.

Any suggestions?

[link removed]