Cobranding - quick question

[Kier]

I'm in the process of convincing a friend of mine to dump his four UBB boards and integrate them into a single vB system, but before I can tell him that vB will do exactly what he needs, I need a question answered:

I noticed in James' post in the announcements area that vB cobranding allows multiple template sets... does this mean that you can have a sub forum within your board that uses a completely different set of templates, in order to have a completely different look and feel from the main forums?

I suspect (hope) that this is the case, but I need to check, as the cobranding example at beta.jelsoft.com seems to only use differing fonts/colours from the main forums.

And one other thing - can a cobranded (is that a word?) forum use different button sets, even for those images that are set through the php itself (example: on.gif and off.gif from index.php...)

Cheers for your time :)

[Mike Sullivan]

Checkout the postbit template on beta.jelsoft.com in the forum -- it's significantly different.

And you'll notice that it's using a completely different image set.

[Kier]

Cheers Ed... I guess I missed the postbit change.

I couldn't see the different image set though, apart from the postbit icons... how about the $newhotold image?

[Mike Sullivan]

The postbit icons are different. Hence, it's using a different image set.

No on/off because they're not actually inside the forum.
You can fake it with templates though anyway -- $forum[onoff]$forum[forumid].gif

[YellowKard]

I noticed the font color was the same for all the skins on the beta forums, can you have differen't font colors per differen't forums?

[John]

You can have completely different everything with the co branding system.

Think of it as two different vB 1.1.x's running off the same databases, just with completely separate template and replacement tables.

This includes ALL images, templates, fonts, replacements, headers, footers, and anthing else that you can think of!

John

[YellowKard]

Perfect :)

[Kier]

Originally posted by John
Think of it as two different vB 1.1.x's running off the same databases, just with completely separate template and replacement tables.

We love you :D

[WebAddict]

I didn't realise how powerfull the cobranding was... Awesome!

[chrispadfield]

Originally posted by John
You can have completely different everything with the co branding system.

Think of it as two different vB 1.1.x's running off the same databases, just with completely separate template and replacement tables.

This includes ALL images, templates, fonts, replacements, headers, footers, and anthing else that you can think of!

John

can you have forums that are only visible if someone is viewing them through a certain co-branding partner?

[Dudley Bryan Jr]

I'm using vBulletin, and I've hacked it to allow a special type of on-the-fly branding. I've given my website "themes". Users are allowed to change the "theme" of the entire website (including the messageboard), to reflect their personal aesthetic choice.

The thing that I like is being able to have multiple styles and graphics for almost everything the user interacts with. For sanity sake, there are many "common" graphics of course.

Check it out (just scroll to the bottom of any webpage, and choose your theme). In the future I'm going to integrate theme choice with vBulletin 2.0's user control panel. My challenge will then be that I want to further brand my messageboards apart from each other... but in a way that works with all the themes.

http://www.drawb.com/forums

I'm particularly fond of the idea that users can feel more linked to a site based on the way it looks and presents itself. Letting a user choose the way the site actually looks seems very powerful for a feature. I'm happy with the way its working out.

Dudley Bryan Jr.
Webmaster

[Joe]

Dudley Bryan Jr, I really like how you setup your theme's! You will beable to link to style sets (themes) the same way in v2 with index.php?&styleset=1, or something close to that.

[Sebastian]

Hey,

I have a question about the cobranding. I have a website and 8 hosted sites. Is it possible that I purchase VBulletin once and then make 8 Subforums with different Designs for my hosted sites? Or is the number of cobranded forums limited?

Thanks,
Sebastian

[auto]

yea you can do that :-)

[Sebastian]

Hey,

That is great. Do you have any more info on when VBulletin 2 Final will be released?

Thanks,
Sebastian

[JamesUS]

Probably within the next couple of weeks.

[GMTalk]

Dudley Bryan Jr:


This may sound stupid, but how did you get the cobranding to work. I have copied the templates and created a new style...etc. I go in to change the style and it is all screwed up. I can not get it to take the color changes for the background. Any help is appreciated.

John

[Philipp]

One of the forums that I maintain use the cobranding feature of vB 2.0: http://www.wcm.at/vb2

It is in german but a good example of this feature :)

[claypots]

This (co-branding) is certainly something that almost everyone would be interested in doing. I hope there is good documentation when v2 comes out on how to accomplish this. :cool:

[Nicholas Brown]

Originally posted by Kier


We love you :D

Awh, before Kier was a developer - now its the other way around - they love you now Kier :)

[Centenary Gas]

Originally posted by chrispadfield


can you have forums that are only visible if someone is viewing them through a certain co-branding partner?

Exactly my question. I want another website to have their own category whcih they can mod, and when people come from their site I dont want them to be able to see any of my forums.

????????? :)
thanks

[robertusss]

Originally posted by Centenary Gas


Exactly my question. I want another website to have their own category whcih they can mod, and when people come from their site I dont want them to be able to see any of my forums.

????????? :)
thanks

well, next step is that you ask to also seperate the registered users... and jelsoft will think that they are loosing sales because we all start our own forumservices for smaller sites and those webmasters don't buy vb on their own.

maybe we need a cobranding licence extra fee...?

[Centenary Gas]

No separate members is not what I want.

[tubedogg]

robertusss: As long as one doesn't install vB more than once per license, one is fine.

[kyle]

I'm interested in co branding parts of my forums to others with my markets, Is there any good reading on how this is done?

[Massimo]

OK

[Steve Machol]

Originally posted by Massimo
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MAX:) Massimo,

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