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[JohnBradshaw]

Hi,

I know this isn't quite a hack, but hell I worked it out and I think it will be useful to other people!

You'll notice that when you are not logged in to vB you get a message about how to login or register and so on. I thought to myself this would be a great place to put a little info where people will automatically see it and not have to trawl around, so here's what I did!

In the templates section of your Admin interface expand the Forum Home Page Templates section and then click on forumhome [change original] you will then be presented with a text box, you need to scroll down to $unregwelcomemessage, you then need to place code like this:

<normalfont>
The Forums are back up and running, thanks for your paitence! <a href="announcement.php?s=&forumid=3">Click Here</a> for more information<br>
New rules to protect you <a href="showthread.php?s=&goto=lastpost&threadid=178">Click Here</a> for more information<br>
Get your own domain for only £30 <a href="http://www.cadetwebdesign.com/services.shtml">Click Here</a> for more information
</normalfont>
<hr> 

After:

<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%"  align="center">
$unregwelcomemessage
<tr valign="bottom">
    <td> 

This is before the <smallfont>Registered Members: part, I realise this might be a bit abigious but this is my first hack and I don't want to break the hack rules! You can see it working here

Anyway I hope it helps someone!

[Wayne Luke]

template edits are not hacks. I have moved your thread to a more appropriate location.