I really hope this is the right forum to post in. I debated this, but All Other Tools seems like the place to me. Anyway, I have a few questions. Firstly, has anyone here who runs a VB forum updated recently? If so, do you have to reinstall all of your hacks from scratch (not that I have many)? Also, is there anything I should be prepared to have an issue with? Additionally, DigitalPoint has the adsense text link bar at the bottom of the posts... I love the way that looks. I believe it was placed into a table, and that is how it shrinks and expands with the page. However, I have NO clue how to do this. Does anyone know? And lastly, if I wanted to have a nice style made for my forums (because mine is a little crappy looking) about how much should it run me and does anyone have a recommendation on who I should use? Thanks for taking the time to read this and any help you have would be greatly appreciated!!
VB in my opinion is simply the best forum software out there. It can be as simple, or as advanced as you want it to be. The features are completely scalable and has a massive community of modders that continously release free hacks, and styles. They have a hack for the adsense just like you want. You wouldn't have to do it yourself. All you got to do is essentially "upload" the file and it does it for you. Very easy software once you get behind the "intimidating at first glance" sort of viewpoint. If you have any more questions don't be afraid to ask.
Thanks DFischer... I had no idea that it was a hack! I will look for it now As for everything else I know it's probably more intimidating than it is hard... but being a bit of a novice I still get worried. I'm so scared to attempt the update!
^Understandable. You have to understand that you may have a hack from previous versions that may not work for the new versions. So i'd hold off unless they converted it over. If not, they have other plugins that are compatiable, you just have to try and see or search around.
I guarantee that you will become an expert on operating vBulletin within two weeks. You'll know it inside and out within a month or two. If that. It's really just a first glance intimidation thing due to all the configuration and links that it has. Once you understand that, then that's all there is .
You can do that by simply editing the templates. Select show thread templates > showthread. Look for this line: <!-- / controls below postbits --> Code (markup): Then place the adsense code (within a table if you wish). This is how I use it is in this forum - www.e-investing.in <table width="100%" align="center" border="1" border-color="#000000"> <td bgcolor="#d4dfa7" align="center"> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_type = "text_image"; google_ad_channel =""; google_color_border = "d4dfa7"; google_color_bg = "d4dfa7"; google_color_link = "000000"; google_color_text = "000000"; google_color_url = "000000"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td> </table> Code (markup):