Qwestion On FORUMHOME

[dieselpowered]

Ok so I created groups for each of the states and created an area on the forum home that list them. You can see them at the following:

http://www.commandertalk.com/forums/

A few things that I am wanted to do that I cannot seem to make happen. First off, how can I put them into even rows horizontally? I think this can be done using CSS, however, I am pretty much clueless when it comes to CSS.

Next, is there a way to make it so that when a new discussion is posted into one of the groups, the icon changes in that area to reflect the new discussion? For example, now it is using subforum_old.gif and if there was a new discussion in the group would change to subforum_new.gif

Lastly, instead of placing all the HTML into the FORUMHOME template, could I create a new template and call it from the FORUMHOME template? What is the command to do that?

Thanks so much in advance for the help!!

[dieselpowered]

Awe, comeon, I know someone knows...help me out :)

[dieselpowered]

Ok, I have all the formatting figured out...all that I am missing now is the code so that when there is a new discussion, the icon changes from old to new. Can someone help out with that code?

Thanks in advance!

[dieselpowered]

Can someone please help me out with this...I have everything done, just need to find out if there is a way to make it so that when a new discussion is posted into one of the groups, the icon changes in that area to reflect the new discussion? For example, now it is using subforum_old.gif and if there was a new discussion in the group would change to subforum_new.gif

Please help!! :)

[BirdOPrey5]

Well if you look at the only place vBulletin shows if a group had unread discussions it's in the template: socialgroups_grouplist_bit

And the exact condition is: <if condition="!$group['is_read']">

So that's a start but of course that won't work by itself on forumhome because on forumhome no group is defined.

Likely you'll need a pretty extensive custom plugin to do this.