NooB question about VBulletin.org layout

[BasilFawlty]

I am new to VB (runing latest 4.x) and am in the (slow) process of transitioning my site from UBBT to VB. I notice that here at VB.org, there are tabs up top and that some of the tabs (Mods and Styles for example) got to what looks like completely different sets of forums. This is something that could work quit well with my forum (a car discussion forum). I'd like to know how this is done? I know how to add tabs via the Navigation Manager, but how do you set up these tabs to bassically be different sets of discussion forums? Also, can thes other tabs be set to use different styles?

Thanks in advance.

[ProFifaLeagues]

I don't think its a public mod that Vbull.org use here mate but this one is close

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=233135

[BasilFawlty]

Oh come on VB.org guys, tell me how to do it, please please please, with cream and sugar on top? I know that other mod is similar, but they way it's done here is exactly what I'd love to do on my car discussion forum. Is it really a mod, or just a better of pointing the tabs to the right URL to show only certain forums?

[CAG CheechDogg]

If you know css just add the background images to the links. vb.org uses the following for that:

td.tab a:link, td.tab a:visited, td.tab a:active, a.tab, td.tab2 a:link, td.tab2 a:visited, td.tab2 a:active, a.tab2, a.tab2:link, a.tab2:active, a.tab2:visited {
background: url("../../images/cstyle/button2.gif") no-repeat scroll right top transparent;
float: right;
font: 10pt tahoma,sans-serif;
height: 20px;
margin: 0 1px;
padding: 2px 0 0;
position: relative;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
top: 3px;
width: 76px;
}

find your links or menu and add something similar to it and you will get that look.

[BasilFawlty]

UPDATE: I figured out how to do exactly what I wanted to do without a Modification, so I thought I'd share it here in case someone else wants to do this. It was really quite easy (I'm using VB 4.2.0 Patch Level 2 by the way). I wanted to have a category of forums for "Classifieds" where the classifieds forums did not show up in the main forums listing but instead show up under a separate TAB. Here's what I did:

First, I went to Admin CP >> Forums & Moderators >> Forum Manager and created a "Category Forum" like "My Classified Forums". I set "Act as Forum" = "No" so this would be a category. Then I set "Forum is Active?" = "No" so that it would not show in my main forums list, but as the description box states, it would still be accessible if you know the URL. (I had to make it active temporarily so I could go to it and copy the URL).

Next, I created several "For Sale" forums under this new category and set "Act as Forum" and "Forum is Active" both = Yes. (But they don't show up in the main forums page because the category they are under doesn't show up.

Finally, I created a Tab in the Navigation Manager that points to the URL of the "Classifieds" Category.

That's all there was too it. Now, I have a tab called Classifieds and when I click it I go to the classified forums, just like how here on VB.org the "Mods" and "Styles" tabs take you to separate categories of forums.