Hi Ted,

So...I used the search function and located the phrase <!-- guest welcome message --> in the template Forumhome >welcome headers and then removed it! Conducted a search and thus it could not be located....clicked save and ...no dice...both messages remain....so I deleted from my inactive default style, just in case...clicked save and again no dice...both messages continue to show up even after I search for the phrase and it doesn't show up....
What might you suppose is going on? Thanks

There's clearly still code somewhere... What's the URL to your forum?

<a href="http://www.ironguardfitness.com/forums/" target="_blank">http://www.ironguardfitness.com/forums/</a> i just edited the phrase in the short term

Neat mod :) Only problem is that in vBulletin Options->Welcome Headers, the Enable Lurker Message 'click here' links to .../admincp/phrase.php?do=edit&e[global][welcome_lurker]. This gives a 'No Phrases Matched Your Query' error.

The actual phrase to edit seems to be 'welcome_guest'.

It sounds like you changed something or downloaded this hack elsewhere... The world "lurker" does not appear in the source code at all.

Great Mod. It will definitely help to improve the regn rate. I searched this thread to get an idea about how to include the html for the message window. For example, your demo page has nice colored background. I want to add our default border color. So, I added this to the welcome message phrase.

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<thead>
Welcome to our forums message....
</thead>
</table>

Even then, no changes to the display. Is there a way to customize the display of these messages? Thanks!

You can change the message content by editing the phrases for each message, links to these phrases are provided in the welcome headers section of your vbulletin options page. You can change the html that holds the messages by editing the template welcome_headers.

thanks friend

Dang! Wish it was for 3.6.9! Is there anyway to upload a 3.6.8 file onto a 3.6.9 version?

Nope. There's no way you can use this. There's HUGE changes between 3.6.8 and 3.6.9. Ok, just kidding... it will work fine with 3.6.9 (sub-versions rarely cause conflicts and you are free to test things yourself....). :D