If you are worried about that, then just make a tabbed style (or child style) and have the default style (that guests like search engines would see) non tabbed. Its best to allow your users to have a choice between tabbed and non tabbed anyway IMHO...

Bobster sorry to be a pain but was wondering if you could help me with setting this up...

I actually have installed it with no problem at all on numerous occassions... but asked for help earlier to try and get this set up like http://www.dailysportspages.com/forums/index.php and you gave advice but i still cant get it - are you able to provide help to have it set up like that site?

Shoot... I thought you said you figured it out lol ... its easy to pull off. Do you have a DEV site?

I thought I got it figured out but after doing the coding it didn't work so I kinda gave up. I currently do have a development site however have not actually installed the tabbed forum home as I was awaiting some help with this (I even contacted that website to ask).

My development site is actually a new project I am working on and would like to see forum tabs used on it. If you like (its 3am my time) I will install forum tabs when I wake up and will let you know the address etc

ok, ya.. get it setup on Dev and I can help you out and then you can add it to production when you feel comfortable with it :) just blast me a PM. I'll need both ftp and AdminCP access (access to styles so I can work on the templates)

Bobster65, i installed this for the first time, follwed your instructions (only the ones in the Tabbed Forum Home Installation instructions.txt) to the letter but i don't have any tabs just links one under each other, when clicking one of the links the forum shows as a white page with the forum home exploded all over it with no tabs to get back......what have i done wrong?

EDIT:Installed the Ajax version and am using vb3.8.4

I have fixed it to a fashion, i had to be explicit as to where the clientscript folder was using instead of the only problem i have now is that i have only used single category id's but in some its also showing the category that appears below it?

Sorted, my bad, didnt read the tabbedcat&....etc properly :)

Bobster65, i have it working at last, what i would like to know is how do i keep the tabs visible at all times?, i have adjusted the forumhome slightly so the tabs are at the very top of the forum above $header however, when you click a forum within a category you get your standard look forum i.e there are no tabs at the top, i tried adding the tab code to the header but it gave me a white page with the selected forum exploded all over it (i'm assuming thats because it couldn't find a container - im no coder by the way) could you give some instruction as to always have them visble?

If you are trying to simulate what vborg is doing, you are using the wrong Modification. This simply replaces the existing FORUMHOME listing of Categories and allows you to put them into a Tabbed Container on the FORUMHOME page. Just like default forum home, when you click on a FORUM link, it goes to a FORUM DISPLAY page (which is generated using a different PHP file and set of functions and templates)...

Now, what you CAN DO is make a template modification to the FORUMDISPLAY pages that have a Tabbed MENU that will take viewers to other Forums... kinda like combining the two MODS..