NP, Teck. I can help out a bit here, now that I've been through the install and customized it a bit.

Checking up on me, eh? :)

Thanks for the kudos on the site! Couldn't have done it anywhere this easily without vbHL. I really wanted a 3-Column home page for our site.

1) What LeeCHeSSS said. To even begin to be helpful, we need to have some info.

2) With every post I've read, and my own experiences, albeit only the past few weeks, with vbHL, if every letter of the instructions are followed and no errors are reported during the install, then it works.

Ah.

For vbHL, edit the home_header template under "Home Page Templates".

For vb itself, edit the header template.


Hope this helps.....

I noticed that when 1 journalist acquired their avatar the vbhl way, that the other journalists that didn't have an avatar selected displayed his avatar on the home page. This all changed when another journalist took an avatar the vbhl way. Am I making sense? :)

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[high]* Gutty waits for help.[/high]

you have to upload avarats for each journalist. once you assign a journalist to the group, ask him (or you do it) to either send you the picture, or upload for him a picture with his name.. so he knows it belongs to him, not to someone else.

gutty, ya it's possible. it needs to be hacked, the vbHL file. i will not do this. sorry.
anyone else feel free to release a hack for it, i will link it to first post.

the problem was i changed it from using the

home_headinclude
home_header
home_fotter

to my default ones

headinclude
header
footer


thats why it changed i have fixed it now sorry about that :(

Okay, i would like to have a poll on my vbhome lite page, but i want to do it without a new article...ie i want just the poll, not the post that shows in the news on the frontpage...there must be a way, how would i go about doing this?

Thanks,

nocturnix

Post a poll in a forum that is not used for the vbHL news, by a user that is allowed to post polls. Both settings are in your Admin CP, under "vbHome Page".

This is what I get on my testboard:

www.channelvip.com/index.php

If somebody would login and tell me what is wrong?

login: tester
passwd: test

I may not be understanding these instructions:

Still in your vBulletin Admin Control Panel, create a new usergroup, called Journalists (or whatever is more appropriate for your site) and assign to it the right permissions. You could also use a default usergroup, for example Moderators (id 7).
Remember what usergroup ID it's generated, you will need to enter this value in vbHome (lite) Options.

The same for this:

ARTICLES FORUM
When you create a new forum, in our case Web Site News, vBulletin automatically assigns a forum ID to it.
In this option, you enter your forum ID from where the articles will be clipped onto the vbHome (lite) front page.

Where does the ID appear when you create a Journalist usergroup? I only see an ID in Control Pannel/Options/vbhome Options.

Note also, none of the buttons direct me to the proper files.

Sorry, but I'm confused. I've followed the instructions but it's just not coming out right.