This is several hacks, all administrated through the templates of the vb control panel.

The main page has several tables, all labeled for "user" or "guest" in the templates. I can change out text, using html and depending on if a member is logged in or not, they see different helpful info. The other hacks (latest posts, member control panel, log in, etc) are organized within the main page but available for altering via templates.

Additionally, the "important discussion" thread hack (like news hack) is selected and a template changed for threadID, customtitle, how many replies we have room within the table,.....all changeable within the templates of the vb.

So I can control the content and the look of my main page from the templates (I think its called Webtemplates). It was completely customized for what I needed and for what look I wanted to achieve based on our topic, current header, logo and all.

I didn't do this coding work. I am php-challenged. Although I have implemented a few of the smaller hacks myself, my vb has had the pleasure of being hacked by the best vb coders..... The vb has features (additional calendar dates for surgery dates and special usergroups) that only could happen with the able brains of the best.

I hire the work done. ;)

It looks great, too. ;)

How do you get it to show up in the root of your site, though? That is the part I am confused about.

Site loads nice and fast on my 600k (sorry, just had to say it)

Good ol' Logician does a great job once again, he's helped me out with loads of code modifications over time too :)

Very nice.

yeah, @logician: good work as always pal :)

Very nice homepage!
May i ask how (what hacks) did you implement the articles and the registration? The latter one seem very personalised as you have tons of options and questions.

Thankyou!

Registration is an additional hack we added later. I needed more "survey-like" questions from the members for the support they receive so I made a few of them mandatory and the rest are optional. Most members answer them all during registration or they go back later (link in their user control panel) to answer them.

I'm unsure about the article hacks except those are private forums that are using a different interface to show up as they do...without showing postbit, replies, etc.

Again, Logician is the magician. ;)

thank you for the reply :)
Could you tell me what hack did you use for registration?

I'm sorry, I'm not sure if its a hack that is available here. Logician wrote it specifically for my site and is proprietary. I'm still using VB2 and he hasn't had a chance with the latest version to upgrade all the hacks for VB3. ;)

Looks great! Thanks for sharing!