I just looked at the shoutbox hack and it should be fairly easy to add it to your myvbindex instead of your forums index. You would just follow the instructions there, and when you get to the part about adding some code in your forums/index file before
You would add it before this part at the end of your myvbindex file instead:
Then you would add the $the_shoutbox variable in your index template wherever you would like it to appear instead of your forumhome template.

I've never tried adding that feature and never even downloaded that hack until today, but those should be the only changes you would need to make. If for some reason that doesn't work let me know and I'll test it out.

By the way... Did you get the problem fixed with your news not showing up? I noticed you edited your original post so I assumed you fixed that, but if not let me know.

i thought i did but it stil doesnt work :(

I just looked at your site and it looks like it would be because you made those news posts before you installed the script. Any posts you make afterwards should appear fine, but since those were made before you installed the script it has no way to know that those are news posts. If you're familiar with phpMyAdmin you could use that to manually set those posts so they will show up. You would just log into phpMyAdmin and go to your 'post' table. You would then find those posts and click the 'edit' link. At the bottom of that page you will see a column called 'isnews' and it should have a 'N' in the text box. You would simply change that to a 'Y' for each news post. If you're not familiar with phpMyAdmin I can see if I can make a quick re-indexing script for you. I don't mind doing that for you, but it may be a couple of hours before I can make it.

would be nice to knwo what to do. in phpmyadmin what do i change to Y?

btw, about that shoutbox. when i add the shoutbox it is REALLY big and messes up the whole page. is there a way to change the size yo like the calendar or to fit right under the news?

PS - would be REALLY nice if u could also tell me how to make the glow hack work on the myvbindex. the glow that allows you to glow a bunch of colors forma drop down menu

i fixed my news part.

i have a 2 requests.
in the admin cp make an option for it to show sigs or not on the myvb page.

and also see if u can integrate the welcome panel

It looks like the shoutbox was designed more to go under one of the tables on the forum home, so to change it to fit in one of your columns you would just have to edit those templates.

Can you give me a link to the glow hack you're talking about so I can see exactly what it is?

The signatures are controlled per post just as when posting a normal message. You can remove them by editing the post and disabling them that way. If you want to control them via the admin cp I can give you some code to replace and a query to run that would add the option.

I think myvbindex has pretty much every feature the welcome panel has. You should be able to edit the templates index_welcometext and index_logincode to look more like the welcome panel, and then you would just move the $welcometext variable in your index template to right above the newsbits part or where ever you would like it.

-i got rid of the sigs form the news by erasing the $signature or whatever from newbit.

-so i have to change the shoutbox templates?

-ill try that welcome panel right now

-glow dropdown is here
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...=glow+dropdown

reason i want it to glow is because i would like to change the text like User CP and online buddies to glow

All that glow hack does is add the option to make your text glow when posting. It would have nothing to do making your text glow when editing templates and such. To make that glow you would just have to use the HTML that's used under the vBcode section in your admin cp (something like <font style="filter:glow(color=red, strength=4);height=1px">your text here</font>)