any thought on how to display the annoucement only once, as when they login for the first time

I'm sorry but I don't think this is something I can consider on hack author's end. If your site uses https://, then you should obviously call your YOUR_SITE_URL/FORUM_URL/admincp as https://

I agree it's not the hack authors issue.

I was just pointing out to people that had https should use it.

The features are fantasic on my forum pages but my CMPS page has been cut in half. any ideas? I tried installing the CMPS hack as well to no avail. Any help would be appriciated!

I applied the additional hack to move the announcement into the header. As a result my CMPS page now works fine (no announcement though), and the announcement didn't budge on the forums page. Unless I get someone willing to take a look and help dissect the problems I’ll leave this hack as is. It a great hack however, because of the work that my predecessors have done to the navbar and header I’m getting weird reactions to the tweaks. I’d like to get this working with CMPS but until I understand this stuff a bit better or get some help, I’ll leave a working product alone.

Thanks Logician for your hard work, this is a very powerful tool for getting info to users.

How can I change the background color of the DHTML popup window?
It is very sharp and eye hurting.. while I would like to choose a smoother that can be seen as part of my board style??

BTW.. nice hack :)

Please read through the thread. Asked and answered before.

Logician, any thoughts on my previous posting.

how to display the annoucement only once, as when they login for the first time

I can't see a way to do what you wanted since vbulletin does not keep a record of first time logins.

However if you want, you can make an announcement only visible to member who are:
a) with 0 posts and/or registered XX days ago
and/or
b) in Email confirmation waiting group

So this should cover most of the people you are targetting.

Installed but have one problem.

I created a popup announcement. It displays as expected but wont close. The close button is there, it reacts when moused over and clicked, but the window remains.

Thought maybe was a firefox issue so I tried IE, same problem.