Your images are beeing linked too

http://www.sculptedbyiron.com/forum/tren_z/

So im guessing it should be

http://www.sculptedbyiron.com/forum/images/tren_z/????

Basically when you did the replacement as told in the instructions maybe you added a wrong path? If so just go back and replace your old replacement with a new one.

As for the styles, check your vBulletin options, in your admin cp and scroll to the bottom where you will see FRONT PAGE options, the last 2 options on there are to do with your styles.

ronb, to customize the look of your front page, you'll need to edit the templates.

For the home page, go to Home Page Templates in your Admin Control Panel, and then edit the Home template.

For your graphics not showing up, that means that the header for your home page is not pointing to the correct image folder. You'll need to check the image path in home_header to ensure that the images point to the spot where your graphics are located.

Editing your home page is possible with vbHome Lite, but it takes a bit of work with the templates to get the look that you're going for. Backup the original templates, and then play around with the editing to see where it takes you. Good luck.

bear with me. When you say edit the templates what am i editing? An example would be fine so i know what i'm looking for. I'm a programmer so i'm not lost just not that familiar with php.

Are u sure you added the replacement {imageshome} as described in the install instructions? Check that u did, and that u did enter the path to the imagefiles right.

I was just looking at that and i did create it and it's pointing to images folder. the code i have is forum/tren_z. In tren_z there are images there. this forum folder is in the root.

Just for the hell of it i changed the imageshome replacement to look at images/tren_zx. Tren_zx does not exist. I thought i would get an error but i didn't! It may not be reading that replacement imageshome.

Fortunately i'm going home now!

thanks for your help.

Folder tren_z is in the forums folder as is the images folder. Using the link:http://www.sculptedbyiron.com/index.php brings up the shell of the home page but nothing much else. In the index.php i'm pointing to imageshome replacement which has in it in the code to insert fields forum/images.

I am so damn confused!

Well, I've also concidered implementing a custom style for my vbulletin/vbhome lite page - looks like I have to edit some templates in addition to the style install.

I'm going to buy a skin form vbskins.com. The skin comes with support for vbportal, but vbHome is not mentioned.

If there's anyone here that have some experience with what kind of hacks I need to do, I would be very thankful if you could share this information with me/us.

I think RonB's problem is similar, since tren_z is a custom styleset, which isn't supported by vbHome Lite out-of-the-box.

Here's an update on what i've done. We have everything pointing to php. etc. We have a version of tren_z that we call tren_z_expanded. We put the imageshome replacement in there and i see the user cp etc buttons. I still do not see our logo and other things. Also there a black blank box in the middle. I need to put different things such as news etc in there and i don't know how. I see in the globa.php file it looks for home_header template where the global.php3 file we use for the board is looking for template home. I may change these and see what happens.

how can I get my vbskin ro show up on my vbhome?

We have finally got the home page to look somewhat nice. I have one rather dumb question. We're showing the tabs on top such as user cp, chat etc. These tabs are not working because they're picking up the wrong url. Instead of getting for example www.sitename.com/forum/index.php3 they're getting www.sitename.com/index.php3. The folder forum is being dropped. My question is where does this link come from? Yeah i know i'm not familiar with this language. If i can at least get pointed in the right direction i may be able to get this to work.

Also all our recent threads are being shown in a left hand column and in the middle of the screen. I want to put other info in the middle. What is sending the recent posts to both screens?

ots of questions huh