Align Logo with Header Advert 2 (No Drop)
 

I originally coded this for my vBulletin 4.0, but so many people have been asking on vBulletin.com how to do this - so I thought I would release it on here, as well.

What it does:
By default if you add any advertisement to the header, you will find that your header logo is 'pushed' upwards. Many people prefer that logo is aligned with the advert and not placed above. ** See attached screenshot **

DEMO: http://www.digitalport.co.uk
I have coded this little modification so that if you place an advert in ad area 2 of the header it will appear next to your logo, and will not affect your logo's position whatsoever. It is coded to accept a standard banner size of 468x60 in the header ad 2 section. You can adjust this to suit other banner sizes as required.

In the #logo_main adjust the width and height values to suit your own logo. The margin-top value adjusts the distance between the top of your logo and the top of the toplinks. margin-left I have set to 20px, but you can adjust this to suit where you want the logo to be from the left side.

The best way is to adjust the values gradually if you are not sure about CSS coding.

Installation:
In the vbulletin.css template find:
Add after:

In the header template find and remove:

In the header template find and remove:

Replace with this code:

Important:
One additional StyleVar you will need to change is the doc_minWidth to around 800px or more depending on your layout width. This will stop the advert div from dropping below your logo in the header, if someone is using a low resolution to view your website.

Where do you find the
#logo_main

Sorry, stupid question

Header banner is not align it moved to right hand site.

The ad banner should be right aligned, it is set by the CSS float:right parameter. It should have a 20px margin as well, which can be changed to suit your forum/cms header.

Brilliant Mod.

Just one thing. The mod makes the header taller. I have tried changing the header wrapper height value from 140 to 80, but the header stays at around 100. Any idea's?

Also it doesn't work in the CMS

Found the 100 value (98) it was the logo value.

The height is dependent on a few parameters set in the CSS.

#banner_ad_top has a margin-top of 50px - You can reduce this as required.
The same applies to the
#logo_main which has a margin-top of 20px - again adjust as necessary.

This will work in the CMS, but because of a current bug in vB4.0 Gold it will only work if this modification is done on the default template. Hopefully, when the next release is ready, this will be fixed.

Found my height issue, it was this variable

#logo_main {
float:left;
display:inline-block;
width:274px;
height:98px;
margin-top:20px;
margin-left:20px;
position:relative;

Still can't get it to work in the CMS and the mod is done on the default style.

Sorted it.
You have to hover over the section title in the CMS, then click the pencil icon.
Then set the "Style" to Inherit.

Superb Mod

I think I know what he means.
In IE7, the banner slides off the edge of the forum on the rhs. It site halfway on and halfway off the forum.

It doesn't do it in IE8.

How did you integrate that shopping cart into your header?

nice mod... got quick question..
after editing those temp.. we would be able to select the logo and condition via admin cp riht?

try it
Thanxx

brb
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Black Xxx

It is coded to use the default logo and the default header ad position 2 which is the right side. So, everything will still function from the AdminCP.

Where did you get that bottom widget type thing that includes twitter/facebook etc?

Hi bandare,

All the mods used on the site you can find out about at this url:
http://www.digitalport.co.uk/blogs/4...gital-port-21/

I'll try and find out why this is happening, then again IE is a pain to code workarounds for, wish Microsoft would code their browsers to use world standard coding! :rolleyes:

Not working with 4.0.1

Strange, I'm using 4.0.1 and it's still working fine...

It worked beautifully in 4.0.0, but I reverted all templates before the upgrade to 4.0.1 and now it won't work.

Some of the coding to change and replace has been modified in 4.0.1.

I reverted all mods for the 4.0.1 upgrade, just coming back to reinstall this mod and it won't have it.

Sorry for the stupid question, but where do you find "ad area 2" to place a picture in?

You need to setup the banner ad in the Advertising Manager within your vBulletin AdminCP.

Hmm... I've got vB 3.8.4 and a test server setup with 4.0.1. I see nothing in admincp called advertising in my 4.0.1 admincp, but I do have an advertising tab in 3.8.4 (but it only contains google adsense).

Is it supposed to be located in the same place in 4.0.1? If so, I'll have to post a message at vbulletin.com to see what happened to my install and why that tab is missing.

Thanks,

It is actually called 'Advertising' in the AdminCP panel. I have taken a screenshot and highlighted the exact section where it is located.

It is standard on all versions of the vBulletin 4.0 series.

Yeah, thanks for the info.... Something must have gone sideways in my upgrade from 3.8.4 PL2 to 4.0.1 as that panel is just not there. It's still present in 3.8.4 (only contains Google Adsense).
Luckily I'm doing all my testing on a test server for 4.0.

I did another fresh install on my test server (no upgrade, just a fresh install of vBulltetin) and the tab is there now. I've posted a message on vBulletin.com to see if they can help me figure out how to get the advertising tab back on the upgraded 4.0.1 install.

Thanks for your help

Ah right...

I actually cloned my site on the server, before even attempting the upgrade to 4.0 from 3.8.4. Placed the 'clone' in a new directory, and imported the database in to a new one. I only done it on the server because it is much quicker than downloading the whole lot, which would have taken hours!!!! I just used the SSH command line prompt, so it only took about 5 minutes.

I ran in to a few errors, but nothing that I could not easily fix. :)

Anyway, glad you got there in the end! :)

So you didn't go through a regular upgrade, you did a fresh install of 4.0 and then used ImpEx to import the original database? Or you just made a copy of your site and ran the upgrade process on the copy?

I made a duplicate of my entire vBulletin 3.8.4 - First the file system then created a new database and made a full SQL dump from my original database in to a new database. I don't use Impex, it seems to give varying results.

All I had to change was my cloned config.php file, so it pointed to the 'cloned' database and not the 'live' one.

From there, I upgraded to vBulletin 4.0 - with 3 failed attempts, but because it was just data that had been changed, I just re-dumped the SQL back in each time. Probably, the easiest and quickest way of doing an upgrade without breaking your 'live' site.

Mod installed, thank you.

renders well on http://forum.saxontheweb.net/forum.php

However, does not show on http://forum.saxontheweb.net/content.php

My previous header worked the same on both?

thanks in advance,

Hi,

You will need to edit your front page, and where it says Style select Inherit - this will then inherit the correct style site-wide.

HTH

Thanks a lot,
in the matter of fact I changed it to "vb4 default" and that did the trick. (It was set as "vB3 incompatible" before).

Follow-up question: I would like to create a separate style for the front page which would be a sub-set of the forum header. (I.e. only one out of four banners.) How to get started?

thnx in advance,

Installed but its pushing the image half way off the side of my page. Any idea's?

Happening on our forum too :confused: VB4.0.1, using Firefox 3.5.

I coded this for version 4.0.0 - it does require updating, but this will not be done until vBulletin release 4.0.2, just in case they make further CSS changes to the header template.

Sorry about this...

its all good. I'll just have to wait then.

It is chrome compatible for sure.

ie7 no.

ie 8 yes.

Adjust vbulletin.css

Edit this to perfection. :) Heres what I did below...

Thanks. Your advice helped me to get my banner back from wandering off the right side of the screen! Though still having issues with getting it to the right of the existing banner. Here's where I am at the moment (see attached image):


Any suggestions? I'm not sure how I can get the ad banner any further up whilst the margin-top is already set to 0 :confused: It seems to be aligning itself with 'the top' being distinguished as the bottom of the left banner, instead of the top of the header area.

Not sure how to fix this. Would appreciate further help.

Cheers :)

ETA: Just to add, apon further experimenting, raising that margin-right: amount with the ad banner does indeed fix the banner off the screen issue, but it also creates the big gap underneath the original logo banner (to which the ad banner is on the right of, as per the pic attached).

So whilst fixing the old problem, it seems to create a new one.

Ok so I managed to get the banners aligned in FF (my default browser) and looking good. But they are still coming up as misaligned for IE :confused:

Have tried adjusting the doc_minwidth value, but doesn't seem to be making much (if any) difference with this problem.

Starting to do my head in a bit :(

worked like a charm, thanks

Just make sure its working properly in all browsers, as I found this fixed my problem in Firefox, but not IE.