Vertical site navigation
 

This hack requires one of the following to be installed:

AmyKhar's Right Column On Every Page
AmyKhar's Left Column On Every Page


Without sounding obvious, what this does is creates a vertical navigation system on your site. It can be used on either the left or right side depending on which of the above hacks are installed.

To install, download the text file and follow the instructions.

Template edits - 2
Phrase edits - 1

Screenshots of logged in and logged out are attached.

Don't forget that install button if you use this!



Just realised, I took the screenshots before changing the bar header. It now has the name of your site there - not block name!

[high]Updated 14 April 2006: Fixed gap after Todays Posts[/high]

To upgrade Find
Replace withImportant information regarding support - 20/04/06
Due to time constraints and the amount of things that are being planned for future modifications, priority support will now be provided here. Support provided in this thread will be on an as and when basis.

Looks good, m8. Thanks.

sweet!

Nice!

Nice change :)

Could someone post a link to this hack on a live site? Curious as to how it looks.

My new site will be launched in a couple of days and this will be the navigation on there. In the meantime, unless someone else posts a link you will have to make do with the screen shots.

My launch date is Saturday 29th October 2005, so if you don't here I'll be posting that link in this thread for a live look then.

Is it possible to get the right colum border to match the left column border width equidistant to the the edge of the tables?

http://biblocality.com/forums

it looks spot on to me. can you post a screen shot of exactly what you want changing?

The right side is wider than the left side, not by a lot, but it would still be nice to have them be the same.

http://biblocality.com/forums

ok, in the right_column (or left column if you are using that)

FIND

It's the second line, right after the opening <'br /'>

REPLACE WITH

It gives it a shove to the right so the gap between the forumbits and navigation block is wider and the gap to the edge of the forum is matching with the left.

If you want to widen the block at all change the width setting in the above line. Don't use 100% though as that sticks it to the forumbits and looks awful!

Will there be any support for vBadvanced in the future?

Possibly. I'll be looking into it once I'm up and running with my new site, so it'll probably be at some point next week.

<a href="http://biblocality.com/forums/" target="_blank">http://biblocality.com/forums/</a> The columns look great now. Thanks!

Is there a way to make the welcome_x phrase remain the same in the one spot, but not two lines in the vertical?

Plus, any recommendations for improvements?

Ok i installed it but the problem is that i was using a fixed size forum (width of 760), should i just change the width to something more? Or is there a better way around this? Thanks

you will need to increase the width as the navigation bar has a width of 160 (or it could be 170) so it would make your forums tiny otherwise.

add wrap="no wrap" to the in the <td >. i think that should work. however, if someone's name is really long, it may push the box bigger...not sure.

Live link = www.dontgiveashite.com

any way to add this to forumhome? I'm trying to implement in the vertical navbar on my right side column in forumhome

Custom Navbar Links
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=98934

Where's your forums at? Depending on your set up is how you will apply it.

By design this goes on every page replacing the links in the navbar.

<a href="http://www.talkjesus.com" target="_blank">www.talkjesus.com</a>

As you will see the "extras" link and even "favorites" link (must be logged in for favorites) show the links / drop down arrow .gif but does nothing when clicked on.

As a matter of fact, I copied/pasted the proper code as their readme files stated.

That's because popup menu's don't work in it as I haven't coded it to do so. Just add each item in individually. Being vertical, you aren't pushed for space so that doesn't matter.

I have already added them as you can see. Just curious, when do you think you will add the code to acknowledge the drop downs?

Thanks again

At the moment, not in the forseeable future. December is always a hectic month for me, so it depends on what sort of backlog of stuff I have come January.

BTW, I'd remove the 'extras' entry if I was you. Just leave it with the items and not the headings.

I've followed the instructions.. but I see a "<" right above the block!

I'm not sure where this character < is coming from??
Can you help Peterska2??

http://www.thalforum.ca/root/forums/index.php?

thanks

======fixed it===========
sorry./thanks

Pretty annoying when someone posts a problem, figures it out for himself, then fails to post the found resolution.

I have the same problem with the "<"

It's in the header template. Unfortunately there is a bug in amykhars code in the header template edit which contains the followingif you replace this one instance withthen the mystery < will be deleted

Thanks!!! I appreciate you taking the time to resolving this. :classic:

One more question/request.

I have vBradio. I tried to simply add the button to the Left column, but that was not enough to get the radio to launch. Any idea what I'm not doing right?

I'll have to have a look at the vbradio code and get back to as I've never used it myself.

That would be great!!!

Thanks!!

Any chance to get conditionals work on the sitebar template?

I try to move the pm block to the side as well where new messages are shown

I've not actually thought about doing that. It won't be till next year now though as after today I'm offline till 02 Jan 06 due to the hecticness of Christmas.

I figured out that vbradio "not opening" problem. I see now how the left column and Navbar work together. :)

I'm glad you got it sorted.

If possible could you post the fix for this then others who experience the same problem can find the answer.

Thanks.

what he said. ;)

peterska2,

my navbar is currently moded and if I replace all the contents with the ones in your text file then I will lose the modifications.

could you tell me what did you change in the navbar tempelate?

thanks

Hi Peterska,

Is it possible to show RSS feeds in the left/right coloumn block??
May I request you to consider making a addon to display RSS content in the coloumn...

thank you.

vik

Viks,

You will probably still want to replace your navbar with the replacement text in the instructions. However, to add additional stuff to your vertical navbar you will need to use the format

Any other content such as RSS feeds are not covered by this hack. Try looking in AmyKhar's original threads.

Does someone know how to do in order that at the moment of visualizing messages the blocks do not appear?

Regards and thanks