How do they do it? ( Website Help )
 

Hello,

I was looking at thestudentroom.co.uk and it seems a great website.

Does anyone know how they to do the sidebar on the right hand side and also how they make the columns in the right hand side move?

For example, you can move the "Recent Thread" section using ajax.

Are these hacks or custom made code?

Possibly a combination of both. There exists an "Ultimate Side Columns" hack which you may find useful.

does this work on 3.6? Also do you know how they make the AJAX work with Recent Threads etc?

Ask in the modification thread and no I don't.

anyone else know how they do it?

The javascript is a sortable list done using the jquery javascript library. And if your calling the ability to move it Ajax, I highly doubt you have the skills needed to do it. I would suggest you request for someone else to do it in one of the request forums and hope for a reply

You can also use the excellent Drag and Drop utility included in the YUI library to achieve the same thing. The good side of doing so is that YUI's core files are already used in vBulletin, so you do not need to add a lot of additional javascript libraries.

But as others said, this is something which requires a javascript/vb expert - maybe you could try asking in some of the mod threads offering similar functionality you have been already suggested in here.