Qwestion On FORUMHOME
 

Ok so I created groups for each of the states and created an area on the forum home that list them. You can see them at the following:

http://www.commandertalk.com/forums/

A few things that I am wanted to do that I cannot seem to make happen. First off, how can I put them into even rows horizontally? I think this can be done using CSS, however, I am pretty much clueless when it comes to CSS.

Next, is there a way to make it so that when a new discussion is posted into one of the groups, the icon changes in that area to reflect the new discussion? For example, now it is using subforum_old.gif and if there was a new discussion in the group would change to subforum_new.gif

Lastly, instead of placing all the HTML into the FORUMHOME template, could I create a new template and call it from the FORUMHOME template? What is the command to do that?

Thanks so much in advance for the help!!

Awe, comeon, I know someone knows...help me out :)

Ok, I have all the formatting figured out...all that I am missing now is the code so that when there is a new discussion, the icon changes from old to new. Can someone help out with that code?

Thanks in advance!

Can someone please help me out with this...I have everything done, just need to find out if there is a way to make it so that when a new discussion is posted into one of the groups, the icon changes in that area to reflect the new discussion? For example, now it is using subforum_old.gif and if there was a new discussion in the group would change to subforum_new.gif

Please help!! :)

Well if you look at the only place vBulletin shows if a group had unread discussions it's in the template: socialgroups_grouplist_bit

And the exact condition is: <if condition="!$group['is_read']">

So that's a start but of course that won't work by itself on forumhome because on forumhome no group is defined.

Likely you'll need a pretty extensive custom plugin to do this.