Forum Name Repeated on Forum page
 

Whatever I put in Form Name in options repeats after Welcome to the on the next line down. I can change the "Welcome to the" but cannot figure out how to make it stop pulling the Forum Name and appending it to it :(

Look at vBulletin.com. This is normal behavior.

That sucks - it makes us look like teenagers that need to repeat everything :( I'll post over there and see if there is a way to get rid of it - I'd even ice the welcome to part but it still somehow stamps the forum name after that even if it is blank :(

There's a paraphrased expression that some folks in my community use that says "Repetition is the mother of Retention". When visiting a website for the first time, possibly as just a fluke or from a search, repetition of the site's name will help a user remember where it was when he read that thing, article, saw that picture, or what have you, than if he just saw it once at the top of the page. You're regular users certainly don't need the reminder, but happenstance users will likely not even look in the address bar, and only glance at the title once or twice. It's a memory tactic, basically, and can help aid in that random user remembering where to go next time.

Well, this is NOT a proffessional way to have it setup;

The way vbulletin is programmed you get a choice of either or:

My Forums
Welcome to My forums

Or

My Forums, its a place where you create your own blah blah blah
Welcome to My Forums, its a place where you create your own blah blah blah

A more professional approach would be:

My Forums
My Forums, its a place where you create your own blah blah blah

Lets call this a bug please and fix it?

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FYI this is how I fixed it. I edited forumhome template:

<div id="pagetitle">
<h1>{vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}</h1>
<p id="welcomemessage" class="description">{vb:rawphrase welcome_to_the_x, {vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}} Here is your place on the web to discuss dreams, help each other interpret dreams, and use the dream dictionary.<br> The number one site on the web about dreams!</p>

I've actually had requests to remove this completely from many sites, useless imo if you have descriptions or info about the site in the logo/header or other areas near it so why have it? ;).

I thought about removing it too. Also, an option is to put the meta description variable in it, I was gonna but did not want to repeat the metaa desccription info, but that would make it easier to edit on the fly.

I disagree with you in a couple of respects. The first one is not just repeated text, but a welcome message and title in two different fonts. The second and third are way to wordy in my opinion. I don't find either unprofessional. And really are just minor gripes in terms of style.

I presume you have your visitor welcome message doesn't already say something to this effect? Otherwise this kind of sounds like a message to people who don't already know what the forum is about. Again, a minor style gripe on my part.