[Renmiri]

I put a shoutbox on most of my pages, at the bottom of the page. Users complained it was hard to see if there were any new shouts so I hacked up this lil' plugin to display it
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=123023

PS: This was done here with the latest vBShout for flatfile, but it should work with the regular vBShout.

Also:

Originally Posted by fosman

I like to have a break between the textbox and the submit buttons like Shout, Clear, Smilies etc. I want the textbox at the top and the rest a line or a break lower?

Edit the forumhome_vbshout template:
Find

<input type="submit" value="Shout" class="button" />

Add BEFORE

<br />

And

Originally Posted by GoTTi

is it possible to load this on a seperate window?

Yep, I did this for my fussy users:

1 - Add Shoutbox to the forumhome_vbshout_archive
Find

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
<td class="tcat" align="center">
Shouts
</td>

Right after the table statement add:

<tr>$Shoutbox</tr>

2-Add a link to the Shoutbox + Shout Archive page to your menu template (navbar ?) with target="_blank"

<a href='vbshout.php?{$session['sessionurl_q']}do=archive' target="_blank">Shoutbox</a>

Now users can keep a window open just with shout info, while the nice "shoutless" forum is on another. And you can even let forum users see the "last shout" to see if they want to join the convo

PS: You might want to edit the forumhome_vbshout_archive_shout template because the current one is too garish