[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by redlabour

Nobody knows - RedTyger thinks it makes sense. Read some pages before - there is no way to Discuss this with him to make it more comfortable and useful.

I do think that. There's a few reasons why I made the change.

1) It is more flexible this way. Before it was a case of "Remove advertisements" link on or off. Now it can be customised to suit any member of the forum on any page, in any ad location, with any text and any link location.

2) It is more efficient this way. Before, there were two options: Link and link text. When displaying this, the code checked both options on every page load to see what to do. Now it checks nothing at all, because it's a phrase. It's not much of course, but it all helps.

3) It points to register.php on the basis that a) It's a page that I know every forum will have, so I can be sure it will go somewhere and b) by far the most common use of advertisements is to display them to guests, encouraging them to register so they won't see advertisements and can join in with the forum.

4) There is almost no difference other than the text and link must be changed with the phrase manager instead of the global settings. Deleting it from all the templates entirely can also be done all at once using the template search and replace feature.

Hope that explains why I decided to make the change. I put a lot of thought into how the product is made, believe it or not.

Originally Posted by The Librarian

Just got a look at this installed and it looks great! You've made vast improvements. I really appreciate it - particularly my beloved navbar placement addition.

Thanks for all your hard work RedTyger!

Glad it helps you out.