Looking for vBulletin.org applied hacks

[Floris]

Hi there,

It would be most wonderful if I could get some help or direction on where to find the little hacks that I was looking for, for my board. I surfed here and have been browsing around, but to be honest, it is a bit overwhelming and I can't seem to get what I want.

Six things that I wish to have on my vBB 2.2.1 board:

1- On the frontpage of the forum, there are the categories.
They are not attached to eachother, there is a space between the different categories.

2- Below each category topic is (in one table row) repeated: forum / posts / threads / moderator(s) .. This really gives each category as being its own forum.

3- When viewing a thread, every use has besides its username:
(username) [o]
a search glas, when moving mouse over it, it says: search for more threads from this user.

4- on http://www.macfora.com the frontpage of the forum has the boards listed, with a onmouseover highlight. The code which needs to be added, is what I know already.

onMouseOver="this.style.backgroundColor='#EFF2F5'; this.style.cursor='hand';" onMouseOut="this.style.backgroundColor='#ffffff';"

this needs to be in the <td .. > tag.

A moderator on vbulletin.com mentioned that this needs to be added in the template at forum ... on a 'bit' thing. But so far i haven't been able to find $forumbits

5- The portal of vbulletin.org is that the vbPortal 3.0 beta1 pr7.1 (where can i find the latest version?)

6- How can I alter the background of an category like on many forums, so it has an background image and not just a colour ? That way I could really give it a nice dimension.


I really hope to achieve either of the above 'hacks' for my www.creations.nl board, so I can make it more efficient and better looking.


Maybe it looks like a lot of 'wanna be, newbie' questions, but I am pretty new to the vbb and have been browsing the options and styles and templates to see if I could find it myself, but just couldn't so far. Maybe I just need a push in the right direction. And instead of just making 6 little individual requests, I just posted all the questions at once. Hope they are clear.. and I hope to get some replies



Fnx so far!