Forum Display Enhancements - Follow us links in line with breadbrumb

I had been looking to place follow us links on the forum. Tried using advertisements, and sidebar but nothing seemed to much helpful, and also they don't show up on every page, as the follow us links should. Finally, I made this little modification in templates to place the Follow Us links in line with breadcrumb.
Snapshot:



I am going to share with you how I did it. it requires a little code editing in the admin section of your board, so if you're not comfortable doing that please don't try on a live board, or ask someone who can do it for you.

1. Go to the Styles and temples > Style manager > Choose "edit templates" for the style you want to edit

2. Click on CSS templates and a list will open up. Click on Additional.css and go to the end of the template.

3. Paste the following code there.

/* New Crumb */
#breadcrumbx {
    margin-bottom: 5px;
    width: auto;
}
#breadcrumbR {
    float: right;
}
#breadcrumbR li {
    display: inline;
    list-style-type: none;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}
#breadcrumbR ul {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}

#breadcrumbL {
    float: left;
}

/* End New crumb */

4. We have prepared CSS for the modification, now we need to place the actual code in the templates.

5. Go to the "Navigation/breadcrumb templates" and click on it to open templates under it. Click on template named "navbar"

6. Find :

<div class="body_wrapper">

7. Below that code


Find:

<div id="breadcrumb" class="breadcrumb">
	<ul class="floatcontainer">
		<li class="navbithome"><a href="index.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}" accesskey="1"><img src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/navbit-home.png" alt="{vb:rawphrase home}" /></a></li>
		{vb:raw navbits.breadcrumb}
		{vb:raw navbits.lastelement}
	</ul>
	<hr />
</div>

8. Replace this code with the following code:

<div id="breadcrumbX">
<div id="breadcrumbL">
<div id="breadcrumb" class="breadcrumb">
<ul class="floatcontainer">
		<li class="navbithome"><a href="index.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}" accesskey="1"><img src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/navbit-home.png" alt="{vb:rawphrase home}" /></a></li>
		{vb:raw navbits.breadcrumb}
		{vb:raw navbits.lastelement}
	</ul><hr>
</div>
</div>

<div id="breadcrumbR">
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://twitter.com/books_writers">
<img src="/images/follow/twitter.jpg">
</a>
</li>
<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/BooksWritersCom/">
<img src="/images/follow/facebook.jpg">
</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://plus.google.com/u/0/104621077342474730540">
<img src="/images/follow/googleplus.jpg">
</a>
</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/bookswriters">
<img src="/images/follow/youtube.jpg">
</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://books-writers.blogspot.com/">
<img src="/images/follow/blogger.jpg">
</a>
</li><li><a href="https://delicious.com/bookswriters">
<img src="/images/follow/delicious.jpg">
</a>
</li><li><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/bookswriters">
<img src="/images/follow/stumbleupon.jpg">
</a>
</li><li><a href="admin@zigverve.com">
<img src="/images/follow/email.jpg">
</a>
</li><li><a href="http://bookswriters.tumblr.com/">
<img src="/images/follow/tumblr.jpg">
</a>
</li><li><a href="http://zigverve.com/forum/external.php?type=RSS2">
<img src="/images/follow/rss.jpg">
</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br clear="all">

</div>

[Note: Change the links according to your own profiles.]

9. Save.

10. Download the attached zip (followlinks.zip for white background jpg files and followpngtransparent.zip for png transparent background)file and upload them to your forum's files.

11. Open your forum and you should see the Follow Us! links in the right side of your breacrumb.

[kylek]

Glad I found this, looks good.

Anyone know how you could add "Follow us on" in front of the images?

[Fun-Masti]

In the step 8

<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://twitter.com/books_writers">
<img src="/images/follow/twitter.jpg">

Instead use:

Follow Us On: <ul>
<li>
<a href="http://twitter.com/books_writers">
<img src="/images/follow/twitter.jpg">

Alternately, to give it a little style, use CSS, for example, if you want to be strong, uppercase and colored in gray you can use following codes

In Additional.CSS add

.flwtext {
font-family:arial, verdana,tahoma;
font-size:13px;
text-transform:uppercase;
color: #ccc;
font-weight: bold;
padding: 2px;
}

[Note: Since, change padding, size, color etc according to your needs]

Then in the step 8 Replace the above mentioned code with

<span class="flwtext">Follow Us On: </span><ul>
<li>
<a href="http://twitter.com/books_writers">
<img src="/images/follow/twitter.jpg">

Alternately, if you need to add an image saying "Follow Us On"
You can simply use this code

<ul>
<li>
<img src="/images/follow/nameofyourimage.jpg"></li>
<li>
<a href="http://twitter.com/books_writers">
<img src="/images/follow/twitter.jpg">

[kylek]

Thanks very much!

[Skyrider]

Neat system, though would be nice if the images were provided in transparency.

[Fun-Masti]

Originally Posted by Skyrider

Neat system, though would be nice if the images were provided in transparency.

Added PNG format icons with transparents background. Download followpngtransparent.zip file. Enjoy!!!

[juasan53]

I have problem with this code and i insert this :

<center>

<a href="https://twitter.com/..........."><img src="images/Twitter.Png" alt="Follow Me On Twitter" /></a>

<a href="https://www.facebook.com/.........."><img src="images/Facebook.Png" alt="Add Me To Facebook" /></a>

</center>

[Fun-Masti]

Originally Posted by juasan53

I have problem with this code and i insert this :

<center>

<a href="https://twitter.com/..........."><img src="images/Twitter.Png" alt="Follow Me On Twitter" /></a>



<a href="https://www.facebook.com/.........."><img src="images/Facebook.Png" alt="Add Me To Facebook" /></a>





</center>

What problem are you having?

[z3r0]

Be careful folks, malwarebytes pro is blocking the demo site and flagging stuff in this thread.

[Fun-Masti]

Don't worry z3r0, that demo link isn't a malware. Moreover, I've removed it now. That website is currently not working.