Prompt lurkers to sign up?

[vidmarc]

Is there some sort of mod which prompts users to sign up for an account?

[Dismounted]

You could restrict guests to only be able to view the first post of a thread: Guests First Post Only.

You could also set up a notice displayed to all guests urging them to register.

[vidmarc]

You could also set up a notice displayed to all guests urging them to register.

Thanks - This is more what I had in mind - how can this be done?

[punchbowl]

Go into notices in admincp - it's pretty straight forward. You pick who sees the notices based on usergroup and various other variables.

There's a limited guest viewing mod on here too that may help.

[vidmarc]

Many thanks for the tip - I'd never even noticed that before! Let's hope it works - I get a lot of lurkers.

[iNRoC]

Originally Posted by vidmarc

Many thanks for the tip - I'd never even noticed that before! Let's hope it works - I get a lot of lurkers.

Try the Limited Guest Viewing system, Quick Registration in FORUMHOME, and any other mods like that. They all can be found in the 3.7 Add ons thread. I use the Limited Guest Viewing system alot because it allows SEBots to crawl your site. The quick registration mod got me a lot of "wow"'s and more registrations then before. I will link you upon request.

[vidmarc]

Yes please, I'll investigate further.

[wperdigon]

I would like to know more about this - my web guy is no longer with me, and on one of my forums, Frontierboard.com he has a thing that follows you if your not logged in - how did he do this? I tried it on another vbulletin forum I have and nothing......

[SEOvB]

<style type="text/css">
#topbar
{   
	PADDING-TOP: 5px;
	PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px;
	PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; 
	PADDING-LEFT: 5px;
	VISIBILITY: hidden;
	BORDER-TOP: black 1px solid;
	BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1px solid;
	BORDER-RIGHT: black 1px solid;
	BORDER-LEFT: black 1px solid;
	WIDTH: 450px;
	FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma;
	POSITION: absolute;
	BACKGROUND-COLOR: white
}

</style>

<script type="text/javascript">
var persistclose = 1
var startX = 3
var startY = 3
var verticalpos = "fromtop"

function iecompattest()
{
	return (document.compatMode && document.compatMode!="BackCompat")? document.documentElement : document.body
}

function get_cookie(Name)
{
	var search = Name + "="
	var returnvalue = "";
	if (document.cookie.length > 0)
	{
		offset = document.cookie.indexOf(search)
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			if (end == -1) end = document.cookie.length;
			returnvalue=unescape(document.cookie.substring(offset, end))
		}
	}
	return returnvalue;
}

function closebar()
{
	if (persistclose)
	document.cookie="remainclosed=1"
	document.getElementById("topbar").style.visibility="hidden"
}

function staticbar()
{
	barheight=document.getElementById("topbar").offsetHeight
	var ns = (navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape") != -1) || window.opera;
	var d = document;
	function ml(id)
	{
		var el=d.getElementById(id);
		if (!persistclose || persistclose && get_cookie("remainclosed")=="")
		el.style.visibility="visible"
		if(d.layers)el.style=el;
		el.sP=function(x,y){this.style.right=x+"px";this.style.top=y+"px";};
		el.x = startX;
		if (verticalpos=="fromtop")
			el.y = startY;
		else
		{
			el.y = ns ? pageYOffset + innerHeight : iecompattest().scrollTop + iecompattest().clientHeight;
			el.y -= startY;
		}
		return el;
	}
	
	window.stayTopLeft=function()
	{
		if (verticalpos=="fromtop")
		{
			var pY = ns ? pageYOffset : iecompattest().scrollTop;
			ftlObj.y += (pY + startY - ftlObj.y)/8;
		}
		else
		{
			var pY = ns ? pageYOffset + innerHeight - barheight: iecompattest().scrollTop + iecompattest().clientHeight - barheight;
			ftlObj.y += (pY - startY - ftlObj.y)/8;
		}
		ftlObj.sP(ftlObj.x, ftlObj.y);
		setTimeout("stayTopLeft()", 10);
	}
	ftlObj = ml("topbar");
	stayTopLeft();
}

if (window.addEventListener)
	window.addEventListener("load", staticbar, false)
else if (window.attachEvent)
	window.attachEvent("onload", staticbar)
else if (document.getElementById)
	window.onload=staticbar
</script>

<div id="topbar">
	<table width="100%">
		<tr>
			<td width="99%">
					You are Unregistered, please <a href="register.php">register</a> to gain Full access.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </td><td width="1%"><a onclick="closebar(); return false" href="http://www.frontierboard.com/forums"><img style="float: left" src="http://www.frontierboard.com/forums/images/misc/close.gif" border="0"></a>

			</td>
		</tr>
	</table>
</div>

Is probably whats doing it, try placing that on your other board in the header or footer