How To Make A Homepage

[kellyandmark04]

How do I make a homepage for my forum??? I can design one just don't know where to upload it and make the site go to it first.

I would really like a flash intro.

I want the first page you see when you type the URL to be a big picture then you click the picture to take you to the log in screen. Can someone please give me some info on how to do this???

Thanks in advance!!!

[veenuisthebest]

1. Assuming you have your forums located at http://www.domain.com/forums
2. upload your homepage.html at the root of the site i.e. http://www.domain.com/homepage.html. This would contain the image link to your forums.
3. Now, you'll have to remove the redirect you made to the forums and instead set your default document to homepage.html through your domain cp.

[kellyandmark04]

I don't have my forum under /forums


It is just www.domain.com/index.php


How do I move my forum to this location???

[Attitude5ire]

You dont need to move to any location.
Create a splash frontpage and name it intro.html or xxx.html
You need to edit your .htaccess file and set the main index page to enter at intro.html.

DirectoryIndex intro.html

So where anyone will acccess your www.domain.com they will be forwarded to ur intro.html instead of index.php by default.

[kellyandmark04]

Thanks for all your help!!! Where do I edit the file at??? I have it opened in wordpad and have the frontpage made and saved to intro.html now what do I type in and where do I type it into the .htaccess file thanks

[Attitude5ire]

If you have more entries on ur file just put it in end. and just type in DirectoryIndex intro.html that should do.

[AWMGolfer]

You could also change your index.php to something like forum.php, just make sure you change it in the vb admin section. That way you don't have to worry about redirects or anything.