Sideblock Help: Creating This

[Reece^B]

Hi,
How do I go about creating a sidebar like this (see attachment)

• a vB search box
• a advert box
• a facebook like box

Thank you

[Lynne]

You would create a Custom HTML/PHP block and set the Content Type to HTML and then input the html for the item (possibly the facebook one would be a php block since you may have to enter a userid or something - I've never looked into the code for that)

[Reece^B]

I add my HTML however it doesn't sit inside a titled block eg; 'adverts'

It just displays an ad on it's own

[Lynne]

Then you did something wrong? Have you read the article on doing this? Creating an HTML or PHP Block
We really can't help you figure out what is wrong when you don't post your exact code.

[Reece^B]

Banner code:

PHP Code:

<div align='center'><a href="Link for Banner Here" target="_blank">
<img src="http://www.pitbikeclub.co.uk/images/ads/ghost.gif" width="500" height="120" border="1" style="border:1px solid black;" alt="Alternate Text Here"/>
</a></div>
<TD ALIGN="center">
<a href="http://www.ghostbikes.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.pitbikeclub.co.uk/images/ads/ghost.gif" alt="Ghost Bikes" border="0" /></a>
&nbsp;
&nbsp;
<a href="http://www.luckymx.co.uk/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.pitbikeclub.co.uk/images/ads/lmx-website-advert.gif" alt="Lucky MX" border="0" /></a>
&nbsp;
&nbsp;
<a href="http://www.cwbikes.co.uk/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.pitbikeclub.co.uk/images/ads/cw.png" alt="CW Bikes" border="0" /></a>
</TD> 


[Lynne]

Did you take a good look at that code? What are those <td>s doing in there? Especially since there is no <table> or <tr> tags surrounding the whole thing? You can't just throw <td>s into a page like that.

That being said, it does show up on my site when I put that code into an html block.

[Reece^B]

They was there to center the ads, im now using div tags. However its bot a case of it now showing but its not sitting in a block with a header with the block name.

Eg, Recent Threads, then below a list of posts.

[Lynne]

How about a link to see the issue and post the current code.

[Reece^B]

<a href="http://www.pitbikeclub.co.uk/testvb/forum.php" target="_blank">Link to my test site</a>