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Welcome headers - Improve community registration rates · **Released**: 06-24-2006

Attention vB 3.7 users: Please see the 3.7 version of this add-on.

The out of the box vBulletin style does not have a robust method of informing users about their current activity status or user level. As a result, guests entering on a page other than the homepage (which is most often the case) have no idea what a forum is about or that they may need to register. Additionally, there are no visible status indicators, making it confusing for unconfirmed, unapproved or new members to know what to do or where to begin.

To help solve these problems, the welcome headers plugin creates a 5-part set of conditionals to better introduce members to your community while pushing them to register, activate or post. The default templates are just that, default ? I highly encourage you to tweak the language and functions to meet the needs of your actual community environment.

Modifications/ Instructions:
Template edits: 2
Plugins: 1 (adds 1 template and several settings)

This template hack should take under 5 minutes to implement and customize.

What?s new in 4.2
The 4.2 version of this addon functions in the same way as previous versions but with modifications to the backend code. The addon is now designed to independently review conditional statements to make it easier to add new messages. If you are upgrading from a previous version and have changed the template welcome_headers, this version will revert your changes. There is no new functionality in this upgrade and it is optional.

Install Instructions:
Full install instructions can be found in the attached file. This addon requires adding a plugin and modifying one template.

Customizing the content / messages
To customize which messages appear or what they say, go to vBulletin options, select the "Welcome Header System" group and configure the options as desired. Each phase can be modified by adding translation text.

Details on how it all works:
Step One: Turning lurkers into Members
For most forums, upwards of 50% of traffic comes through search engines or deep links to threads, profiles and categories. Out of the box, vBulletin only displays a welcome message on the forum-homepage, meaning someone who enters through any other page does not have the benefit of seeing an explanation of the site or welcome message. The guest welcome header is used to explain the purpose of your site, sell users on the benefits of joining the community and push them to proactively register.

Step Two: Making Users Confirm their Account
Many vBulletin sites require email confirmation prior to being able to post or access an account. However, activation emails are often misdirected to spam folders, ignored or simply deleted, leaving unconfirmed users with little access rights and no explanation as to what is wrong with their account. The unconfirmed welcome header is used to inform unconfirmed members of their account status and to direct them to automatically resend their activation email, or to contact the webmaster for support.

Step Three: Get non-posting users to post
Another chronic problem faced by many forums is insuring users post after registering. Many new visitors register in order to access certain features with the intent of posting, but never do so. The never posted welcome header is used to encourage users to post for their first time and should ideally be linked directly to an introductions or new member forum to help users "break the ice".

Step Four: Getting inactive users to become more active
Many members start out as lurkers, register, post once or twice and then go back to being lurkers. Often time these members are not actively thinking about participating in topics or are still shy about interacting. The inactivity welcome header reminds members to make a post after a predetermined amount of time as specified by the forum administrator.

Step Five: General Announcements
Unfortunately the standard announcements are often overlooked or never even seen by members who use the "new posts feature". As a result, urgent notices may be missed by users causing problems and high volumes of support requests. The global announcement welcome header creates a message shown to all members who do not fall into the other welcome header groups (guest, unconfirmed, never posted, inactive). Whether it be a scheduled outage/ upgrade, an important request or the need to display an advertisement in a prominent spot, global announcements allow an administrator to effectively and quickly display messages in a way that is certain to be read.

Optional: One-View Messages
Some forums find that users grow tired of seeing the messages thus there is an option to show the welcome messages only once per browser session as determined by using a cookie.

Optional: Custom Messages
Welcome Headers addresses 5 common needs, your forum probably has more. I highly encourage you to add messages based on profile fields, user states and other criteria that may impact your users.

The results:
At first glance this system may seem a bit superfluous, however, the numbers rarely lie, nor does the feedback. On ScubaBoard.Com, the site the system was originally tested on, posting rates increased by over 100%; new user registration rates by over 60%; user activity by 50% and the welcome/ intro & greets forum has exploded over 400%. If you browse through the pages of this thread you will find even more real life testimonials and experiences from the thousands of people using the system.

vbSEO Add-ons
Some forums have found that after adding welcome headers, the welcome message shows up in their search descriptions. To address this issue, user's at vbSEO have recommended turning the guest welcome header into an image -- this way there's no duplicate content for the bots to spider. To learn more click here. My recommendation is that you test this option if you are allowing bots to spider your front-end pages.

Limited Guest Viewing compatibility
The Welcome Headers System is designed to work with the Limited Guest Viewing without any conflict. To insure that welcome header messages do not show up at the same time as the limited guest viewing message, please be sure you are running welcome headers version 4.1.3 or greater and have enabled the suppression option.

Support
Please post any enhancement or technical questions you may have and I will do my best to respond in a timely manner. Please note: I can not guarantee an immediate response and am unable to assist with integrating this addon with other addons or with HTML related questions.

Updates
4.2.1 - Fixed bug with global message
4.2.0 - Changed template conditionals to simplify customizations
4.1.9 - Added ability to disable messages if using Limited Guest Viewing system
4.1.3 - Added support for Limited Guest Viewing system

pokerie · #**282** 10-27-2006, 04:49 AM

Any way to integrate with this?

OoogleeMooglee · #**283** 10-31-2006, 05:31 PM

For some reason the "never posted" message isn't showing up at all. My guest message shows up fine. I've confirmed that under my vbulletin options that the "never posted" option is on so I'm not sure why it's not working. Any help is really appreciated.

Thanks!

OoogleeMooglee · #**284** 11-01-2006, 04:27 AM

bump...

also I found out that when I turn the option on so that viewers see the welcome message more than once, the "never post" message works. However, when I set it so that viewers only see the welcome message once per visit, the "never post" message doesn't show up.

john_robot · #**285** 11-01-2006, 04:28 AM

I have used welcome header old system and now I have upgraded with the new one , but since the upgrade its not displaying the welcome message. I have followed each and every step mentioned , but its not working.

I have vBulletin Version 3.6.2 can you pls help me

Note : I have put $welcomeheaders on my FORUMHOME template.

pls can some one help me

PHP Code:


			
$stylevar[htmldoctype]

<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">



<head>

$headinclude

<!-- no cache headers -->

<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />

<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1" />

<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />

<!-- end no cache headers -->

<title><phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_powered_by_vbulletin]</phrase>

</title>

</head>

<body>

$header

<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0">

<tr>

<td valign="top">



$welcomeheaders



<!-- main -->$forumbits

<!-- /main --><br />

<!-- what's going on box -->

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

            <thead>

                <tr>

                    <td class="tcat" colspan="2">$vbphrase[whats_going_on]</td>

                </tr>

            </thead>

<if condition="$show['loggedinusers']">

            <!-- logged-in users -->

            <tr>

                <td class="thead" colspan="2">

                <a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_activeusers')">

                <img id="collapseimg_forumhome_activeusers" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_activeusers].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>

                <a href="online.php?$session[sessionurl]" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[currently_active_users]</a>: 

                $totalonline (<phrase 1="$numberregistered" 2="$numberguest" 3="$numberspiders">$vbphrase[x_members_and_y_guests]</phrase>)

                </td>

            </tr>

            <tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_activeusers" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_activeusers]">

                <tr>

                    <td class="alt2">

                    <a href="online.php?$session[sessionurl]" rel="nofollow">

                    <img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/whos_online.gif" alt="$vbphrase[view_whos_online]" border="0" /></a></td>

                    <td class="alt1" width="100%">

                    <div class="smallfont">

                        <div style="white-space: nowrap">

                            <phrase 1="$recordusers" 2="$recorddate" 3="$recordtime">

                            $vbphrase[most_users_ever_online_was_x_y_at_z]</phrase></div>

                        <div>

                            $activeusers</div>

                    </div>

                    </td>

                </tr>

</if>

<tbody>

    <tr>

        <td class="thead" colspan="2">

            <a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_stats')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_stats" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_stats].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>

            <phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_statistics]</phrase>

        </td>

    </tr>

</tbody>

<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_stats" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_stats]">

    <tr>

        <td class="alt2" align="center"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/stats.gif" alt="<phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_statistics]</phrase>" border="0" /></td>

        <td class="alt1" width="100%">

        <div class="smallfont">

            <div>$vbphrase[threads]: $totalthreads, $vbphrase[posts]: $totalposts, $vbphrase[members]: $numbermembers</div>

            <div><phrase 1="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$newuserid" 2="$newusername">$vbphrase[welcome_to_our_newest_member_x]</phrase></div>

        </div>

        </td>

    </tr>

</tbody>

<if condition="$show['birthdays']">

                <tr>

                    <td class="thead" colspan="2">

                    <a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_birthdays')">

                    <img id="collapseimg_forumhome_birthdays" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_birthdays].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a> 

                    $vbphrase[todays_birthdays] </td>

                </tr>

            <tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_birthdays" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_birthdays]">

                <tr>

                    <td class="alt2">

                    <a href="calendar.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getday&day=$today&sb=1">

                    <img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/birthday.gif" alt="$vbphrase[view_birthdays]" border="0" /></a></td>

                    <td class="alt1" width="100%">

                    <div class="smallfont">

                        $birthdays</div>

                    </td>

                </tr>

                <!-- end today's birthdays -->

</if>

<if condition="$show['upcomingevents']">

                <tr>

                    <td class="thead" colspan="2">

                    <a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_events')">

                    <img id="collapseimg_forumhome_events" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_events].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>

            <if condition="$show['todaysevents']">$vbphrase[todays_events]<else /><phrase 1="$vboptions[showevents]">$vbphrase[upcoming_events_for_the_next_x_days]</phrase></if>

                    </td>

                </tr>

            <tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_events" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_events]">

                <tr>

                    <td class="alt2">

                    <a href="calendar.php?$session[sessionurl]">

                    <img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/calendar.gif" alt="$vbphrase[calendar]" border="0" /></a></td>

                    <td class="alt1" width="100%">

                    <div class="smallfont">

                        $upcomingevents</div>

                    </td>

                </tr>

</if>

        </table>

        <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" background="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/header/cat/bottombg.gif">

            <tr>

                <td width="4" align="left">

                <img border="0" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/header/cat/bottomleft.gif"></td>

                <td>

                <img border="0" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/header/cat/bottombg.gif"></td>

                <td width="4" align="right">

                <img border="0" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/header/cat/bottomright.gif"></td>

            </tr>

        </table>

        <br />

        <!-- end what's going on box -->

<if condition="$show['topXstats']">

        $topXstats

    </if>

        <!-- icons and login code --><br>

        <table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%" class="tborder">

            <tr valign="bottom">

                <td class="alt2">

                <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">

                    <tr>

                        <td class="alt2">

                        <img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_new.gif" alt="$vbphrase[contains_new_posts]" border="0" /></td>

                        <td class="smallfont" class="alt2">&nbsp; $vbphrase[forum_contains_new_posts]</td>

                        <td class="alt2">

                        <img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_old.gif" alt="$vbphrase[contains_no_new_posts]" border="0" /></td>

                        <td class="smallfont" class="alt2">&nbsp; $vbphrase[forum_contains_no_new_posts]</td>

                        <td class="alt2">

                        <img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_old_lock.gif" alt="$vbphrase[a_closed_forum]" border="0" /></td>

                        <td class="smallfont" class="alt2">&nbsp; $vbphrase[forum_is_closed_for_posting]</td>

                    </tr>

                </table>

                </td>

            </tr>

        </table>

        </td>

        <!-- START OF RIGHT PANEL -->

        <td width="200" valign="top" align="right">

        <!--menu begin-->

<if condition="$show['guest']">

<form action="login.php" method="post" onsubmit="md5hash(vb_login_password,vb_login_md5password)">

<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/vbulletin_md5.js"></script>

<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#CCCCCC">

<tr>

<table border="0" width="95%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" bgcolor="#cccccc">

<tr>

<td class="tcat" valign="top" colspan="2">

<div align="left">

<font face="verdana, arial, helvetica" color="#ffffff" size="2">

<b>Register for Free</b></font></div></td>

</tr>

</table>        

<table border="0" width="95%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" bgcolor="#CCCCCC">

            <tr>

                <td bgcolor="#fafafa">

                <div align="left">

                <font face="verdana,arial,helvetica" size="1">Registration at HotWebHostingTalk 

                is completely free and takes only a few seconds. By registering 

                you'll gain:<br>

                <br>

                <b>- Full Posting Privileges.<br>

                - Access to Private Messaging.<br>

                - Optional Email Notification.<br>

                - Ability to Fully Participate.</b> <br>

                <br>

                To Register now <a href="$vboptions[forumhome]/register.php?">click 

                here</a>. </font></div></td>

            </tr>

        </table>

        <div style="padding:5px 0px 5px 0px;">

        </div>

        <table border="0" width="95%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" bgcolor="#cccccc">

            <tr>

                <td class="tcat" colspan="2">

                <div align="left">

                <font face="verdana, arial, helvetica" color="#ffffff" size="2">

                <b>Control Panel</b></font></div></td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

                <td class="smallfont" bgcolor="#fafafa">$vbphrase[username]</td>

                            <td bgcolor="#fafafa">

<input type="text" class="button" name="vb_login_username" id="navbar_username" size="13" accesskey="u" tabindex="1" value="User Name" onfocus="if (this.value == 'User Name') this.value = '';" /></td>

        

            </tr>

            <tr>

                <td class="smallfont" bgcolor="#fafafa">$vbphrase[password]</td>

                <td bgcolor="#fafafa">

<input type="password" class="button" name="vb_login_password" size="13" accesskey="p" tabindex="2" /></td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

                <td bgcolor="#fafafa" colspan="2">

<input name="submit" type="submit" class="button" accesskey="s" tabindex="4" title="Enter your username and password in the boxes provided to login, or click the 'register' button to create a profile for yourself." value="Log in" />

<label for="label">

<input type="checkbox" name="cookieuser" value="1" tabindex="3" id="cb_cookieuser_navbar" accesskey="c" checked="checked" />Remember Me</label>

<input type="hidden" name="s" value="" />

<input type="hidden" name="do" value="login" />

<input type="hidden" name="forceredirect" value="1" />

<input type="hidden" name="vb_login_md5password" /></form></td>

            </tr>

        </table>

        <div style="padding:5px 0px 5px 0px;">

        </div>

        </if>

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['userid']">

<div style="padding:5px 0px 5px 0px;">

</div>

<table border="0" width="95%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" bgcolor="#cccccc">

<tr>

<td class="tcat">

<div align="left">

<font face="verdana, arial, helvetica" color="#ffffff" size="2">

<b>Control Panel</b></font></div></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td bgcolor="#fafafa"><div class="smallfont" align="left">

<phrase 1="$bbuserinfo[username]">$vbphrase[welcome_x]</phrase></strong><br />

<phrase 1="$pmbox[lastvisitdate]" 2="$pmbox[lastvisittime]">$vbphrase[last_visited_x_at_y]</phrase>

<phrase 1="$vbphrase[unread_x_nav_compiled]" 2="$vbphrase[total_x_nav_compiled]" 3="$session[sessionurl]" condition="$show['pmstats']"><br>$vbphrase[private_messages_nav]</phrase>

</div>

<!-- member logout -->

<tr>

        <td align="$stylevar[right]" class="alt2">

        <a href="login.php?$session[sessionurl]do=logout&amp;logouthash=$bbuserinfo[logouthash]" onclick="return log_out()">

        <phrase 1="$bbuserinfo[username]">$vbphrase[log_out_x]</phrase></a>

        </td>

        </tr>

<!-- end member logout -->

</td>

</tr>

</table>

<div style="padding:5px 0px 5px 0px;">

</div>

</if><!-- / login form -->

        <table border="0" width="95%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" bgcolor="#cccccc">

            <tr>

                <td class="tcat">

                <div align="left">

                <font face="verdana, arial, helvetica" color="#ffffff" size="2">

                <b>Web Feeds</b></font></div></td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

                <td bgcolor="#fafafa">

                <div align="center">

                <a href="http://e.my.yahoo.com/config/cstore?.opt=content&.url=$vboptions[bburl]/external.php?type=rss2" target="_blank">

                <img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/addyahoo.gif" alt="Add $vboptions[bbtitle] To My Yahoo" height="33" width="89" border="0"></a></div></td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

                <td bgcolor="#fafafa">

                <div align="center">

                <a href="http://www.google.com/ig/add?feedurl=$vboptions[bburl]/external.php?type=rss2" target="_blank">

                <img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/addgoogle.gif" alt="Add $vboptions[bbtitle] To My Google" height="15" width="80" border="0"></a></div></td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

                <td bgcolor="#fafafa">

                <div align="center">

                <a href="http://my.msn.com/addtomymsn.armx?id=rss&ut=$vboptions[bburl]/external.php?type=rss2" target="_blank">

                <img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/addmsn.gif" alt="Add $vboptions[bbtitle] To My MSN" height="15" width="80" border="0"></a></div>

                </td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

                <td bgcolor="#fafafa">

                <div align="center">

                <a href="http://feeds.my.aol.com/add.jsp?ncid=AOLXPR00270000000001&url=$vboptions[bburl]/external.php?" target="_blank">

                <img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/myaol_cta1.gif" alt="Add $vboptions[bbtitle] To My AOL" height="14" width="63" border="0"></a></div></td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

                <td bgcolor="#fafafa">

                <div align="center">

                <a href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/$vboptions[bburl]/external.php?type=rss2" target="_blank">

                <img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/addblog.gif" alt="Add $vboptions[bbtitle] To My Blog" height="15" width="80" border="0"></a></div></td>

            </tr>

        </table>

        <div style="padding:5px 0px 5px 0px;">

        </div>

        <table border="0" width="95%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" bgcolor="#cccccc">

            <tr>

                <td class="tcat">

                <div align="left">

                <font face="verdana, arial, helvetica" color="#ffffff" size="2">

                <b>News</b></font></div></td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

                <td bgcolor="#fafafa">

                <div align="left">$tbl_news</div></td>

            </tr>

        </table>

        <div style="padding:5px 0px 5px 0px;">

        </div>

        <table border="0" width="95%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" bgcolor="#cccccc">

            <tr>

                <td class="tcat">

                <div align="left">

                <font face="verdana, arial, helvetica" color="#ffffff" size="2">

                <b>Site Statistics</b></font></div></td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

                <td class="smallfont" bgcolor="#fafafa" align="left">Registered 

                Members: $numbermembers<br>

                Total Threads: $totalthreads<br>

                Total Posts: $totalposts </td>

            </tr>

        </table>

        <div style="padding:5px 0px 5px 0px;">

        </div>

        <table border="0" width="95%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" bgcolor="#cccccc">

            <tr>

                <td class="tcat">

                <div align="left"><b>

                <font face="verdana, arial, helvetica" size="2" color="#FFFFFF">

                Pickup a Provider</font></b></div></td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

                <td class="smallfont" bgcolor="#fafafa" align="left">

                <!-- Begin bannerad code -->

                <div align="center">

<script type="text/javascript"><!--

google_ad_client = "pub-2917036076904468";

google_ad_width = 120;

google_ad_height = 240;

google_ad_format = "120x240_as";

google_ad_type = "text_image";

google_ad_channel = "";

google_color_border = "000000";

google_color_bg = "000000";

google_color_link = "66FF99";

google_color_text = "FFFFFF";

google_color_url = "008000";

//--></script>

<script type="text/javascript"

  src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">

</script>    

<!-- End bannerad code --></div></td>

            </tr>

        </table>

        <div style="padding:5px 0px 5px 0px;">

            <table border="0" width="95%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" bgcolor="#cccccc">

                <tr>

                    <td class="tcat">

                    <div align="left">

                    <font face="verdana, arial, helvetica" color="#ffffff" size="2">

                    <b>HWHT is Sponsored By</b></font></div></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td class="smallfont" bgcolor="#fafafa" align="left">

<div align="center">



</div>

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

                    <td class="smallfont" bgcolor="#fafafa" align="left">

                    <div align="center"><a href="http://www.hostpinpin.com">

                    <img src="http://www.hostpinpin.com/banners/anim88x31_2b.gif" alt="Cheap Web Hosting" border="0"></a></div>

                    </td>

                </tr>

            </table>

            <div style="padding:5px 0px 5px 0px;">

                <br>

                <!--menu end--></div>

        </div>

        </if></td>

        </div>

        </div>

        <!-- END OF RIGHT PANEL -->

    </tr>

</table>

<!-- / icons and login code -->$footer



</body>



</html>

robinl143 · #**286** 11-01-2006, 03:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by john_robot

I have used welcome header old system and now I have upgraded with the new one , but since the upgrade its not displaying the welcome message. I have followed each and every step mentioned , but its not working.

I have vBulletin Version 3.6.2 can you pls help me

Note : I have put $welcomeheaders on my FORUMHOME template.

pls can some one help me

PHP Code:


			
$stylevar[htmldoctype]

<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">



<head>

$headinclude

<!-- no cache headers -->

<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />

<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1" />

<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />

<!-- end no cache headers -->

<title><phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_powered_by_vbulletin]</phrase>

</title>

</head>

<body>

$header

<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0">

<tr>

<td valign="top">



$welcomeheaders



<!-- main -->$forumbits

<!-- /main --><br />

<!-- what's going on box -->

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

            <thead>

                <tr>

                    <td class="tcat" colspan="2">$vbphrase[whats_going_on]</td>

                </tr>

            </thead>

<if condition="$show['loggedinusers']">

            <!-- logged-in users -->

            <tr>

                <td class="thead" colspan="2">

                <a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_activeusers')">

                <img id="collapseimg_forumhome_activeusers" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_activeusers].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>

                <a href="online.php?$session[sessionurl]" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[currently_active_users]</a>: 

                $totalonline (<phrase 1="$numberregistered" 2="$numberguest" 3="$numberspiders">$vbphrase[x_members_and_y_guests]</phrase>)

                </td>

            </tr>

            <tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_activeusers" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_activeusers]">

                <tr>

                    <td class="alt2">

                    <a href="online.php?$session[sessionurl]" rel="nofollow">

                    <img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/whos_online.gif" alt="$vbphrase[view_whos_online]" border="0" /></a></td>

                    <td class="alt1" width="100%">

                    <div class="smallfont">

                        <div style="white-space: nowrap">

                            <phrase 1="$recordusers" 2="$recorddate" 3="$recordtime">

                            $vbphrase[most_users_ever_online_was_x_y_at_z]</phrase></div>

                        <div>

                            $activeusers</div>

                    </div>

                    </td>

                </tr>

</if>

<tbody>

    <tr>

        <td class="thead" colspan="2">

            <a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_stats')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_stats" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_stats].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>

            <phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_statistics]</phrase>

        </td>

    </tr>

</tbody>

<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_stats" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_stats]">

    <tr>

        <td class="alt2" align="center"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/stats.gif" alt="<phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_statistics]</phrase>" border="0" /></td>

        <td class="alt1" width="100%">

        <div class="smallfont">

            <div>$vbphrase[threads]: $totalthreads, $vbphrase[posts]: $totalposts, $vbphrase[members]: $numbermembers</div>

            <div><phrase 1="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$newuserid" 2="$newusername">$vbphrase[welcome_to_our_newest_member_x]</phrase></div>

        </div>

        </td>

    </tr>

</tbody>

<if condition="$show['birthdays']">

                <tr>

                    <td class="thead" colspan="2">

                    <a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_birthdays')">

                    <img id="collapseimg_forumhome_birthdays" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_birthdays].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a> 

                    $vbphrase[todays_birthdays] </td>

                </tr>

            <tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_birthdays" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_birthdays]">

                <tr>

                    <td class="alt2">

                    <a href="calendar.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getday&day=$today&sb=1">

                    <img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/birthday.gif" alt="$vbphrase[view_birthdays]" border="0" /></a></td>

                    <td class="alt1" width="100%">

                    <div class="smallfont">

                        $birthdays</div>

                    </td>

                </tr>

                <!-- end today's birthdays -->

</if>

<if condition="$show['upcomingevents']">

                <tr>

                    <td class="thead" colspan="2">

                    <a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_events')">

                    <img id="collapseimg_forumhome_events" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_events].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>

            <if condition="$show['todaysevents']">$vbphrase[todays_events]<else /><phrase 1="$vboptions[showevents]">$vbphrase[upcoming_events_for_the_next_x_days]</phrase></if>

                    </td>

                </tr>

            <tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_events" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_events]">

                <tr>

                    <td class="alt2">

                    <a href="calendar.php?$session[sessionurl]">

                    <img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/calendar.gif" alt="$vbphrase[calendar]" border="0" /></a></td>

                    <td class="alt1" width="100%">

                    <div class="smallfont">

                        $upcomingevents</div>

                    </td>

                </tr>

</if>

        </table>

        <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" background="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/header/cat/bottombg.gif">

            <tr>

                <td width="4" align="left">

                <img border="0" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/header/cat/bottomleft.gif"></td>

                <td>

                <img border="0" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/header/cat/bottombg.gif"></td>

                <td width="4" align="right">

                <img border="0" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/header/cat/bottomright.gif"></td>

            </tr>

        </table>

        <br />

        <!-- end what's going on box -->

<if condition="$show['topXstats']">

        $topXstats

    </if>

        <!-- icons and login code --><br>

        <table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%" class="tborder">

            <tr valign="bottom">

                <td class="alt2">

                <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">

                    <tr>

                        <td class="alt2">

                        <img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_new.gif" alt="$vbphrase[contains_new_posts]" border="0" /></td>

                        <td class="smallfont" class="alt2">&nbsp; $vbphrase[forum_contains_new_posts]</td>

                        <td class="alt2">

                        <img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_old.gif" alt="$vbphrase[contains_no_new_posts]" border="0" /></td>

                        <td class="smallfont" class="alt2">&nbsp; $vbphrase[forum_contains_no_new_posts]</td>

                        <td class="alt2">

                        <img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_old_lock.gif" alt="$vbphrase[a_closed_forum]" border="0" /></td>

                        <td class="smallfont" class="alt2">&nbsp; $vbphrase[forum_is_closed_for_posting]</td>

                    </tr>

                </table>

                </td>

            </tr>

        </table>

        </td>

        <!-- START OF RIGHT PANEL -->

        <td width="200" valign="top" align="right">

        <!--menu begin-->

<if condition="$show['guest']">

<form action="login.php" method="post" onsubmit="md5hash(vb_login_password,vb_login_md5password)">

<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/vbulletin_md5.js"></script>

<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#CCCCCC">

<tr>

<table border="0" width="95%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" bgcolor="#cccccc">

<tr>

<td class="tcat" valign="top" colspan="2">

<div align="left">

<font face="verdana, arial, helvetica" color="#ffffff" size="2">

<b>Register for Free</b></font></div></td>

</tr>

</table>        

<table border="0" width="95%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" bgcolor="#CCCCCC">

            <tr>

                <td bgcolor="#fafafa">

                <div align="left">

                <font face="verdana,arial,helvetica" size="1">Registration at HotWebHostingTalk 

                is completely free and takes only a few seconds. By registering 

                you'll gain:<br>

                <br>

                <b>- Full Posting Privileges.<br>

                - Access to Private Messaging.<br>

                - Optional Email Notification.<br>

                - Ability to Fully Participate.</b> <br>

                <br>

                To Register now <a href="$vboptions[forumhome]/register.php?">click 

                here</a>. </font></div></td>

            </tr>

        </table>

        <div style="padding:5px 0px 5px 0px;">

        </div>

        <table border="0" width="95%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" bgcolor="#cccccc">

            <tr>

                <td class="tcat" colspan="2">

                <div align="left">

                <font face="verdana, arial, helvetica" color="#ffffff" size="2">

                <b>Control Panel</b></font></div></td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

                <td class="smallfont" bgcolor="#fafafa">$vbphrase[username]</td>

                            <td bgcolor="#fafafa">

<input type="text" class="button" name="vb_login_username" id="navbar_username" size="13" accesskey="u" tabindex="1" value="User Name" onfocus="if (this.value == 'User Name') this.value = '';" /></td>

        

            </tr>

            <tr>

                <td class="smallfont" bgcolor="#fafafa">$vbphrase[password]</td>

                <td bgcolor="#fafafa">

<input type="password" class="button" name="vb_login_password" size="13" accesskey="p" tabindex="2" /></td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

                <td bgcolor="#fafafa" colspan="2">

<input name="submit" type="submit" class="button" accesskey="s" tabindex="4" title="Enter your username and password in the boxes provided to login, or click the 'register' button to create a profile for yourself." value="Log in" />

<label for="label">

<input type="checkbox" name="cookieuser" value="1" tabindex="3" id="cb_cookieuser_navbar" accesskey="c" checked="checked" />Remember Me</label>

<input type="hidden" name="s" value="" />

<input type="hidden" name="do" value="login" />

<input type="hidden" name="forceredirect" value="1" />

<input type="hidden" name="vb_login_md5password" /></form></td>

            </tr>

        </table>

        <div style="padding:5px 0px 5px 0px;">

        </div>

        </if>

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['userid']">

<div style="padding:5px 0px 5px 0px;">

</div>

<table border="0" width="95%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" bgcolor="#cccccc">

<tr>

<td class="tcat">

<div align="left">

<font face="verdana, arial, helvetica" color="#ffffff" size="2">

<b>Control Panel</b></font></div></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td bgcolor="#fafafa"><div class="smallfont" align="left">

<phrase 1="$bbuserinfo[username]">$vbphrase[welcome_x]</phrase></strong><br />

<phrase 1="$pmbox[lastvisitdate]" 2="$pmbox[lastvisittime]">$vbphrase[last_visited_x_at_y]</phrase>

<phrase 1="$vbphrase[unread_x_nav_compiled]" 2="$vbphrase[total_x_nav_compiled]" 3="$session[sessionurl]" condition="$show['pmstats']"><br>$vbphrase[private_messages_nav]</phrase>

</div>

<!-- member logout -->

<tr>

        <td align="$stylevar[right]" class="alt2">

        <a href="login.php?$session[sessionurl]do=logout&amp;logouthash=$bbuserinfo[logouthash]" onclick="return log_out()">

        <phrase 1="$bbuserinfo[username]">$vbphrase[log_out_x]</phrase></a>

        </td>

        </tr>

<!-- end member logout -->

</td>

</tr>

</table>

<div style="padding:5px 0px 5px 0px;">

</div>

</if><!-- / login form -->

        <table border="0" width="95%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" bgcolor="#cccccc">

            <tr>

                <td class="tcat">

                <div align="left">

                <font face="verdana, arial, helvetica" color="#ffffff" size="2">

                <b>Web Feeds</b></font></div></td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

                <td bgcolor="#fafafa">

                <div align="center">

                <a href="http://e.my.yahoo.com/config/cstore?.opt=content&.url=$vboptions[bburl]/external.php?type=rss2" target="_blank">

                <img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/addyahoo.gif" alt="Add $vboptions[bbtitle] To My Yahoo" height="33" width="89" border="0"></a></div></td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

                <td bgcolor="#fafafa">

                <div align="center">

                <a href="http://www.google.com/ig/add?feedurl=$vboptions[bburl]/external.php?type=rss2" target="_blank">

                <img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/addgoogle.gif" alt="Add $vboptions[bbtitle] To My Google" height="15" width="80" border="0"></a></div></td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

                <td bgcolor="#fafafa">

                <div align="center">

                <a href="http://my.msn.com/addtomymsn.armx?id=rss&ut=$vboptions[bburl]/external.php?type=rss2" target="_blank">

                <img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/addmsn.gif" alt="Add $vboptions[bbtitle] To My MSN" height="15" width="80" border="0"></a></div>

                </td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

                <td bgcolor="#fafafa">

                <div align="center">

                <a href="http://feeds.my.aol.com/add.jsp?ncid=AOLXPR00270000000001&url=$vboptions[bburl]/external.php?" target="_blank">

                <img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/myaol_cta1.gif" alt="Add $vboptions[bbtitle] To My AOL" height="14" width="63" border="0"></a></div></td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

                <td bgcolor="#fafafa">

                <div align="center">

                <a href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/$vboptions[bburl]/external.php?type=rss2" target="_blank">

                <img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/addblog.gif" alt="Add $vboptions[bbtitle] To My Blog" height="15" width="80" border="0"></a></div></td>

            </tr>

        </table>

        <div style="padding:5px 0px 5px 0px;">

        </div>

        <table border="0" width="95%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" bgcolor="#cccccc">

            <tr>

                <td class="tcat">

                <div align="left">

                <font face="verdana, arial, helvetica" color="#ffffff" size="2">

                <b>News</b></font></div></td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

                <td bgcolor="#fafafa">

                <div align="left">$tbl_news</div></td>

            </tr>

        </table>

        <div style="padding:5px 0px 5px 0px;">

        </div>

        <table border="0" width="95%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" bgcolor="#cccccc">

            <tr>

                <td class="tcat">

                <div align="left">

                <font face="verdana, arial, helvetica" color="#ffffff" size="2">

                <b>Site Statistics</b></font></div></td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

                <td class="smallfont" bgcolor="#fafafa" align="left">Registered 

                Members: $numbermembers<br>

                Total Threads: $totalthreads<br>

                Total Posts: $totalposts </td>

            </tr>

        </table>

        <div style="padding:5px 0px 5px 0px;">

        </div>

        <table border="0" width="95%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" bgcolor="#cccccc">

            <tr>

                <td class="tcat">

                <div align="left"><b>

                <font face="verdana, arial, helvetica" size="2" color="#FFFFFF">

                Pickup a Provider</font></b></div></td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

                <td class="smallfont" bgcolor="#fafafa" align="left">

                <!-- Begin bannerad code -->

                <div align="center">

<script type="text/javascript"><!--

google_ad_client = "pub-2917036076904468";

google_ad_width = 120;

google_ad_height = 240;

google_ad_format = "120x240_as";

google_ad_type = "text_image";

google_ad_channel = "";

google_color_border = "000000";

google_color_bg = "000000";

google_color_link = "66FF99";

google_color_text = "FFFFFF";

google_color_url = "008000";

//--></script>

<script type="text/javascript"

  src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">

</script>    

<!-- End bannerad code --></div></td>

            </tr>

        </table>

        <div style="padding:5px 0px 5px 0px;">

            <table border="0" width="95%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" bgcolor="#cccccc">

                <tr>

                    <td class="tcat">

                    <div align="left">

                    <font face="verdana, arial, helvetica" color="#ffffff" size="2">

                    <b>HWHT is Sponsored By</b></font></div></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td class="smallfont" bgcolor="#fafafa" align="left">

<div align="center">



</div>

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

                    <td class="smallfont" bgcolor="#fafafa" align="left">

                    <div align="center"><a href="http://www.hostpinpin.com">

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I am having the same issue. I have just installed this hack and it is not showing up at all? Not sure what I have done wrong, this is the first install of this particular hack. I am wondering if it is a conflict with my shout box? I don't know enough about it to fix it now?

Robin

lsatblu · #**287** 11-03-2006, 04:09 AM

There are a couple of spots on my site where the welcome box is directly on top of something else. How can I fix this?

Example: http://talesotaku.com/forums/showthr...s-otaku-6.html

It is directly on top of the Locked image.

neverknow1 · #**288** 11-03-2006, 07:05 AM

Great tool....I like it very much.

2 issues want to ask all the expert here:
1) How to reduce the space on top of the welcome header box? You can see my forum page to get the idea. The gap on top is very obvious, I just want to reduce it to one line space.

2) If I want to turn on the global annoucement, how do I put the setting to auto display the latest annoucement? Has anyone done this hack so that we dont need to post 2 times.

I will vote this for mod of the month.. definitely.

Thanks

bo0oost · #**289** 11-03-2006, 06:37 PM

Installed... thank you!

pokerie · #**290** 11-04-2006, 12:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pokerie

Any way to integrate with this?

I solved this pretty easily by disabling the welcome header for guests and basically putting more text in the quick register box that said what the guest header was saying. So now I have both integrated basically by disabling the Guest welcome header. I have all other welcome headers enabled for people who haven't posted yet and for people who haven't posted recently.

Example here: http://www.poker.ie/community/forums/

rareclownfish · #**291** 11-04-2006, 04:12 PM

Quick question for all those who are using this hack with phpportals, how the heck do you get this to show up on the portal page?
Thanks

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