Forum Home Enhancements - Affiliate Box - Scrolling and Fading Affiliate Buttons

Keywords: affiliate, affiliates, partner, partners, scrolling box, fading images

Update: XHTML VALID NOW!
There are more template edits guys, sorry. This will fix xhtml errors.
For those that use TMS, you won't have any template edits.
Also, marquee has been removed due to the xhtml errors. If you don't care about being xhtml valid, I'll explain how to get your marquee back.

Features:
Adds an affiliate box in "What's Going On?"
Collapsible box
Images are faded and they light up when you scroll over them


Live Demo: LayeredGFX - Sorry, I've moved my affiliates to an affiliates page so live demo doesn't work.



Install instructions for TMS users:
Upload product
[optional] If you want the topsites to show, go into TMS > Affiliates and FORUMHOME: Add topsite box, set active: YES.


Install instructions for Non-TMS users:

Go to Styles & Templates > Style Manager > Edit Templates
Choose Forum Home Templates > Forumhome

Find:

<if condition="$show['birthdays']">
<!-- today's birthdays -->

Add above:

<!-- insert affiliate box -->

OPTIONAL: To add the topsites, add below <!-- insert affiliate box -->:

<!-- topsitebox -->

Choose headinclude template.
Find:

<!-- / CSS Stylesheet -->

Add above:

<style type="text/css">
.imgfade{filter:alpha(opacity=30); -moz-opacity:0.5;margin-left:3px}
.imgfull{filter:alpha(opacity=100); -moz-opacity:1;margin-left:3px}
</style>

You're done!



To add a site, go to Styles & Templates > Style Manager > Edit Templates > Affiliates and find affiliate_sites (topsite links are found in affiliate_topsite_sites). In there, you can add this code:

<a href="SITE LINK" target="_blank" ><img class="imgfade" onmouseover="this.className='imgfull'" onmouseout="this.className='imgfade'" src="IMAGE LINK" alt="ALT TEXT/DESCRIPTION/SITE TITLE HERE" border="0" /></a>

The affiliates phrase is affiliate_sites.
The topsite phase is topsites.


For those still interested in marquee, you can add this above your first affiliate/site/link:
<marquee width="100%" valign="center" direction="left" scrolldelay="2" scrollamount="1.5" onmouseover="this.stop()" onmouseout="this.start()">

And add this below your last affiliate/site/link:
</marquee>


Updates
July-16 2007 - Added products for affiliate + topsites and affiliate + topsites marquee as requested and as shown on my site.

v1.1 August-9 2007:
-Fixed xhtml problems
-Added TMS support
-Moved template out of forumhome
-Added more templates to make things easier
-Grouped the templates
-Cached the templates
-Removed marquee from being installed. Can add manually.

[AzzidReign]

I've just updated the attachments. In the zip, there are 4 products (I hope they are self explanatory):
affiliates
affiliates marquee
affiliate topsite (will add 2 boxes, 1 for affiliates and 1 for your topsites)
affiliate topsite marquee (same as above but with scrolling images)

[Southernphuk]

Actually I'm going to use this as you've got it setup right now, just I don't want it to say 'Affiliates', everything else is just the way I want it and thank you for creating it.

What would I edit exactly in the template so it says 'blahblah-whatever' ?

Regards!

[AzzidReign]

Find the phrase name is "affiliate_sites". Edit that to your liking.

[iogames]

Originally Posted by Quantnet.org

link?

Originally Posted by AzzidReign

Thanks!


There was a tut for affiliate boxes? I've been to TAZ once or twice :P

Sorry, but here's http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=29948

[InTeNsE-HuMoR]

Is this mod XHTML 1.0? I got a number of errors when I used it on my forum.

[AzzidReign]

I haven't checked...most of it is vbulletin code...I'll have to look into it later and if there's a problem, then I'll fix it.

[yaoren]

Thanks,

**Installed**

[htscpl]

Nice, ** installes **

[JadedSouls]

I love it! I was looking for something like this all morning!

*installed*

[lighter]

Installed