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UKBL ~ Virtual Admin for your Forums

What a suprise i have for you guys, A completely free Virtual Admin for your Forums

Normally website owners have a to a tidy fortune to have one of these guys on their site, but now, all vbulletin owners can have one FREE



You can telephone your account and speak what you you want your Virtual Admin to say, Now you'll be able to "Tell" your guests to sign up!! How cool is that.

To get your free account for a free Site pal with nothing at all to pay, you need to sign up to http://www.bravenet.com/ The Webmasters Content site.

Once you've joined go to Web tools, and in the bottom right hand corner you will see a link like this

* Speaking Characters
Create animated characters for your site.

Click here and your in to your SitePal Speaking Character mode

Here you can get...

Enhance the User Experience ~ Greet your visitors, provide them with information and direct them to the right place on your site.

Increase Sales ~ Nothing beats a spoken call to action!

Fully Customizable ~ SitePal's editor makes it easy and fun to design your own character.

Dynamic Audio Recording ~ SitePal's Record-by-Phone feature makes creating your character's audio as easy as leaving a voicemail. Premium packages allow you to type what the character speaks.

Easy to Publish
As simple as "copy and paste"!

Click here to see the tutorial http://www.sitepal.com/TutorialMovie/

Full Instructions to how to get started with Site pal is in the Zip File

When you've made your Virtual Admin, You can load the file (Javascript is the cleanest) directly to the bottom of your header template, You can set the viewing to just once when you sit up your admin, This means that registered users will noy have to keep seeing this everytime they login or perhaps a simple conditional (Below) will keep it for un-registered members only.

 <if condition="$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == 1">

Don't forget to ad the </if> to the end

Basically the finished script with the conditional would look something like this

<DIV ALIGN=CENTER>
<if condition="$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == 1">
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://vhss-d.oddcast.com/vhost_embed_functions_v2.php?acc=788182&js=1"></script><script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">AC_VHost_Embed(788182,300, 400, '', 1, 1, 1719578, 0, 1, 0, '8d69700ca873cad45222de0f4674a812', 8);</script>
</if>
</DIV>

That way it will only show to unregistered members or whatever usergroup you place in the above condition.

Don't forget to click installed

Hey, Just though, Why don't we post a picture of our Virtual Admins

[UKBusinessLive]

Reserved

[TimberFloorAu]

<a href="http://www.bravenet.com/webtools/sitepal/" target="_blank">http://www.bravenet.com/webtools/sitepal/</a>

I am amazed they have it for free. Are there any Bravenet advertising banners within the code, on a rotation?

[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by TimberFloorAu

http://www.bravenet.com/webtools/sitepal/

I am amazed they have it for free. Are there any Bravenet advertising banners within the code, on a rotation?

Nope nothing

[TimberFloorAu]

It takes up some ACREAGE tho on your page. Perhaps offer 2 other versions , one as a block in vbcpms

Other as a popup similar to tv and radio player.

Could program it with your FAQS and registration process.

Ste

[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by TimberFloorAu

It takes up some ACREAGE tho on your page. Perhaps offer 2 other versions , one as a block in vbcpms

Other as a popup similar to tv and radio player.

Could program it with your FAQS and registration process.

Ste

Theres so much you could do with this, The great thing being the basic version (the free one) lets you chose between male and female, the type of gear they wear, etc.. Plus its great to show unregistered members and actually tell them to register and what they are missing if they don't

If anyone can code a block on vbcpms then i'd add it on

Love your ideas Steve, if you wasn't down under i'd buy you a pint Friday

[TheLastSuperman]

UK, I'm passing on this one but the idea was awesome I must say, Bravo!

S-MAN

[UKBusinessLive]

It was pure luck i came accross it, being totally free i just had to share

using conditions you could make it viewable to a certain member, and the great thing about it is that you get the chance to make two admins, one can be on the forumhome welcoming new members and telling them to join, the second could be used to give personal messages to members, be it an announcement or even a warning

[TimberFloorAu]

We started using ALICE about a year ago.

Was ok, but got rather tedious. Good idea tho.

What is available in the free version, how many phrases etc can you program?

[Rene Kriest]

Pretty much useless without a cheat to show her naked.