vB Ring - Promote your site (linking system with external list)

Promote your board by becoming part of a vB Ring. Adds a button to the bottom of your site that, if clicked, opens a new window with a random link to any other forum in the vB Ring.

Your site will be randomly linked to from all the other forums in the list.

To be added to the list, you need to :
a) Add your boards name below (to prove it is legal)
b) Install this hack, so you are participating in the ring

Optionally email me to get your site on the list, after posting it here. Just in case I miss it on this thread.

1 template mod :

Admin CP > Style Manager > Edit Templates > FOOTER

Find :

PHP Code:

<div align="center">
    <div class="smallfont" align="center">
    <!-- Do not remove this copyright notice -->
    $vbphrase[powered_by_vbulletin]
    <!-- Do not remove this copyright notice -->
    </div> 

Before it, add :

PHP Code:

<center>
<p>
<a href="http://www.davespikey.net/random/rand_link.pl" target="_blank">
<img src="http://www.davespikey.net/random/vbring.jpg" width="200" height="27" border="0"></a><a href="http://www.davespikey.net/random/vbring.htm"><img src="http://www.davespikey.net/random/more.jpg" width="35" height="27" border="0">
</a> 
</p>
<p>
</p>
</center> 

Save.... and you're done!

Of course, the JPG images can point to whatever images you like.

Demo here

Enjoy!!!

If sites remove the banner, then they will be removed from the list, to make it fair

[rb290]

kool idea i guess, if theirs alot of people who have it though.

[MarkyLeonard]

Yeah, it'll need people to add to it from the start, to build it up, but I reckon it could be a great tool. If your board has a link from just one other board on its homepage then the traffic should shoot up, so with a lot of boards it should do great business.

[rb290]

"OPTIONALLY email me to get your site on the list, AFTER posting it here."

do you want my site to put on your list ?

[MarkyLeonard]

Please - post it here, I'll add it to the list now, and then check tomorrow on your site. Guess thats the plan!

Cheers!

this is not a hack but the advertising of an external resource, please specify this in your release.

[MarkyLeonard]

Originally Posted by nexialys

this is not a hack but the advertising of an external resource, please specify this in your release.

Edited. Not really advertising of a resource, just a free to use facility that should help us all, but I take your point. I've amended the thread title accordingly, thanks for your comments.

/me always happy to help - and clear the situation...

because maybe some other guys would think that your hack actually create/install a webring system on their forum...

[Attilitus]

I think this is a great idea! I agree, however, that you should indicate that this is a "community cooperative" hack and not an independent webring.

[Suiko Jin]

Installed it and here is my forum.

http://guardiansanctuary.net/forums/