08-10-2005, 04:59 PM
I just found out about the "Latest News" modification. Forgive me... I did not know about it before.
I've been using the Board Message, however, I was unhappy with the appearance, being that I have Adsense up top and all it did was lengthen the scrolling from welcomeblock to the actual body of the forum...
Anyways, I moved it to just under the PM notification and just above the board stats info (which I renamed "Info Center") and have changed it just a bit to appear like the PM notification. You can a screenshot of how it looks here:
[attachment=200]
Just thought it gave a nice look and feel.
To achieve the look, I used the following code:
It's just one of those little things, but I liked it and thought I'd share.
I've been using the Board Message, however, I was unhappy with the appearance, being that I have Adsense up top and all it did was lengthen the scrolling from welcomeblock to the actual body of the forum...
Anyways, I moved it to just under the PM notification and just above the board stats info (which I renamed "Info Center") and have changed it just a bit to appear like the PM notification. You can a screenshot of how it looks here:
[attachment=200]
Just thought it gave a nice look and feel.
To achieve the look, I used the following code:
Quote:<table border="0" cellspacing="$theme[borderwidth]" cellpadding="$theme[tablespace]" class="tborder">
<thead>
<tr><td class="thead" colspan="2"><strong><i>»</i>Board Announcement</strong></td></tr>
<tr>
<td class="trow1" align="center" width="2%"><img src="images/on.gif" alt="Announcement" /></td>
<td class="trow1" width="98%"><span class="smalltext">$settings[bbmessage]</span></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
It's just one of those little things, but I liked it and thought I'd share.