I like your new layout and think it would be great for one of my other sites. Without asking for any big secrets, of course, I would be interested in knowing how you structured your front page to integrate vBulletin.

Is there anything you can share?

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Not sure what your asking, what part would you like to integrate?

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I was thinking specifically about your front page. It appears that you have written your own front page to appear like the forum pages and then inserted threads. Is that right?

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No not at all, it is 100 VB code, we just hacked it to add a few mods in the main template.

Like the links on the left are in a termplate created in vB admin just plop in the html code and define the variable to call it. Well might be a little more complicated but for a kick butt vB admin like my girl Dani, its cake!

If your not familiar with vB I really dont suggest trying to hack the code unless your a kickass programmer as its easy to get lost in the layered templates

A solution would be as you say, to hard code it to look like hte rest of the forum but really its defined html on one page

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It sounds like I should check out vBulletin. I added a phpBB2 forum to my site. The price is right but there are no templates. I don't mind hacking but if there is an easier way, vBulletin, I'm game.

Thanks for the tip. Great site by the way!

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Thanks bro, you can do the same thing in phpbb though In fact I find it easier

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I just checked out the vBulletin Admin Demo. I guess the grass isn't that much greener on the other side. In the vBullentin control panel there was only one template [default].

Out of curiosity, is there more templates available for download with vBulleting or do you have to create your own? With phpBB2 you have to create your own but as you have pointed out that isn't too terribly hard.

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No you misunderstand, Vbulletin is made up of "templates" Im not talking a look or skin here, I mean each element is a template, such as showthread.php showpost.php stuff like that, its kind of like includes intricately put together to form the one skin. I didnt mean the skin itself was a template

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Gotcha!

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phpbb2 is actually really easy to change the look of. You can do a lot of it from the control panel with CSS and then use photoshop to change the images... Then, If you want to get into the "templates" just check the main folder and the includes folder to add or subtract some of the html looking code. Make sure to back it up first, it's not to often you can come across coding that is missing now and can't figure out why...lol.. I've done it several times.
If fact, you can modify it to be SE friendly as well... and use mod_rewrite too....
ask Morgan for more about that.. I have to go and work now!

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