Using Custom Module Positions with vBAdvanced

Posted 09-10-2007 at 09:12 PM by bdude

Everyone's seen it before, the default layout for vBA - two sidebars and a middle column.

To be different you need to break out and do something different, like on the homepage of my site The Blogging Café using custom module positions.

First off, you need to decide the layout you want, and give each spot a name, like so:

Now you need to go into your admin CP > vBa CMPS > Default Settings> Main Options and add in your custom module positions, remember the varnames!

The next step, is to edit your adv_portal template to include these modules. The standard code for the modules is is $home[varnameblocks], remember to look at the rest of the template for guidance to add the appropriate column padding. Really, you should only need to edit in between $navbar and $footer. Here's what mine looks like:

Code:

<table align="center" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
 <tr valign="top">
   <td colspan="2" style="padding-right: $vba_style[portal_colspacing]px" width="70%" height="100%">
      $home[topblocks]
   </td>
  <td rowspan="2" width="">
    $home[rightblocks]
  </td>
  </tr>
<tr valign="top">
 <td style="padding-right: $vba_style[portal_colspacing]px" >
   $home[mainleftblocks]
 </td>
 <td style="padding-right: $vba_style[portal_colspacing]px" >
   $home[mainrightblocks]
</tr>
</table>

So, I hope this helps you on the way to a more creative vBAdvanced Page!

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nice post and nice job setting your vba page up I seen it last time I passed by.

Posted 09-10-2007 at 09:49 PM by Brandon Sheley

	Bdude, is it possible to make main announcement threads span across the whole main page (left to right). Then underneath them, have the 3 separate column like a mainleft, maincenter, mainright?
	Posted 10-27-2007 at 12:29 AM by Luigi

	Yeah, it would go something like this Code: <table> <tr><td colspan="3">TOP code</td></tr> <tr><td>mainleft</td><td>maincenter</td><td>mainright</td></tr> </table>
	Posted 10-27-2007 at 06:22 PM by bdude

	This post got some nice Page Rank didn't it, it's showing a 3 for me.. I know I've linked to it a few times when people are asking how to customize their vbadvanced pages..
	Posted 03-12-2008 at 11:00 PM by Brandon Sheley

	Hey dude it worked great but I have a small problem. Now my notice manger welcome guest message register links is not working. Instead of forum/register.php it linking it to www.chatny.net/register.php. Is their a fix? I copied your text above and did what did.
	Posted 07-27-2008 at 03:55 PM by Greek76

I know this is over a year old, but I just found it from one of Brandon's links. Great info.

Posted 10-13-2008 at 12:57 PM by 2dub
no problem, it's a great post
Just wish bdude still had vba setup on his site, not sure why he removed it?

Posted 10-17-2008 at 06:05 AM by Brandon Sheley

Hi Brandon, I got vBadvanced CMPS on my site using custom blocks - slightly different layout to what is posted here, but it shows the general idea of using custom blocks.

I'm still updating alot of code, mainly moving the default navbar to the custom bar I've coded into the header template.

Oops.. missed off my website addy lol

Digital Port UK

There now you can check it out... Probably change it more once I get everything working properly,

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Updated 11-08-2008 at 03:38 PM by Syrus XL Media