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| Clean up your Navbar -and- Add Homepage Links
This is a simple way to clean up your navbar.
Why clean it up? Well on most forums, very few members use the FAQ, Members list and Calender. So why clutter up the navbar with all those items.
My suggestion is to move them to the Quick Links drop down menu. This way, they are still available, but not taking up space on the navbar.
All this happens in your navbar template.
What your looking for first is this code: Quote:
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="faq.php$session[sessionurl_q]" accesskey="5">$vbphrase[faq]</a></td>
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="memberlist.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[members_list]</a></td>
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>
| Delete that.
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<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$bbuserinfo[userid]">$vbphrase[my_profile]</a></td></tr>
| And place this code below it. Quote:
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="faq.php$session[sessionurl_q]" accesskey="5">$vbphrase[faq]</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="memberlist.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[members_list]</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td></tr>
| Notice, we didnt only move it but we altered the code a little. We wrapped each link in <tr> </tr> tags and we changed vbmenu_control to vbmenu_option.
Now, lets add a homepage link to the navbar.
If your homepage is forumhome...
Look for this: Quote:
<!-- nav buttons bar -->
<div align="center">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center" style="border-top-width:0px">
<tr align="center">
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<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="http://www.Your-Homepage-URL/">Home</a></td>
| IF you have a homepage and a Forumhome (like this site has)...
Look for this: Quote:
<!-- nav buttons bar -->
<div align="center">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center" style="border-top-width:0px">
<tr align="center">
| And below it place this: Quote:
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="http://www.Your-Homepage-URL/">Home</a></td>
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="http://www.Your-Forum-Home-Url">Forum</a></td>
| Now, You can also add a Dynamic Home / Forums Link (If you use vBadvanced CMPS as your homepage) Quote:
<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'adv_index'">
<a href="$vboptions[bburl]?$session[sessionurl]">
Forums
<else />
<a href="$vboptions[homeurl]?$session[sessionurl]">
Home
</if>
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| Re: Clean up your Navbar -and- Add Homepage Links
Great little mod!
I've always hated the default vBulletin nav bar!
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your welcome, 
btw, there is a thanks button tooo
and great name you have 
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I dont know if this is the appropriate thread but since it has to do with me adding a link to the nav bar Im giving it a shot.
I installed an awards mod which is great but I added the list to my navbar but for some reason when you click on the awards link on the nav bar images dont show up. But if you type the url and visit the images show. Any ideas?
For instance Ages of History - Awards you will see...
But if you visit here Ages of History and click on Awards on the navbar (you must choose blackout template to view that navbar) you will not see images.... Help? lol
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| Re: Clean up your Navbar -and- Add Homepage Links
I do not see awards link in the navbar on this page Ages of History
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| Re: Clean up your Navbar -and- Add Homepage Links
Quote:
Originally Posted by Brandon  | Its on the black out template.
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take off the ///
right now its forum/awards.php/
make it forum/awards.php
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Its funny how one / can make the difference. Its working great Brandon your awesome.
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yup, the / is so powerful 
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| Re: Clean up your Navbar -and- Add Homepage Links
i can't find this code:
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="faq.php$session[sessionurl_q]" accesskey="5">$vbphrase[faq]</a></td>
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="memberlist.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[members_list]</a></td>
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td> | |
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Originally Posted by Brandon yup, the / is so powerful | Especially if it has an "rm -rf" before it! (unix geek alert)
Great navbar tweaks, I always thought the FAQ kind of sucked since whenever I clicked on one I expected to see more specific info related to the forum I was on. And the calendar kind of sucks..... which sucks.... since I want one to post different music related events, etc, but I'd guess there's a plugin/product/something out there that can hook into vBulletin... but this is navbar talk, so I'll go away now and see what's out there, since now I know how to whip the navbar into shape and make it beg for mercy :1yes:
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| Re: Clean up your Navbar -and- Add Homepage Links
I use the vbAdvanced portal, and found that the code you placed at the end regarding the use Dynamic links, didn't work.
Here is a tweak I made to get it working as I think you intended.
Your original: Quote:
<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'adv_index'">
<a href="$vboptions[bburl]?$session[sessionurl]">
Forums
<else />
<a href="$vboptions[homeurl]?$session[sessionurl]">
Home
</if>
| My tweaked code with help from your other code in this thread: Quote:
<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'adv_index'">
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/forum">Forum</a></td>
<else />
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/">Home</a></td>
</if>
| This is on vB version 3.6.0 and vbAdvanced version 2.2.1 | |
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| Re: Clean up your Navbar -and- Add Homepage Links
ah, the code got removed,, it must have been when I was playing with the hack that allows X group to post HTML.. it messed another thread up I had posted too..
Thanks
oh, I just looked and see you where talking about the last set of code..
thanks for the correction, I don't use vBa so it must have gone overlooked.
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great info, just modified mine. is there any way to change the color of certain ones? Such as "Home", change the text color to a different color? | |
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yup, put something like this around the text
<span style="color: #ff0000;">Home</span>
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I need to do this, later, when I can concentrate. YES, I have to concentrate! *laugh* | |
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| Re: Clean up your Navbar -and- Add Homepage Links
Ever since I upgraded to new version of vB which was 3.7 I dont have my quicklinks on my navbar. What code do I look for to find my quicklinks? I know its in my navbar template but thats about it.
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| Re: Clean up your Navbar -and- Add Homepage Links
I love the navbar and the breadcrumb area and all of the neat things you can do with it.....
Looks better with 2 navbars (above and below the breadcrumb area. Also the Mood Manager and the User Avatar set it off really well.
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Originally Posted by Baldy I love the navbar and the breadcrumb area and all of the neat things you can do with it.....
Looks better with 2 navbars (above and below the breadcrumb area. Also the Mood Manager and the User Avatar set it off really well. | That user avatar up there looks kinda cool. I've never seen that, how did you do that?
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Originally Posted by ArnyVee That user avatar up there looks kinda cool. I've never seen that, how did you do that? | it looks like a small screenshot.
I don't really care for the look of the 2 navbar links 
It gets a bit cluttered to me, maybe if you at least limit it to guest, it's okay.
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I did this to clean up some of my navbar, but now my navbar link for my "donation" mod is sitting in the quicklinks.
Can anyone lend me a hand with what I need to move or change to have this configured correctly?
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