It doesn't look too bad. Maybe if the colors matched your forum color scheme it would look a little better. I think the font used needs changing though, perhaps an anti-alias applied, or smoothing.

Just an idea!

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I don't know. I'd rather have a professional do it. I'm no graphic designer and I want something really appealing for guests to see. I don't know if anyone here would be capable of doing that. And I'd rather not pay, but I guess I'd be willing to.

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I'll design one for you a little later... It's quite late over here in the UK, otherwise I would do it for you now.

ATB...

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I really appreciate that. And there's no rush.

I also have a question about this. Isn't it bad that search engines can't read your welcome header? My welcome header describes my forum, so it helps my meta description relevancy.

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I never even seen this post, or the ones after..lol :lalala:

That's a sharp looking header, I never thought about using a flash image for this. I'll be contacting you when/if we get a new skin by miner for 2009

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Can you answer my question though?

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Sorry, I missed that one.
With the welcome header setup as text, you have that same text on all your forum pages. The best option to have is to have complete unique text on all pages.

I think google at least filters these pages out in search results, but if I remember right, yahoo doesn't even do that.. I'll see if I can get an example.

*hmm,, I don't see any examples and it's late. I'm heading to bed*

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I don't see the point of using 'welcome headers' with text. You can do a better job by tweaking your meta tags, by default these are very basic with vbulletin anyway.

Google can read text within flash files, if it hasn't been vectorized. I vectorized the text on mine on purposes so spiders from Google cannot read it, and it also saved me embedding the font which would have increased the overall file size.

Just imagine having a vbulletin forum with over 1/2 million pages, and the same text appearing at the top of each page, this would be ignored by Google, while you could tweak your vbulletin code in a number of ways to obtain better results.

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Okay. Well I guess my forum descriptions work as a unique description for each page, right?

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Yup, and the bots will pick that up..
For me, changing the header to an image is more about keyword density. I don't want the same 500 characters on all the pages.

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