[HOW-TO] Make your Welcome Headers an image!

**ArnyVee** · 08-11-2008, 04:17 AM

I have to agree Chase.

Plus, you can also fall under that "there's too much going on here and I don't know where to go" mentality and leave as well.

But, if you have the Welcome Header, it kinda eases them and gives them a little 'direction'. Sort of like a "You Are Here" marker on the Mall Directory

**GearEval** · 08-29-2008, 06:38 PM

Great idea, thanks!

**Caddyman** · 09-12-2008, 04:42 AM

Starting now, for 1 week (till Sept. 19th), i will make FREE welcome headers for anyone who wants one.

tell me the follow

what site URL
if it is for a skin other then your sites default tell me which one
if you want links to sections, what links specifically (3 max + register)
size, do you want a square or a rectangle (examples attached)

Square

Rectangle

**magz** · 09-12-2008, 06:09 AM

Wow, thanks for this

Would be for my default skin, bigred
Rectangle would be my preference

Links: Arcade, Blogs, erm....... Photo Gallery

**Caddyman** · 09-12-2008, 06:14 AM

can you please post the specific links here so i can make sure i have the right ones. thanks.

**magz** · 09-12-2008, 06:31 AM

Oopps

Arcade
Blogs
Photo Gallery

thanks

**Caddyman** · 09-12-2008, 06:39 AM

cool magz, i should be able to do it this afternoon, i get out of work here in about a hour

**Caddyman** · 09-12-2008, 07:57 AM

Here you go magz, unzip and edit the map code to go to the image path of where you put the welcome image at on your server.

follow instruction in first post to add to you welcome header, enjoy.

**magz** · 09-12-2008, 08:09 AM

Excellent caddy,

Welcome image now in place and looking so much better then what i had.

Happy happy happy

Thank you very much

**Caddyman** · 09-12-2008, 08:19 AM

your very welcome, and it is better for SEO, i even thru alt tags on the maps

who's next?

**karel1985** · 09-15-2008, 11:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Caddyman

Starting now, for 1 week (till Sept. 19th), i will make FREE welcome headers for anyone who wants one.

tell me the follow

what site URL
if it is for a skin other then your sites default tell me which one
if you want links to sections, what links specifically (3 max + register)
size, do you want a square or a rectangle (examples attached)

Square

Rectangle

Nice work, Bad luck for me, i own a dutch website and prob. you don't know dutch

My site: PC help forum - Gratis hulp bij computer problemen

Maybe you can try in English and after i can translate it?

So its a computer support forum and we help people to solve their pc problems for free.
Most important for new members is that we have a 'welcome guide'

also mostly used forums are:

Software problems
Hardware problems
Tutorials/Tips

Do you think you make something about it?

**Soliloquy** · 09-15-2008, 11:50 AM

So, uh, Caddy, ol' buddy ol' pal... willing to make one for me? For the ice cream forum? To match that awesome sig you're making me?
http://www.ice-cream-forum.com/
With links to forums, "cool games" and recipes
(I have some ice cream artwork)

**Caddyman** · 09-15-2008, 01:47 PM

i will try and get both of these done tomorrow for you guys.

**karel1985** · 09-17-2008, 01:12 PM

great

Looking forward to it, Take the time you need :-)

Karel

**ArnyVee** · 09-17-2008, 01:34 PM

Chase, in searching through my 'errors' last night, I noticed that that the ALT tag was misspelled on one of them (WBD vs WDB)

Where do I change that?

**Caddyman** · 09-17-2008, 01:41 PM

on the welcome header?

that would be in acp>vboptions>welcome header options>guest welcome message....i think

**ArnyVee** · 09-17-2008, 01:43 PM

Nope....it doesn't give the option to change the 'alt' tags there.

**glennybee** · 09-17-2008, 02:05 PM

Hi Chase,

If you're still offering this service I would be very delighted if you could do one for me please?

URL: Digital Kaos - The Cable and Satellite Experts!

Style: Default (charcoal colour)

Links:

Cable
Satellite
Downloads

Size: Square

No rush m8 if you can do it, it seems like you have a few to do.

Much appreciated

Glen

**Caddyman** · 09-17-2008, 02:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ArnyVee

Nope....it doesn't give the option to change the 'alt' tags there.

can you paste the error here so i can look at it? the coding i use is auto made in dreamweaver, i hope it's not wrong.

and Glen, ill get your image here in a bit

Karel and Solil, what stlye do you want? square or rectangle?

**Caddyman** · 09-17-2008, 03:44 PM

Here is your welcome header Glenny, map code and image are in here

**Soliloquy** · 09-17-2008, 07:06 PM

I'd like square, please. Let me know if I should send you any of the ice cream artwork

**Caddyman** · 09-17-2008, 07:11 PM

cool solil, you can send me what you got to Chase at talkdelaware.com . bout to go to bed i think but i can make it tomorrow

**Soliloquy** · 09-17-2008, 10:32 PM

Email with all the images sent, so you can pick and choose which ones to use

**Caddyman** · 09-18-2008, 03:15 AM

got the email, hopefully will be able to make it today at lunch time.

**ArnyVee** · 09-18-2008, 03:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Caddyman

can you paste the error here so i can look at it? the coding i use is auto made in dreamweaver, i hope it's not wrong.

Chase, I actually received many errors on that validation site that you sent me regarding the code. Here are a few....

Line 509, Column 346: required attribute "id" not specified.

…er="0" usemap="#Map"> <map name="Map"><area shape="rect" coords="14,199,123,2

The attribute given above is required for an element that you've used, but you have omitted it. For instance, in most HTML and XHTML document types the "type" attribute is required on the "script" element and the "alt" attribute is required for the "img" element.

Typical values for type are type="text/css" for <style> and type="text/javascript" for <script>.

Line 509, Column 466: end tag for "area" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified.

…orums.php" alt="Chat in the forums!"> <area shape="rect" coords="164,198,267,

You may have neglected to close an element, or perhaps you meant to "self-close" an element, that is, ending it with "/>" instead of ">".

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

But, I wasn't overly considered (although I'd like to clean those up) with those. I noticed one of them showed the incorrect alt tag....

sney-boards-radio/" alt="WBD Radio!"> <area shape="rect" coords="2,4,436,149"

....it shows as "WBD Radio!" instead of "WDB Radio!". You probably don't remember, but you changed the actual image text on that because you had done it backwards on there as well

**Caddyman** · 09-18-2008, 03:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Caddyman

on the welcome header?

that would be in acp>vboptions>welcome header options>guest welcome message....i think

Quote:

Nope....it doesn't give the option to change the 'alt' tags there.

AHem...

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Attachment 1222

Fixed both the alt tag mispelling and added the / in the end of the codes, i think that'll fix both issues.