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Hi, I'm new to the community. I am in the process of leaving forumotion.com and hosting my first forum on my own so I have a lot of questions.

I originally was going to go with it Phpbb3 but I discovered how tedious that software is and I heard mybb was much easier to work with it and I fell in love with the ease of use.

I want to start this off my by stating, I have NO EXPERIENCE really with coding and all that stuff. I really am ignorant so I do need some help getting pointed in the right direction and help with my situations.

1. Ajax chat

I've been searching through the forums but it seemed like the threads about ajax chat were confusing me so i wanted to know. How exactly can I create an ajax chat for my forum?

I currently only have 2 members(i haven't migrated my members from forumotion over yet) and I would like to know what is the easiest way I can do this.

Explicit dumb-down directions would be great.

Also, I know Ajax can be a server hog. Are there any good worthy similar chats available. Forumotion has an excellent chatbox but of course i can't take it with me. I tried chatroll.com and I don't like it.


2. How do i create Pages with the tabs? Like above with the home, about, features, etc?

3. How do you edit the width and the height of theme of your forum?
I like the current theme I have but the pictures of the icons are not up so i am going to have choose another. This guy did it for me but I havent been able to get in contact with him in a couple of days so I am going to have to try and do it on my own.

I want the width of the forum to be similar to what my old site was.

My old forums URL is:
http://www.fayznation.com

MY new forum url is:

http:/www.fearthefayz.com

Thank you so much Big Grin

1. AJAX Chat integration is fairly easy, here's a good tutorial - http://community.mybb.com/thread-90979.html

2. That's just HTML added to the header template and styled using CSS.

3. You can edit the width in your global.css

ACP >> Templates & Style >> yourtheme >> global.css

Find #container in the dropdown and change the width value. Your current site is fluid, so set it to something like 95% for a similar effect.
Thanks Big Grin

I'm going to try it tonight Toungue