Opinions please

[James]

I'm in the middle of designing a new website for the Micra Sports Club over here in the UK.

I would appreciate comments on the layout/design: http://69.10.158.25/forums/

It's based on the main MyBB theme, cos I think its a really clean theme

Opinions would be great!

(I think there's a Micra club in Australia too: http://www.micra.com.au - nothing to do with me though )

Thanks,
James

[James]

Just realised most of the modification has been done in the admin section, so here's some screenshots, what do you think in terms of user-friendlyness:

           

[yukisho]

Nice site. and I got a question, what did you do to make it when you register the ads go away. send me a pm about it.

[James]

[yukisho]

where do i add those two peices of code? what part of the template?

[James]

Well, I put them in my header template, but they can go in any one you want
Just remember to customise the group IDs for the ones you want to filter

[yukisho]

ok this is my header, where do you suggest I put the code:

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
 var cookieDomain = "$settings[cookiedomain]";
 var cookiePath = "$settings[cookiepath]";
</script>
		<a name="top"></a>
<table width="750px" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center">
<tr>
<td>
<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center">
<tr>
<td class="logo"><a href="$settings[bburl]" class="logo"><img src="$theme[logo]" alt="$settings[bbname]" border="0" /></a></td>
</tr>
</table>


<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center">
  <tr> 
    <td><img src="$theme[imgdir]/b_1a.gif" alt="" /></td>
    <td width="100%" class="onebg"></td>
    <td><img src="$theme[imgdir]/b_1c.gif" alt="" /></td>
  </tr>
</table>


<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center">
  <tr> 
    <td class="twoabg"><img src="$theme[imgdir]/b_2a.gif" alt="" /></td>
    <td width="100%" class="forumbg">
<div class="menu">$toplinks</div>
<hr class="hidden" />
<div id="panel">
  <p>
  $welcomeblock
  </p>
</div>
<div class="catfootertwo"></div>
<div id="subcontent">
			<hr class="hidden" />
				$bbclosedwarning
				$unreadreports
				<navigation>
				<br class="clear" />

[James]

It depends on where you want the Google ads, but if you want it to the right of the MyBB logo, change that table to this:

<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center">
<tr>
<td class="logo"><a href="$settings[bburl]" class="logo"><img src="$theme[logo]" alt="$settings[bbname]" border="0" /></a></td><td nowrap>Google stuff here</td>
</tr>
</table>

And change the td.logo in css to have

width: 100%;

in it

By all means, look at the source of my forums and have a look (It's not overly pretty at the moment )

Hope this helps,
James

[yukisho]

actually I want it at the very bottom but when I put them there, I get this:

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /home/yukisho/public_html/fm/global.php(378) : eval()'d code on line 44

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /home/yukisho/public_html/fm/global.php(378) : eval()'d code on line 44

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /home/yukisho/public_html/fm/global.php(378) : eval()'d code on line 45

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /home/yukisho/public_html/fm/global.php(378) : eval()'d code on line 45

check it for yourself http://www.wow-database.net/fm/index.php

BTW the code on those line si:

			stripslashesarray($array[$key]);
		}

[wolfden]

Well, I put them in my header template, but they can go in any one you want
Just remember to customise the group IDs for the ones you want to filter

According to google's policy you can't have the ads on noncontent pages - such as the registration page and what not. I add them to the templates that were safe. I think it's kinda dumb for this to be a policy, but that is for google to call. I don't know how well google enforces it either, but I guess it's better to be on the safe side.