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Old 11-23-2006, 11:24 PM   #1

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Turning the welcome message into an image

I remember reading something about turning your welcome message into an image??? I have been searching for posts on that but I must be using the wrong key words because Im not having any luck.

Can some one point me in the right direction!
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Old 11-25-2006, 12:25 AM   #2

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You can probably use HTML in the welcome message, so just put
Code:
<img src="/yourimage.jpg" />
Where you would normally type the message in.
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Old 11-25-2006, 06:07 AM   #3

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loco.m has a great forum that talks about optimizing vbulletin. You need to have a valid vb licence for his place.

But even if you don't have vb, you can still benefit from this sage advice. All you gotta do is design a great welcome message in your favorite graphics program, and then save it as a jpeg.

Then edit your templates. Where it allows you to change the welcome message, delete everything and just show the image.

HTML Code:
<img src="welcome.jpg" alt="welcome header" /> 
You probably want it linked to your registration page, so just put anchor tags around it.

HTML Code:
<a href="register.php"><img src="welcome.jpg" alt="welcome header" /></a> 
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Nice tutorial. Thanks for this. I was concerned from an SEO standpoint about all that extra text visivle to spiders.
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If you're worried specifically about SEO, you could easily use a conditional to limit the welcome/guest message to the forumhome, thus keeping the keywords in the welcome/guest message 'rich' and not over-spreading to non-related pages.

Something such as:

PHP Code:

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == index">
&
nbsp;
<else />
welcome message bit
</if> 
This, of course, would go within the template that you have the welcome/guest message residing in.
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edit. Found what I was looking for. Thanks everyone!

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thanks for the link and kind words guys
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Lots of good info at vbulletinsetup.com ! Glad I found it.



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Lots of good info at vbulletinsetup.com ! Glad I found it.
I'm glad I could help. But looking back, I never provided the link, right? but at least I told ya who to contact on AF!
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