[Anaz]

Ok, this has been bugging me... When I go to a forum for a hosted mod, I want to see their site, so I try to click on the banner...which takes me to the forum I'm already in...

so if it wouldn't be too much trouble, could you make the forum banners take you to the hosted MOD's website?

[WMCoolmon]

I don't believe it'd be too easy, since I think it automatically links to the location of the board and isn't settable without changing the code.
IMO it'd be worth it, though. It's a bit confusing to click on the "Over the Top" banner and be taken to the main forums page.

[Stealth]

yeah, but see on like the Hard Light forum, the banner says "HARD LIGHT FORUMS", so it's SUPPOSED to link to the forums i think, just on their forum banners they don't have 'forums' on it... they may have 'over the top', but they don't have 'forums', so when the user clicks it they expect it to go to the website, but it doesn't.

i'm sure an admin can change it in certain sites instead of the entire setup of all forums

[Pegasus V]

...the banner says "HARD LIGHT FORUMS", so it's SUPPOSED to link to the forums...

It's a bit stupid if you ask me. Why would you want to go to a place that you already are? Please HLP Gods, change it to the website rather than the forum.

[an0n]

Eh? The point of the banner is so you have a nice easy way of jumping to the top forum.

[Kellan]

Ummm...but surely the bar at the top is just as easy. Y'know, the:

HLP Forums > HLP > Hard Light > Thread

...And you just click on the "HLP Forums" bit. See? Monkey see, monkey do?

[Stealth]

i don't know abou you, but when i click on 'HLP FORUMS' i don't want to go to the HLP forums, i want to to go the HLP homepage

[Knight Templar]

*cough* sarcsm *cough*

[aldo_14]

There's a link to the mainpage on the bottom of the screen, anwyays.

[Stealth]

lol, what's even funnier is i didn't mean it to be sarcasm... i typed it backwards by mistake  

[Knight Templar]

[WMCoolmon]

Now where's that :doh: smilie gone to?

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Stealth
i don't know abou you, but when i click on 'HLP FORUMS' i don't want to go to the HLP forums, i want to to go the HLP homepage

ROFL!!

Anyways, as for the idea, AFAIK it's hard-coded. And I believe that even if we were to modify the code, we could only define one link for the top banner.

As far as the vB is concerned, every forum and subforum all belong to one "homepage", to which the bottom link that aldo mentioned links.

[an0n]

Technically you could use some kinda array thingy whereby it'd reference a list and match the forum number to href code, but that'd mean going through like 40 different css files and changing the header data.

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by an0n
...css files...

No, PHP.

[an0n]

I thought vBulletin used css's to designate individual forum styles?

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by an0n
I thought vBulletin used css's to designate individual forum styles?

That may be, but it has nothing to do with the matter. In case you aren't familiar with CSS files (and apparently you aren't), they store information about how the browser should format the appearance of page elements - color, size, borders, etc. CSS files cannot be used to define a link like the one being talked about.

[Stealth]

it does, but CSS is used for the color set, font, etc. of forums, not used to link oranything

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Stealth
it does, but CSS is used for the color set, font, etc. of forums, not used to link oranything

Beat ya to it!

[an0n]

CSS can be used to define parameters for the page. And you could get it to change the links for specific forums.

You could quite easily (albeit extremely tediously) make either the php of the boards or the css files reference some other parameter and get the boards to change the header link.

But anyway, this is OT. The simple fact is that the forums are fine the way they are and don't friggin need the links changing.