Need some help! Sidebar doesn't want to play nicely.

[Pheobe Black]

I'm trying to make a sidebar plugin so I can organize a site I run the way the admin team wants it. My biggest problem is, I can't get the content into the spot I want it.

orderofmerlintester.proboards.com/board/2/mock-board-1

That's the board I'm playing with atm. I want the header stuff into the white area. I want to be able to make different tabs (have a tab code to work with) and have different tabs show on different boards. So far I've used template modification to get the two divs I want set right, but everything I'm trying is throwing the content to the headers, and I want it in the sidebar, outside of the wrapper and fixed the way I've got it right now.

Can anybody walk me through doing this? Or even make a plugin I can edit to do this?? I don't want one that's directly next to the forum, I want one that stands on it's own like what I've got started. I know how to play with the board/category settings now, but I just need to figure out how to get the information where I want it. That's the only thing stopping me right this moment.

[Wormopolis]

is there a reason you cant use any of the sidebar plugins that have already been written?

not to deter you from trying to write your own, I am just curious...

[Pheobe Black]

they seem to cause issues with a lot of my members, so i catch all the greif and wind up having to redo them constantly to appease people. i want one thats not directly next to the forum, and always open, this way nobody can say they cant find the links or things like that that we put into the sidebar.

that and we want to use it for more of an announcement area, so its plain as day to people what's going on in what area of the site as well. a lot of the sidebars already made i cant do this, b/c i cant edit them to be for specific boards and stuff like that like i want to.

[Pheobe Black]

bump. still need some help please. i'd rather not have to do the entire thing into each template by hand, because that just flat out defeats the purpose.

[Pheobe Black]

NEVER MIND!!! GOT IT!!!!! *dances* got it to work! found an old floating sidebar code from v4 (what i was looking for originally i think) and i've got it working!!! *happy dance* had to modify it a small bit by removing the
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
// Remove Welcome Table align and add margin
document.getElementsByTagName('table')[0].removeAttribute("align");
document.getElementsByTagName('table')[0].style.marginLeft = "260px";
//-->
</script>
but it's working!!