adding info boxes on top

[tomashton]

Forum URL: tomashton1.proboards75.com

Can anyone please let me know how to add info boxes next to the ones that are on top when we start up our boards, (home, help, search, etc.) to put my links and chatroom (I already have a chatroom that i am going to use) in, and after I install the info boxes, I want to make sure that they work.

Thank You,
Tom Ashton

[Satman]

tomashton said:

Forum URL: tomashton1.proboards75.com

Can anyone please let me know how to add info boxes next to the ones that are on top when we start up our boards, (home, help, search, etc.) to put my links and chatroom (I already have a chatroom that i am going to use) in, and after I install the info boxes, I want to make sure that they work.

Thank You,
Tom Ashton

You mean extra buttons in the menu?

support.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=codedatabase&action=display&n=1&thread=70388

[tomashton]

Yes, I put the code into my heading fine, But when i went to put the information into the code in the box, I did something wrong, Because either the box would not say anything at the top and it would give me an error message, or the box would totally disappear from the top even though the code was still in my header.

[Craig]

What the link and image you want to add?

[tomashton]

Craig, The first one is for a Chatroom called parachat, The Link to it is www.parachat.com

www.parachat.com/basic/createpop.html

The link above is for the type of chatroom, And the room name is ctfishing-hunting+beyond


The second one for links that i want to add to my site, I thought it would be easier to click on the links on top, Then make a board gong to the links.

The links that i would like to add are at the top of my other proboards site.

www.tomashton.proboards16.com/

Can you also let me know how to add more links.

Thank You, Tom Ashton

[ĐR]

Okay Tom in order to add the links to the welcome table using that code you need an image icon. You see in the menu there where you want to add the link (home, help, search, etc.) those are images that, when clicked, link to a specific area. To add the link to the parachat site you'd need an image that would go into that code that Satman gave you to link to the chat room. You could try requesting one in the Graphics Request board here on ProBoards Support. Once you get your chat button to add, we can fix up the code for you.

[tomashton]

Okay, I have 2 different image icons and 2 different codes for links and a Chat Room.


The first code is for my Chat Room, I tried to copy and paste the image icons here but I was not able to. The buttons that are on my site that are in the top left hand corner of my site are as follows.

The left one is for the Chat Room
The right One is for links



<A HREF="http://www.buttongenerator.com/"><IMG SRC="http://www.buttongenerator.com/ima/link.gif" WIDTH=88 HEIGHT=31 BORDER=0 ALT="ButtonGenerator.com"></A>

-----
Code for Links below


<A HREF="http://www.buttongenerator.com/"><IMG SRC="http://www.buttongenerator.com/ima/link.gif" WIDTH=88 HEIGHT=31 BORDER=0 ALT="ButtonGenerator.com"></A>


I can Email the icons to you if you like

Thank you so far for your help

[tomashton]

Please disreguard my previous post above this one, I went out and bought a program that has web graphics and animation on it, and I have to buttons that i got from the program, 1 is for my links and the other one is for a chatroom, But i am unable to post the icons on this post, I can email them to someone to help me with the code.

Thank You.

[Craig]

Ok, this is the code you need:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
// extra links in menu

menu = document.getElementsByTagName('td')[5];

menu.innerHTML+='<a href="url of link" target="_blank"><img src="url of image" border="0" alt="menu link" /></a>'
menu.innerHTML+='<a href="url of link" target="_blank"><img src="url of image" border="0" alt="menu link" /></a>'
// -->
</script>

You need to edit the bold parts, and put it at the top of your global header.

[tomashton]

Craig, When i put the code into the global header as you said, I got 2 link buttons on the top of the page, Which i know are supposed to go there when i put the code into the header, But after that i must be doing something wrong, Because after I put the link for the chatroom inside the code, both buttons disappear.

I have tried quite a few times with the same results.

[Craig]

Could you put the code back in, so i can see it in action

[tomashton]

Craig, I put the code back in the global header I beleive
on Tuesday, But i did not put any links in the code. I did not want to put the links in the code because i knew the boxes would disapper. For about the last day or so, I have had 2 red X's on the top of the page, With menu link written in it.

Thank You.

[Craig]

tomashton said:

Craig, I put the code back in the global header I beleive
on Tuesday, But i did not put any links in the code. I did not want to put the links in the code because i knew the boxes would disapper. For about the last day or so, I have had 2 red X's on the top of the page, With menu link written in it.

Thank You.

Ok, post the code exactly how you have it in your header.

[tomashton]

HELP Craig, I really did it this time, I put the code for the links in like you wanted and for once it actually worked, When i clicked on it, It brought up the ChatRoom, Except for a red X in the box where it says ChatRoom, But That was it.

I tried to take the 2nd box out, Because I figured i did not need it, But instead i messed up my site, When i click on admin, nothing comes up, It is blank screen, I went on a another computer and tried to log on, But again there was nothing but a blank screen, I could not even log in.

[Craig]

All should be better now.