Ads Placement in Forum page for Hestia style

Ads Placement in Forum page for Hestia style
December 21st, 2009 - 12:54 am § in Ads Placement, Customizations, PhpBB

This post teaches the users with Hestia Style installed on their board for ad placement in the forum page. This ad placement creates a column in the left side of the forum page, by shifting the topic/forum list to the right. And one ad will be placed just after the topic/forum list.

Ads in left side of the Forum

In this the ad appears in the left side of the viewforum page as an sky scrapper. Check the screen shot for the exact placement.

Step1: Open the viewforum_body.html file.

Step 2: Look for the following line in the code.

<!– INCLUDE overall_header.html –>

This line is the first line on the viewforum_body.html code page.

Step3: Just after this line paste the following code, replacing your ad goes here with your ad code.

{$CA_BLOCK_START}
<table class=”tablebg” width=”100%” cellspacing=”{$CA_SPACING}”>
{$CA_CAP_START}{$CA_CAP_END}
<tr>
<td class=”row1 nobold” width=”160″ valign=”top”><p class=”genmed”>
your ad goes here
</p>
</td>
<td align=”left” valign=”top”>
<br />

Step4: Now look for the following line in the code.

<!– INCLUDE breadcrumbs.html –>

Step5: Add the following lines just after these lines.

</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br/>

Step 6: Save the changes made to the file.

Ad just after forum List

The ad appears just after the forum list, where the list of the topic and forum finishes. Check the attached screen shot for the clear location of ad placement.

Step1: Open the viewforum_body.html file.

Step 2: Look for the following line in the code.

<!– IF S_DISPLAY_ONLINE_LIST –>

Step3: Just above this line paste the following code, replacing your ad goes here with your ad code.

{$CA_BLOCK_START}
<table class=”tablebg” width=”100%” cellspacing=”{$CA_SPACING}”>
{$CA_CAP_START}Advertisements{$CA_CAP_END}
<tr>
<td class=”row1 nobold” width=”100%” valign=”middle”><p class=”genmed”>
<center>
your ad goes here
</center>
</p></td>
</tr>
</table>
{$CA_BLOCK_END}

Step 4: Save the changes made to the file.

We hope this modification helps you with the ad placement, if you have any problem with the customization of ads with this style visit our official forum for Hestia.

Check our Ad Placement solution for CA Vintage style:


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