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:

• Ad placement on index page of CA Vintage Style
• Ads Placement in Forum page for CA Vintage style
• Ads Placement in topics for CA Vintage style

This is a continuation post over the ads placement in CA Vintage style. In the last we have covered the Ads Placement in topics for CA Vintage style and this post focuses on the ad placement in the forum page. The ad is placement as a sky scrapper on the left hand side of the forum page, and on the top and bottom of a forum, check the attached screen shot for the exact location. We have specified two zones for better understanding, zone1 and zone2.

Ads in left side of the Forum

In zone 1 the ad appears in the left side of the viewforum page as an sky scrapper.

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.

<table width=”100%” cellspacing=”1″>
<tr>
<td width=”160″ align=”left” valign=”top”>
{$CA_BLOCK2_START}Adverts{$CA_BLOCK2_START2}
<center>
your ad goes here
</center>
{$CA_BLOCK2_END2}
{$CA_BLOCK2_END}
</td>
<td align=”left” valign=”top”>

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

<hr />

Step5: Add the following lines just above these lines.

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

Step 6: Save the changes made to the file.

Ad just after forum List

In zone 2 the ad appears in the bottom of the viewforum page, just after the forum list. Refer Zone 2 for the position in the screen shot.

Step1: Open the viewforum_body.html file.

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

<!– INCLUDE jumpbox.html –>

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

{$CA_BLOCK2_START}Advertisements{$CA_BLOCK2_START2}
<center>
your ad goes here
</center>
{$CA_BLOCK2_END2}
{$CA_BLOCK2_END}

Step 4: Save the changes made to the file.

We hope this modification is simple and attractive with respect to the ad placement on forum page. If you have some problem with the placement contact us here on the official forum for CA Vintage.

The footer of PhpBB could be optimized greatly specially in the case of being hosted on an Blue Host hosting which have simple scripts to manage the installation for you. But this post gives you the potential of customizing your footer for popup and popunder ads also.

Manage footer Affiliate

In the default installation of the phpbb forum through blue hosts simple scripts software, a footer credit not is being attached on every page. Well this link should be attached their to give them credit for the installation. But better way is to get it replaced by an affiliate link of bluehost. And i recommend to highlight it in bold to make it attractive to the users.

Lets proceed to the modification and the steps to be carried out to do so.

1. Login into the admin panel of the forum.
2. Select the style tab>> templates>> click edit on selected style (here i have choosen prosilver)
3. Select overall_footer.html from the dropdown file selection. In the editing frame look for the div highlighted in the image.
   
4. In that particular class you can look for the codes that you want to edit and replace them with the new one and even add new things.

   I have replaced <a href=”http://www.bluehost.com” title=”web hosting”>web hosting</a> with

<b><a href=”http://www.bluehost.com/track/colorsofnet” title=”web hosting”>web hosting</a></b>

This is the image of old footer

This is the image of new footer

Adding Pop Up and Pop Under ads

The best place to add pop up and pop under ads in an phpbb forum is its footer, since it loads in the last when the entire page is loaded. The code can be added before the following lines.

</body>
</html>

And if you have any problem with the parsing of your ad code, you could comment for help over here. We will help you get it parsed on your phpbb forum.

Their are lot of blogs that have a floating Twitter Follow badge on the side of their pages. I was asked by one of my client to implement it’s PhpBB forum. For those who are familiar with PhpBB must be aware of the mod’s that are available for it, and complexity in their installation, as you are dealing directly with the codes modification. Moreover, i was unable to find a Mod for Twitter Badge.

Then i decided to do it the wordpress way, i explored the available options for twitter badge over various wordpress sites and fortunately i came up with a solution to do it for PhpBB. I will be covering this step by step, just follow these steps to implement a twitter badge on your site.

Create a Twitter Badge

First thing is to have a twitter badge, and this badge could be created through Go2web20. Just fill up the form and get the code by clicking on the update code button. You should have a twitter account to fill up over here, if you don’t have one get it from Twitter.

Implement the code on Forum

Now You have the code for the Badge, next work comes to implement it on the forum. In PhpBB3, you can edit the file in admin panel itself. If you are using PhpBB2 you could edit it from the control panel or on your desktop and than transfer it on server through ftp.

1. Edit, overall_footer.html file in PhpBB3 or overall_footer.tpl in PhpBB2
2. At the bottom of the file you will find
   

   </body>

   </html>

3. Place code before these line.
4. And update the file.

   Note: The badge will not appear on IE6.

We hope you like this customization from our end, we will be coming up with such more in the future.