Question re Hyperlink

[bassett777]

I am new to Yabb and wonder if anyone can answer the following.

Is it possible to create a hyperlink on the opening page, pointing back to a web site of the organistation running the board?

[Peter Duggan]

You can add whatever you like to your template so long as you don't remove the bits that make the board work.

[bassett777]

Peter,

Perhaps the question should be how? As I am completly new to Yab and it workings.

[David]

What some people have done is right before <yabb menu> added a link back to their site.  Either with a graphic they made or with text.

[Peter Duggan]

Peter,

Perhaps the question should be how? As I am completly new to Yab and it workings.

If that means what I think it does, you need something like:

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<a href="http://www.mysite.com/">Home</a>
<!-- absolute path to home page if your site is called mysite.com -->or

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<a href="./">Home</a>
<!-- relative path to index page of current directory -->or

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<a href="../">Home</a>
<!-- relative path to index page of next directory up -->or replace 'Home' in any of these with:

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<img src="myimage" width="width" height="height" border="0" alt="Home" />
Where myimage is the path to your image (eg images/home.gif) and width and height are the image width and height respectively in pixels.

If your home page is called anything except index or default, the link will also need to include the file name (eg http://www.mysite.com/myhomepage.html).

Hope that's not either too complicated or too explicit (sorry if I've misread your revised question). David's advice about where to put it is still good advice, too!

[Peter Duggan]

If your home page is called anything except index or default, the link will also need to include the file name (eg http://www.mysite.com/myhomepage.html).

Believe it or not, YaBB's auto-linking feature has turned my hypothetical example into a hyperlink and it actually leads to a real page! Not my intention at all, and I wouldn't recommend following it up (curiosity killed the cat, eh?) because it's seriously spammy and full of pop-ups. Just be careful making up generic exemplar URLs!

[irbrian]

If that means what I think it does,

Indeed -- editing template.php is not difficult, and can be done from your Admin Panel by clicking on "Edit My Forum Template", but one would do well to familiarize oneself with basic HTML first.

[bassett777]

Thanks to everyone for their help.