Joeychgo
11-01-2005, 05:00 AM
The stock vBulletin archive is kinda of bland. It's suppose to be. Its purpose os mostly to help search engines find your threads easier. Often times that ends up meaning its your archive that gets
But, you can spice it up a little if you like. I dont recommend you add a whole bunch of stuff, but a little wont hurt you. Take a look at what I have done with the VBW archive (http://www.vbwebmaster.com/forums/archive/index.php/)
If you want to change the colors on the page, you will need to do that in the CSS file thats in the archive folder.
Beyond that - open the index file in the archive folder. Look for
</head>
<body>
<div class="pagebody">
Anything you put right below the <body> tag will appear above the white body. Anything you want in the top of the body should be after the <div class="pagebody"> tag.
In this case I put the VBW banner below the <body> tag, and the adsense and vbulletin banner I put after the <div class="pagebody"> tag.
Pretty simple.
But, you can spice it up a little if you like. I dont recommend you add a whole bunch of stuff, but a little wont hurt you. Take a look at what I have done with the VBW archive (http://www.vbwebmaster.com/forums/archive/index.php/)
If you want to change the colors on the page, you will need to do that in the CSS file thats in the archive folder.
Beyond that - open the index file in the archive folder. Look for
</head>
<body>
<div class="pagebody">
Anything you put right below the <body> tag will appear above the white body. Anything you want in the top of the body should be after the <div class="pagebody"> tag.
In this case I put the VBW banner below the <body> tag, and the adsense and vbulletin banner I put after the <div class="pagebody"> tag.
Pretty simple.

