Hello from NY :)

[PCGamesJunkie]

Hi there, Peggy, and all your wonderful members!

I've been running large online communities using vBulletin's scripts for a couple of years now. I'm just now breaking out on my own, building what I call a "community for fun" (and affiliate income, of course LOL).

Anyway, I've always been a huge fan of your designs, and have found your posts to the vB forums to be chock full of great information and help. Thanks for that!

I'm off to continue my search ... I've used a couple of vB template modifications that I originally found on talkvbulletin[dot]com, but it looks like that sites gone In one of my many searches, I remembered someone else referencing these same modifications. I'm looking for:

• Making signature stay at bottom of post (legacy post bit hack)
• customized alternative signature box (puts sig in table with a border of 1, with the poster's name in the top right corner "Member's Signature". ETA: Found this, and tweaked it for cleaner code and customization.

I'm hoping to broaden my vB horizons, so wanted to finally register here, say hello, and look forward to exchanging ideas and chatting!

ETA: Because I'm lazy and still forget where everything is in the templates, I'm still looking for that code that keeps the sigs at the bottom of the post bit legacy... I should probably just look in my templates on one of the sites I designed. LOL Sorry, I get dopey when I haven't slept. If posting the link to that other forum is taboo, please edit and forgive me. I was just so excited to find it lol.

[Mike54]

Welcome to Themes by Design, PCGJ.

Take a look at THIS and see if it won't accomplish what you are looking to do.

[PCGamesJunkie]

Thanks Mike! That *is* the original one I used on another forum... and browsing the rest of the threads there, I think I might find a few of the other things I was looking for, so again, thank you!

sidenote: My dad was born in Fife, although I'm first generation American, born in Brooklyn, NY. I smile whenever I see a reference to Scotland, like in your sig... so thanks for the smile this morning, and a peek at a great looking forum too!
:blush:

[PCGamesJunkie]

I found it! Legacy post bit... force sig to bottom. *whew*

[rolfw]

Welcome to the forum PCGJ.

Strangely enough I tried that template mod, but all it seemed to do was move the online and ip icons over to underneath the signature.

[Peggy]

Hi there, welcome to Themes By Design!

The template modification that you read at Talk vBulletin (and yes, the site is permanently gone), was posted by me. I'll post it here as well. I use this mod on all of my sites.

BTW - you'll find another good vB resource site here - vBulletin FAQ. I'm on staff there, it's been around for quite a long time.

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For Postbit_Legacy, only! This template modification forces your signature to remain at the bottom of your post, rather than kissing the underside of your post content

No plugins, just a few simple template edits to postbit legacy template.

In Postbit_Legacy template, find:

<td class="alt2" width="175" style="border: $stylevar[cellspacing]px solid $stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]; border-top: 0px; border-bottom: 0px">

Replace with:

<td class="alt2" width="175" rowspan="2" style="border: $stylevar[cellspacing]px solid $stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]; border-top: 0px; border-bottom: 0px">

Next, Find:

<if condition="$post['signature']">
  <!-- sig -->
      <div>
          __________________<br />
          $post[signature]
      </div>
  <!-- / sig -->
  </if>

DELETE this.

Scroll down a bit to:

<!-- / edit note -->
</if>

</td>
</tr>

Beneath, add:

 
<tr>
<td class="alt1" valign="bottom" style="border-right: $stylevar[cellspacing]px solid $stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]">
 
<if condition="$post['signature']">
<!-- sig -->
<hr size="1" style="color:$stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]" />
<div align="bottom">
$post[signature]
</div>
<!-- / sig -->
</if>
</td>
</tr>

Further, IF you should want to remove that line above the signature,

Find this:

 
<tr>
<td class="alt1" valign="bottom" style="border-right: $stylevar[cellspacing]px solid $stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]">
 
<if condition="$post['signature']">
<!-- sig -->
<hr size="1" style="color:$stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]" />
<div align="bottom">
$post[signature]
</div>
<!-- / sig -->
</if>
</td>
</tr>

and remove this:

<hr size="1" style="color:$stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]" />

SAVE

[PCGamesJunkie]

Thanks for this Peggy! I'll have to give this a shot after I get some sleep... I keep the strangest hours. Nice to know my memory isn't completely shot, I thought it was you that posted that on the other place!

I'm slowly making my way through the vast collection of resource sites I'm finding through you, thanks for all the info, if there's ever anything I can do for you, just let me know, and thanks again!

[Mike54]

Originally Posted by PCGamesJunkie

sidenote: My dad was born in Fife, although I'm first generation American, born in Brooklyn, NY. I smile whenever I see a reference to Scotland, like in your sig... so thanks for the smile this morning, and a peek at a great looking forum too!

Thanks for the compliment. :blush:

I've spent considerable time in Clackmannanshire and have also traced some of my forebears back to mid-18th century Dunfermline. I truly enjoy being in that part of Alba. (Actually, I don't suppose there's an area I don't enjoy!)

And to keep from drifting too far off-topic, I'm glad Peggy was able to get you fixed up.