Adding a Flash Banner to your IPB HeaderBy Nightfox PC Asst
May 15, 2005
Okay this might seem simple and yet it might not to some? If anyone has ever created a cool flash header for thier IPB boards yet doesn't know how to get it to work in the forums based boards I will show you how.
1) First have a banner created using a Flash Program or other program that creates a flash.
2) Using your FTP program or Cpanel, goto your root directory, normally this is called 'WWW'. Save the file in this location.
3) Now lets go into our
ACP > Skins & Templates > Skin Manager4)
Left Click on the skin your going edit and choose
Edit Root Skin Template5) Goto
All Global HTML and scroll down till you see
global header template and click on it to open the edit window.
6) Delete only this code below:
CODE
<a href='{ipb.script_url}'><!--ipb.logo.start--><img src='style_images/<#IMG_DIR#>/logo4.gif' style='vertical-align:top' alt='IPB' border='0' /><!--ipb.logo.end--></a>
7) Now replace it with this code:
CODE
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="429" height="92">
<param name="movie" value="header.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<embed src="header.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="429" height="92"></embed>
</object>
If you notice, our flash object is called header.swf. Change this name to your flash object to make it work.
8)
Save and Reload and then
Refresh your main forums page. You should now see your flash header located at the top in the header area of your forums.
Enjoy.
Add a flash banner to your site., By Nightfox PC Asst
May 17 2005, 11:05 PM
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