Adding a flash Banner to your IPB Portal v2

[nightfox_pc_asst]

Okay if you have read my mod for adding a banner to your forums header, here is one on the same concept for the IPB Portal...

1) Goto ACP panel
2) Goto Skins & Templates > Skin Manager
3) Left Click on the skin you want to edit and choose Edit Root Skin HTML
4) Scroll down to IPB Portal and click to open the template bits window
5) Choose template csite skeleton template
6) Locate this code below and delete it:

<a href="{ipb.script_url}" title="Return to Forums Index, Powered by IPB"><img src='style_images/<#IMG_DIR#>/logo4.gif' style='vertical-align:top' alt='IPB' border='0' /></a>


7) Now copy and paste this code in the place where the other one was:

<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>

8) Now Save and Reload Template

And there you have it, you have now just added a flash banner to your portal.
Change the file called header.swf to your own flash object.

Editors Note: You can use a different header here if you want and another one in the forums. Pretty cool huh??

Enjoy!

NF

[BadKharma]

Thanks for the info NF.