UKBL ~ Guest/ New Registration Message Banner

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UKBL ~ Guest/ New Registration Message Banner
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Gain more Registrations and Welcome New Members with this Message Banner Mod.

message1.gif


animated 468 x 60 Gif banner which, when clicked will take members direct to the register page, Once registered they will be able to view the one message they have, which is set up in the admin cp as a welcome private message.

The general idea is to show it to guests and unregistered members and tempt them to sign up. Normal members and other usergroups will not see this banner.

guestmessage.png


Installation
This is really easy, shouldn't take anymore than a few minutes

1. Download the zip file and upload the message1.gif to your /images/misc folder on your server, and upload the file, you can as well upload your file to a site like photobucket if you don't want to dabble too much with uploading to your server.

2. Open your the message.txt file in notepad as you'll need to edit a few bits (See below)
PHP: 
<DIV ALIGN=CENTER>
<if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 1, 3)">
<a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/register.php"><img src="http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr16614/ukbusinesslive/message1.gif" border="0"></a></if>
</DIV>
The Parts in red are what you'll need to change, its pretty easy, the first part is the usergroup condition, just change this for the usergroups ID that you want the banner to show to, Second part is the Url to your sites registration page, and the final part is the url to the banner.

3. Go to tour ADMINCP> Vbulletin Options>Style & Templates>Style Manager>Your chosen style>All Style Options> Edit templates>Forumhome Templates>FORUMHOME

find
PHP: 
$navbar
and directly below add your code
PHP: 
<DIV ALIGN=CENTER>
<if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 1, 3)">
<a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/register.php"><img src="http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr1514/ukbusinesslive/message1.gif" border="0"></a></if>
</DIV>
Thats it, next we need to make our welcome PM as our newly signed up members will wonder what was the message!!

Just go to

AdminCP>Vbulletin Options>User Registration Options

Welcome Private Message is about half way down, Just edit the title and add the message of your choice, you could even add a promotion to a usergroup or explain any offers your site might have, either way, you need to reward your member for taking the time to sign up, and remember, he's on your board viewing as a guest, so he's definately interested in it, this way you've tempted him to take full advantage.

Don't forget once you've typed your welcome message to click the Yes radio button to enable the message to be sent to the new members.

Hope your registration rates increase,
 
I think it would be better to change that image because everybody is used to this with fake ads... But good mod though :)
 
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