Banner Image Destination URL

mummypig

Hi

Is there an easy way to change the URL that people are taken to when the click on the banner image?

I've tried searching this site and also googling, but nothing I find is doing what I'm looking for.

To clarify, I still want 'all discussions' to be the page people see when they visit: http://chairexerciseisforyou.net/forum/

However, I want the banner image to instead link to:
http://chairexerciseisforyou.net/

Alternatively, if this is to complicated, what is the easiest way for me to add a 'home' button (directed to http://chairexerciseisforyou.net/) to the main nav bar on the forum?

Please go easy on me. I have taught myself html and css. I can manage javascript too where necessary. However, Vanilla is very new to me and I haven't a clue on PHP.

I can however follow instructions very well! So, if there are any for this, please can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Kerry

whu606

Don't know how to change the banner link (someone will, though) but to add a menu item open the default.master.php file in your themes/views folder. If you haven't already got a themes folder see here: http://vanillaforums.org/docs/themequickstart

Edit after this line (near the top)

if ($this->Menu) {

and add

$this->Menu->AddLink('Linkname', T('Linkname'), 'http://www.yoursite.com /pageref.html');

whu606

Don't know how to change the banner link (someone will, though) but to add a menu item open the default.master.php file in your themes/views folder. If you haven't already got a themes folder see here: http://vanillaforums.org/docs/themequickstart

Edit after this line (near the top)

if ($this->Menu) {

and add

$this->Menu->AddLink('Linkname', T('Linkname'), 'http://www.yoursite.com /pageref.html');

mummypig

I will give it a go - thank you

mummypig

Did what you said, got a link which didn't work, and changed it to:

$this->Menu->AddLink('Home', T('Home'), 'http://chairexerciseisforyou.net');

It worked perfectly - thank you

Hopefully someone will know the answer to the banner question as well!

mummypig

So glad I saved this here, seeing as it disappeared when I upgraded Vanilla

emerett

Can't seem to find an answer to the original question, anyone know how to change the banner URL?

422

What banner url? And what banner ..you mean the logo?

mummypig

I guess emerett is referring to my first question:

Is there an easy way to change the URL that people are taken to when the click on the banner image?

... I want the banner image to instead link to:

http://chairexerciseisforyou.net/

I wanted to be able to set it to the homepage of my site, rather than anything within the forum. Didn't matter once I knew I could add a home button in, but I guess some people might still prefer to use the banner as the link to their main homepage.

422

Ahh ok, cheers for clearing that up.

peregrine

Is this what you mean?

 <div class="mrc">
    <a href="http://chairexerciseisforyou.net" ><img alt="chair exercise network header image showing Mr C exercising in a chair!" src="http://chairexerciseisforyou.net/images/header-img.png"></a>
    </div>

422

Wouldnt a href="/" be better.

peregrine

if it works in his context, sure.

422

I think he may be a she .. Bit gay to call yaself mummypig and your a geeza lol

peregrine

I thought of the mummy - the monster - thought "it" was a "he". Saw pig and should have known otherwise it would be a boar. mummyboar - that would have been hard to decipher.

422

Fpmsl do you do crosswords?

peregrine

many years ago.

mummypig

Ha! No, I am definitely female and a mum Mummyboar would not have worked, unless it was a transgender boar I guess.

Not sure what you mean by

Peregrine said: Is this what you mean?

I can cope with CSS and HTML, so built the main site myself with notepad and the help of Serif drawplus for creating the banner image. Easy peasy for me to set the destination URL for the banner, as you can see seeing as you quoted my code.

422 - I tend to stick with the full address because then there's less for me to change when I'm uploading new pages. If I did "/" for testing, then I'd need to change it on all the pages again when I uploaded it. I might miss something that way - especially when I am ably assisted by two toddlers wanting to "help".

Working with someone else's programming is a whole different ballgame however and I don't (yet) know where to start to change the destination URL for the banner on the forum.

That's something that would also benefit from a basic plugin.... (hint, hint)

Thanks again both of you, for your time
Oink

x00

use <?php echo Url('/');?>

mummypig

Thanks for the reply x00

Erik24

You can edit the logo URL by going to the "applications/dashboard/views/default.master.php" and then editing the H1line like the photo I provided.

vrijvlinder

No , it is not recommended to edit the default theme. The same line appears in a custom theme and that is where you would edit that line. in

themes/yourtheme/views/default.master.php