One of the things you’ll notice as a forum admin is that it can be very difficult to get a steady stream of search engine traffic. Not impossible, but forum pages often have a lot of HTML fluff like tables and JavaScript and usually have problems with most pages looking very similar to a [...]
I like the News Box on top of the Simple Machines Forum pages. It’s a great feature, and an easy way to share important information with your users. The only problem I found is that when you use the [url][/url] BBC tags it creates a link that opens to a new window and [...]
Looks like it’s primarily a bug fix.
From the SMF Forums.
In this release, a few small security issues have been addressed. Also, a few bugs that were found have been fixed.
We urge all users to upgrade to SMF 1.1.3 as soon as possible to take advantage of these fixes. A summary of the fixes is as [...]
Google Analytics gives you the ability to track visitors by custom variables, but I couldn’t seem to find much information on it until I knew the right term to search on - hint, it’s “__utmSetVar”.
The __utmSetVar javascript function lets you set a variable that Analytics will then use in the statistics it keeps. Say [...]
Below is a badge set that I created that would be good on a forum looking for something less than formal. The Admin, Member, and Mod badges are included in red. A PSD file is included so that you can enter your own text and change colors.
Instructions for customizing the splats are included [...]