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 [...]
This is a spin off of a previous post that I did on displaying a message to guests on a Simple Machines forum. A commenter asked a question that I assume was looking for a way to wrap ad code the same way I was wrapping the welcome message.
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For those of you looking for a directory to submit your forums to, I came across a family of four today that instead of grouping on topic they group of the board software used. Each does look to have a pretty decent hierarchy of categories though.
There is one for forums running vBulletin, Simple Machines, [...]
If you’ve spent much time on forums you’ve no doubt noticed that many forums will display a message to guests welcoming them and often displaying a link to the registration page. Not having found a simple solution to do this in my two Simple Machines Forums I looked at the code to see if [...]
