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 I was [...]
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 [...]
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 in [...]
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.