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Mark
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 Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:44 am Post subject: How to Configure Your Portal |
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List administrators not using the custom HTML layout option, have the ability to configure a custom Portal for the homepage. The Portal feature provides additional content areas on your homepage, driven by activity in the forums and optional custom content specified in HTML.
Portal Configuration
To configure your Portal visit Portal Admin -> Portal Config.
Read the information at the top of the Portal Config page for additional information.
Although placement of all modules is fixed, there are many options and settings for the Portal and, with custom HTML support, the options are limitless.
Forum Option - Use this to indicate if you would like to use the phpBB Forum Option. Disabling the Forum simply removes navigation links and forum-dependent Portal modules. The forum is actually still active, so you could still use it for your own notes, etc. if you wanted, there just won't be any handy links for you or your visitors to get to it.
Navigation Module - This module displays important links for your list, you may customize the Navigation Title.
Blog/News Module - This feature appears below your List. Select the Number of Articles to display and the maximum Length of Articles. The news/blog entries are taken from one or more of your public forums. You control who can contribute news and what subforums feed the articles with the News Forums parameter, a comma separated list of forum numbers. You can find the number of any forum by looking at it's URL, for example 2, in this case:
support.top-site-list.com/support-forum-2.html
To disable the blog feature leave the News Forums parameter empty.
Welcome Module - This optional module can be used to display a welcome message, additional images or logos, links and more. The title of the module may be customized. The custom content is specified in HTML, up to 8000 characters. Some example HTML commands:
To make a new paragraph or space between lines use the break tag: <br>
Images can be specified like this: <img src="http://somewhere.com/image.jpg">
Links like this: <a href="http://somewhere.com">Click Here</a>
For custom HTML areas the only restriction is no javascript, no popups, no advertising or anything that interferes with normal unfettered operation of the page.
Custom Modules - These optional modules can be used to display affiliate banners and links to important parts of your website, etc. Up to 5000 characters of HTML can be used to define it's layout and there is a customizable title as well. Very similar to the Welcome Module, except displayed in the left and right columns, so try to keep this content somewhat narrow for layout compatibility using lots of HTML breaks: <br>.
Search Module - You can optionally display a Google web search block. There 3 color options to help you blend it with your style: White, Grey and Black.
Recent Post Module - Unlike the Blog/News Module which only displays new topics, this module can be used to highlight new topics and replies. This block can be displayed in a Static format or Scrolling, as well as Off. A list of forums to exclude from display can be specified. Forum view permissions are automatically respected. The title of the module can be customized.
Poll Module - This block can display the latest poll from selected forums. You can optionally turn it off.
The Recent Topics Feature - The Portal's Navigation block contains some common list links, plus a link to a custom feature, Recent Topics. This new page automatically displays all posts made in the last 24 hours, but can be configured via URL to display different time periods. For example, the following displays posts made over the last seven days:
http://support.top-site-list.com/recent.php?hours=168
This URL can easily be adapted to your forum by changing the access name from "support" to your own. You can then adjust the number of hours to your liking and display this link in one of the Portal's custom HTML content areas.
More Portal Customization Options
Add an integrated shoutbox to your list: Shout Box Config
You can also upload custom images for your background and logo:
How to Add Custom Background Image
How to Add Custom Logos |
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