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How to keep a clean index
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05 Nov 2008
This tutorial will hopefully teach you how to keep your forum index, and such as clean as possible, and will most likely attract more members  First of all, always stick with a nice clean skin. Don't have all of this crap you don't need, just keep it down to a banner, navbar, the forums, then the small footer. Whenever installing modifications that go on another page (i.e. ishop, icash, ibproarcade...), personally I hate seeing peoples sites that have their navbar full of links to this stuff. Just post an announcement, with a link to the page, instead of a navbar link. Also, modifications should be kept to 1 or 2 on your homepage. Some forums like to have a chatbox, and that's fine, but you should keep only that modification, no more. Loading up the forum homepage with modifications is a huge turn-off for newcomers. On your forums, keep the forum descriptions down to only a few lines. Having a huge forum description taking up half of the homepage, will really not attract newcomers, and will probably make people quit also. (By description, I mean each forum section has a title, and a description, it's that) Enjoy another tutorial by me. |