In my failed efforts to make an announcement box, I finally tried one of my sidebars that I made for InvisionFree boards. It worked almost perfectly. I did some tweaking, and it works great. I totally didn't expect the sidebar to work better than the announcement box, but it does. You are free to change all the information in the boxes, I just made some common to many sites. Please keep the copyright intact.
Preview:
http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p133/lts19/smfsidebar.jpgWarning:There is some coding knowledge required with this, and I don't have the time to support it fully, so use at your own risk.
Where to put it:Just drop it into the headers. The width is static, because it's hard to work with fluid widths on a sidebar. The first width is set to 150 and the second where the forum sits should be fluid (I hope). You can play with that if you would like, but do know people start complaining if it gets any wider.
How to fix it for your site:I've tried to make the sidebar as self-explanatory as possible. Replace all of the links with the address of your own site. The post numbers will not be the same, so you will have to go look up each post and each staff members' unique address. You can change any section into something else if you have the creativity and some coding know-how.
This goes at the bottom of your CSS. It will not work on a default skin (you can't edit the CSS). You can change the colors to match your skin.
.tablepad { background-color:#FFFFFF; padding:6px; border:1px solid #000000; }
This drops into your header (Admin CP->Manage Styles->Edit Headers and Footers):
<table align=center valign=top>
<tr> <td width=150 valign=top>
<div class='maintitle'>Welcome!</div><div class="tablepad" border='1'><span class='desc'><center>
<br>
<center><b><font size="2" color=#B22222>Information about the Site</font></b><br>
Just put some information about your site and current events here.
<center> <font size="2"><b><BR><BR><a href="http://z8.invisionfree.com/YourSite/index.php?showtopic=8&view=getnewpost">We are looking for staff!</a></font></b><br><br></center>
</span></div></div>
<center><div class='maintitle'>Mandatory Reads</div>
<div class="tablepad"><span class='desc' ><font size="2">
<a href="http://z8.invisionfree.com/YourSite/index.php?showtopic=3&st=0">Rules and Guidelines</a><br>
<a href="http://z8.invisionfree.com/YourSite/index.php?showtopic=4&view=getnewpost">Plot Information</a></font><br><br>
</span></div></div>
<center>
<div class="maintitle">C-Box </div>
<div class="tablepad"><span class='desc' >
<!-- BEGIN CBOX - http://www.cbox.ws -->
<!-- END CBOX -->
<br><br>
</span></div></div>
<center>
<div class="maintitle">Staff </div>
<div class="tablepad"><span class='desc' ></b>
You may contact the staff through the private message link in their profiles.<br><br>
<b><u>Admins</b> </u><br>
<a href="http://z8.invisionfree.com/YourSite/index.php?showuser=1"><b>Admin 1</b></a><br>
<a href="http://z8.invisionfree.com/YourSite/index.php?showuser=2"><b>Admin 2 </b></a><br>
</b>
<br><br><u><b>Moderators</u><br>
<a href="http://z8.invisionfree.com/YourSite/index.php?showuser=5"><b>Mod 1</b></a> <br>
<a href="http://z8.invisionfree.com/YourSite/index.php?showuser=9"><b>Mod 2</b></a> <br>
</span></div></div>
</center>
<div class='maintitle'>Advertise Us! </div>
<div class="tablepad"><span class='desc'>
<img src="88x31banner.jpg">
<br>
<br><b><u>Listed At</b></u></b>
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<a href="http://www.technochicks.org/forum" target="_blank"><img src="http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n212/technochicks/technochicks_88px-33px_117.jpg" alt="TechnoChicks"></a>
</marquee><br>
<div class='maintitle'>Credits </div>
<div class="tablepad"><span class='desc'>
Skin ©
<br><br>
Side-bar © <a href="http://iql.ancientmagicrpg.com/">Roswenth</a>
</span></div></div>
<br /></center>
</td>
<td height="100%" valign=top>
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