If I understand what you want, use the Affilitions code, just remove the part that says "Afflilation" and instead of placing buttons there, post your news. (be sure to space it out)

Thanks, Show me if you get it to work, I might use it myself...

made some changes to it.
It now uses the themes style so it looks like a part of the forum
with a little playing with it you can put most anything in that area

its basically some of the affiliate code with a bunch of tweaking to get it to look like this
http://tenttestforum.smfforfree.com/index.php

will leave it there for the time being, any suggestions toss em my way

working on it right now     lol
at the moment i have the shoutbox inside the table
im looking thru the code and i may be able to play with it some more

Yea...she's designing her own "mini-mod"

News Box code:
(This one works with SMF version 1.0..   scroll down for code for version 1.1)

The Code for the news box is the same as for Affiliates and Shoutbox actually 

Add your text,  use different font colors,  even small pictures.
Just make sure whatever you put in that space is in HTML.

You can change the News Box title to whatever you wish as well


<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" class="bordercolor">
      <tr>
      <td class="catbg" colspan="2">News Box</td>
   </tr>
<br>
 
<tr>
<td class="windowbg2">
<table width="100%" border="0">
<marquee direction="left" onmouseover="this.stop()" onmouseout="this.start()" scrollamount="5">
 
<b>
<font color=#000000>       
YOUR TEXT GOES HERE
</td>
</font>

</table>
</tr>
<br>

Code for SMF version 1.1:

Forum Url: http://smgrpahics.smfforfree4.com
When I do this, how do I make it so that a code will appear in an editable text box in my news box section? Also, how do I post images?