how can i make a button/wigget to the portal come on the top of my home page

Martin has made a mod for doing that... look in the mods section

Quoted from Nat

Martin has made a mod for doing that... look in the mods section

sorry to be a pain im new to all this and i dont understand what you mean,  i am just using the demo at the moment just wanted to see if the portal button will go to the home page wiggets at the top

Have a look at -> http://www.eblah.com/forum/m-1211527480/ You can download the "portal Button" mod and install it.

Or you could make your own and add it, have a look at one of my forums where I have done that -> http://www.minilabhelp.com/forum/Blah.pl

Quoted from Nat

Have a look at -> http://www.eblah.com/forum/m-1211527480/ You can download the "portal Button" mod and install it.

Or you could make your own and add it, have a look at one of my forums where I have done that -> http://www.minilabhelp.com/forum/Blah.pl

i have downloaded the portal button where do i down load it to the cgi-bin? httpdocs? or in a file

It will depend on your server configuration. Have you read the readme file that comes with the mod, as it will give the instructions you are looking for. It needs to go into the mods directory upload in ASCII mode, but upload that actual image in binary mode.

Quoted from Nat

It will depend on your server configuration. Have you read the readme file that comes with the mod, as it will give the instructions you are looking for. It needs to go into the mods directory upload in ASCII mode, but upload that actual image in binary mode.

the downloaded folder portal button, i transfered it as ASCII to the mod folder in the cgi-bin/forum, i can not see an image to transfer in binary mode
i dont think ive done that right as i still havent got a portal button like yours on my home page

Quoted from Nat

It will depend on your server configuration. Have you read the readme file that comes with the mod, as it will give the instructions you are looking for. It needs to go into the mods directory upload in ASCII mode, but upload that actual image in binary mode.

The instructions state:

Installation

1.  ftp onto your server and upload PortalButton.v2m in ASCII to your Mods folder.

It is not clear which folder this is in - so I put it in the /cgi-bin/forum/Mods

3.  Upload the 2 gif files in BINARY to the appropriate folders.

There are no gif files only a png file. Do they go in /blahdocs/buttons/icons  ?

4.  Make a backup copy of Admin2.pl, Routines.pl and English.lng

I copied Admin2.pl and /cgi-bin/forum/Code/Routines.pl /cgi-bin/forum/Languages/English.lng

5.  Login to the Admin Center - Modification Center and you should see the Portal Button mod

The Portal Button mod is there

6.  Carry out a test install.

I carried out a test install, the  test report says that 'This mod has been (un)installed successfully.' but I cannot see the button in the forum top menu.

7.  If all OK then install it.

I tried this just in case but still not there.

See if Martin pick up on this as he is the expert on this

question:
You might try this thread--the last few replies in particular:  http://www.eblah.com/forum/m-1251767106.36647/s-13/#num13
If I'm remembering correctly, you have to manually add the portal button .png file to every theme that you have enabled for your forum, with the exception of the default theme.

sorry im not up on computers lol
in my ftp where do i find the mods directory to put the  the portalbutton.V2 ,  "portal.png"in the buttons file and  "prtal.png" in the icons file is it in the cgi-bin
these are all the folder

oh dear   i now can see the portal in modification Center so i clicked test install and this is what i got