I found your site way back when I wanted to create this site I finally got the nerve to create. It is a forum site (vbullletin) with CM pages (Vbadvance) I never would have had the confidence to do this if I had not found your site and this forum to inspire me to do it. It is not for profit, although I will be seeking donation eventually as the cost of creating and maintaining is beyond what I can keep up on own.

I created this site because I saw a need for a site like this as a Parent of a Cadet in United State Air Force Academy. The name USAFAcommunity.com has help tremendously for people of the USAFA community to be drawn to it and check it out. I have lots of methods for getting the word out as I am a parent and thus a part of the community so I have my sources! I have over 525 members in less than 4 months since it was opened. It has been fairly active.

Biggest issue I am running into is Parents and others not understanding how to navigate a froums site! They just do not get it. Many belong to yahoo groups and are used to signing up and receiving instant email notification. The cannot get past a thread they happen to click on and are not sure what to do next. I have a Newletter mod installed that is pretty cool and allows me to send a newletter w/ snippets of post and information. But when people click on it and are in middle of thread they do not know what to do next. Any suggestions? I have started making video tutorials using a screencast application and that has helped some. But they are pretty primitive. I know there has to be easier way to educate!

Also intially I had some help installing an customizing Vbulletin and some mods. I have done a lot on my own since then through trial and error. I still am wasting a whole lot of time trying to fix things as do not know where and what to edit! Do you know of a good video tutorial site for editing vbulletin templates and mod templates? For example. I really need to fix the tabs in the header! I want to add a drop down and a new tab. I have been searching for over a week on how to do this correctly and I know if I had a clue it would take me about 5 minute to do. Is it possible to do stuff like this in dreamweaver? ( I am a clueless owner of CS4 webdesgn for mac) I acutally took the header template code and pasted into dreameaver but had no clue what to do next!

You will see there are some errors in my style as I did an upgrade to 3.8 and it messed it up. These are the things I really need a tutorial on so I can fix myself and not have to pay over $100 everytime I want a simple edit. I know there has to be some good tutorials on editing html templates and CSS for Vbulletin. I just do not know where to look. Thanks for the help

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