Images as quick links to forums vbb 4.2.1

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I wanted to put show some images to act as quick links to forums, to save users scrolling down, I also wanted to show American guests in a friendly way that we are a soccer forum, we Brits hate that word and use football, which can cause confusion.

There is a MOD that does something similar, but it was far too complicated for such a simple exercise.
What I did was create a one row table to display the images, within the Navbar template.

You can see the result here : http//www.talkoftheterrace.net

Here is how to do it :

ACP>Style Manager>Your Style>Edit Template>Navbar & Breadcrumbs>Navbar

Find :

{vb:rawphrase advanced_search}</a></li>
{vb:raw template_hook.navbar_advanced_search}
</ul>
</div>
</vb:if>
</div>

Add below :

<table>

<tr>
<td align="center"><p><a href="http://www.talkoftheterrace.net/forumdisplay.php?104-English-Premier-League"?><img src="images/navicons/epl.png"> </a></p></td>
<td align="center"><p><a href="http://www.talkoftheterrace.net/forumdisplay.php?105-Scottish-Football"><img src="images/navicons/spfl.png"> </a></p></td>
<td align="center"><p><a href="http://www.talkoftheterrace.net/forumdisplay.php?106-Npower-Championship"><img src="images/navicons/npwr.png"> </a></p></td>
<td align="center"><p><a href="http://www.talkoftheterrace.net/forumdisplay.php?107-Npower-Leagues-1-amp-2"><img src="images/navicons/npwr.png"> </a></p></td>
<td align="center"><p><a href="http://www.talkoftheterrace.net/forumdisplay.php?109-Champions-League"><img src="images/navicons/ecl.png"> </a></p></td>
<td align="center"><p><a href="http://www.talkoftheterrace.net/forumdisplay.php?110-Europa-League"><img src="images/navicons/uropa.png"></a></p></td>
<td align="center"><p><a href="http://www.talkoftheterrace.net/forumdisplay.php?108-Cup-Competitions"><img src="images/navicons/cups.png"></a></p></td>
<td align="center"><p><a href="http://www.talkoftheterrace.net/forumdisplay.php?111-European-Club-Football"><img src="images/navicons/uefa.png"></a></p></td>
<td align="center"><p><a href="http://www.talkoftheterrace.net/forumdisplay.php?112-Internationals"><img src="images/navicons/fifa.png"></a></p></td>
</tr>
</table>

All you need do is replace those parts in red with the links to your forums, and your images.
My images are 48 x 48 px, I still think they look a little big, resize yours to whatever you want.

Hope this works for you