# Welcome banner on the forums?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/welcome-banner-on-the-forums/649842
**Category:** design
**Created:** [December 1, 2021, 4:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/welcome-banner-on-the-forums/649842 "2021-12-01T04:39:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2021, 4:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/welcome-banner-on-the-forums/649842/1 "2021-12-01T04:39:16Z")
The forums always look a bit disconnected from the main site. Fixing that has been a huge pain, but there is a potential solution here by having a small banner that looks similar to what Discourse uses on their forums:
For the forums here, what are some of the items to put for our three columns? I was thinking something like: Tutorials, Fun Coding Exercises, How to ask a great question!
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### Author:  [@steve.mills](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/steve.mills)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2021, 3:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/welcome-banner-on-the-forums/649842/2 "2021-12-08T03:44:46Z")
If I was new I would probably find the following most helpful:
- Forums tips (formatting text, scroll to last post ect)
- How to ask a question (example question)
- Frequent beginner topics (links to tutes on main site and topics on the forum)
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### Author:  [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2021, 3:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/welcome-banner-on-the-forums/649842/3 "2021-12-08T03:46:03Z")
That’s a great suggestion! Maybe even an intro video that covers a lot of what would be in the first two points.
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### Author:  [@steve.mills](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/steve.mills)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2021, 4:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/welcome-banner-on-the-forums/649842/4 "2021-12-08T04:10:29Z")
Yeah a video would be really good 🙂
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### Author:  [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2021, 4:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/welcome-banner-on-the-forums/649842/5 "2021-12-08T04:14:57Z")
Not an entirely serious suggestion, but: Don’t post SEO spam as your first post. Probably hundreds or thousands of those accounts deleted every year.
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### Author:  [@steve.mills](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/steve.mills)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2021, 4:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/welcome-banner-on-the-forums/649842/6 "2021-12-08T04:17:13Z")
Its kind of weird seeing a web dev advertisement tacked on the back an AS thread from 10+ years ago 😄
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### Author:  [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2022, 7:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/welcome-banner-on-the-forums/649842/7 "2022-01-16T07:06:25Z")
After much wrangling, I was able to get the home page banner up. I went back and forth on how actionable the banner should be, but I settled on something more casual instead:
Thoughts?
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### Author:  [@Wayne](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Wayne)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2022, 8:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/welcome-banner-on-the-forums/649842/8 "2022-01-16T08:33:57Z")
Thats nice
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### Author:  [@travis](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/travis)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2022, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/welcome-banner-on-the-forums/649842/9 "2022-01-17T14:16:55Z")
I dig it.