I can't get my homepage message to display anything

I'm trying to use images (slide show) on the homepage of my forum but no matte what, even if I place text in it, nothing is coming up

Hi,

What's the URL of the forum in question.

here ya' go. http://narutowindstorm.motionforum.net/

Have you added the message?

Yes, I've tried doing that, it doesn't seem to work for me.

Have you edited your index_body template at all, I can't find the element for the homepage message ?
Admin Panel > Display > Templates > General

I have, it was completely change to achieve an effect i wanted.

Code:

<div class="pun-crumbs" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb">
  <p class="crumbs"><a href="{U_INDEX}" itemprop="url"><span itemprop="title">{L_INDEX}</span></a><strong>{NAV_CAT_DESC}</strong></p>
</div>
<div class="main">
<!-- BEGIN catrow -->
  <!-- BEGIN tablehead -->
      <div class="main-head">
        <div class="page-title">{catrow.tablehead.L_FORUM}</div>
      </div>
      <div class="main-content">
        <table cellspacing="0" class="table">
            <thead>
              <tr>
                  <th class="tcl">{L_FORUM}</th>
                  <th class="tc2">{L_TOPICS}</th>
                  <th class="tc3">{L_POSTS}</th>
                  <th class="tcr">{L_LASTPOST}</th>
              </tr>
            </thead>
            <tbody class="statused">
  <!-- END tablehead -->
 
  <!-- BEGIN forumrow -->
              <tr>
                  <td class="tcl" style="padding-right: {catrow.forumrow.INC_LEVEL_RIGHT}; padding-left: {catrow.forumrow.INC_LEVEL_LEFT};">
                    <span class="status" style="margin-right: -{catrow.forumrow.INC_WIDTH_ICON}; margin-left: -{catrow.forumrow.INC_WIDTH_ICON};">
                        <img title="{catrow.forumrow.L_FORUM_FOLDER_ALT}" src="{catrow.forumrow.FORUM_FOLDER_IMG}" alt="{catrow.forumrow.L_FORUM_FOLDER_ALT}" />
                    </span>
                    <h{catrow.forumrow.LEVEL} class="hierarchy"><a href="{catrow.forumrow.U_VIEWFORUM}" class="forumtitle">{catrow.forumrow.FORUM_NAME}</a></h{catrow.forumrow.LEVEL}>
                    <br />
                    {catrow.forumrow.FORUM_DESC}
                    <!-- BEGIN switch_moderators_links -->
                    <br />
                    {catrow.forumrow.switch_moderators_links.L_MODERATOR}{catrow.forumrow.switch_moderators_links.MODERATORS}
                    <!-- END switch_moderators_links -->
                    {catrow.forumrow.L_LINKS}{catrow.forumrow.LINKS}
                    <strong>{forumrow.L_SUBFORUM_STR}</strong> {forumrow.SUBFORUMS}
                  </td>
                  <td class="tc2">{catrow.forumrow.TOPICS}</td>
                  <td class="tc3">{catrow.forumrow.POSTS}</td>
                  <td class="tcr">
                            <!-- BEGIN avatar -->
                            <span class="lastpost-avatar">{catrow.forumrow.avatar.LAST_POST_AVATAR}</span>
                            <!-- END avatar -->
 
                    <span>
                    <!-- BEGIN switch_topic_title -->
                    <a href="{catrow.forumrow.U_LATEST_TOPIC}" title="{catrow.forumrow.LATEST_TOPIC_TITLE}">{catrow.forumrow.LATEST_TOPIC_NAME}</a><br />
                    <!-- END switch_topic_title -->
                    {catrow.forumrow.USER_LAST_POST}
                    </span>
                  </td>
              </tr>
  <!-- END forumrow -->
 
  <!-- BEGIN tablefoot -->
            </tbody>
        </table>
      </div>
  <!-- END tablefoot -->
<!-- END catrow -->
</div>
 
<!-- BEGIN switch_on_index -->
<div class="main-box clearfix">
  <ul>
      <li><a href="{U_TODAY_ACTIVE}">{L_TODAY_ACTIVE}</a></li>
      <li><a href="{U_TODAY_POSTERS}">{L_TODAY_POSTERS}</a></li>
      <li><a href="{U_OVERALL_POSTERS}">{L_OVERALL_POSTERS}</a></li>
  </ul>
  <!-- BEGIN switch_delete_cookies -->
  <p class="right">
      <a href="{switch_on_index.switch_delete_cookies.U_DELETE_COOKIES}" rel="nofollow">{switch_on_index.switch_delete_cookies.L_DELETE_COOKIES}</a>
  </p>
  <!-- END switch_delete_cookies -->
</div>
<!-- END switch_on_index -->

Hmm.. then there's a possibility you may have removed the necessary line of code. Add this into the template wherever you want the homepage message to show up :

Code:

<!-- BEGIN message_admin_index -->
<div class="main">
   <!-- BEGIN message_admin_titre -->
   <div class="main-head">
      <h1 class="page-title">{message_admin_index.message_admin_titre.MES_TITRE}</h1>
   </div>
   <!-- END message_admin_titre -->

   <!-- BEGIN message_admin_txt -->
   <div id="pun-announcement">
      <p>{message_admin_index.message_admin_txt.MES_TXT}</p>
   </div>
   <!-- END message_admin_txt -->
</div>
<!-- END message_admin_index -->

Still nothing

Are you adding here AP > Display > Homepage > Generalities or AP > General > Messages & Emails > Announcement?

The first one

Did you publish the modified template?

yes

Please post your CSS stylesheet using the code tags.

I noticed that the template you posted is the index_box, have you modified the index_body template ? If so, make sure to include the HTML code I posted in that template. Afterwards proceed to adding a homepage message via Display > Generalities.

Alright, it works now. I have One more question though, I don't like the white background, May I have a code to change this to black?

Thankyou for the help