How to moddify Gallery main page?

[sturmkatze]

I would like to add a bright red box to my gallery's main page that has a link to a page explaining how to size photos for my site. How/where would I do this? PHP is a pretty alien thing for me.

[SMFHacks]

You would start with the following file
themes/default/Gallery.template.php

The function that you would modify would be
function template_mainview()

In your case I would probably add the code before the following line

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if ($showstatstop == true)


[sturmkatze]

Alas, I messed it up somehow... I got this:

Template Parse Error!
There was a problem loading the /Themes/default/Gallery.template.php template or language file. Please check the syntax and try again - remember, single quotes (') often have to be escaped with a slash (\). To see more specific error information from PHP, try accessing the file directly.

You may want to try to refresh this page or use the default theme.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in .../Themes/default/Gallery.template.php on line 85

76:    
77:       if (isset($modSettings['gallery_index_showadmintop']))
78:          $showadminlinktop = $modSettings['gallery_index_showadmintop'];
79:    
80:       
81:       // See if they are allowed to add catagories Main Index only
82:       if ($g_manage == true && $showadminlinktop == true)
83:          showadminbar();
84:    // Pix resize how to

85:    <center><table style="text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" summary="" width="120" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0">

86:     <tbody>
87:         <tr>
88:             <td style="text-align: center;" bgcolor="#ff3300"><a href="http://www.reenactor.net/forums/index.php?page=137"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">How to Re-Size Photos for posting on this site.</span></a></td>
89:         </tr>

[sturmkatze]

Here is the file I tried to use (good thing I'm not so stupid as to NOT make a backup)  I have another site I have the free gallery on I'd like to add this kind of thing to also... is it the same?

[SMFHacks]

Fixed file attached. For the lite it is in the same file. In the general area. You need to use an echo statement when displaying information such as

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echo 'text goes here';


[sturmkatze]

Thanks. Perfect on both!!