[weblogian]

I want to intergrate a forum and place an external link along the navbar right after "submit a new story"

How do I do that?

Please help And I don't have a meta file in my default template file. How do I get one>

[hqnetwork]

Adding any link to the navbar isn't too bad of a process.
Open
/templates/{your template}/header.tpl :

After the {/if} statement and before the </ul> 

Add:

<li><a href="/forum/">Forum</a></li>

Of course you'd change the link from /forum/ to wherever you installed your forum.

I did this on my ProductJump site for the "Contact" link.

If you put it within the {if $user_authenticated eq true} {else} {/if} in header.tpl, it would either show up if someone is logged in, or not logged in.

Granted, this is a direct and easy way to add a link, and certainly not the "official" method.

[hqnetwork]

As far as META data, you should edit /templates/meta.tpl

To Edit the Description:

{if $meta_description neq ""}
	<meta name="description" content="{$meta_description}" />
{else}
	<meta name="description" content="This is the description of my site" />
{/if}

Change the meta description AFTER the {else}

{if $meta_keywords neq ""}
	<meta name="keywords" content="{$meta_keywords}" />
{else}
	<meta name="keywords" content="keywords go here,best,practices,widgets,games" />
{/if}

Change the meta description AFTER the {else}

[chuckroast]

moving this thread to "customization assistance" where it belongs.