need a simple "post a new topic" forum button

i need a simple and easy to use "post a new topic" button, where the user can see it clearly in the forums and once they click "post a new topic" it will then allow them to select a category and then type up and summit their forums,  my users are finding it too complicated to post a forum the way it is now, is this possible? has anyone ever done this or looked into doing such?

add this to HTML block on forums home page, edit and change as you need..

 [edit] you can see example here http://mynewbeetle.net/7.1/forum/

<a class="top_members_menu" onclick="return f.newTopic('General-discussions')" href="javascript:void(0);">New General Topic</a>

<a class="top_members_menu" onclick="return f.newTopic('General-discussions')" href="javascript:void(0);">New Topic</a>

add another method..

<p style="text-align: center;"><a class="top_members_menu" onclick="return f.newTopic('General-discussions')" href="javascript:void(0);">Post a New General Topic<br /><img src="../photos/new%20topic.png" alt="Post New Topic" height="60" width="60" /></a></p>

nice one newton27!

I saw you had a search box block at the forum home page too.

possible to share that coding too?

 That is a new feature of 7.1, the site you looked at is actually Dolphin 7.1

Oh, haven't tested 7.1 so didn't realise they included a default search box in the forum home page.

Good to know! Thanks!

Out of curiosity, anyone knows what's the coding for the search box html block in the forum if I want to put it for 7.0.9?