Question Getting notifications to appear

[Hilaryjb]

My forum has a custom skin, and I wonder if this is preventing notifications from displaying.

So far, I have mentions showing up in the 'mention' tab of the user profile, but nowhere else. No browser js alert, and no notification where I would expect to see it, ie where new private messages show up.

In the forum template, I have this, and it works nicely to display new private messages & incoming friend requests:

		<!--notifications code-->
                                  	<vb:comment>if there are notifications, fetch them as list items formatted by template notifications_menubit.
		</vb:comment>
		<vb:if condition="$notifications_total">

						{vb:raw notifications_menubits}


				<vb:else />

						<vb:if condition="$show['pmmainlink']"><li class="ubermenu-item ubermenu-item-type-custom ubermenu-item-object-custom ubermenu-item-5374 ubermenu-item-auto ubermenu-item-normal ubermenu-item-level-2 ubermenu-column ubermenu-column-auto"><a class="ubermenu-target ubermenu-item-layout-default ubermenu-item-layout-text_only" href="private.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}"><span class="ubermenu-target-title ubermenu-target-text">{vb:rawphrase inbox}</span></a></li></vb:if>
									</vb:if>

		<!--end notifications code-->

Is there something I should add to get tagging notifications included here?

And if there's supposed to be a javascript alert box, how can I get that?

Thanks!