Forum Skins

[Chruser]

Vote/dicuss your favourite forum theme (skin) here. If you want to take a look at them, but haven't found out why, you can either go into the User CP, click on Edit Options and scroll down to the bottom. The easiest way is to use the Style drop down menu at the top of the forum index though.

[WetWired]

I like Plastic, because it's dark and it's blue, and well, it's just cool.

And ocean, it's just the opposite, except it has some blue
--WetWired

[Absolut]

i use ocean, the rest were a little too dark for my likes

[mightychicken]

same here. plus the content.

[JohnnyTAE]

wut no penguin yet????

[Penguin]

.. i dont like any, i want that penguin one

[WetWired]

.. i dont like any, i want that penguin one
Hmm...maybe if someone can explain the template format for vB, and give me a ton of penguin pics, I could help you out there. I'm currently working on an interesting style for phpBB.

Of course, I have limited time, so don't expect it tomorrow or anything
--WetWired

[Penguin]

funny thing is wet, i think like 2-4 people are already working on it... lol including like 3 admins =0 and i even got tons of pics for some

[Xenn]

Vb is alot easier to make themes for than phpBB

You just select the colors (using hex) and upload the new icons you want for it.

Everything else is done by editting the templates.

[Chruser]

It's plain HTML divided in different sections called templates in other words. If you want to edit the looks of the start page, you edit the template "forumhome" and so on.

[WetWired]

Vb is alot easier to make themes for than phpBB

You just select the colors (using hex) and upload the new icons you want for it.

Everything else is done by editting the templates. That sucks.

It's not ease of use that's important, it's customizability
--WetWired

P.S. Wouldn't it be cool to have like 10 different penguin backgrounds put behind messages?

[Xenn]

You can do that with templates I'm sure.

[Wiccan][V][asta]

I really like ocean. It's not too dark, and it's not too bright. It's easy on the eyes and it looks cool. :)

[Randuin]

i hope the penguin theme is ocean + LOTSA penguin pics.... cuz that'd be WICKED AWESOME and everything to describe sumthing good

[Wiccan][V][asta]

I dunno but a penguin theme just doesn't really turn me on... :-\

[Randuin]

penguins rule tho! :D

[JohnnyTAE]

I like ocean for now but I'm not voting until penguin comes out

[ZERONX]

Penguins theme sweet

[www.com]

Nightvision Rocks... Very easy to read.

[User Name # 1]

Ocean 1643 users
Dark Angel 135 users
Night vision 46 users
Diablo II 29 users
Windows 25 users
Subsilver 23 users
Plastic 20 users
Mako 8 users
Expherimental 3 users

Seems Ocean wins !!

[WetWired]

Seems Ocean wins !!Seems most of our members are too lazy to try anything else or only came here once to see some cheat/hack, and never came back (and never bothered changing their style).

When a style is default, the question has to be "How many active users that have tried other styles use it?"
--WetWired

[User Name # 1]

you're right Wet, I realised this after posting.
According to the poll then (13 votes), Ocean remain on the top of favorite theme anyway... ;)

[Xenn]

Dark Angel isn't quite realistic either..

When you add a user from the admin cp, the default is Dark Angel for some reason.

So only about 20 of em are real

[Mr.Lee]

oh god... not penguins...

[Chruser]

The vB templates are east to customize, since they are divided in groups with obvious names, such as postbit, which is the looks of a thread (post), or forumhome. I think you can guess what that one means.