Multiple Skins and Hacks

[Diva]

I have just purchased my first skin and tested it out on my tester forum. I noticed a lot of templates needed to be redone and wondered what the best way was to have multiple skins on a forum?

Do you make ONE parent style and add all skins underneath? The skins would probably not be selectable by user at this point.

I'm also wondering for future updates if having a parent style is what will work or do I have to change each template per style? I'm green to the whole skin business so any and all suggestions are most welcome!

[Fungsten]

I have just purchased my first skin and tested it out on my tester forum. I noticed a lot of templates needed to be redone and wondered what the best way was to have multiple skins on a forum?

Do you make ONE parent style and add all skins underneath? The skins would probably not be selectable by user at this point.

That's how I do it.

In your Styles and Templates Manager check/uncheck whether you want other to use the style or not.

I'm also wondering for future updates if having a parent style is what will work or do I have to change each template per style? I'm green to the whole skin business so any and all suggestions are most welcome!

If the styles are the "Child" of the main style then you can revert the templates in each Child style. Sometimes you have to and sometimes you don't though.

[UncoderMom]

Yup, I have ONE parent style and child the rest. Then I revert any of the custom child ones (with the exception of some of the headers/footers).