VB style help

[chet]

Ok I'm ready to start to learn about vb styles as I want to change the look and feel to our forums, I have just downloaded the frost style from here and there were two zip files, one contained al the graphics and the other a .xml file which looks like it has all the templates and stuff, what program was used to create this .xml file, I have searched on here but unable to find anything, any help would be great

Chet

[Brad]

The XML was created by vBulletin.

Enter your admincp and browse to

Styles & Templates -> download/upload style

This page will allow you to upload the .xml to the board, which will create a new style with the templates/style vars. Or you can download an exisiting style from your board, this will create an .xml file for you.

[chet]

thanks for the reply, not going to be as easy as I thought, I was hoping that there was a program that did it for you, do you or anybody else have any tips on what software I can purchase and use to help me in my wuest in building my first style, we have photoshop which I guess is a start for the graphics, is there a template editor out there or is it done by plain text

Chet

[Brad]

This will help you wrap your mind around vBulletins template/style engine:

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/styles_and_templates


Photoshop will work find for your graphics work, most use that or paintshop pro. As for the templates themselves they are just a mix of xhtml/javascript/vBulletin conditionals. Most any editor will work for editing vB templates even notepad, personaly I use Editplus (http://www.editplus.com/) for such things. Editplus is free to use forever, altho i've bought a copy of it after using it freely for years.

If you just want to change the colors, that can be done without template modification, check out this page:
http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/stylemanager_fonts_colors_etc

[chet]

Once again thanks for the resonse, I guess changing colours and mabe some of graphics would go along way to making the board feel different, I will have a read through the links you provided

Chet