a ballpark figure on how many going at all?

not that much as we wanted, but at least quite some good ones.

@Neo: we said, that the contest won't end before RC1, so it's not our fault, that it took so long ;)

i was gonna submit one where everything you click that shouldn't be clicked lead to ebslive.com where you'd all be hypnotised and want to join :-|

Yeah, we've had a few that are exellent, and which we will probably use.

The difficult thing for style designers is that Gamma and RC1 will have a totally different default template style - this will mean most of the styles will have to be redesigned to be compatible... at least that's what I expect anyway.

You would think they would be smart and make a psd, not a demo

Yes, every professional designer should always keep PSD templates of their images used in design.

I have an unrelated question, that probably has been asked over at vBulletin.com, but alas I rarely visit there.

Will vB3 RC have an option to link to an external CSS document? I'd have to implement this option myself if not, because I'm hardly in favor of mixing CSS with HTML.

not that i know of Velo, but i also think it should..

I believe so Mike :)

Apparently none of the beta vB3 templates will work for Gamma... so we'll have to modify the current styles anyway...

All that work for you and Stefan again hehe - good luck ;)!