PoDesign - Coming Soon!
 

About a week ago, i purchased a domain name and webspace to go with it. Within the week they will be set up, ofcourse, and within next week i hope to have the site, atleast a minor site, up an running, along with vBulletin, ofcourse.

Anyways - PoDesign will be dedicated to creating vBulletin Styles and Graphics to be distributed to the public at no charge.

By this, i am looking for a handful (3-5) of people to help in vBulletin Style and Graphics Designing.

Though the name stands as PoDesign as of right now, I am thinking about purchasing vbsdev.com (vBulletin Style Developers), as it fits the site's meaning better...

If you wish to help out in anyway, please contact me at one of the following:

E-mail: josh@podesign.co.uk
Aim: Enix Control

Thanks.
- Josh

Update: PoDesign is now up! You can visit us at: http://www.podesign.co.uk/vb/!

Enjoy!
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More style sites? Good luck in finding somebody.

But the graphics aren't too common.

i was thinking on using PoDesign for graphics... and vbsdev for styles...

:/

Oh two different sites! Didn't see that.

But you seem pretty good at graphics to manage the graphics site by yourself. :)

Why thank you :)
I just think it will be interesting to see how it goes.

It's not that another would not help, but way too many people are starting up the same websites over and over. It has been done with vBulletin.org, vBulletinTemplates.com (i.e. here), and many other vBulletin websites.

The fact is that unless you have designs that can dominate over those already on the market (free or paid) I would not look to spend a great deal of time in to it.

Having run and gotten rid of BBAddons.com, a complete graphics website dedicated to many of the bulletin boards graphics, I know what it is like to go through the trouble of doing such things as this.

While I did not mind that users did not donate, the link was there just for the heck of it, I would not expect any real return from it unless you can offer the same quality styles that vBSkins.com is offering, for free though.

I don't mean to sound rude or make you not want to start the website, but I am just giving you the basic facts. When there are 100 other websites doing the same thing as you, it is very hard to control the market (again, free or paid).

i dont expect any donation, nor have i, or shall i ask for one, ever. i could care less what happens, whether it strives and completes in popularity, or completely different, i care not. i have nothing else to do with my time, if you know what i mean. why not do what i like to do, whether or not people notice it. i`m not trying to "control the market" heck no, i`m a bored tennessean with alot of free time.

- josh

Most of the style sites out there are for money, but making things free just doesn't get you all the visitors you want.

Like SD Said, you'd need to compete somehow (Probably mostly for the style site) with the others that threaten to take any pride you might have with your style site. There are so many out there that it's not an easy road to the top.

Graphics is a bit different, there are alot less graphics sites out there so graphics is your best bet. You have talent with graphics and offering those for free will have to reward you someway. But be wary of competition.

Sorry if I sound rude or anything. ;)

no, you dont sound rude. i`m glad i`m getting some feedback, atleast i know what you all think... ;)

I'm actually going to open (along with some others) a site which will sell vbSkins and vB graphics (and loads of other stuff non-vB), but the thing is, if you look at the designs of Pank, or vbskins, all they really are, are a few modified templates, with some graphics placed in, about 5 of the styles at vbskins.com are exactly the same but with different colours and graphics...what my site will aim to do is actually modify templates quite a bit too :)

perhaps you and i could work together and sell vB styles that we each could create together, and also make free styles, lesser in quality... just a thought....

Well that saves creating 2 more skin sites. :D

ive been planning on doing this for a while...and now i hear of 3 more sites that will be doing the same thing!

@SD and Tony - i dont know of ANY sites that have free vb styles that are not just color changes. vbpanel will be offering unique, graphical styles....just a step below my average work. Eventually we will be selling premade styles and custom styles, but not for a while/ Can you show me the links to some free vb styles/graphics sites?

Nobody is Copying you Cypher, do you think you're the only one who thought of free styles? :p

Thats what any free styles site would do, so if competition comes you'd need to have some styles.

I didn't say there were others, he was offering both paid and free.

lol - i didnt say anyone is copying me:) it just seems like a vb stlye site rush...lol

yeah...we are offering bnoth free and paid...but later on down the road...so take it that our sites will be the exact same thing

And there you go, now you have those 100 sites to compete with. ;)

something to look forward to!

iHCF: I already have a team together, can't change plans now, sorry.

Cypher720: I had this planned a long time ago ;)

Oooo. Well I look forward to all of you duking it out. Mwaha. :p

thats what its gonna come down to! lol - good luck guys! i just got a free, legit vB license! lol

i never said i had a team.. i`m looking for one... sigh...

ive given you the chance to work with me, but you dont want it!

meh I'll help if no one else wll take me *looks at cypher and ffdcsite* bah...what do they know!

sign me up :D

well look at that! i just finished it up!

http://www.podesign.co.uk/vb/

tell me what you think... if you find any bugs, etc.

Thanks!

I like :D

still working on a small header image, but i thought the header would suffice now until its done.

I was going to say impressive header until I didn't see any header image. ;)

Graphics are very good. :)

header took me forever to do... i had never done one like that... so i had to do it from scratch... and when i thought i had it.. always a hair off! but i got it... and i know what to do now... so yay for me!

Is that nav bar just a background with the images over it? (Or another way I don't know about?)

pretty much - maybe easy to you all - but i`m not the best template editor/creator in the world you know ! i can slap together some images in Photoshop, but as for templates... well, takes me a few tries ;)

And it's quite the opposite for me. But once you get used to both you can create quality styles by yourself. Don't you wish everyone had great imaging skills. :(

<--- PS nerd :/

<--- PS tack (bad joke iHCF you might get it ;))

i dont get it