Why are Styles so Difficult in VB?
 

Sorry if I sound negative, but why are Styles such an elusive thing in VB?

How come other forum software come pre-installed with many nice styles, yet with VB you get a single style and you have to either purchase commercial ones or download ones made by other people which most of the time seem to be in some kind of Beta Stage.

I would like to give my users the option of lets say the Default Style bu in different colors....Green / Blue / Red / Brown / Purple etc.. without drastically changing the look.

Or maybe some Holiday ones, like for Christmas / New Year / Valentines / Halloween etc..

Again Sorry if I sound negative, but this is the only aspect of VB thats got me a bit frustrated.

Wrong Forum

Wrong forum :p

And well, vB is commercial software, sadly you also see that in the amount of styles available, though I must say that the most available themes for vB look a way better than the thousands of small variations on the standard phpBB style, some got a little different images, bit different color but that's it usually.

I agree, but like Phlex said...

Jelsoft should have some sort of certification for ppl to release commercial skins and have to meet certain criteria etc.

Jelsoft should also buy some of the more popular skins to resell and they can support them instead. I would feel more comfortable buying from Jelsoft knowing they would be around and knowing they would implement the dot fixes in a timely manner and correctly.

but those are just pipe dreams I guess.

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Moved to the correct forum.

On the subject, I rather have vBulletin spend there time further developing their software rather than working on styles. There is a huge number of free skins available through here or on other sites, and if that isn't good enough there is always custom skins. That is just my opinion though...

Also, I don't know of any forum softwares that come with pre-installed skins other then a default one...?

Why can't they do both. Hire a coupe of ppl to work on them.


Yes, there are free skins, but are these gonna be supported through the life of the product? doubtful.
Custom skins, same issue. I had one made for $400 for 3.0, you think I could contact the guy to get it updated for 3.5? Nope.

You should be able to contact him or someone and have them upgrade it to vBulletin 3.5 for a small fee, it shouldn't be that expensive :squareeyed:

Maybe that is exactly the reason why it is not done.

I know I should, but herein lies the problem. I was willing to pay. I never even got updates for the 3.0x series either.

why what's not done?

The reason why Jelsoft don't ship more styles with vB. It would cost them a lot of money to hire people to keep them up2date.