Where do I Start?
 

Hello everyone, I just got my Vb license and I'm excited. I want to learn to customize Vb. I want to create skins and I need a bit of help here. Where do I start?

Is there a tutorial that I can read on how to completely customize my Vb?

Thanks to anyone who offers me some help.
So nice to be here :) :banana:

Welcome to the vBulletin community! I don't think there are many tutorials on how to customize vB as far as skining. I could be wrong, though I find this very helpful at times. http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/ :)

If you want to customize vB's code too, you should try learning HTML. Then you can learn PHP and MySQL, to make add-ons for vB.
And welcome to the site for the most pwny forum software out there ^___^

Thank you for the welcome!, I have read that document, at least the part that talks about the CSS. I do know HTML/CSS and some PHP. I want to customize boards, isnt there like an index.html that all regular sites have? So that i can see what code makes the menu, what code makes the forum itself, so... let's say I want to move the main navigation to bottom, how would I do that?

Know what I mean? Once i know how to use Vb code, I will be able to code it myself.
Where can I read about that?

Thanks for reading...

Everything is done in templates. One good feature that I use alot is "Add Template Name in HTML Comments"

You can find it by logging into the AdminCP->vBulletin Options->General Settings->Add Template Name in HTML Comments->yes/no

Add the template name at the beginning and end of every template rendered. This is useful for debugging and analyzing the HTML code, but turn it off to save bandwidth when running in a production environment.

When you view the source you will see That means that the Template named: Forumhome was loaded first, and you can edit that template by going into the admincp->Styles and Templates->Style Manager->and click on the expand templates button. Under Forum Home Templates, you will find the Forumhome template and many more that are used through out the loading period. Hope this helps. :)