Skins
 

Hi,

I'm going to be purchasing a copy of vBulletin soon and I was wondering if you could tell me whether it is easy or not uploading skins that have been bought off of a company that have made them compatible with the latest edition of vBulletin?

Also is there a guide on how to upload skins and set them up on your forum?

Thanks!

Hello,

All skins regardless if they have been bought off a third part will be installed the same way or will include relevent instructions. The company should offer their skins for the latest vBulletin yes, though I can't tell you which ones have updated and which ones haven't (Most should have 3.6.8 versions by now).

Installation is easy, check out the vbulletin documentation here: http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/. Otherwise I wrote this simple step by step guide in another thread:

1) Download skin
2) Unzip it
3) Upload the files to your server (follow instructions in skin package as to where. Placement varies but is usually inside the imges folder)
4) Go to your admincp
5) Go to Styles & Templates -> Download / Upload Styles -> Import Style XML File
6) Find the xml file and click import
7) Enjoy :)

Hope this helps

It's very easy, you'll see this for sure!

Thanks, now what about designing skins, what program would you design them in and are they easy to upload aswell? If so do you do it the same as with pruchased skins?


Thanks! :)

Designing skins I just use photoshop and Dreamweaver. Yes they are very easy to upload and the procedure applies to all skins.

Yes but when you upload them dont you have to send certain parts of skins to different places, how do you know how to do all of this?

well you upload a skin file through the control panel (very simple), than you upload the images of the skin onto the server, and you are done :)

Anywhere on server, I can upload images to any directory or whateva? Maestrox said do this.. This is hard :(?

1) Download skin
2) Unzip it
3) Upload the files to your server (follow instructions in skin package as to where. Placement varies but is usually inside the imges folder)
4) Go to your admincp
5) Go to Styles & Templates -> Download / Upload Styles -> Import Style XML File
6) Find the xml file and click import
7) Enjoy and customize?

This is going way too detailed for a Pre-Sales question.

Please only ask/answer if something is possible without going into detailed instructions.

Sorry, is it possible for you to move this thread to a different forum so I can find out more?