vBulletin themes that do not look like a forum ?
 

Hi All,

I am searching for vBulletin theme that looks more like a portal (or general website) but does not look too much like a regular boring forum.:)

I mean to say, I need an 'innovative' theme that does not have too many borders, tables, lines etc.
The visitors should not get a feel of a regular forum at least in the first look.

I hope I conveyed my meaning correctly.

If you can suggest any such interesting themes, I will be grateful.

Even custom developed ones are fine. I can pay upto $ 500 for an outstanding theme.
If you know any outstanding theme developers who have done such work already, please suggest.

The theme is mostly for a technical website.

Note: One such good theme that comes to my mind is www.daniweb.com ! I know it's custom-coded and I don't want to replicate that. I am telling this site as an example of how a vBulletin theme can be made interesting.

You should probably request in paid services, but there are quite a few sites with themes that look like that, and if you wanted to make it yourself, I'd say category icons plus removal of the typical vBulletin last post and comment structure are a good start.

you mentioned a comment I am trying to do. how do i remove "last posting/author/date" to the RIGHT of the forum categories/description in FORUMHOME?

Thanks

Thanks for the good idea.
I will be removing Last Post, Threads, Posts columns from home page.

What is comment structure ?

where is this done?

You may try editing
Forum Home Templates > forumhome_forumbit_*

Just remove the <td> corresponding to last post. Also take care of updating the colspan as you will remove some <td>

I am not very sure as I am new to vB. You can give it a try.

it didn't work, but thanks anyway

Do this :-

To find out what template is spitting out that code AdminCP > vbOptions > General Settings > Add Template Name in HTML Comments > Yes.

Then refresh your home page, view the source code and you will see the name of the template called around your part of the code.

Then go to that template and remove the code.

thank you, I followed that and it worked. But the "threads" and "post" counts still appear even when i removed all the code.

when I do a search to see the section where the "threads" and "post" counts code is,
it is in the same section as I deleted, but it still appears under the "view source" of my browser.

btw the section is forumhome_lastpostby

--------------- Added [DATE]1219615523[/DATE] at [TIME]1219615523[/TIME] ---------------

bump

I think below thread helps you a bit.
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=228622

You may need to remove those columns from the templates specified in above post.

--------------- Added [DATE]1220383863[/DATE] at [TIME]1220383863[/TIME] ---------------

I tried to remove 'Last Post' column (from forum home page) using the above link and it worked.
You may try that.