Pre-made Style or Custom Style?
 

I'm curious as to your input in this matter: are you more interested in a high-quality pre-made style, or a custom-designed style for your community?

Would you fork out the $xxx for a custom theme, or prefer to keep it minimal budget range with a $xx pre-made style?

If you have time, explain your reasoning!

Depends on what you want to invest. Of course custom will be better but it will be much more costly.

Pre made all the way. :)

Custom always... :)

If you have the budget = Custom 100%
Reasoning may be a bit vain - but why would you pay $100+ for your vBulletin license only to dress it up in a Free - $25 brown-bag special? :)

Jacquii.

JacquiiCooke got a point there,

for me, as a skin provider, custom will be unique none others will have the same design, contrary to pre-mades, you may be find many have the same layout , but you always can alter you pre-made header to look different.

but its up to you actually.

Oh yeah - customizing a premade is certainly a viable option - I have done quite a few customizations of styles which have turned out to be quite custom in their own right - A decent header with matching forum icons & buttons will definitely make a premade skin more customized and is a very affordable solution.

Jacquii.

Or make your own custom :)

^ True.
But most people will not have the expertise to make their own custom style - Thus the OP's question about $xxx for custom or $xx for premade. :P

Jacquii.

I believe that with the new vBulletin 4 template system, pre-made skins will become as popular as Joomla and WordPress pre-made themes; The current template system is an absolute burden to customize.

It'll be interesting to see what styles come from the new template CSS engine.