[DuneMessiah]

Originally Posted by Shelley_c

You will seldom find that many styles (paid) are accompanied by graphics (button sets, smilies small images etc) that are of high quality of the style they are supposed to compliment mostly due to the fact that alot of styles use stock images whther it's vb default or custom. Unless the forum has an adequate graphic designer to finish off the style then you are (nearly always) stuck with taccy images. Don't get me wrong, there's some good designers who have released nice graphics but they are very far and few between.

You completely understand my point, I believe.

It's great that styling is modular...you have your templates, your style sheets, your phrases, your icons, your smilies, your avatars, etc. and you can mix and match.

Yet, it makes no sense to develop a great set of templates and style sheets, if your graphics are not specifically designed to complement them.

As you said, a great many designers seem to re-use their graphics way too much, from style to style to style.

That's why this is a quest for me...I am not sure if there is a designer out there who sees all the parts as being complementary and interdependent.