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Originally Posted by kiFF

I was interested in making my own skins as well. Mostly because I'm very good with computers, have some experience with HTML, experience with Photoshop, and I already have a sketch of exactly what I want to make. The only thing I don't have is the knowledge of where to start. Where do you make the skins? Do you just type some coding in notepad and save it as ".xml" or something?

Is there some huge online manual on vbulletin skinning? I really want to get into this...I'm not going to pay $1000 for someone else to do it. Like I said, I'm very good with computers, etc, I think I'd be able to do it myself if I knew how.

Not all designers charge you $1000 for a skin, I don't. However, that being said to get started you don't need to make a xml file or anything like that. Just login to your Admin CP and click on the Style Manager link in your menu on the left and this will bring up all your styles you currently have installed on your forum. Then if you are strating from scratch scrollo to the bottom of your styles list adn click on the "[Add New Style]" link at the bottom. Fill in the blanks and its best to choose for your members not to see the style before you are done. You as an admin will still be able to see it, but they will not. Give your style a name adn click save, submit or ok (don't have it right in front me right now don't remember which one it is). Then you will be directed to the styles list again, find the style you just created and edit it from there. You will see a drop down list on the far right hand side. To change colors and various CSS click on the drop down list and choose "All Style Options". Usually its already showing there and you can just click the "Go" button. This brings up your CSS and the things you can modify for your skin.


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