[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by KTBleeding

Not entirely true, Digital.

I don't mean to sound arrogant, but I would consider myself an expert at html markup, and vBulletin is by no means "easy" if you take time into consideration. Being a markup nazi myself, I hate vBulletins style with a passion. I don't really think I need to go into reasons why, I'll just say two simple words. Nested Tables.

I have made several tableless vB styles, and every time it kicked my ass. Took WAY too long to go in and redo everything. This is the main reason why I have two owned licenses stored away, that will probably never be used again.

vB should have focused on this style for 3.5. Hell, even 3.0. Semantic markup and css is not a difficult task, IE6 is your only problem, and even then it really isn't THAT bad if you take the precautions before hand.

[high]* Digital Jedi ends rant[/high]

That's what I mean by "easy" being relative. I'm just siting two perspectives as I believe they would be the most common ones. I personally don't equate difficulty with time-consuming, but I'm sure others, such as yourself, do. My main point is that I feel the vast majority of admins who want vB to be "easier", while using a term that could be considered ambiguous, are really thinking in their heads of an advanced editor like Geocities uses, or the Design View in an HTML editor. The problem being that advanced web based editors are problematic.

And, being personal again, I would like to see something more akin to the latter. Either a free program to vB users or a plugin for Dreamweaver/Web Expression for editing templates.