[jchen09]

Originally Posted by nexialys

just for the fun of it, my image:

you buy a NEW Honda Civic, what will you do, buy the car of the year ?!... sure, you want the best one.

but HEY, you see in the street that people continue to use their old Civic... what's up?

for sure, the Civic is one of a popular car that can be customized a lot, like vBulletin ... but do you think every Civic owner will set themselves a new Civic each year just to have the latest version? a good part of these owners have customized their car so much that they do not look like a Civic anymore, and most of them are in love with their car, they just don't want them to be switched to a newer model... they like the smell, the colors, the scratch on the dash,...

but hey, you can see by yourself, just buy it, customize it as you wish, and see if you still like it that way in 6 months...

But then again, it's free to upgrade between the different versions, and you'd be down 15,000-20,000 upgrading your car every year so it's a bit different =P. But I understand where you're coming from. I think what it's just going to be is a lot of playing around and customizing.

I think what started it was that I was trying to find a nice style/layout on the forums, but I was afraid that if I find a nice one for 3.8, that it wouldn't work with a mod that was created for 3.7. I mean, in the beginning, I'm just going to use a free template, but I think as time goes on, and hopefully "when" my forum becomes big, I'll be able to pay someone to design/custom code a layout. I'm not really a designer, I'm more of a coder, so anything I draw is composed of stick figures.

Thank you for all the help guys, it looks like there is a nice community here, hopefully something I'll be part of in the future.