[JacquiiDesigns]

Originally Posted by aileron79

I was kind of stunned when I just tried to change the color of various elements. Some colors can be changed in style vars, others in templates. Some colors are even not defined at all, so changing i.e. the background color of the forum to black, one will have black text drowning in black background as some text boxes are just transparent. Some colors are specified in rgb(x,y,z)-syntax, others as #xxyyzz hex color codes which makes it quite difficult to find an replace colors all over the forum. Apparently, there is no logic at all behind the style system.

Admittedly, the longer I work with vB4, the more I am disappointed - and that's not just about the styles.

For me personally as a designer, when I first saw the vB4 stylevar system in the early alpha testing, I immediate disliked it. I have only gone back to it when working on clients' sites.

It's a pathetic mess and vBulletin (as an entity) should really be embarrassed by it IMO. And intriguingly enough - not much has changed from the alpha to beta to vB 4.0 Gold to vB 4.1 as far as I'm concerned. Admittedly - I have not tested the 4.1 series - but from what I've heard = YUCK!

A little tongue-in-cheek (but not really) ==> vB 4 should now almost be ready to be sold as a "gold" version. Wouldn't it be funny if we woke up tomorrow, only to read that the vB.com announcement of the day is that 4.0 Gold is now ready for purchase after a year and a half long testing phase...? NIGHTMARE!

Jacquii.