Well Thanks - Visionray for your reply!
The offer was for customizing the vB & vbP not installing, and the graphics as far as I know are only the header and style. And including a few hacks that are available here at vb.org If this sounded like "a HUGE" amount of work then I mis-understood what's involved.
But if you noticed I said "Hosting will be freely provided for 6 months (open for discussion depending on commitment to project)" Meaning its open for discussion!
Maybe I've worded the orginal request badly, so to clarify what I'm looking for is;
vbulletin & vbPortal Customized and to include a header graphic. New style applied topic related.
Now if I knew how to do these things I would also know how much time is involved, again this brings me back to "open for discussion"
Hope that clears things up (a little), we all have to start somewhere