[SirPereira]

Originally Posted by ForceHSS

Have you searched on google yet

Yes. A lot of the paid ones are not very pretty tho.

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Here's the thing I notice about most styles, on any forum platform, not just vBulletin. And not just free, but also premium styles. They almost always closely resemble the default style as much as they can. And the default style is, well, not really intended to be the best. It's meant to be vanilla.

Scripts are what they are, and you have to work with what you've got. Look at phpBB styles. They all look like phpBB. Look at xenForo styles. They all look like xenForo. That's not to say that this is anyone's fault. It's just to say that to really push the design beyond the limitations of the forum script is a lot of work. For free designers, that's probably too much work for just a freebie. And for premium designers, that's probably less efficient for them to put out and make any money off of. At least to their way of thinking.

And then you have the mentality that your forum should work well before (or instead of) making it look pretty. I, personally, don't agree that either of those elements should be neglected as a matter of good standards. But for the beleaguered admin, he's only going to choose one of those when it comes down to the wire. And I believe this mentality has shaped just how far designers will go when it comes to really pushing for innovative design. In other words, they don't see anyone besides a few like us, prioritizing it. So they don't bother.

A great opinion.

I am using a concurrent board software in another community I've running, I was obliged to make a lot of modifications by myself. I really don't mind doing them, as I program in PHP and do some work in HTML/CSS, however I was just looking for clean themes for a new community, and it is almost impossible to find decent ones without wasting time on "cleaning a theme".