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Originally Posted by C.Birch

how can you say people that make skins are well payed?

$40 = about ?24 a good skin can take days to make and code so lets say someone does one fast eg 10 hours work thats only a hourly rate of like ?2.40 and dont forget about all the little edits and fix's and testing that as to get done.

But one thing i do see on alot of skin sites is alot of good designs put one big prob, its to much design and imgs, what ever happened to nice clean designs that dont take your eyes away from the posts and dont eat up your servers cpu and data?

I would like to think i know what im talking about because i have done designs for myself a number of times:
http://community.ultimate-music.net/

http://www.lisascottlee.com/ did this one this morning, forums still got to be redone to that look, the sites also got a vb backend, that being some pages you have to be looged in to view if not it auto take you to a login screen (eg try viewing the wallpapers page) it also has its own sign up forum.

true about nice clean designes when i came to vbulletin a year back i was all for flashy designs and i even have a flashy one myself
i converted myself from a free vb2 skin

however the point is i am quickly realising if i have a scope for my site in terms of getting larger eventually i will have to cut back on graphic designs and do more color designs
conserving bandwidth / serverload etc

i have noticed myself that the larger sites have good designs but are not graphic heavy