I have been wanting to get into doing some skins for vB also. I have been skinning for phpBB for a while so I should have the grasp of it quite quickly but my main drawback for now is going to be having somewhere to test my skins that I am working on. I do not plan on buying a vB license just to skin for the community Anyway I'm sure i'll find a webmaster with a test board they will let me use to test the themes I make. (heres hoping!) Anyway I will need to have a way of getting either the default vB3 theme or a similar free one in order to see the structure so that I can get started with skinning. Any suggestions on where to get this or recommend a good alternative to the default theme to begin working from to get to understand vB structure??