[bigcurt]

Well, see one thing with me, is it all depends on who makes the skin/and the quality of it. Now if I see a totally custom skin, with everything custom, buttons, post buttons, headers, navbar buttons...the whole KABLAM..then ofcourse the author deserves more..BUT..and I do say BUT..alot of the skin makers I have seen, just take the same psd image and multiply it at different widths...or just take the same button they already have and make them a different color..or something of that sort. And tell me, all the coding that is in the skins with the XML file, ect. Correct me if I am wrong cause I very well could be, because I know exactly 0% about making a skin other than what I have heard/seen..but do most coders not just take another XML file already made, like say the vBulletin XML skin file, or something of that sort..and just use it as a standard for theres? They just switch around the variables so instead of being v3_header or something like that it is skinname_header, ect..am I right? I could be wrong but I dont believe I am, but I totally agree with you smacklan, it all depends on the coder/designer that makes it..if they make everything XHTML transitional..there is a little plus to em also..but some dont..and they still charge the OUTRAGEOUS price they do.

~Curt