Desiging Skins

[legionofangels]

I am curious as we are embarking on designing skins for my website/forums. What are the best types of skins? Do we simply modify what VB has done with a few personal touches here and there, or is pure custom the best way to go across the board?

This thread was inspired after seeing this guys site:

http://www.ageofantiquity.com/forum/

And while I think our skins are pretty damn good, that is off the charts and very impressive work. We only have like 3 skins done and are more and more going towards a custom look and away from VB standards.

I just wanna know whether people prefer pure custom or whether they like a mix of VB standard buttons/table colors and some custom headers and such or what...