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GamblerZ · #1 11-28-2010, 02:20 PM

I have a small automotive forum here in West Texas and after making the leap from v3.8.x to v4.x I have been unable to put together a style that even remotely resembles my old one. Aside from what I now think was a grave mistake upgrading, the site is now ugly and bears no resemblance to the beautiful place it was in the older v3 style (a friend did the design work for me then). I have no programming experience at all and my comfort is in managing the forum. I have since resorted to using a generic default style which has ultimately resulted in forum traffic going to a mere nothing. This is only a hobby for me and my interest is only to bring our local import automotive community closer together(call it mid-life crisis). The site generates no revenue as it is ad-free and sponsor free. Heck. Even the site decals for sale are at cost. From time to time we do things for charity (ie. Parkinson's Awareness, and now for the holidays, Toys for Tots).

If anyone thinks they would be interested in tackling this project for our forum, I would love to visit with you.

http://www.westtexasimports.net/forum.php

Here is a sample of what it USED to look like:

X vBulletin 3.8.12 by vBS Debug Information
Page Generation 0.06763 seconds Memory Usage 2,188KB Queries Executed 11 (?)
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