Forum Layouts

[Dorign]

Wow, this is kind of a pain.. :/ I never realized before I bought the vBulletin 3.03 that it'd be SO complicated. I've been tinkering with different sorts of forums since I was 12.. I'm now 19, and have never had problems with customizing a forum up until now. O_O

It's crazy. The new 3.03 layout is.. well, ew.. It's not very clean at all, and the old legacy style is so naked now, not to mention disorganized. There only seems to be a few skins available (for free) for 3.00 and up, none that really work for what I'm looking for. And I haven't seen any thing for themes you have to purchase (links please, if anyone has them).

So anyway, as far as skin goes.. images and what not, I plan on customizing that myself.. but it's the layout that's complicated to me. I really like the way the skin is layed out here, but I don't imagine this skin is available. I don't really plan on keeping anything on a "skin" other than the layout, but so far I've not seen much that would fit what I'm looking for. The horizontal style is.. too spacey. To much naked room, too much uneven space.. I've seen it modified on a few forums so that the space remains consistant, but of course those themes aren't available for download. It's very hard for me to customize this board yet as I haven't learned all of vB's code, and in the past the only way I could learn a forum's code was tweaking a premade code (like using subSilver and modifying that to my needs using phpBB).

So I'm really lost.. in general. I don't really know what to look for anymore, only that I feel I've payed $160 bucks and I won't be able to look my vB look as good as my phpBB (which doesn't even look that great). If anyone has some support links or.. skin links or.. something, please help me out. I'd appreaciate it.

Thanks