How to install a style/theme?

[AuroraStorm]

...okay and therein lies the problem. I got the style from the dot.com but it was posted by a member. So in other words, those are styles that you all don't support - just allow members who have created them to post them up for theirs? I thought a style was a style was a style across the board...

So where in god's name am I supposed to download styles packets from?

Oy vey...

[Zachery]

Link me, I'll give you some pointers.

[AuroraStorm]

<a href="http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=186775" target="_blank">http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=186775</a>

Sorry...storms kept knocking me offline all evening long...with this particular template, I finally figured out the xml thing but I still couldn't get the images and buttons to work but then that may have been because I uploaded it incorrectly. I've deleted and I'll try it again and see what happens at a later date.

I'm not a programmer and I think a lot of people don't realize that not everybody is a programmer and no two people speak the same language around here or over on the dot.com. When I went through the presale stage, everybody there was "oh yeah this is easy - you just click click click and that's pretty much it." Well, that pretty much WASN'T it. When I got confused and asked for help and didn't get it, I got frustrated and the guy got mad at me, so much that I won't even go over there and ask for help anymore. If I had this to do all over again, part of me says yeah I would but I would have investigated more...even the walk throughs have left off a step or two that to a non-programmer is confusing. For instance, a guy over on the vbbux/vbplaza gave great steps to setting it all up, except he missed a step. I spent all afternoon trying to find "Manage Products" until I realized that the software is considered a plugin and went there and finally saw it. I'm computer literate - just not a programmer and it's easier if you are...not saying that a non-programmer wouldn't get it but these steps weren't created for the non-programmer. That's all I'm saying...

[Zachery]

Hello,

There is actually an Installation.rtf inside of the folder for that style that details everything.

2. Open the "Sunburnt Red Style" folder. Within there will be a "SunburntRed" folder. Upload that into the forums' [i]main directory[i] (the same place index.php is located).

3. Go into your Admin CP and navigate as follows.

Styles & Templates -> Download / Upload Styles

Under the "Import Style XML File" table, click the browse button and navigate to the file called "Sunburnt Red.xml". It's in the package you downlaoded. Name it (default is Sunburnt Red), assign it a display order and make sure it's set to have no parent style. Click import.

[AuroraStorm]

You're not going to believe I actually figured it all out...I'm so psyched I could scream...it was the way I had the SmartFTP files set up. I went back in and slowly watched the entire tutorial several times before I realized what I was doing...oh mi god thank you!!

...Now that I got the styles updated and I've gotten the vPlaza uploaded, now I gotta figure out where to find the postit files...