To be honest, there are indeed several bland styles here. But lets not forget, they are free. That's actually probably why they're listed for free. Perhaps a few users trying to get the swing of things, and donating along the way (which is very kind imo). Or maybe a designer who has a few extras he wouldn't mind donating or receiving publicity from. Regardless, you get what you pay for in life. And in reference to the designers here, I think we have a few talented ones actually. Whether they decide to use the hours and hours spent on "donations" or not.
In any case, you run a graphics forum, do you not? I've seen about 20 graphics forums in the past 2 weeks and what i can't ever seem to grasp is why a graphics forum (at least the ones I've seen) never has a custom template with - um, i don't know.. maybe some custom graphics?
Most of these graphic designers focus on making these super duper ultra cool gaming sigs, yeah fine if your into using the odd brush and the thousand filters and stock photos that are placed onto the sig. That's where designers fall short. When it comes to actually creating icons and graphics they don't know the first thing how to create more complex objects because they never actually learned the tools in the first place and come to this forum to focus on other peoples work and judge how bland styles are here.
Maybe he was on about the vbulletin.org style? because there are def some nice looking styles in the vb.org database some that can be tailored to compliment any graphic orientated site. I know, because i made a point in looking, and like i said, the styles can be adapted for any genre site you just have to look past the icons and images that the author provided in the style pack and create/apply your own stamp to the style.
12-12-2008, 04:27 PM
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