Sincere request for assistance...

[squeedgie]

Hello. I haven't bought vBulletin yet. I don't like to buy things before I understand them completely. I must say that I have rather healthy and somewhat robust knowledge of HTML.

Anyways, my question is very broad in nature.

I want to know how to make this board bend to my bidding; to customize it as much as I'm capable of, and what I am asking for is a finger pointing to perhaps a site, or a person/guru, or something related that can teach me how I can make this thoroughly customized board using my CSS and PHP (PHP is something I have no knowledge of). So please, I am getting desperate since every board I have gone to doesn't know where to point me. I frequent many other vB boards, and it drives me insane because I want to know how they did this or that, and I look at the source codes, but I find myself running in circles. I mean, does anyone know what I mean?

WHERE DO I START?!

The basics are simple, and I understand them, but I want to make this board really nice and customized. Sure, it may take a while, but I am willing to learn, willing to read anything there is to offer so that I may create a board that I'm happy with. Some say I am anal retentive when it comes to my webmastering work.

Thanks everyone, I appreciate any help I may be given after the posting of this thread...