Creating a Style without images?

[Been Told]

Hi everyone,

I have a number of users who are on Dial-Up and after many requests, I have decided to create a light-weight skin that doesn't use images.

Now, I am fairly new to creating styles in vB, so I'm sort of stuck.

I'm trying to replace the status icons of the forums (New messages, no new messages, closed for new posts) with text. Like:[*] and [] and [x].

I can't find anywhere that I can do that. Does anyone have any ideas? Or is there a no-images (or almost no images) style out there already?

Thanks in advance for any tips.