Why are Styles so Difficult in VB?

[PennylessZ28]

Agreed with above, its pointless for them to waste their efforts making different styles. Customize your site for YOUR SITE.

It isn't that difficult.

[nitro]

The styles available on the 3.x.x series have been way better than in the past, jelsoft allways give template change info so you can easily update them yourselves. Either do that or get yourself a stylist.

[ImportPassion]

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

The reason why Jelsoft don't ship more styles with vB. It would cost them a lot of money to hire people to keep them up2date.

I never asked for nor do I care for Jelsoft to ship vB with more styles. It would be nice if them made their own (to sell) or bought some to resell. By selling they bring in more $$ which will pay for the extra help.

@nitro: I don't have the time nor am I a graphic artist, and like I said, I did have some one design me one. Read my posts.

@HR3rdGen: ditto above plus how is it poitnless to make more styles and make money from them? :ermm:

[nitro]

If you have had one made then you just need to update it or get it updated.

With base color changes Jelsoft have given in their admin CP full access to all colors and now even with a pallette You can do as you wish simply by creating a child of the default and flicking through the pallette and do what you want.

More elaborate styles will allways be an external thing, as these encroach into template modifications and therefore have gone beyond the defacto standard install.

Most forum software that has sevaral packaged styles are not usually commercial solutions and often the extra styles in these have originated from 3rd parties aswell but been taken on board.

About my only criticism of Jelsoft for styles is the dir structure which imo and I stated ages ago before v3 gold was released that front end styles should have a default style images folder ie /styles/default this would set the standard for /styles/newstyle1 etc. All that would be needed then is for stylists to agree to use /styles/thisstyle/misc for extra images so its code can be called via the standard variable where as many do not and use some non descript dir. I also found it ironic that Jelsoft slated the idea but used the very idea for cp styles