vB Designers extincted!

[C.Birch]

how can you say people that make skins are well payed?

$40 = about ?24 a good skin can take days to make and code so lets say someone does one fast eg 10 hours work thats only a hourly rate of like ?2.40 and dont forget about all the little edits and fix's and testing that as to get done.

But one thing i do see on alot of skin sites is alot of good designs put one big prob, its to much design and imgs, what ever happened to nice clean designs that dont take your eyes away from the posts and dont eat up your servers cpu and data?

I would like to think i know what im talking about because i have done designs for myself a number of times:

http://community.ultimate-music.net/

http://www.lisascottlee.com/ did this one this morning, forums still got to be redone to that look, the sites also got a vb backend, that being some pages you have to be looged in to view if not it auto take you to a login screen (eg try viewing the wallpapers page) it also has its own sign up forum.