InsiderSportsZone Forums, Need Some Feedback

[romeshomey]

Hey everyone;

I just took over Administration duties at InsiderSportsZone which used to be really popular and sorta of died down after not being upgraded or anything for so long.

I upgraded to vB 3.0.3 and added some hacks to give users more options and also installed the vB advanced (which Im not done customizing yet so didnt provite the link to it directly.)

Let me know what you think of the forum area itself.

I think Im about set with the forum style, but now have to make my own skin and give the surrouding areas of the site its own unique look. Problem is Iv never done that before and need a tutorial to help me with that.

Does anyone know where I can find a tutorial on creating my own skins?

Thanks guys...
Romes

[Tony G]

You should start to concentrate on your style more now than adding hacks - it could do with some spicing up.

Overall, a decent style.

[romeshomey]

Im a bit confused as to how to go about altering the templates. Could I create my own in for instance dreamweaver and them paste the code into the templates? Or is that a bad way to go about it?

Are there any good tutorials I could read up on? Iv been putting off getting to that for a week now because I dont want to screw anything up..

I relly like this guys header and navbar, want to do my own version but have no clue how he did this and would like to find out how.
http://www.zellbet.com/forums/

[Tony G]

I wouldn't reccomend dreamweaver because the templates aren't entirely XHTML, they also have plenty of vBulletin variables in there. You could possibly put them in dreamweaver too, but they would only appear as text. But I wouldn't advise using dreamweaver.

No tutorials exist for creating styles from scratch. It takes a knowledge of the vBulletin templates, XHTML and creating images to make one. That can't be taught in a tutorial.

[romeshomey]

Yea, I loaded the navbar into dreamweaver last week and took a quick look at it in there. Guess Ill have to play around and see what I can come up with.

Do the templates read php code? Would I be able to write my own php scripts and place them inside the templates?

I also noticed how most peoples custom forums are set at a certain screen resolution. Some are strickly for 800 x 600 and some are 1024 x 768 and etc.

I have alot of users who use various resolution settings so I have to make sure all my images are resizable to what resolution my users are on so it looks the same no matter who is looking at it.

I havent tried doing any of that yet. Its gunna be a project thats for sure. I have checked your site out the last couple of days. Nice place!