Local install of vB4 - first impressions

[Gav-n-Tn]

Originally Posted by Paul M

vbulletin.com is a default installation.

Thanks. I know I read that there is no stylevar to change background, text, etc. and you have to add your own CSS.
Does anyone know what option/s will be in the Gold to make those style changes?

[Zaiaku]

I did an install of the vb4 suite. Messed with it for about 2 days. CMS was total garbage to me. To me it was just a very messy version of vbadvanced with alot of un-needed extras I didnt want even in vbadavanced. So I just made my own. Blog system, seriously I didn't like the idea of these either becuase didn't want my site looking the blogs on myspace which most only did aout 5 if that and none useful.

So then I made another install with just the forums. Added my own cms, so much cleaner and alot esier to style compared t the vb cms.

The stylevar make it much more difficult to style the forums. So many little small options and its almost impossible to figure what actually edits what. Sometimses you make changes and everything still looks the same. So I'm in totally agreement with EidolonAH's Avatar
EidolonAH. Most vb4 sites will look the same except for colors for a very long time.

[Gav-n-Tn]

Originally Posted by Zaiaku

CMS was total garbage to me. To me it was just a very messy......

Man I did not want to hear that at all! The CMS was the seller for me. Let's just hope that the final product is more user friendly. I'm a consumer end user...not a coder or designer. With all due respect, it it's not in the software already, there is very little help to be had outside of a patient persons that try to help on here. At least that's been my experience.