vBulletin 2.3.x style for vBulletin 3.6.x

For everyone who has times when they want to go totally retro, or just for a complete blast from the past.

This is something that I created simply because I was totally bored looking at vB3.x styles and wanted something completely different.

Literally, it is the total vBulletin 2.3.x style for vBulletin 3.6.0 (and should work with other versions in the 3.6.x series). It is the complete vBulletin 2.3.x style, written especially for vB 3.6.x which contains all the 3.6.x features, but in the classic style.

Important notes:
There is no differentiation between postbit and postbit_legacy, simply because there was only one style of postbit back then. Also, apart from the dropdowns in places like the members list, the only dropdowns in the whole style are in the usercp naviagtion, and the search and quicklinks in the navbar. Admin Tools are located in their previous location at the bottom right of the page, along with things like thread rating, search this thread, and forum jump.

Any modifications that you have made to your other styles for modifications installed, will need to be reapplied for this style. If you have any problems adding something (especially if it needs to go in places like forumhome, forumdisplay, showthread, memberinfo, newthread, or newreply) then please post which modification you require the edits for along with your copy of the style XML file and I will be happy to do them for you.

A significant number of templates have been completely rewritten for this style, so if you do encounter any problems, just ask.


Live Demo - Guest posting is enabled in the welcome room. You are also welcome to register to try out things like the usercp and other member only functions. You will notice the version number in my footer has been changed, but the site, despite what it says, is running the latest build of vBulletin.

Installation instructions are located in the zip file.

Attached are a selection of screenshots taken from this style.

[Delphiprogrammi]

Originally Posted by Dan

Best style i've seen in awhile good job

[high]* Dan likes the vB2 style[/high]

that makes two of us i love that style

[sabillondesigns]

i luv this retro look thanks for the style!

i need to have another button on top (the arcade button)

could you please provide the PSD file for those buttons? thanx

[peterska2]

The PSD is available via the members area as it is the vB2 GDK that has been used.

[davelacey]

This is the best skin I have seen in many a long while. Congratulations and thanks.
One question though.
Can you advise me how to alter the postion of the reputation icons?

As you can see from this...........



......it's a little "cramped".
Thanks in advance.

[peterska2]

In both the postbit and postbit legacy template, find

$vbphrase[reppower]</span>: $post[reppower]</if>

and replace with

$vbphrase[reppower]</span>: $post[reppower]<br /></if>

[davelacey]

Many thanks for that.

[tunamix]

Great Job!
Does anyone know where we can get the vBulletin_logo.psd?

[peterska2]

try vB.com I know they have a blank one for the 3.x logo so they possibly have one for the 2.x one too.

[Edison Chen]

How about a version for version 3.5.4? Not everyone upgrades to version 3.6.0 so I was wondering if there is one for the former version.

[peterska2]

There may be a 3.5.x version later in the year, but at the moment due to the lack of a proper net connection and the consequential backlog of work I'm not planning to start anything new, and certainly nothing as major as the complete re-write that is required for this style. Doing the upgrade of it to work correctly with 3.6.1 is going to be bad enough as more templates are modified or even completely rewritten than are not.