Integrating vB's style system into non-vB site

[Dave Rosteck]

Could someone with site skinning experience explain how Tekken Zaibatsu managed to integrate their vB styles into their main non-vB site? As you can see, you have the option to change styles from the main non-vB site which reflects on the forums as well. If it helps, my non-vB site does not currently have styles so I'm open to any sort of method required to make this possible.

Here's what the webmaster said about it however, it's quite over my head at this point.

Just get your site skin system to use the same IDs as the forum styles so the cookie servers as an identifier for both site and forum skins.

Thanks in advance for the help.

[nishv]

The way I do this is via the header and the footer of the Skin.

Just make the header exactly the same as VB and the Footer and you are pretty much set.

If you don't understand, just save one VB page as HTML and see how it looks...

It is pretty straight forward impov.

[Neutral Singh]

Littel generic method. Put the following code at the top of Header Template:
<!-- Header Template Begins //-->

and put the following code at the bottom of the template.
<!-- Header Template Ends //-->

Similarly, for footer following codes. Simple!!
<!-- Footer Template Begins //-->

<!-- Footer Template Ends //-->

Now save the tempaltes and go to your homepage. Click view source and select the code between the above as header and footer.

[Dave Rosteck]

Although I appreciate your replies, you guys are misunderstanding me. I already know how to make one vB style look like my main non-vB site. My question is how do I change my vB styles FROM my main site and have them reflect on my forums or visa versa? It's not so much layout differences rather color and image changes from the same layout like Tekken Zaibatsu does.

I thought maybe $quickchooserbits from the footer template would somehow tie into this but I can't seem to find where to view or edit it.

[Dave Rosteck]

Originally Posted by Dave Rosteck

Although I appreciate your replies, you guys are misunderstanding me. I already know how to make one vB style look like my main non-vB site. My question is how do I change my vB styles FROM my main site and have them reflect on my forums or visa versa? It's not so much layout differences rather color and image changes from the same layout like Tekken Zaibatsu does.

I thought maybe $quickchooserbits from the footer template would somehow tie into this but I can't seem to find where to view or edit it.

Pardon me for bumping this but I never got this answered and I'm currently attempting to try this again.

I really hope someone out there has experience with this. Thanks in advance.