Pre-made Style or Custom Style?

[defi]

I'm curious as to your input in this matter: are you more interested in a high-quality pre-made style, or a custom-designed style for your community?

Would you fork out the $xxx for a custom theme, or prefer to keep it minimal budget range with a $xx pre-made style?

If you have time, explain your reasoning!

[1Unreal]

Depends on what you want to invest. Of course custom will be better but it will be much more costly.

[mikey1991]

Pre made all the way.

[Shazz]

Custom always...

[JacquiiDesigns]

If you have the budget = Custom 100%
Reasoning may be a bit vain - but why would you pay $100+ for your vBulletin license only to dress it up in a Free - $25 brown-bag special?

Jacquii.

[napy8gen]

JacquiiCooke got a point there,

for me, as a skin provider, custom will be unique none others will have the same design, contrary to pre-mades, you may be find many have the same layout , but you always can alter you pre-made header to look different.

but its up to you actually.

[JacquiiDesigns]

Oh yeah - customizing a premade is certainly a viable option - I have done quite a few customizations of styles which have turned out to be quite custom in their own right - A decent header with matching forum icons & buttons will definitely make a premade skin more customized and is a very affordable solution.

Jacquii.

[Shazz]

Or make your own custom

[JacquiiDesigns]

^ True.
But most people will not have the expertise to make their own custom style - Thus the OP's question about $xxx for custom or $xx for premade. :P

Jacquii.

[defi]

I believe that with the new vBulletin 4 template system, pre-made skins will become as popular as Joomla and WordPress pre-made themes; The current template system is an absolute burden to customize.

It'll be interesting to see what styles come from the new template CSS engine.