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j1mmy · #1 02-19-2010, 06:40 PM

Over the past year I have put a lot of time into developing a custom skin for my board, but only to find out that a new version was going to be released. Naturally, I want to upgrade to the lastest version, but what are the significant changes to the look of the forum which will result in the upgrade. I want to use my current theme, you can see what it looks like here

kall · #2 02-19-2010, 07:04 PM

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but what are the significant changes to the look of the forum which will result in the upgrade

Everything.

ie: EVERYTHING about your custom style will be lost. Unable to transfer any of it to vB4 without a major re-code.

j1mmy · #3 02-19-2010, 10:47 PM

Oh dear.

Why won't it transfer anything? I was hoping it would transfer but need a touch up in broken places?

kall · #4 02-19-2010, 11:28 PM

It's because the basic skeleton has changed. Where before it was a lot of tables and td and alt1 and the like, it's mainly now divs and css classes.

It would be like putting one of those laptop cover dealies on a dvd player.

mmoore5553 · #5 02-20-2010, 12:15 AM

j1mmy,

There would be a tad of difference but you can get your forum looking pretty close like that with the re coding it. I have done a forum like that to 4.0.

just takes some time and now it is alittle easier with stylevars. you can even still keep your avatar mod also.

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