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GottaBeKD · #1 04-28-2005, 10:22 PM

I recently decided to take the vB plunge. My old phpBB skin was pretty poor, but I've never had time to do much better http://www.rantandroll.com/forum/.

But, with the switch to vB, I was forced to do better. To my surprise, there are very few free skins (or paid ones for that matter) available, at least compared to phpBB. So, I had to go for it myself. And then, still to my surprise, very few buttons and whatnot available for vB, so I mixed and matched some from free sets, and made some of my own (which I already dislike...).

Here is what I've got so far : http://www.rantandroll.com/tmpvb/?styleid=2

You'll notice I haven't converted it over yet...that will come eventually. I want to get the vB set up working good and looking at least decent.

So, just looking for general comments on the skin of my vB. Thanks.

Princeton · #2 04-29-2005, 02:31 PM

It already looks better than your old site

clean and not distracting

the newthread and newreply buttons could be better ... as a matter of fact, any buttons with text could be cleaned up

GottaBeKD · #3 04-29-2005, 02:59 PM

Cool, thanks. Yes, I was planning on redoing the New Thread/Reply buttons...they could be improved.

And I suppose the others should be redone too (edit, quote, etc).

ericgtr · #4 04-29-2005, 05:10 PM

I like the way it looks, I did the exact same thing with my site, mixed and matched stuff up. I am not very good with this stuff so it seemed to be a working solution, utilizing free designs. Once you are all setup feel free to make a post in my Site Plug forum if you like (link is in my sig) I run a related type site.

JC · #5 05-01-2005, 01:18 AM

Oops, now I see, Looks much better.

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