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vBulletin Skins and Styles

vBulletin Styles, Skins and Graphics

Online communities are most successful when they have a theme or "style" of their own. Its not hard to make your forum unique and with its own theme. Let's face it, the stock vBulletin style is pretty boring. You should really consider making your forum more original and eye pleasing for your membership.

There are 3 basic ways to accomplish this. One is to create a style or skin yourself. The second way is to buy a canned skin from someone who sells these kinds of skins. The third is to have someone create a custom style or skin for your site.

Obviously, creating the skin or style yourself is the least expensive. Buying a canned skin is also very affordable, with most canned skins costing around $40. Having a custom skin or style can be expensive, possible $100 or more.

 

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Create your own Style

This may sound like a daunting task, but it isnt really. You can simply change the color scheme in your Admin CP. The vBulletin Styles system is the interface through which you can configure the way that your visitors see your board. Simply go to your Admin CP, then Styles & Templates, then Style Manager and click GO.

You will find a variety of Style and CSS settings (CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets). The Color Maps below will show you what elements each setting affects.

You can read alot more about the Style and Templates of your vBulletin forum and how to make changes by reading this part of the vBulletin 3.5x Manual: vBulletin Style Management

 

vBulletin Style Creation Resources

Online Color Map for vB3 - This Online Graphics Color Map points out exactly how to control the colors of various parts of your vBulletin 3.5x Forum. When creating a vBulletin style, you will most likely chance many of the CSS instructions and this map will assist you in knowing what CSS instruction controls what specific area of your vBulletin forum.

vBulletin 3 Graphics Kit - Contains instructions on how to modify the stock vBulletin graphics so you can create your own vBulletin style. You will need

Custom Smilie Creator - Create your own banner smiles here! Free!


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