Ever Made any Styles for any forum sofware?

Discussion in 'Community Forum Software' started by SpacewardAsh, May 19, 2011.

  1. SpacewardAsh

    SpacewardAsh Lurking From Space

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    The title says it all, have you ever made any style for any forum software? If so, what was it, and why did you feel like developing & releasing it?
     
  2. Kaiser

    Kaiser Regular Member

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  3. Ashley

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    I know of one administrator in particular that does his styles all from scratch, all totally customized, and I would love to do something like that for Chatting Time, so we don't have to modify the free themes all the time. Sadly I don't have the html/CSS knowledge required to do such a thing. I'd consider having someone make one for us, but everyone seems to want to be paid for that kind of service, and since I'm not running a forum for the sake of earning a profit out of it, it'd be pretty pointless and a waste of money to pay for a custom theme when I'm not in this for the heck of making a buck or two.
     
  4. Kaiser

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    Then why do you have ads on your forum? :confused:
     
  5. Ashley

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    That was Ashley.S.'s idea, not mine. It's to help cover the cost of his hosting and stuff like that. He asked and I agreed, so really that's all they wrote, I guess...
     
  6. Kaiser

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    Ah okay :)
     
  7. Ashley

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    Mostly all it is is to cover the cost of hosting, domain renewal, etc. Nothing more and nothing less, and I can't afford to pay out of my own pocket, so really adverts were actually a must on both ends.
     
  8. SpacewardAsh

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    Yes, all ads and ad related enquiries go to myself to help pay for the server, etc. If I got excessive amounts from it, then I would split the money between PH and additional things for CT and probably pay for a complete custom style or use it to upgrade to Xenforo.

    Back on topic: I've made styles from pre-made templates available on hand, and just tweaked them for my needs.
     
  9. Kaiser

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    Yea I wouldn't count customizing a styles as making them, but if I did than instead of having 4 styles made I would have 8 or 10.
     
  10. Mr.Hazey

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    Done 2 in my time but were exclusive styles, I keep getting asked to design one but can't find themotivation to do them.
     
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  11. Kaiser

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    Im sure you can if you really wanted to :thumbsup:
     
  12. ShadyX

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    I try to always make custom themes for forums i run, i have made 7 different XenForo themes, 2 released for free, 1 for sale, 2 completely custom themes for clients and 2 for my forum. I have also made a custom ipb theme and 3 custom phpbb themes :) im trying to get into making mybb themes too.
     
  13. Kaiser

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    Making themes for MyBB is very easy ;)
     
  14. ShadyX

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    So i have heard, but i havent used mybb much so i dont know where to start. I can use all the css i use on other forums so it should be pretty easy :)
     
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  15. Kaiser

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    MyBB is great, you should get into styling it, I might also. But I have gotten rusty, havent used MyBB in awhile.
     
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  16. Dy.namik

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    I haven't, MyBB is easy to code, but the process takes forever. Especially since I'm a novice at coding. But I have edited some.
     
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  17. Kaiser

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    Yea MyBB is pretty easy to code.. I see alot of people starting to develop themes for it.
     
  18. John15

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    I never made any themes but I plan to learn vB's styling system so I can start.
     
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  19. Kaiser

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    I am not sure but I am guessing its pretty similar to MyBB but maybe more harder.
     

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