there good options at the moment for PHPBB skins but i was wondering if there were more skins to come?


-Ehostuk

Hello,

All of our skins will be converted to phpBB and vBulletin 4.0.x, and later on will be converted to IPB software as well.

sounds good guess I'll wait for the other skins to be converted.


-Ehostuk

It seems like it's too late anyway, from what I've seen of it SMF is less complex, but in case you want to have another go...

I've always managed what you're describing by editing the CSS file directly in the template folder. The main pitfall for me when doing this is that a lot of the colours in the CSS don't matter because phpBB (v2.x anyway) uses a lot of background images on various table cells and rows instead of the colours - removing all the background images from the CSS can solve this problem, you can also edit all the images in the folder inside the template and make them different colours if you have Photoshop or whatever.

Can't say I've ever seen a decent tutorial on creating skins, I've basically done it by looking at the code and changing bits of it - ie. trial and error over the years. One of the easier ways of getting started is finding a skin which is already close to what you want in terms of colours and starting from that instead of the default.