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Post by Teg on Sept 25, 2015 2:57:05 GMT -5
Do you prefer to make your own forum themes or purchase/download premade ones?
Personally, I love to create my own. That is especially true when I make a ProBoards forum. I've not really dabbled in the design aspects of other softwares, though.
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Post by ⸗April⸗ on Sept 25, 2015 15:20:06 GMT -5
I prefer to make my own as well. And I've only used PB, never had the desire to branch out, I guess. I will say though, it's incredibly time-consuming for me, because I like to create every single thing, down to the tiniest of icons.. otherwise it just doesn't really feel like my own. That's probably also why it took me so long to get to V3 on my forum.  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2015 15:55:09 GMT -5
Personally i usually just use the default design and just make a few modifications to it If i had the skills and knowledge to design then i would definately make my own  |
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Post by Thomasss on Sept 25, 2015 23:14:47 GMT -5
I mean I could....but then no one would join due to the horrificness of the theme itself. I usually just download themes and edit them from there, I have basic understanding of CSS and Google's inspect element is pretty fancy so that is pretty much my main tool. I'm pretty known for editing other peoples themes for my own site, I did however make a dark theme for ProBoards that many people loved when v5 first came out and a few others that I made but looking back on them I have no idea why people liked them. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2015 5:07:11 GMT -5
I mean I could....but then no one would join due to the horrificness of the theme itself. I usually just download themes and edit them from there, I have basic understanding of CSS and Google's inspect element is pretty fancy so that is pretty much my main tool. I'm pretty known for editing other peoples themes for my own site, I did however make a dark theme for ProBoards that many people loved when v5 first came out and a few others that I made but looking back on them I have no idea why people liked them. LOL ... I think we have similar design skills Thomasss I might as well just leave the Inspect Element function open all time Dave |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2015 15:51:50 GMT -5
I like to take pre-made themes and alter them to my liking, turning them into a custom theme. I'll always leave a link back to the theme creator at the bottom though since they still did a majority of the work.
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Post by hero on Oct 16, 2015 22:56:48 GMT -5
Yes I do. Not only do I make custom forum themes, I also make custom plugins as well, for myBB, and Wordpress. Impressive eh?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2015 23:19:06 GMT -5
On proboards I just change the colour
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Post by AllenaFaith on Oct 16, 2015 23:41:44 GMT -5
I'm not really the best with these kinds of things but in the future, I'd like to create my own themes.
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Post by tunescool on Oct 24, 2015 9:39:32 GMT -5
ive never seen a premade theme that ive liked. im not good with graphics and stuff, i just have basic colored stuff and modify whatever
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2015 7:08:52 GMT -5
ive never seen a premade theme that ive liked. im not good with graphics and stuff, i just have basic colored stuff and modify whatever There is a few good ones out there but because they are premades then it wouldnt be unique to your forum and thats the biggest put off to me. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2015 11:14:32 GMT -5
You have to make sure that the pre made theme, at least has to do with your forum
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Post by Matt on Oct 26, 2015 22:33:11 GMT -5
I usually purchase one and make tweaks, although I've recently gotten into theme design. It's fun! More so in designing than coding though. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2015 9:43:26 GMT -5
I try to make my own themes if i have the time to do so. Otherwise i use premades from friends. |
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Post by Reverie on Oct 27, 2015 16:47:49 GMT -5
I've created a few, but that was on Invisionfree. I am in no way talented enough to do it anymore and would rather use a premade or a custom made |
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