Vanilla works on dynamic template structure. Essentially. You can wrap the forum in your own div container. Then add php includes for header and footer if thats the way you want to go.
This way then you can ditch the vanilla header or make it less familiar by making it look like a menu.
Delve in, default.master.php is the starting point and really all you need to play with.
or... buy a slick theme then modify it to suit. You can learn a tremendous amount about how people solve problems in this framework by grabbing some code and taking it apart. I'm not selling any themes... but you might try the guy above me.
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Vanilla works on dynamic template structure. Essentially. You can wrap the forum in your own div container. Then add php includes for header and footer if thats the way you want to go.
This way then you can ditch the vanilla header or make it less familiar by making it look like a menu.
Delve in, default.master.php is the starting point and really all you need to play with.
Read various articles on here about theming.
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or... buy a slick theme then modify it to suit. You can learn a tremendous amount about how people solve problems in this framework by grabbing some code and taking it apart. I'm not selling any themes... but you might try the guy above me.
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