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Vanilla and it's need
The biggest comment I hear from users when I show them Vanilla is that it looks plain, that is has no features, etc.. Well of course if you've used it you'll know that's entirely not the case. The problem is though, that when users first see it, they don't see your normal vBulletin or phpBB skin, and as of right now, there is no such skin for Vanilla.
So... is anyone here interested in helping me create one? I am a wizard with CSS/XHTML but not so great at design
So... is anyone here interested in helping me create one? I am a wizard with CSS/XHTML but not so great at design
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They see Vanilla, and they see change. Not everyone wants change
A lot of people would just prefer your stable tabular layout for thread listing, and the other style [cant remember it's name] for thread viewing.
This makes it very hard when making new styles to make anything that looks as good as it did before.
A lot of people *want* a standardized forum layout, such as vBulletin, phpBB, or IPB's styles.
The idea of this thread was to get 1 or 2 people who would like to help in creating a sort of unofficial [very clean and basic] Vanilla skin which mimic'd those.
And no, the idea of this thread is not to say "look I'm on Vanilla forums, but I'm going to tell you to use another forum software".
You can make Vanilla put discussions in a table (easy) and go directly to the "Categories" page (kinda hard) and have nested categories (really hard) and so on, but in the end you're going to have invested a bunch of time and effort and all you'll have to show for it is yet another phpbb clone.
That's not to say that modifications are useless; some people on this board have done some amazing things with Vanilla and stretched it in directions it was not initially designed for. I'm just saying, when your desired end result is a dime-a-dozen "standard" forum, there are plenty of far easier options.
Mark doesn't get a special prize if everyone suddenly drops their forum software of choice, and starts using Vanilla. The point is not to appeal to everyone, but instead to provide a good solution for those people who come in here and already like what they see.
Maybe Mark doesn't want to appeal to the broad audience, which I doubt, but I'd like to help push Vanila out further as I really like the software.
If he wants to make a living off of Vanilla, which I know he does, he has to, and having a skin like this will be a good step towards it.
As I say, please push this forward in an effort to make vanilla as popular as possible; but don't be too surprised with some of the more hardcore vanilla fan's (of which i'm certainly one and I'm not ashamed to say so) responses. I'm sure you can appreciate for yourself what an excellent piece of software this is at it's core and I don't think it's *such* a bad thing that the community here is very protective of it in order for it to become popular in its own right.