Blog Theme & Forum

[Ben Jamin]

This is a two part thread:

1) I'm setting up a site for a college buddy, http://www.socceralums.com. I used the Cutline theme but am horrible at design so I'm looking for someone to pretty it up, ie a header graphic and color scheme. Any suggestions?

2) I'm adding a forum to the same site, just installed vbulletin tonight and am working on setting it up, http://www.socceralums.com/forums. Any suggestions for me as I get it setup? I really like the way the header and theme for BlogExperiment forum and the blog are the same, how hard was that to do?

[ses5909]

This is a two part thread:

1) I'm setting up a site for a college buddy, http://www.socceralums.com. I used the Cutline theme but am horrible at design so I'm looking for someone to pretty it up, ie a header graphic and color scheme. Any suggestions?



I could definitely recommend a designer if you would like and another thing you could consider is watching the Templates for sale (http://www.sitepoint.com/marketplace/viewcategory?categoryid=18) section of SitePoint.com. I just purchased a unique fully coded theme for $85 for example. Not bad for a unique theme.

2) I'm adding a forum to the same site, just installed vbulletin tonight and am working on setting it up, http://www.socceralums.com/forums. Any suggestions for me as I get it setup? I really like the way the header and theme for BlogExperiment forum and the blog are the same, how hard was that to do?

You'll want to do this once you have have your design for the rest of the site done. I pad a designer for the header and then I created the layout myself. Once i had the layout for the site, i paid someone $50 to skin it for me in vB. I can also give you their name too. Feel free to shoot me a pm or email if you want specifics.

[Dan Schulz]

If you don't mind me asking, why did you choose Cutline for your theme? (Bear in mind I hate Cutline with a passion - but then again I'm an clean, minimal, semantic and valid XHTML/CSS coding Nazi, so that's to be expected.)

[ses5909]

Off Topic..but yeah cutline is the theme i was griping about when I said I had seen 5 blogs in one day with the same theme.