vbulletin skins

[SN3]

Let's cross bread two forums into "phpBulletinBBV"...nevermind.

[UKZJ007]

Yeah, lets call it "bread forums"

[I, Brian]

vBulletin definitely has more features - but you can pay for the extra code with slower loading pages.

IF you start thinking really seriously about moving to vB, it might be worth setting up a vB on a test server, then seeing if you can find someone who can rip out a lot of extraneous code you don't want or need, so as to streamline it. I've certainly seen other big vBulletins running streamlined code.

vB really does offer so much control, though - phpbb is simple and sleek, but simply cannot at all offer anywhere near the same amount of control. I was pretty astonished at how little there is in the phpbb admin panel.

Customising vBulletin isn't so much of an issue - the basic template layout is simply 2 HTML files within the admin panel, plus editing of the CSS in a somewhat more powerful way than in phpbb. There are more advanced editing options in the admin panel for modifying the template, but it's all still very much HTML based, rather than messing with lots of different phpbb files for their template.

If you ever look to move to vB and need a hand then I'd be happy to help out and try and help you with some of the features. Ask how busy I am first, though.

[John Scott]

Kind of depressing how few choices you have when it comes to legit forums scripts.

[edbarton]

Originally Posted by Pimpen 2010

Nice skin PC-Clever

cheers

I love VBulletin and on my forum which I have converted my members love it. I'd definitely say its better in almost all areas over PHPBB. Plus you can always turn off the extra features and save some queries. Price shouldn't be a concern for a board like this.

Switching to PHPBB is easy with the script, attachments do get lost and so does the skin but reskinning should be reasonably easy and I've managed to do it well on rouseindahouse and pc-clever.

PHPBB is a good board for those starting but it is dated and phpBB 2.2 won't even catch up with VBulletin. VBulletin 3.1 is also on its way soon.

[John Scott]

I hate a lot of vB featues. The annoying way it prompts for link text, etc. And the pages load slow...

[Pimpen 2010]

Originally Posted by cardesign

PHPBB is a good board for those starting but it is dated and phpBB 2.2 won't even catch up with VBulletin. VBulletin 3.1 is also on its way soon.

I've seen a lot of boards that are huge and they dont have any problems using phpBB

[edbarton]

Check out - http://www.big-boards.com/index.php?type=vBulletin and http://www.big-boards.com/index.php?type=phpBB

I understand that on the main list Gaia Online runs PHPBB, but they have modded the board beyond belief, and its split across like 10 boards. With VBulletin you don't need to mod it so it can cope with such huge numbers.

[thebassman]

Originally Posted by JohnScott

I hate a lot of vB featues. The annoying way it prompts for link text, etc. And the pages load slow...

Ditto. I pretty much avoid them completely...

[Thanol]

Originally Posted by thebassman

Ditto. I pretty much avoid them completely...

As long as it isn't one of those ancient threaded forums where you have to click on each response, I don't mind.

[John Scott]

I just bought a vB license.... Wondering where you go to set preferences... like how the threads are displayed?

[edbarton]

Its all in the vbulletin options section. There are tutorials and documents on the vbulletin site.

[Brian]

http://www.extremepixels.com/skins_vb.php

My favorite vB templates.

[John Scott]

Jazzee did the style change over. Should be chaging over to vB within a day or two.

[thebassman]

Or now.