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Styles - from smf to vB - dont look hard from what you have on your site .
Never worked with it -- always been vB since v1 .
Templates for just about everything - a lot of whats there can be transfered with css and a few tables --
Guessing but would just try the css first then re arrange with the templates, will let you know what area is what.
As far as different styles - -
the simple just splitting the forums and other basic things, not a lot of templates involved and for clients a new one for each .
when it starts that its making a top and a bottom , 4 sides being used for a graphic will start using child styles for each type - top/bottom and 4 sided or any other main layout that involves it own edits to display how it needs to .
headers, footers and forum page dont' matter much as the lay outs vary and they are easy to work with, are the major edits i am keeping together .
this will make for easier updates .
the simple - tangerine - Nightshades - and have a 4 sided one in night shades an currently finishing -- 3.5 had over 90 edits to get this thru the entire forum .
We use the same level as the forum images dir , not under it -- long names can help in mistakes , add bulk to the templates ect .
think every bit that can be saved in letters and all help in speed - we also use a page compressor, removes spaces and un-needed comments and such . looking at the source of the page is hard to read with out first editing in spaces and such -
there is no set or real way so its' you choice / preference -- if you ever need to rename a folder its quite simple .
forum
- - images
- - new style folder
- - new style folder
not
forum
- - images
- - - -new style
we dont reuse the same images, copy all the files in the images folder to the new style folder , then start editing or replacing as necessary - helps keep track of whats done and makes sure no images are missing .
you could if you wished but it needs to be on a dir by dir bases . the style variables .
biggest thing i learned -- try not to / dont' hard code anything you dont have to as far as a path or what ever vb can do it self thru variables -
if you are adding the same code over and over - :
example ::
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keep it all the same , identical - if a mistake is made vb with its style options can fix them all a lot faster .
it will let you search for the
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in all of the templates to correct it with out find it all one by one .
if you need assistance on some of this should be able to help out with what your not understanding, just wont' do the entire coding of or style .