Make you own themes?

[Shawn Gossman1]

Have you ever tried your hand at making your own themes for the forum platform you use or have used?

Show them off here.

 

[Uncrowned]

Ever since the days of Invision Free, I have learned that art is not my strong suit. I learned to make skins for my sites there and they were abominations of colors and ideas to the point that even I didn't use them lol. I did make one black and orange theme for my first phpBB forum and I actually really liked it, but I have no images or anything of what it looked lie today. Now, I doubt I could even make a theme that works.

 

[Tracy]

Yah.. currently tweaking the default XF theme on the pipe site.. but still contemplating a "paid" style.. the only issue is that very few use the "base colors that fit the site. Russ over at PixelExit offered a "tweaked"style of his.. but I prefer something that is regularly update and that I can easily tweak to my needs. Taking a light/dark style and then making major changes to it can be a chore at times as there are so many area that need to be tweaked that simply changing the color palette may not impact.
The pipe site has some simple modifications to the base XF style.

 

[veloman1]

A phrase comes to mind: "don't reinvent the wheel". Especially when starting out, it doesn't make much sense to me to spend a lot of time and effort in creating a new theme, when modifying a tried and tested version is easier. If I was ever to make a fortune on a website I might consider getting it professionally developed, but then I'd combine that with UI and backend upgrades at the same time.