Customizing the look: Simple docs are where?

[woofster]

Greetings!

Just getting started with vb 3.

I have read the main doc completely.

Question: Where is the 3 or 5 step doc on how to customize the vb look?

Something that I can hand to a webmaster and say 'make it so' without forcing him to read the entire chm file....

Thanks!

[Floris]

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/m...nts_colors_etc

[woofster]

Thank you very much!

Those docs direct me to the css editor in the vb administrator (which is very cool!)

However, what I am looking for are some simple steps that I can give my webmaster. My web master does not (and will not) have access to the vb administrator. I just will give him access to the directories needed so he can update the minimum needed files.

E.g. (pseudo! I am looking for the real info...)


The two css files to customize are <vbmain.css> and <vbpost.css>, these are in the /html/css/ directory on the vbulletin server.
Typically, you will want to modify the X and the Y sections to match your corporate color scheme. You may also want to modify the fonts.
Do not touch the A and B areas.

Images are in the /html/vbimages/ dir. The vb branded images you may want to replace are named:
aaa.png
bbb.png
(etc)

The vbulletin customization kit has a photoshop file with the source for these images.

--end--
Thank you!

[tubedogg]

Thank you very much!

Those docs direct me to the css editor in the vb administrator (which is very cool!)

However, what I am looking for are some simple steps that I can give my webmaster. My web master does not (and will not) have access to the vb administrator. I just will give him access to the directories needed so he can update the minimum needed files.

E.g. (pseudo! I am looking for the real info...)


The two css files to customize are <vbmain.css> and <vbpost.css>, these are in the /html/css/ directory on the vbulletin server.
Typically, you will want to modify the X and the Y sections to match your corporate color scheme. You may also want to modify the fonts.
Do not touch the A and B areas.

Images are in the /html/vbimages/ dir. The vb branded images you may want to replace are named:
aaa.png
bbb.png
(etc)

The vbulletin customization kit has a photoshop file with the source for these images.

--end--
Thank you!

Unfortunately, CSS is all configured through the Admin CP. What you can do is create an administrator who only has permission to modify styles. To do this, add a new user (or edit the existing user's profile) and set their usergroup to Administrator. Then, go to Administrator Permissions under the Usergroup group in the nav bar, and choose this user and set everything to No except Can Administer Styles.

As far as images, the only image(s) that are really vB branded is the logo - all in images/misc, they are vbulletin2_logo.gif, vbulletin3_logo_grey.gif, and vbulletin3_logo_white.gif.