styles

[zamericanenergy]

You do not provide a theme/style/template gallery
And I have to be a member to view the available theme/style/template
non-members can only view uninformative small screen shot thumbnails

They don't seem to like pre-sales questions over there
so I have got to ask this question here

Which of the available styles (give me a link into here) is being used on this board
http://boards.straightdope.com/

Other question
Are theme/style/template synonymous.
Does the license prevent me from directly editing the vb scripts

tks david

[Trevor Hannant]

No idea what style they're using I'm afraid.

When you purchase a license, you have full access to all files and templates to customise your site how you wish. Styles and templates are held in the database so there's no need to edit files - unless you wish to change the functionality of your site. Please note though that we do not support modified files/code.

Each style you add/create has it's own set of templates giving you the flexibility to have completely different looks for each style.

[zamericanenergy]

thanks trevor

Can you suggest the key words which might find the theme/style/template I am looking for

Also If I find the desired template but it only works with vb 3.8 what is the degree of work necessary to make that template/style compatible with vb 4.0? assuming of course an experienced coder is doing the work.

And also there is a specific plugin for vb 3.7. that I want to check out. Would it be wiser to install an older version (If I can get it from VB.com) say vb 3.7 and try it with my desired plug-in and then port it to vb 4.0. Will plug-ins for vb 3.7 even get enable in vb4.0?

tks david

[Trevor Hannant]

As they've names that style after the site, it's difficult to know what it was originally called, if indeed they downloaded it from somewhere in the first place. Why not drop them a note and ask them?

vB3 styles are completely incompatible with vB4 - you would need to redo them from scratch.

vB3 plugins MAY work in vB4 depending on what they do however the chances that they will are slim. We won't put backwards compatibility in. You could create a test site running 3.7 and then check that it's what you want, yes - have you checked to see if it's been ported already? Someone may have already done it or created a newer alternative version.

[zamericanenergy]

Thanks Trevor

checked on newer ver of plug-in no luck. Life changes for a lot of programmers I have noticed. One of them I noted opened a spiritual retreat. I think I need to retreat myself sometimes.

How do I get a back rev of vb to test?

[Trevor Hannant]

You can download all previous versions of vBulletin when you purchase a license.