Full Skin Tutorial

[Concept X]

I think we should have a complete ipb skill tutorial, it would be long and hard yes but extreamly usefull, bring traffic and gain more respect and i certanily would love it, also regarding piracy what are IPB's policys on it, of course they say they will do stuff about it but i've heard they dont really care because its still advertising there product and they used to be free anyway, but if they find illegal forums do they do as VB do and send a e-mail requiring the board to be taken down within 48 hours or they will take legal action? dotn worry this is just a general question lol Thanks

[Ehren]

It would take ages, and there would be no point to skinning sites because everyone would be able to do it, lol.

There are a few css guides around the place though

[Concept X]

suppose your right, ive just started learning CSS so ill have a look at them, what about the lisence thing?

[Ehren]

If you board's illegal, it will be taken down.

[yoshiteru]

I have actually owned an illegal board at one time, shortly after I bought skins from this site I purchased a legal version.

Yes, they do email you. But they do not have a very thorough anti-piracy team. There whole team is made up of volunteers as well. They emailed me once and still hadn't taken action a year after the fact. I was just waiting until I had the money (because honestly I didnt mind paying, I just didn't have the money at that time).

[Perry]

There is, with their large database of purchases, no way to keep track of who has purchase a board and who hasn't. IPB versions with the tracker have been nullified and put up for download.

[yoshiteru]

Yeh, but at one point I had a nullified board and they caught me. So I wouldn't be too sure about that.

[Brandon]

Read more here: http://www.ipsbeyond.com/forums/index.php?...&showarticle=34

[Perry]

IPB skinning can only be taught to a certain point. Sure, you can teach the css/html shell, and which image is which, but the main skill needed is that of graphic designing; which can not be taught (trust me, I have tried numoerous amounts of times).

[Escrima]

It can be taught..quite easily lol. I taught my friend in 2 hours..

[Concept X]

obviously i would know the graphical needs needed in creating a skin, what i was sayign was coding a skin which is what i dont know, im perfectly fine on the graphical side