Over the past few months I've been starting to use premade skins purchased from various vb skinning sites. Most members generally appreciate the more "custom" look as opposed to the vB default.

For me, the base vB functionality is VERY important. Some skins that I consider using actually break some vB functionality. Usually simple stuff such as the search drop down menu not dropping down, missing the forum leaders link on the index page or even not having the admin/mod links on all pages for admins & mods...

After dealing with a number of these issues, I'm starting to have a preference towards vB designs that use custom CSS & images to give a custom look without needing any (or very few) template changes. When customized in this way, upgrading vB rarely ever requires corrections to the skin for new vB versions.

Many skins also break 800x600 compatibility which is also an issue. Approx 14% of web users still have resolution set to 800x600... seems to be a lot of people that may be annoyed with horizontal scrolling...

vB obviously puts a lot of time and effort into making their default design universally compatible... skin designers must make many unique designs in order to have high enough sales volume... that's a lot of skins to maintain giving rise to possibility of various issues/problems in the skins..

I don't understand anything from this site. There is something called

on their web site but this text is not "clickable". I am looking for a list of forums but I don't find it.

My first impression is that this web site's design is not a good idea. If you have no respect for the KISS principle then sooner or later you will pay for it.

Hm... I get it now. I was pressing the yellow circle that says "GO" (from under "Our community") but you should click on the text "Our community" instead. It just upsets me when things are not intuitive.