I was just wondering if there were guys who do skins among us? If you have any experience in creating skins/templates for CMS, would you share with us the experience? What CMS was it? How was it different from creating a design for simple html page?
What CMS have you skinned?
I was just wondering if there were guys who do skins among us? If you have any experience in creating...
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nevadabadgirl
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Posted 13 October 2006 - 08:45 PM
I have skinned Joomla, OSCommerce, ZenCart, Drupal, Vbulletin and Aardvark Topsites....and am working on learning to do more of them 
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feros
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Posted 09 November 2006 - 02:56 PM
phpBB, vBulletin, IPB, XMB, Drupal, PostNuke, PHPNuke, oSCommerce, Wordpress, and TypoScript.
It's no harder than creating an HTML page - you just have to figure out which template files to edit. Now I don't have time to skin though; there's plenty of 15 year olds willing to skin CMS now for way less than I charge, so I outsource
It's no harder than creating an HTML page - you just have to figure out which template files to edit. Now I don't have time to skin though; there's plenty of 15 year olds willing to skin CMS now for way less than I charge, so I outsource
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takethetrain
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Posted 09 November 2006 - 04:25 PM
I'm in the process of skinning my not-quite-up-yet Wordpress. The only other thing I've skinned is a phpBB, and I was a bit of a noob when I did it so there are all sorts of bugs. But when I'm done with this new one, I'll be posting it here for reviews!
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colordesign
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Al3x
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Posted 12 November 2006 - 01:41 PM
Only thing that I've ever skinned is Aardvark and even that was a toughy. I find it hard to code so I mainly design and get someone else to code my things, yes I'm too lazy to learn but if you want bog standard tables then I'm your man.
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PDL
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Posted 09 January 2007 - 08:53 PM
vBulletin, DotNetNuke, PHP-nuke, Post-nuke, Joomla, PhpBB, and Wordpress. Most likely forgot some minor ones, but those are the ones i've done more than once
My favorites at the moment is Joomla and Wordpress - best open source systems out there imho!
My favorites at the moment is Joomla and Wordpress - best open source systems out there imho!
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rasterbox
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Posted 25 January 2007 - 12:52 AM
vBulletin, phpBB, myspace (totally redesign the user profile page). right now am using vbulletin for the forum am maintaining.
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GoldenZ
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Posted 26 December 2007 - 07:15 PM
wordpress, phpbb2, vBulletin (were taking a course in VB at a online tutorial and they stop on the middle of the course Dam! lol)
#13
Xdreamer
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Posted 27 December 2007 - 05:12 PM
Depending on what you mean with skinning I skin and code mostly wordpress since I know the system pretty good
Other than that:
- e107 (Design/Code)
- OScomm (Design)
- zen-cart (Design/Code)
- vbulletin (Design)
- phpBB (Design)
Non CMS related:
- Xfire (Designing skins)
I skin and code mostly wordpress since I know the system pretty good Other than that:
- e107 (Design/Code)
- OScomm (Design)
- zen-cart (Design/Code)
- vbulletin (Design)
- phpBB (Design)
Non CMS related:
- Xfire (Designing skins)
#14
krissoleil
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Posted 24 March 2008 - 11:09 PM
Wow - I would love to see everyone's portfolios!
I've only just recently learned about Joomla. I have several websites that could use a CMS but I just don't know how to do it (nor do I have time to learn). But I'd love to see what you all have done!
I've only just recently learned about Joomla. I have several websites that could use a CMS but I just don't know how to do it (nor do I have time to learn). But I'd love to see what you all have done!
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tomas.brolen
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Posted 12 May 2008 - 11:26 AM
Since this is one of those threads that just wont die I might as well throw in my opinion/experience.
If you have to "skin" a cms it's not a good cms in one sense. It might have tons of features and generates valid code but if you have to have a 4 year technical dregree to put out a simple webpage that really doesn't do THAT special things, somethings awfully wrong.
In a good cms you should basically just have to cut and paste in your (x)html and css-code. Add a few lines of php code here and there to fetch content from the database and thats it. Why complicate things when you don't have to?
I know this might sound a bit harsh or arrogant but that's not the intention. I myself just hate to complicate things when not needed, that's just plain stupid if the end result doesn't get better or if it doesn't make things easier.
Sometimes it's needed to use a certain cms. If the client are already using one or if you are setting up a forum, webshop or whatever and need certain features and don't have the time or the money to develop one from scratch. One other valid reason is if you don't have the skills needed to do what you want, then a cms like wordpress might just do well. What I meant was that in 95% of the times it's not necessary to complicate things by using too complicated software.
But back to the question, what cms have you skinned?
Several including wordpress, blogger, joomla, mambo, php-nuke, phpBB, PunBB and Drupal which i just tested for personal use.
However I never really felt comfortable with any of them and everytime I gave them up and did my own thing. Nowadays I mainly just use ExpressionEngine for all my clients and projects. It hasn't failed me or the ones using it yet.
Just my 2c...
If you have to "skin" a cms it's not a good cms in one sense. It might have tons of features and generates valid code but if you have to have a 4 year technical dregree to put out a simple webpage that really doesn't do THAT special things, somethings awfully wrong.
In a good cms you should basically just have to cut and paste in your (x)html and css-code. Add a few lines of php code here and there to fetch content from the database and thats it. Why complicate things when you don't have to?
I know this might sound a bit harsh or arrogant but that's not the intention. I myself just hate to complicate things when not needed, that's just plain stupid if the end result doesn't get better or if it doesn't make things easier.
Sometimes it's needed to use a certain cms. If the client are already using one or if you are setting up a forum, webshop or whatever and need certain features and don't have the time or the money to develop one from scratch. One other valid reason is if you don't have the skills needed to do what you want, then a cms like wordpress might just do well. What I meant was that in 95% of the times it's not necessary to complicate things by using too complicated software.
But back to the question, what cms have you skinned?
Several including wordpress, blogger, joomla, mambo, php-nuke, phpBB, PunBB and Drupal which i just tested for personal use.
However I never really felt comfortable with any of them and everytime I gave them up and did my own thing. Nowadays I mainly just use ExpressionEngine for all my clients and projects. It hasn't failed me or the ones using it yet.
Just my 2c...
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jones8
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Posted 13 November 2008 - 09:33 PM
I've done many, but now I stick to mostly wordpress. For one, the demand is there, but also because the seo plugins are fantastic.
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