[katya]

This is kind of a premade skin in that I wrote it to be a super basic skin tutorial. The code is HEAVILY annotated to explain what everything does/is for, and my hope is that if you read it through, you'll learn how to make a simple skin.

Again, you can't use it as is. Before you edit it, it'll look like this: (click image for live)



...And that ain't exactly sexy.

But hey, if you've got no clue how to skin and want to open a site--or just want to get started on skinning for whatever reason--this is for you.

global headers @pastebin
global footers @pastebin

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[li] left sidebar layout
[/li][li] custom CSS
[/li][li] custom miniprofile
[/li][li] a unique skin for your site, gdi
[/li][li] (I also included the Money Hack, just fyi)

WHAT YOU HAVE TO GET ON YOUR OWN:
[/li][li] banner
[/li][li] graphics for sidetables, if you want them

WHAT YOU WILL NOT HAVE:
[/li][li] PM management of any sort
[/li][li] MYO boards

WHAT I AM ALREADY AWARE OF:
[/li][li] there are minor gimmicks with the code, idgaf
[/li][li] the CSS is not formatted like normal html--it's meant to be familiar to uBBC coders, so there aren't linebreaks between elements
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Example of a finished result: (click image for live)



DISCLAIMER: I am not an expert skinner, but imo it doesn't take an expert skinner to teach the ropes.[/blockquote][/blockquote][/blockquote][/blockquote]