Best way to start making forum skins?

[Watch Me Sink]

What do you think is the best way of making forum skins? I'm planning a site now, and would like to have +/- 10 skins avalible when it launches. I don't have photoshop, and I run a mac, so there isnt much i can do when it comes to graphic design. I do have Dreamweaver though.

 

[Ascent]

HTML? All you need is Notepad.

 

[Watch Me Sink]

Php
I use SMF.
Plus they are templates, not thee real thing.

 

[Jasonp]

mac's are the best for graphics 🙂

get photoshop

 

[Watch Me Sink]

Yeah, I just don't have a spare $400 to buy photoshop with 🙁
Is there anything online that can open .psd's?
My school has CS, so when I gt a windows computer I can "try out" their version on my ccomputer.

 

[Crystal-Core.org]

Notepad is the best thing for making forum skins

 

[Watch Me Sink]

I have a mac, so I don't have Notepad. Is it just a text editor, because I have one of those on my computer.

 

[Murder he Wrote]

Any text editor is fine for designing websites, you can even code a website in Microsoft Word.

Only things you really need to know when making a forum style is Graphic Design, HTML and CSS. If you don't know them, don't bother as you'll get nowhere.

 

[socrboy24]

i could help you on http://skinned.site50.net/index.php i can't make you 10 skins really quickly or in a good amount of time because it's just me but i am sure I can get 1-2 done in 1-2 weeks maybe 3 because of time. I do the skins for free as well as mods

 

[Watch Me Sink]

Any text editor is fine for designing websites, you can even code a website in Microsoft Word.

Only things you really need to know when making a forum style is Graphic Design, HTML and CSS. If you don't know them, don't bother as you'll get nowhere.

I know a good amount of the last two, but are there online graphics websites that don't suck? I may actually be able to get by without knowing graphics, because SMF is mostly text based.

i could help you on http://skinned.site50.net/index.php i can't make you 10 skins really quickly or in a good amount of time because it's just me but i am sure I can get 1-2 done in 1-2 weeks maybe 3 because of time. I do the skins for free as well as mods

Sorry. phpbb is not for me.

 

[socrboy24]

oh sorry i didn't realize that you didn't use phpbb