How do people make their own themes?

[Darwin]

I have seen thousands of new forums, that has their own made theme.
I want to make my own forum as well, but don't know how to design a MyBB theme, how do I do it?

Edit: Posted in the wrong forum, sorry

 

[Scarface]

Usually owner pays to theme designer who creates custom theme for their forum. The more you pay the better the result will be but still you can get decent theme made for reasonable price.

 

[erich]

I did pay someone to make my theme. I can make them myself, but for time reasons I actually paid to have it done.

It can get kind of complex with MyBB as it has many theme parts in the ACP.

You can take a look at this 3 part tutorial on youtube to get an idea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAXQsxaag0Y

Also, just type into Google "MyBB Theme Tutorial" and it pulls up vast amounts of resources to help you.

 

[Cosmic]

Usually owner pays to theme designer who creates custom theme for their forum. The more you pay the better the result will be but still you can get decent theme made for reasonable price.

This.

What I usually do, though, is I get an existing theme (usually a premium one) and I make a few modifications to make the theme my own. A few color changes will make an existing theme look truly unique.

Here are a couple of tutorials I wrote a while back for the FP blog explaining how to do this:

http://forumpromotion.net/making-theme- ... g-started/

http://forumpromotion.net/making-theme- ... our-forum/

 

[Shole]

Learn some basic coding, download a theme, play around with it's images and edit the code and see how it goes. Use the links provided by Cosmic 😀 those are really good tutorials.

 

[Black Angel]

It can get kind of complex with MyBB as it has many theme parts in the ACP.

I feel like this is a huge understatement.. 😛

But yeah I agree and the thing I hate most is the editor.css.. there were quite a few nights when I've thought I was finished after having converted my IPB skins.. only to realize that I have to make an accompanying editor.css for it..

And don't even get me started on the templates..

Anyway I make my own skins.. I would rather have the pride in knowing my forum is the result of my hard work and not someone else's, and while my skins may not be as good as others, I can take pride in the fact that they are original and they are mine.

 

[Korora]

People do this by using programming languages such as:
HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)
JavaScript
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
PHP

If you would like to learn web programming please visit - http://www.codecademy.com/

 

[erich]

MyBB was overwhelming at first, but I'm very comfortable with it now.

 

[Arch]

Thanks to everyone who responded to this topic, even though I didn't post it. Because it's really helped me build the foundations of my own personal phpbb theme.

Thanks

 

[ForumSource]

MyBB themes are actually a lot easier to customize through the ACP than most forum software. Just get a firm grasp on HTML, CSS, and some JavaScript, then create a new theme off the default and play with it. That's how I used to do it and eventually you'll get the hang of it and be able to create a decent looking theme.

Being proficient with graphics using Photoshop, GIMP, or something else will be helpful too. A lot of times you can create things simply using CSS3 these days, but graphics are definitely a plus!