The Ultimate IPB 2.2 Forum Skinning Guide!
Created by . Adam .
Welcome, over the next few pages you will learn how to skin Invision Power Board 2.2 properly! Now you may of tried skinning it before, and not succeeded. Well if that's the case then you are in the right place, to learn how to skin it properly. This tutorial is very long, but covers a lot of useful information about IPB and how to skin Invision Power Board 2.2 properly!
Now skinning may look hard, well in some cases it can be easy.. when you know how to do it. Other times it can be a challenge. You often come across problems you don't know how to fix, but you always work it out in the end.
There is 3 - 4 parts of creating a skin, depending on how advanced you want the skin and how much you are going to be rearranging things.
To successfully create a professional looking skin you need to have a basic understand of a few languages. The main languages you need to have a basic understanding of, is HTML and CSS. The better knowledge you have of these skins, the more professional your skin will look when finished. You also need to be good with graphics, in order to create the new images for your skin. If you are terrible at graphics, and don't think you can create them yourself then why not ask a friend or someone you know to create the images for you. In the end, you are going to need some images.. It doesn't matter how you get them, as long as you have the images ready for creating your skin. Just do not rip other peoples images!
Now you are probably bored already, so lets learn something!
Before we start skinning, we need to create a skin.