I have installed a phpbb forum , wonder do I need to know a lot of php to design and customised it something to the extend of WHT ?

version 2.0.6 ?

version 2.0.8

WHT is has a rather simple skin which was probably pretty hard to implement (not to a pro, but to an average coder/designer). I am pretty sure this is how it works, first a design mockup is done in photoshop, just like any design for a site. Then the design is sliced with the consideration of the layout of the PHPbb script. This code/slices are then implemented into the template system of the forum script. It could be a pain in the butt if this is your first time, but you should be able to figure it out if you have the basic knowledge of HTML and how designs are produced and implemented.

Isn't this site VBulletin though? If your already a web designer you can design the skin and ask a programmer to slice the .psd file than implement it.

Originally posted by TechEDeals
Isn't this site VBulletin though? If your already a web designer you can design the skin and ask a programmer to slice the .psd file than implement it. Yes this site is using vBulletin :)

Yeap quote the wrong example : )

Originally posted by boonchuan
I have installed a phpbb forum , wonder do I need to know a lot of php to design and customised it something to the extend of WHT ?

Nope. phpBB uses a template system, which is nothing but a few config files, some CSS, and HTML pages split into subpages with a .tpl extension. The only thing you have to watch for is the comment-like tags and the { SOMEVAR } which the phpBB class recompiles before output.

So essentially it's just HTML and CSS.

If you go to their site and browse the knowledge base there is some info on how to skin a phpBB board.

Yeap haev begin changing the appearance in the /templates , quite easy actually , thanks.