Date: 02/15/07 (Web Development)    Keywords: php, templates, css, html, asp, web

I have seen the glory that is css/div/non-table based design. I'm a big fan of valid XHTML. I just suck at it.

And while I'm more than willing to broaden/improve my skills, I'm trying to put together a new forum. I'm looking at phpbb themes and I want to cry. The design is just atrocious.

Is there any chance I could enlist someone's aid in putting together a phpbb style for a new forum I'm doing?

I'd also really like the templates to be fully xhtml/css compliant, but that can be split into two tasks. One task is developing the artwork, which can simply be putting together a sliced psd file, and the other is making the templates. If you have artistic skills, or xhtml/css skills, I can use your help either way. (I understand this community is more focused on the coding of web-design, but that doesn't mean the members here aren't possibly good resources in other aspects of web-design).

I found one theme that uses css/div-based/non-table design, and it is for SMF, not PHPBB, and sadly much of the functionality I need I can only really find in PHPBB hacks. But it does go to show that even when working around clunky forum content, it can be done. (If anyone cares, I'm talking about the Endar Theme for SMF)

I'd like to break up the layout with some white space, move navigation tabs on the left, and utilize non-standard lines to break up the usual boxy layout of phpbb.

The artist who helps me would obviously still own the work and would decide distribution rights of it as they wish.

I am also willing to throw a few bones at whomever helps me, but I'm also largely broke.

Thanks for your time!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/387303.html