You see, I've been wanting to make my own forum for awhile and decided upon using phpBB and then maybe later on advancing to a vBulletin... Anyways, I'm at a lost to how to make any sort of layout/graphics for said forum. It's really rather irritating in a way, because I see really wonderful forums like this one everywhere, but I still don't... Know how to change the colors, add a picture here or there, etc. Is there any pointers or guides to make layouts for a forum anywhere? I'd really appreciate your help. ^__^

well... I haven't seen any "How To's" on making forum Templates. But with phpBB you just edit the TPL files in usually in the includes folder of the template you are using. Just changing a button is as easy as overwriting the current button with your new one ( I did this with my old forum {do not advertise ~ mod} but that was yabb and had an easy layout editing screen in it so the whole layout and images were designed by me and my friends)

and the new forum (don't advertise ~ mod ) I edited the TPL files to include images/links to the games we are currently playing

I will look into a how to when I get a chance

Ah, thank you very much! I was actually wondering what exactly a .tpl is and if I could actually edit it... I've only edited some php documents, but I dunno, thought a .tpl was some sort of thing you weren't supposed to touch! Thanks for the info about the files! ^__^

sorry about the "advertising" but yeah with a basic understanding of PHP and HTML just edit the TPL files. You will see the normal Table, TD, TR, and whatnot tags ;)