Frequently Asked Questions

Questions

Answers

1. How do I edit the CSS of my skin?

In the menu of your Admin Control Panel, select "Style Manager" from the "Styles & Templates" category. Then select "Main CSS from the dropdown box next to the skin you wish to edit.

2. How do I edit a templatebit?

In the menu of your Admin Control Panel, select "Style Manager" from the "Styles & Templates" category. Then select "Edit templates from the dropdown box next to the skin you wish to edit. Then click « » on the right to expand all the categories. Then find the templatebit you wish to edit, and double click on it to edit it.

3. How do I use my skin with vBadvanced CMPS?

We've provided a special tool made especially for updating our advanced skins for use with vBadvanced. Simply follow the instructions provided in the readme file provided in the download package.

4. How do I show the sub-forum links on the index page?

You can do this by going to your vBulletin Options, and then selecting "Forum Listings Display Options" from the "Settings to edit" select box. Then change the 'Depth of Sub-Forums' to how many levels of sub-forum links you wish to show. We recommend setting it to '1'.

5. How do I stop scrollbars appearing for large posts or sigs?

We added this as a feature to stop layouts breaking and being elongated, but some people prefer not to have it. You can turn it off by simply changing a setting on your skin. Instructions are provided in the readme file which is included in the download package. Under 'Customising your skin', there are instructions on how to change your skin settings. The settings you need to change are '$use_sig_overflow' to disable this feature for signatures, and '$use_post_overflow'.

6. vBulletin doesn't install my skin or produce any errors

This is most likely due to your host limiting the size of the files a browser can upload. To get round this, you'll have to upload the .xml file via FTP and during steps 7-8 in the "import the XML file from your server" option, type the path of the .xml file you uploaded.

7. I've seen skins from other sites in your portfolio, why?

Before starting eXaltic, our staff worked indepentantly in the skinning business. This included selling designs to other skinning sites. We no longer hold the copyrights to these designs and skins, but we reserve the rights to show them in our portfolio.

8. I'd like a custom skin for my site, can you give me a quote?

We've had such an other-welming demand for custom work that it took up all our free time. We've decided to no longer accept any custom work so we can focus on providing our customers with support and new skins. We suggest trying out NorthShock.

9. Links don't work in vBadvanced CMPS

Our path updating tool will fix this - just run it and don't select any skins and it will update the settings. Alternatively you can do it manually by going to your AdminCP, then "vBa CMPS", "Default settings" and then copy the text in the "Navbar Replacements" textarea to the "Header Replacements" textarea and then click the save button at the bottom.

10. How can I add links under the navbar?

Edit the templatebit 'navbar' (in the "Navigation / Breadcrumb Templates" category). Then find:

.. and below that add:

<div align="center">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center" style="border-top-width:0px">
<tr align="center">
<td class="vbmenu_control">Menu item</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>

11. I can't change to the new skin

This is because style changing is turned off in your vBulletin options. To turn on style changing, go to your "vBulletin Options", select "Style & Language Settings" from the "Settings to edit" select box. Then find the option that says "Allow Users To Change Styles" and set it to "Yes".