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Installing a vBulletin Skin

  1. Download the ZIP file onto your computer
  2. Unzip the contents of the zip file.
  3. Inside the folder you unzipped will be an 'Upload' folder, a 'PSD' folder, and a readme.txt. The PSD folder contains the raw graphics used to create the theme - if you wish to edit your header or any pat of the design, the PSD folder contains the files you want to edit.
  4. Inside the Upload folder will be another folder (the name of the theme), and a vbulletin-style.xml file. You want to upload the theme-named folder into your vBulletin's 'images' folder (via FTP).
  5. Log into your vBulletin's Admin CP. Click on 'Styles & Templates' on the left menu, and then 'Download / Upload Styles'
  6. Click on 'Browse' under 'Import Style XML File'. Find the vbulletin-style.xml file, and choose that. Click import
  7. Your skin is installed.


Real example (installing Ringkas theme on vBSkins.com):

  1. Click on Download, you get the ringkas.zip file.
  2. Once unzipped, inside the ringkas folder is the 'Upload' folder, the 'PSD' folder, and readme.txt. Inside the Upload folder is 'ringkas' and 'vbulletin-style.xml'
  3. Connecting to your server via FTP, we end up in /home/vbskins/html/forums/images/ (different servers have different locations - what is important is we are in the forums/images/ directory.
  4. Upload the 'ringkas' folder into the /images/ directory (so the files end up in /home/vbskins/html/forums/images/ringkas/)
  5. Log into Admin CP, click on 'Download / Upload Styles', browse and find the vbulletin-style.xml, and click 'Import'.
  6. The skin is now installed.