How do I design a skin before I try and put it together in the Styles manager?

[Mac Write]

I want to do a decent theme for a site I am building and have the same look across the forum and site. I am not a graphics anything. I am building the design for the main site in Photoshop, but trying to make a design for the forum is…well no clue how to do it.

If I use a screenshot, all I am changing is colors and gradients. So what's the best way to do this?

Thanks all

[Lynne]

I've never done a skin from scratch, just played around, but I think this will help you out - Color Map Reference (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/../docs/html/color_maps_intro) - click around on those pages there and you will see the different css classes that are used to define different parts of the pages.

[Mac Write]

I've never done a skin from scratch, just played around, but I think this will help you out - Color Map Reference (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/../docs/html/color_maps_intro) - click around on those pages there and you will see the different css classes that are used to define different parts of the pages.
I want to figure out how to do a design up before I work on it in the styles manager. Doing it in Photoshop, there is no templates for the style so we can do see how it works.