It has been almost 4 months since I posted a blog entry. Sorry about that.

I have really had nothing concrete to post. I have been heavily into creating mock ups of the existing templates for the new style.

Presently, I am converting the mockups, along with some of the support team, and others at IB, into functional templates.

I have just finished getting the WYSIWYG editor functioning in the new style. vB4 has a new menu system, which is used for the Fonts,...

Since the beginning, vBulletin has had some way of inserting style-related variables into its templates.

In vBulletin 1 and 2, replacement variables were used, and simple html-esque tags could be inserted in order to re-style text etc. For example:

<smallfont>Here is some small text</smallfont>

would be replaced with

<font size="1" family="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Here is some small text</font>

The content of the replacement...