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Hello guys. Some of you may have seen me post in this section alot regarding help with mybb themeing and I'm very great full. The main reason for this is so I can give back to the community and make high quality mybb themes for free (or very little cost) Through a forum I will create. Now i mainly do css themes, that are mainly verry basic. I want to get into the template editing side. So My question for you guys is what good template edits are normal. I dont want my themes to look too much like the mybb look. I'm pretty sure you know what I meen. Also what good colour schemes work. Light ones, dark, both?

Any advice would really help. And I'll be posting any creations on here. I hope to make a few during the Christmas holidays (mine starts tomorrow :< )

Also any html snippets would be excellent. Thanks ;]