Welcome Style Authors!

[Patrick]

Hello,

The main purpose of this forum is for the development (creation, feedback, testing, etc.) of phpBB 3 styles (including themes, templates and image sets). But, it is also for interaction between style authors and general help in the creation of styles. Please remember that our User Guidelines apply to all posts on this community, including posts in this forum, with the exceptions listed below.

Authors are encouraged to post development threads here in order to improve their styles. Users are encouraged to help authors by testing their styles and giving them feedback as requested.

Please keep the following things in mind:

- When you are developing a style and you need to provide links for people to download it, link directly to the file. Do not link to a general site. When providing a demo, link directly to the demo. Again, please do not link to a general site. Please only link when there is a purpose to the link - please do not blatantly promote a site.

- Registration should not be required to download the file or to view the demo.

- This forum is not for non development/stable releases. We do not allow release threads in our Support Forums as this is what our database is for. When styles are ready to be released, please submit them at http://www.phpbbhacks.com/submit.php. Please only use this forum for the pre-release development of your styles. This forum can be used for the improvement and development of future versions of already released styles, as well.

- If you release a new non development/stable version of your style without consulting your development thread, you may make a note of this in your development thread after it has been approved and is available for download at phpBBHacks.com (providing a link to it at phpBBHacks.com, if you wish). Unless it is an emergency (for example, a serious security issue) - then you can post as soon as you have submitted the update to phpBBHacks.com and link directly to the file at your server/site while you are waiting for the update to the phpBBHacks.com database.

- Please do not develop it here unless you plan to release it here by submitting it to our database.

- Please do not use your development thread as a support thread. We do not encourage the creation of a single thread where an author tries to get everyone who has a question about his or her style to ask it there.

- Please do not tell users to post related issues somewhere other than phpBBHacks.com. If you are developing it here, you are developing it here. You are welcome to create development threads at other sites, but please do not use your development thread here as a means to vaguely send people to those other sites. Please do not use your thread to blatantly advertise your personal site or create threads to highlight a link that you are in some way affiliated with, except if you are developing a style as outlined above.

Thank you for reading and for developing your styles at phpBBHacks.com.
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