Originally Posted by Bama

We're launching a board soon and I went through this very process looking at hundreds of different board designs/designer samples.

The thing is - what distinguishes a mainstream board from an adult one and it pretty much boils down to the header image and the background image. If you want to go crazy, you can do custom adult smilies but that's not really important for my taste so I decided to find a regular template and just do a custom header image.

That way when you upgrade your vBulletin version, you can go back to the place you purchased the template and get the updated template to match - upload it and use your custom header.