This documents aims to explain how to create your own templates. For now it just started and is not yet finished!!! For starters: Just take the default-template in /templates/default and copy it over to another name, i.e. /templates/mytemplate . Then edit /templates/mytemplate/info.php and change at least $name i.e. to $name="My very own template"; Thats it, you can now select the new template in the admin as general template and/or for each single forum. Additional variables in info.php: $template_hide=1; set this to hide this template from the user's template-selection box. Now only you can set this template through the admin. (makes most sense if you set the display-settings to fixed through the admin) Additional variables in settings.tpl: {define bodies_in_list 1} set this to 1 to have the message-bodies loaded in the list if your template needs them.