I probably missed a template or two so I’m still working through anything that still needs to be tweaked. This is a much better solution for quick and easy updates for anything and everything. I would have installed and rebranded phpBB as I have done in the past, but given my design that would take way too long to make it fully custom with out relying on some existing template with a dark-themed stylesheet. You can count WordPress templates on your fingers, but phpBB is a different story. I wante to do some cool stuff with the avetars but… I’ll put that off for now.
Nothing tops the… fun… I had rebranding osCommerce years ago. What a nightmare that was. It took me 3 days to rebrand osCommerce the first time. We were selling it as a product. It took me a year to perfect the process of rebranding that thing. I got to a point where I had all the directories and files lined up to be overwritten on every new installation and the process took under 4 hours. The drawback was that it was impossible to upgrade , but then again it was not much of a concern from a development standpoint, since the programmers hacked up the base install so much so that even they were not able to upgrade without sacrificing a lot of time, and losing some business in the interim.
I also have a story about Sharepoint, but I can’t divulge what me and another colleague of mine (a gifted programmer) did with that Microsoft beast. Not yet at least.