Don't forget that you can do alot with css! My board is almost only css changes, and still looks like this:
http://enforum.merudi.net/ubbthreads.phpI only changed some templates to hide certain things I don't want, but couldn't disable.
A little tip for the styles. If all functional screen elements would have their own css class, we could all disable these elements fairly easy with display-style:none .
This is what I've done on this site to let ubb appear as a normal news-blog-site:
http://www.ricochetbond.nl/ubbthreads.php/ubb/postlist/Board/1/page/1
