I am new to Vanilla. I own a little german forum for biology-students, deerontherun.de. I want to redesign it, so I take the chance to switch to Vanilla, which seems a lot better to me than phpBB.
My problem: Your wiki says that there's a template folder with template files in it. I need these files to design the pages which are 'overlayed' with the CSS-files. Okay, but where exactly is this folder? I cannot find ANY files in that downloadable package that look like typical template files, what drove me nuts the whole afternoon. The only folder I can find is the 'styles'-folder, but there are only images and CSS-files in it, what is not enough because i need to change the order of <div>'s and <class>'s.
How do I design a webpage for Vanilla without a changeable template? Where are those template files?
You are probably reading the docu for Vanilla v1. And you downloaded 0.9.2. Version 1 is not released yet (probably soon though?). To make the changes you want you'll need to either get Vanilla via SVN, or wait till v1 is released.