I know plenty about html, it's the css that I'm not all to familiar with. As a matter of fact, this is a site that I made in pure html with only the help of editplus (not a WYSIWYG editor :P)
http://nintendo2.t35.com/
I'm sure that you know that you can double click in a thread area while in forum display to edit the title of it yes? I was thinking of an "editor mode" that had these double clickable areas all over the place and when you click on it one section you get a color drop down box like the ones...
I think that it should be a combination of sorts for plugin between the vbulletin way and the wordpress way. One click installation from the admin cp with the browsing advantage of vbulletin.org.
What is skinning going to be like? Is it going to be a nightmare like vbulletin 4.0's skinning...