First i am sorry for my late reply regarding closing of Minerskinz.com, i am in such depressed mind past few days, as i never had or thought of closing my site in my life as i love forums so much and designing themes is my passion then business.
Many senior members/forum owners knew me well from way back in 2003, i started my designing as hobby and offered free graphic service like creating rank images etc at TAZ, yes taz is the school where i learned all about forums and still you can find my old posts there...
Money is not always a motive for me from 2005 to 2009 i provided about 50+ themes for vB3.x and i was maintaining all my free themes with each updates until 2009, the total number of downloads of my free themes exceeds 30k which i provided at various admin forums, vB.org and at my site, check at vB.org still i have the record of providing highest themes then any forum designer, if i would have charged $10 a pop i would have earned millions.
Bingo theme was my hottest free theme which comes in 9 colors and downloaded more then 8500 times, still my free themes are wildly used by 1000's of vb forums, search 'designed by Minerskinz.com" you will find so many forums using my free themes even today.
I have given to the forum community more then what i earned!
I am graphic designer by trade and my coding skills are negligible, i was able to code theme for vb3 as it uses tables and comfortable with my skills but vB4, Xenforo use very latest standards which is out of my knowledge.
So i had to always depend on another person who is expert in coding themes and he loosed interest due to low revenue with forum themes, as he was saying he could easily earn more then 10x times then what he gets now if he works on other scripts like wp, e comm etc and left me, i am not blaming him as its 100% true he is highly skilled coder plus he knows PHP well and code custom CMS etc.
So closing Minerskinz is the toughest decision i had to make in my life and i did not do this just like that, i never thought i would get so many messages from many well-wishers and also got few offers from other designers to help me continue my service (so looking into options).
My current plan is to learn HTML & CSS by joining a reputed institute and then come back try coding my themes & try resume my forum business, so i can run the show myself and not depend on others anymore...
Once i learn coding and even if i am unable to continue my forum business in future, i will sure come back and provide few free themes for Xenforo in near future, due to my love for forums and lately Xenforo users have given me their warmth which i will never forget.
Good bye for now, Thanks.