What you discribe is the basic way of skinning. But the header of the industrial skin for instance, that alone takes heaps of tables, rows and collums. And that has not got anything to do with the CSS yet.
The top graphic of a topic, the striped bar above the user info, that exists of a grand total of 5 diffrent images. The original VB template doesn't even support a bar like that on the bottom, let alone it existing of 5 images. VB standard has only one background image there instead of 5.
Also the position of many pieces of info, such as the posting date, buttons, online or offline, new or old, post number. Those are all stuff that have been moved to diffrent places. The date, for example, is at the top of the post in the VB standard and the post number and stuff are (i believe) at the bottom. In this industrial skin they're vice versa.
CSS only helps with styles. HTML detirmaines where goes what and what part of the site is influanced by the CSS editing. So just messing with the CSS won't cut it to make a very advanced skin like this one.
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