@bass: I think it is amazing you made a detailled tutorial, even it is in Russian. I hope you can post it so we can download your tutorial. The tutorial on the website is nice, but I would like to get as much as information as possible.
Perhaps it is also an idea to see some free skins and see how they are related to the basic skin that PHPVMS has. It would be so nice to have some good videos on youtube about the basic principles of skinning.