External stylesheet
 

By default vbulletin puts all the stylevars within the <style> tag. Is it possible to externalize it (put them in an external stylesheet).

I may be reading your question wrong, but if you are asking about having your stylesheets stored as files, then go to your Admin CP > Style & Language Settings > Store CSS Stylesheets as Files? and set to Yes. However, note this:

If you would like to store the CSS stylesheet for each style as a file, you must ensure that you have a directory called 'vbulletin_css' inside the 'clientscript' folder, and that the web server has permission to write and delete files within that directory.

Thanks for the reply. I couldn't find 'styles & language settings' in admincp.? I have a 'style manager' and 'language manager'. But even in the 'style manager' i couldn't find the setting to save css in external files.
To be more precise, if you view source on stage.lawinfo.com/chattest/, you can see the css within the <style> tags. Those correspond to the css settings in 'main css' under 'style manager'. I was wondering if those could be moved to an external style sheet, but still be editable via the admin panel. For SEO purposes, it would be a good idea to move it to an external style sheet.

under AdminCP -> vBulletin Options -> Styles and Language Settings

Not only good for SEO purposes but will also decrease your page load times :D

It worked !!!Awesome. Thanks for your help!!!

hmm how would i know it its working? i tried changing to css but the folder clientscript/vbulletin_css/ still remains empty with only 1 index.html. please advice.

must i change the permissions to the folder to 777?

make sure the permissions are 777 like you said.

Then after that, go to your forums and from your browsers menu Hit View -> View Source

if you've got a load of CSS at the top, its not working. If you don't have loads of CSS up top its working.

I just did this also , my pages are loading much faster.... :)