[Logician]

Originally posted by Crinos
So do I cut and paste the entire HTML code of the About Us page into the Webtemplate form and save it as "About_Us"? If so, this would give it the path of www.mysite.com/forums/show.php?pg=About_Us", right? So does this mean that all pages created with Webtemplates will have the "/forums/show.php?pg=" path?

Yes that's true: You copy paste the HTML code of your web page into a "webtemplate" by choosing "Add a New Webtemplate" and you also give it a name like "aboutus" (no spaces can exist in the name btw).

Then all you have to do is to visit this page:
yourboardurl/show.php?pg=aboutus

The webtemplate will be displayed just like you call the address:
yoursiteurl/aboutus.shtml

As far as your page content is plain HTML (that is no php/asp etc. codes in it), you can use it with all of your site pages.

Also, I tried the above procedure and called up my page on the browser. It seems that when I put $header and $footer, it calls up the "default" style of the forums .... I have 5 different potential styles on my forums - how do I automatically make it so that whatever style the user has will be reflected in the webtemplates?

If you want to apply a mandatory style to your webtemplate, you dont need the style itself, just use HTML commands. For example you have a style with greenbackground and you want to use that style in one of your webtemplates, just make your background green with plain HTML.

The style feature of the webtemplates apply when you want a webtemplate be displayed differently to different users according to user's style choices (ie. not mandatory by you). For example if you have 2 different styles where your users can choose with 1 red background and the other green, you may want to display the webtemplates accordingly. Its background will be red to red style users and green to greenstyle users etc. To achieve this goal, you have to use "vbulletin style codes" in your webtemplate and then that webtemplate will inherit your forum's style according to user's choices.

For a sample code check the sample webtemplates like "whoareyou", you'll notice how backgrounds, fonts etc. are assigned. It's the same method you use in your ordinary vb templates. Actually webtemplates are just like ordinary vb templates.

Maybe that is why a few people are not willing to click on the install button for it - coz it is unclear to them on how to actually use this hack.

Well you may be right. But I really worked hard to give proper instructions and help files. However please notice that this hack is an advanced hack and you may really write a thick instructions about what you can do with it, if you intended to.

And again most of its features are just related to vbulletin itself. So for example the style usage is just like vb. style usage, nothing different. You paid for vbulletin itself, but IMO even they dont provide that much instructions for usage, do they? Considering the facts that webtemplates is free, I try to give endless support here with no commercial intentions and its just one of my 25 other hacks which I also try to give support, these help documents are really the best I can do now..

If these are not really helpful, well sorry about that..