I highly recommend you always test vBulletin hacks and modifications on your computer. This goes for any website?s, because it's sooooooooo much easier to shift from application to application, and as mentioned by Anime-loo you can simply click the "save changes" button, and those effects take place instantly! I also greatly recommend that, if you are doing a huge remodification to your site, like a new style that consists of much new HTML coding, etc. DO NOT use vBulletin template editor! It's too damn slow, having to click and re-load, then go back to the same template, find your position again, make modifications, save, then repeat the process. It's good for simply regular hack installations, but I'm making a new style for my site and basically I started it off by creating HTML files on my desktop and designing the site that way. When I got enough of it done where I could start implementing it with PHP and integrating it into vBulletin, I imported the HTML into separate templates and put it in the database via ACP. This will same you a
huge amount of time.

Just a tip, as off-topic as that might have been ^_^;;