Tigga - I'm a little confused at the moment

- reading all the posts has clouded it further

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I'd like to create quite a few more non-vB pages which will be selectable from a jump menu on myvbindex. I'd like these to have the forums header / footer but have the rest of the content personailsed by HTML that I create. How would I do this whilst still preverving forum permissions? I noticed the thread about the protal - is this the way to progress? What about the webtemplates hack by Logician?
Thanks for your help

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