Help with mod making

[cono1717]

Ok so as you know I am skinner at vBulletin. I'm not the best nor do I claim to be but I wanted to delve in to coding, so I checked out a tutorial (the video one..I forget which) and followed it and made my mod.

Everything works however it requires template edits how to I make these edit's go into the exported XML OR how do I create a custom template containing the code and add that to the navbar template. (I want it to appear there)

I tried creating a custom template called sponsor and placing

$sponsor

in the navbar but it didn't work.

The only thing that worked was raw html

<td><div>

e.t.c but as I said earlier when I exported the XML from my test site and imported it to my live site the navbar template edit did not follow, I am sure this is something simple but just cannot find it.

Thanks,

Connor

PS sorry if I explained it terribly.