few questions about templates

[pawel.kudzia]

hello,

what is the best-practice for writing new templates for custom pages?

i've followed this tutorial and have no problem creating custom pages. but work with the built-in adminapc's template editor is not very handy, there is a lot of changing/saving/reloading/finding the right place in template again and again. can i - during design time - store template in a regular file?

also - where can i find tutorial how to bundle few custom templates, few custom .php files and some plugins as one product that can be easily exported / installed on other forum?

i'm using vbulletin 4beta5. thanks in advance for your help!