General Question About Hacking

[surootvi]

Hi, I'm just getting started doing some modifications, hope someone can answer a very general question.

To start with, I want to modify some of the layout / information on the main page, eg "Total Threads", "Welcome To Our Newest Member", etc. You know where I'm talking about. I want to add some more functionality up there.

Where exactly does that get changed? The only reference I found to any of those variables was in the vbulletin.styles file in the ./admin directory. Made my changes there, but so absolutley no change to the page.

What gives? Using a vanilla version of the board, no mods yet, just getting started. If you can point me in the right direction, I'll take it from there.

Thanks!!!!!!