Looking for some guidance.

[S1OPP]

My live forum is now quite old and tired (v3.6.x)

Everything I changed on it was done by installing other people's mods/styles.

I've upgraded my test forum to vB4 RC4 and have managed to get it looking the way I want.

However, there is one 'tiny' mod that my users consider essential, and here on vB.org this mod hasn't been changed from 3.5. Rather than ask, or even wait for the author to port the mod (which is very unlikely to happen) I have actually managed to change the code and get it working on vB4.

I'm not a coder and I'm really pleased with myself that I've succeeded, however I'm not done with it.

The original mod installs a product, then makes a change to the postbit template. As we now start going through the final RC stages and then into Gold, each update runs the risk of having to revert the template I've changed. I'll have to manually edit it each time.

I know it's posible to get the product to make the template changes for me, so my question is, do you know of any resources, links, threads or anything that I could study to learn how to complete this product? So that for future upgrades, I only ever need to install the product.

Thanks in advance

sorry if it's a proper noob question, but I would rather learn that have somebody do it for me.

S1OPP