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Sephiroth32 Sephiroth32 is offline 02-24-2003, 10:00 PM
When writing a template modification, you should always use the built-in Vbulletin replacements instead of acual settings. Fir example, instead of:

<tr bgcolor="#ff9900">
<td>
<font face="verdana" size="2">
Text
</td>
</tr>

You can use:

<tr bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}">
<td>
<normalfont>
Text
</td>
</tr>

This makes things much eassier for the person installing your mod. This is because they wont need to change all of your custom settings to their own settings.
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Old 02-26-2003, 03:15 AM
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Thats just really common sense, you can also put text that is prone to change many times in a replacement too.
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I know it is common sense but alot of people dont do it
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Old 02-27-2003, 03:16 AM
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Yes, I never intended to say everyone knew it, just thats it's that once known.
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I didnt know that, of course I'm extremely green to this and I'm still unclear what a replacement really is.

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Old 03-05-2003, 03:19 AM
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It's really a piece of code that is placed into 'replacements' so a new code (eg. {categorybackcolor}' can be used in the templates instead of bgcolor="blabla") is used and mostly used for things which appear alot throughout the templates.

Thats basically the jist of it's use.
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oh, ok I see. Well that does make sense now that you explained what it does. Thanks Tony.
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Great, didn't think that was a good one.
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Old 03-10-2003, 07:51 PM
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Sweet... Thanks for the Tip
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