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[Allen Mead]

Yep no problem blue chi.

This is what has been done with mine:

create your html pages as normal. Then create a template with vbulletin here:

admincp/styles & Templates/Style Manager/Add New Template

call it what you want, mine is html_poloshirts. Copy all the html code into this template.

eg:

PHP Code:

<!-- saved from url=(0022)http://internet.e-mail -->
<!-- saved from url=(0022)http://internet.e-mail -->
<br><table border="0">
  <tr>
    <td colspan="3"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><i><img src="Merchandise/Poloshirts/dealer_stripes.gif" width="32" height="18"><font size="5">Astra-mk2.com</font></i><font size="5">
      Merchandise</font></b></font></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="3" height="24">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="3" height="66">
      <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">We would
        like you to bare in mind that we are not out to make large profits on
        the goods that are forsale. As <i>Astra-mk2.com</i> is <b>not</b> a company
        and is run in Steve's and Allen's spare time, all profits get put back
        into the website to keep it running.</font></p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="3" height="35" valign="bottom">
      <div align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">The
        following items are available from Astra-mk2.com.</font></div>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="3">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="54%" height="81" valign="top">
      <div align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">Polo
        Shirts - Black with the website logo embroidered on the front left breast
        (your name underneath is optional). Main website sponsor embrodered on
        the back across the shoulders.</font></div>
    </td>
    <td colspan="2" height="268" rowspan="2">
      <div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="Merchandise/Poloshirts/Polo_shirt_front.jpg" width="269" height="283"></font></div>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="54%" height="133" valign="top">
      <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">Polo
        Shirts are available in the following sizes:-<br>
        L, XL <b>only.<br>
        <br>
        &pound;TBA</b> <br>
        P+P &pound;2.00<b><br>
        </b>Optional Name under logo on front of shirt<b> <br>
        &pound;1.76</b></font></p>
      </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="54%" height="273">&nbsp;</td>
    <td colspan="2" height="273">
      <div align="center"><img src="Merchandise/Poloshirts/Polo_shirt_back.jpg" width="267" height="266"></div>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="54%" height="81">&nbsp;</td>
    <td colspan="2" height="81">
      <div align="right"><img src="Merchandise/Poloshirts/logo_front.jpg" width="173" height="80"></div>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="54%">&nbsp;</td>
    <td width="3%">&nbsp;</td>
    <td width="43%">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
</table>

<br> 


Create the php file that will reference this new template you created, eg:

untitled.php

PHP Code:

<?php 

// GO TO FORUM DIR 
chdir('./forum'); 

// STANDARD VBULLETIN STUFF 
define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1); 
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'script_name');
require_once('./global.php'); 

// GENERIC_SHELL VARS 
$pagetitle = "Title of Page"; 
$HTML = ""; // PIECED TOGETHER IN SCRIPT 

eval('$HTML = "' . fetch_template('html_poloshirts') . '";'); 

$navbits = array(); 
$navbits[$parent] = 'Meganman'; 

$navbits = construct_navbits($navbits); 
eval('$navbar = "' . fetch_template('navbar') . '";'); 
eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('GENERIC_SHELL') . '");');

Don't forget you will need to change your forum root folder if different to mine and obviously the title page.

You can put this file wherever you want really, doesn't make any difference. Oh, don't forget to upload any images referenced in the new template created. Once done, just replicate for the various pages you want.