So far we've looked at how to modify CSS stylesheet information, which controls how vBulletin looks, and the phrases, which control the text. Both of these modifications allow you to radically change how your vBulletin board looks and feels. Template modifications allow you to do a lot more and to make much more radical changes to your vBulletin installation. In fact, templates control nearly every aspect of a vBulletin board. Each page that the end user sees is the result of one or more templates coming together and displaying information.
Let's take a closer look at templates in vBulletin.
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Templates are powerful yet complicated
Just a note about templates though, before we go further. Templates are quite complicated, and you need a good knowledge of how HTML works to make small changes. To make bigger changes you need to have an understanding of how the templates work. Work methodically and make notes of the changes you make. That way, if something goes wrong...