I never done it, but what you said is how I would approach it. When you look at vldP templates, most of them use the INCLUDE command to include the header, footer and sidebar template. There may be a few exceptions -- i.e. I think chat may be stand alone.

If it was me, I would first focus on Header, Sidebar and Footer. After I got those three formatted the way I want, I would check it out and see if the other templates comply. If you find a template that doesn't, than focus on that template.  My gut says, most will comply and there may only be a few exceptions where you may have to do some tweaking to get them formatted correctly.

Let us know how it turns out.

Last edited by db3204 (2011-09-02 17:45:42)

As per request, a quick guideline for template integration:
- Choose one of the default templates that is the closest in terms of colors to the template you'd like to integration.
- Upload this template to your site, rename it and update info.php file inside it to reflect its new name.
- Install it in the control panel under 'settings - templates' and then set as your system template under 'settings - look and feel'.

You're now ready to perform integration. The best way to get started is modify header.tpl and footer.tpl template files as they apply to the entire template structure. Along with those files you'll need to modify site.css file in the 'media' folder of the template. Instead of copying code from your custom template into vldPersonals files, I would suggest modify vldPersonals files instead. They're much "cleaner" and don't contain those funky attributes/styles that templatetemonster's templates are famous for.

This guy below, he can do for you, for a fair price:

http://www.vldcrowd.com/lillisam/

I hired his service twice the result was excellent

Last edited by sowers (2011-09-04 09:56:12)

Hey sowers, thank you. I will get in touch with him. I need to know whether he did any integrations in the past, so we can agree on price. I don't need all tpl pages integrated, becasue I am not using video on my site and many other extensions (just bare basics).

Yes, you are mistaken and I was mistaken too. That's exactly how I thought things are getting done with integration. But nope. You have CSS and also php code controlling important parts on site, e.g. photo cropping, also when you click on profile photo and enlarge it, all that staff is connected with JS files and also have extra php code, so if you mess this code, it wont work.

f... this,
if I knew it's this complicated,
I would never purchase this template monster template.

Is there anybody who has integrated these templates in the past? This is BS. I can't believe it's so hard to integrate this s...t.

Sowers, thanks bro, I really need help with this.
I don't want luvpoint templates (I do, however, like their mobile version), they are ok, but not awesome, you know what I mean. I want website to look fantastic,  not average.
I purchased the template from Template Monster. I love the template and I would really love to integrate it, so I can move on with this.

The guy you recommended me must be genius if he can integrate this. To make things easier for him, I can disable some features (I don't need videos, music, etc).

I tried everything to integrate this but, this is honestly ridiculous, even for people like myself with fine (not excellent) coding skills, this is just ridiculously complicated.

I spent the entire day studying the code, wasting my time on CSS, JS, and all that, and trying different techniques, but nah, it sucks.

Thanks for your support bro. Both of us are in the same boat -- we want to have great looking sites, don't we?

never tried but i can give it a shot if u ar ewilling to send me the template

yes you had a good point ...

I bought a template at luvpoint and it worked like a charm.  Easy to install and tweak to how you want it.