In this chapter, we will learn what templates are. The strength of CMS Made Simple is its flexibility of design. Once you have understood how you can combine your static HTML with the dynamic parts of the website and format them with CSS, you will never lose control of your design or layout in CMS.
In this chapter, we will:
Work with existing templates
Create our own template from scratch
Add and organize stylesheets
Create and format navigation
Port HTML templates to CMS Made Simple
Learn the basics of Smarty
Learn about exporting templates
CMS Made Simple uses various templates to display the content of your website. To understand templates, think of them as predefined layouts. Every time you create a new page, you choose a layout to define how this page should look.
You can easily imagine a template as a wrapper for your content. The wrapper (layout) is always the same; the content changes from page-to-page. The editor of the website just adds content to the page and...