This template is designed to help you better understand the way the template or theme system works in 68 Classifieds.

All templates are located in the templates folder and each one needs to be inside its on folder.

For example if you are building a new template and going to name it bluenew then your structure would look like this:

• /templates/
  • bluenew/
  • default/

The only required files for your layout are layout.tpl and a stylesheet file.

When creating a new template you should first create a new folder inside the “templates” directory.

The majority of the layout is handled through two files and they are layout.tpl and style.css so you would take these two files and add them to your new folder.

Now you can upload this folder and these files then change your template in administration → main settings and you will have a new look to your website.

If you look at your site and see another page you would like to modify but are unsure which template file it is you can add

{debug}

to the layout.tpl file. Then visit the page again and a pop up will appear giving you information about the template files in use as well as a list of all the variables available for the page.

Once you get the file name you can then copy that file out of the default template folder and move it into your new folder.

68 Classifieds works by using two template paths. The one you have defined and the default. So if it can find a file in your template folder it will use the default.

You can find a great tutorial for creating templates at our user forums.