do you need a special template

I have been reading some the forum posts and want to a few things.

1. Do you need a special template to use this software.... I am not "Smary" smart and was wondering if you need special programming/templates.

2. would a css layout work?

[Mike-N-Tosh]

No, you do not need a special template at all to make this work.

There is a default template included as well as a couple of others that you can use too!

It does use CSS for colors and placement of certain things such as the #wrapper, etc.

For those that are interested in making their own template/theme, there's anumber of threads in these forums including a really nice tutorial to do so.

Cheers and good luck!

-Mike

I like this template:

http://www.oswd.org/design/preview/id/3131

can this be used (of course I would taylor the text to my needs).

And how how easy is it to incorporate 68 into this template... ?

Other classified programs... seemed to not handle this...

thoughts?

[Eric Barnes]

Yes I would say this would be possible and shouldn't be to difficult. You would need to alter the template file and format it to fit into the layout file.

Of course if you get stuck you can always ask questions on here and we will be happy to help.

[Lhotch]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I like this template:

http://www.oswd.org/design/preview/id/3131

can this be used (of course I would taylor the text to my needs).

And how how easy is it to incorporate 68 into this template... ?

Other classified programs... seemed to not handle this...

thoughts?

Ease of using a template not designed for 68c will depend on your understanding of CSS and html really.

When you use smarty templates like 68c does what happens is the underlying php scripts process input and assigns the php variables to smarty variables and then the script displays the appropriate template.

The smarty template is nothing more than an HTML web page that has smarty variables in it in place of static text.

for example any given static web page may have a site title that looke like this...

<title>My Website</title>

where as a smarty template page would have something like this....

<title>{$title}</title>

{$title} would be a variable passed to the template from the underlying script.

Here is a template tutorial I wrote which should give you an idea of what it takes to make a template from the ground up.

Template design tutorial!