Overview

For most websites, all the pages look very similar, they all have the same background styles, header, menus, footers etc, infact, there is normally only one areawhich is different on each page - this is where the unique content for each page is writen.

Instead of creating the header, menu and footer etc on every page, we create a template.

Editable Regions

In this example, every page is the same, exept the area within the light blue box. This area is 'editable' and everything outside is locked

Advantages of Templates

When you create a new page, you can just start from a template, so all you do is create some content.
Also, if you decide to alter the menu for example, you edit the template, and all the pages that use that template update automatically.