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How to Work with the Template Folder in Creating Website Links
By: Stephen Condren
It is a bit of a mystery to work with the template file for your Website, however, when you understand what the scheme of that folder is it makes much more sense. The difficulty with the Template File is that it is outside of your natural order of folders.
You have to think logically to start with and you have to stop and take time as you go through the process of setting up the templates and corresponding links. It will do you good service to reflect for hours as your work on your design. There is what I call the saturation period where you see a need and think through the process (or path) for finding the solution.
The main issue with template file is that they are away from you logical hierarchy of files and folders. The template folder is remote from the rest of your file system yet it is integrally bound to your order.
You have to grasp that the template folder only contains templates and not files or documents. These are data less ?hollow? documents provide form and design but no information. In your hierarchy you will have to have folder in the template file that are adjacent each other in the template folder but are in sequence in your file system.
The best method in dealing with the template file is to make a quick drawing (a flow chart) of your files scheme and next to it a box indicating the template folder. Draw your file scheme as usual but when it come to the incorporation of using the template draw a line outside of the scheme and point it to the appropriate folder in the template folder. After following all the lines you will see order suddenly appear.
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