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What is a template
A template is a document used to create multiple pages that share the same layout. When you create a template, you indicate which elements of a page remain constant in documents based on that template and which elements change.
Templates are most useful for situations where either you want a set of pages to have a similar layout or where you want to design the final layout for a set of pages first, and add content later. For example, if you publish an online newsletter, the masthead and overall layout probably won't change from one article to the next or from one issue to the next. However, the content of each newsletter will change. With established templates, anyone can put together a new issue of the newsletter and concentrate mainly on the content, without having to recreate the layout. FirstClass templates work on these same principals.
FirstClass templates provide the interface for your web Desktop in much the same way FirstClass client forms provide the interface for your client Desktop. Simply, templates are the web equivalents of client forms. Similar to client forms, the template layout does not change (for example, areas like text field names or the location of input fields) but the information users input changes.
There are different web client interfaces that you can display on your site based on which template set you use. For example, if you use the default standard templates in classic mode (see Displaying different web interfaces), when you log into your Desktop through the web client you will see a different layout than if you use one of the other shipped FirstClass template sets.
For information about customizing FirstClass templates, see the documents in the Customizing your web interface section beginning with About customizing your FirstClass site.
Location of web templates
By default, web templates are located in the Internet Services/WWW/Template Sets folder on the administrator's Desktop. You can have as many template folders as you wish but each folder must have a unique name. For example, if you have a custom template set for your site, you could name the folder that contains them .customtemplates.
 Note You need to put a leading period (.templates) before the name of any template folder.
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