Templates

Templates:

What is a Template?

A template separates form from content so you can write to the Web without paralysing your virtual pen.

To understand this, let's consider a homely piece of paper.

Papers and Forms

A piece of paper is a template or frame within which (upon which) you write words.

Blank pieces of paper make a rather intimidating template for non-writers. Even accomplished writers bite pencils, chew cigars, go for long walks and otherwise fret over such templates. In fact, many people wouldn't consider a blank page to be a template at all.

An employment application offers a far more highly structured template suited to a specific task. Borders, boxes, lines and instructions tell you where you may (or must) enter important texts. If you removed the template it would be difficult to tell what the texts meant but it wouldn't be impossible.

(Think of such items as name, address, age, social security number, past employment history).

From the point of view of the employer, the employment application separates form (the structure) from the content (what you entered into the application).

Without the template, you could still have entered all of the required content but it would have been far more difficult for you to do that and far harder for the employer to understand (maybe even find) what you had entered.

Separating Form and Content

Many templates on the Internet serve a similar - or even identical - purpose to the task-based forms you are already familiar with from daily life. Others, though, have been designed to make it easy (okay, easier) for you to design a website of varied purpose so you are not paralysed by a blank screen.

In other words, templates offer you a structure within which you may write comfortably.

By keeping your writing separate from that structure, you can choose in the future to change a template without losing your content. (Of course, life online can be a bit more complicated than that, but this is mostly true).

While many folks experiment with templates as they grow more comfortable online so they can give their words a more personal 'look', this is optional - not required. As the Internet matures, a wide variety of attractive templates customized to a wide variety of tasks are becoming available.

HOW TO INSERT

NAME:
With each template you create it requires to you to Name it.

DESCRIPTION FEATURES
write a Description (maximum of 500 characters) of what your features are e.g. Introduction, promotion, contact details or an article of someone, in many templates all of the above and more.

IMAGE:
Below the description box each template has a image function to allow you to upload a picture to customise your template. Press Browse

TEMPLATE:

This is where you write all the HTML text for the document..
A comprehensive word processor or What You See is What You Get editor with functionality such as hyperlinks, email links, File Manager, image gallery, bullet points, spell check and more.
To add a template spot to your document copy this tag [TemplateSpot][/TemplateSpot] and insert it into the position where you want to have the editable or changeable content or image.
Once you press update the tag will modify with a unique identifier like [TemplateSpot TemplateSpotID="7957f95a-ec33-4722-86fe-d71bceeac9f1"][/Templat eSpot]

LIST OF DOCUMENTS ALREADY CREATED:
Each template has a Name, ModifiedDate and createdDate. Each template has an expand button by pressing this you will see all the inserted editable description text that was inserted whilst the template was created. ModifiedDate & CreateDate: Pressing on ModifiedDate or CreatedDate this will open the email function, this is automatically sent to the person who modified or created the document last for the ease of correspondence to clarify any changes made. To update or modify documents: Template: click on the image of the template that you want to modify.

HOW TO EDIT

NAME:
Scrolling to name, make the changes that are needed (maybe a spelling mistake or it is a new promotion). DESCRIPTION:
Within the Description add or delete any headings or features. IMAGE:
Next is to upload a new picture.

HTML TEMPLATE:
Scrolling to the HTML template, this is where editing or adding of HTML text is done.
This is where you write all the HTML text for the document..
A comprehensive word processor or What You See is What You Get editor with functionality such as hyperlinks, email links, File Manager, image gallery, bullet points, spell check and more. To add new template spot to your document copy this tag [TemplateSpot][/TemplateSpot] and insert it into the position where you want to have the editable or changeable content or image. To move exsisting template spots copy all the tag with the unique identifier. This example has the unique identifier in inverted comma's. [TemplateSpot TemplateSpotID="7957f95a-ec33-4722-86fe-d71bceeac9f1"][/Templat eSpot] Once completed press update to save the modification.

TEMPLATE TIPS

Page breaks
Creating page breaks in a template by applying a style like (style="page-break-after: always;") This would be placed in a div that wraps around each page.
Test here

<div style="page-break-after: always;">
    
        <p>Page 1 </p>
</div>
<div style="page-break-after: always;">
    
        <p>Page 2</p>
</div>
    
        <p>Page 3</p>
Note: the last page does not require the div and style tag as it's the last page!

Images
To improve the print quality but not degrade the web performance you can have an image for working with the document and a finial print image for printing the document.
The final print image would be much larger in size and DPI. So the resolution of the image is higher, not pixelated.
So in your template you can name your images like

"MyImageLogo_LRI.gif "

and create a high resolution image and place it into the same folder but name it

MyImageLogo_HRI.gif
as the Preview page and PDF document is rendered all the image with _LRI. will be replaced with _HRI.
.Replace("_LRI.", "_HRI.");