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The layout of a blog is defined by a number of templates, which specify the layout and formatting of its content. The arrangement of items on the main page, the category and photo album pages and the individual article and photo pages are all defined by templates.

Templates are made up of regular HTML interspesed with template variables, which act a placeholders for specific types of content. Before displaying you blog as web pages, Blogware replaces these template variables with the actual content for which they are placeholders. By using combinations of HTML and template variables, you have a high degree of control over how your blog is laid out. For instance, you could change your blog so that the title of any article was the permanent link to its entry, the permanent link for each entry was represented by a graphic of a little smiling face, the byline for each article appeared after the body and not before, and so on.

Blogware allows you to modify the following templates:

·article Template  
The article template defines the layout of articles as they appear when viewed in their individual pages. This template contains two other templates, the comments template and the trackbacks template.  
 
·base Template  
The base template defines the basic overall layout of a blog and which items go into its columns, the header and the footer.  
 
·category Template  
The category template defines the layout of articles as they appear when viewed in their category pages. Remember that the Main Page is also a category page.  
 
·comments Template  
The comments template defines the layout of comments posted in response to an article or photo.  
 
·favorites Template  
The favorites template defines the layout of favorites lists in the sidebar columns.  
 
·photo Template  
The photo template defines the layout of photos as they appear when viewed in their individual pages. This template contains two other templates, the comments template and the trackbacks template.  
 
·photoalbum Template  
The photoalbum template defines the layout of photos as they appear when viewed in their photo album pages in "by page" format.  
 
·photoalbum-byday Template  
The photoalbum-byday template defines the layout of photos as they appear when viewed in their photo album pages in "by day" format.  
 
·style Template  
The style template is the CSS template for the blog, defining colors, fonts and other visual elements.  
 
·trackbacks Template  
The trackbacks template defines the layout of trackbacks for an article or photo.