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The template engine

The template engine consists of the following sections:

• Application templates are responsible for generating the html for a single page. You will find pages such as 'home' and 'registration'.
• Wrapper templates, which is basically your header and footer. You can create different wrapper templates for different looking pages.
• CSS stylesheets contain, not completely surprisingly, your css stylesheets.
• Email templates contain welcome emails, moderator emails, tell a friend emails, etc.

These are the base components and concepts you will use to build your next application:

• Components allow you to generate views for data in the system.
• Variables contain single values with dynamic data.
• Actions respond to form submissions, to add or change data.

It's a good idea to get accustomed with all these concepts. Often it these will be easy to pick up as you're working on your site, but to create a well-structured and maintainable application it's better to understand exactly how and why they work.