Not that you guys will notice anything, but I converted my site into a template system. What is a template system? Well, it pretty much means my site will run off a single template. For example, I have a basic template setup that includes just HTML and CSS. I then have my entire site run through that template to format the page for you guys. It's nice for a few reasons. For one, it helps to separate the raw site coding from the design side of things. Keeping things separate is a good thing.

Let's say you're just a coder, and not a designer at all. All you know is PHP, Javascript, etc but don't care about anything like CSS. Then you can simply edit and create your PHP pages and have the template automatically format them for you. Or on the other hand, if you like designing and know a lot about HTML and CSS but don't have a clue about PHP, then you can just edit the template HTML and CSS files. This will completely change the look and feel of your site, while maintaining the same functions.

Having a template system is a very powerful thing. Other blogging software like Wordpress, uses a template system. It allows you to easily download, create, and/or switch templates which change the complete look and feel of your site. And you can do this on the fly. In the end this is one of the best features of a template system, and a feature that I wanted for my site. Now I can simply create a new template, and through my administration panel, choose which template I want formatting my site.

I've been working on my template system for the past week and just implemented it today. In my testing everything seemed to go OK, but I had a few hiccups while converting my live site. I think I got everything working now, but if you notice any weird issues, let me know. Oh, and don't use the contact form on the Contact page. That's not working for some reason.