Configuring eeSiteKit’s Display Templates Within ExpressionEngine
Display templates are where nearly all of your site’s public-facing front-end design is dynamically assembled. This is were the site developer will spend most of their time. All other template groups provide support for this group of templates. The display templates give site pages shape and structure, and they also give the site’s content structure.
Choosing The Right Display Templates For Your Project And Work Style
eeSiteKit installs two complete sets of display templates in template groups named “kit_display” and “kit_display_light”.
“kit_display_light”: is intended for experienced developers who prefer to use their own pre-coded or hand-coded page framework, or those developers who are building with Grid 960 or some other framework tool, or those using a advanced YAML template option, (as we did building this website).
The “kit_display_light” template group includes very little XHTML markup and just a few tags to get you started. When working with this group you may add eeSiteKit’s custom embed tags as needed. This optional template group may be use in place of “kit_display”, although it is recommended you save the “kit_display” template group to use as an example while learning eeSiteKit. To use the “kit_display_light” template group with eeSiteKit, just rename the default template group called “kit_display” to something like “kit_display_SAVED” then rename “kit_display_light” to “kit_display” and you’ll be ready to go.
“kit_display”: The “kit_display” template group is pre-built with the YAML Simple Project XHTML framework. This proven framework may be used with the YAML Builder, or you may code your own CSS to work with this highly flexible frame. If you are new to YAML, we recommend you take a look at YAMLs sub template system before you begin so you’ll better understand the flexibility of the YAML framework.