Oh kay, hope it aint stupid !

[FELLO9]

When I edit the templates for the forum can I enter my own HTML code, or not? For instance can I enter <font size="2"> instead of the templates default <smallfont>?
Or where it says "$hometitle" can I enter instead the full HTML code?
I hope this is not a stupid question.

[Wayne Luke]

You can but it will make things a lot more difficult to maintain. Look at your replacement variables and the other templates to see how things come together. Most of the $words in your templates refer to other templates or system settings. The custom HTML tags like <smallfont> refer to Replacement variables.

Using this system makes editing the site much easier as your changes are instantly picked up by the various templates that use them.