Uncharacteristically newbish question from me...

[Mystis]

Hey there everyone,
I'm an experienced PHP programmer who is just starting to delve into vB hacking. I've been picking apart the code and understand almost everything there is, except for the template system. I understand it's function and why things happen, but not quite how they happen. For example, I've been trying fruitlessly for the last 20 minutes to write a simple header/footer page with no content, and it just doesn't make sense to me. I'm sure that I'm just reading too hard into the problem, but I'm just vexed by everything, and I was wondering if someone could give me a little Templates 101 lesson? If someone could even write up the aforementioned header/footer page I'm sure that I could figure it out.

I hate asking because it makes me sound so newbish, which I'm definately not (I'm actually the programming forum moderator at Somethingleet), but this is something that's just got me in a corner. I'm normally the one answering the questions, not asking them. I guess you've got to start somewhere!

Thanks everyone for your help!
Mystis