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Using Movable Type Template Designs

With the exception of the work you did in Hour 6 to modify archive templates (unless, of course, you skipped ahead!), the majority of your current Movable Type weblog still uses the default design.

Movable Type offers a number of predefined styles that you can use to modify the look and feel as well as the behavior of your templates. The advantage of these templates is that you need little to no knowledge of Web programming to set them up. And, they are modifiable, too, so if you know a little you can do a lot to take a predefined style and modify it a bit to make it more your own. You'll do that in the next hour. Finally, of course, you can completely customize the templates, bringing in your own full design, ...