NOTE: This is Technical Information intended for users with HTML programming experience.

Each web page that Attendee Online generates is controlled by a corresponding template (HTML) file.  This HTML template lets you control the placement and appearance of all objects  available to the page (i.e. buttons, links, data entry fields, data display fields, etc.). The placement and appearance of each object works just like a “mail merge” and uses control tags in the form of {%<Control Name>%} (see the section Control Tags Overview in Edit Webpages  below).

The position on the page of each object is determined by where the control tag is placed in the HTML formatted template as in the example below:

The main template file, Template.html, sets and controls the overall appearance of all the other pages.

The Template.html file allows you to make global changes to colors and general layout.  It also contains a special {%PageContent%} tag that defines the position of the actual requested page content.  The individual page template files, which contain information specific to just those  pages, are merged into the main template.

When Attendee Online creates a requested page, it first loads up the main Template.html page and then merges the requested page’s HTML template into the position set by the “{%PageContent%}” tag.