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-By default, we give you a set of html templates that you can use "as is", modify to your own desire, or completely replace with your own. Since the software uses the database to display much of the content on your site, you can design one template and use that same template across all pages of your site. Or, you can create many templates and assign them on a page by page basis (Enterprise only). For example, if you wanted to offer an Automobiles category and a Real Estate category, you could create a completely different template for each category and assign those templates to each category respectively. Then, when visitors browse your Automobiles category they might see an "automobiles specific" header area. But, when they browse the Real Estate category, they might see a completely different header.
+By default, we give you a set of html templates that you can use "as is", modify to your own desire, or completely replace with your own. Since the software uses the database to display much of the content on your site, you can design one template and use that same template across all pages of your site. Or, you can create many templates and assign them on a page by page basis. For example, if you wanted to offer an Automobiles category and a Real Estate category, you could create a completely different template for each category and assign those templates to each category respectively. Then, when visitors browse your Automobiles category they might see an "automobiles specific" header area. But, when they browse the Real Estate category, they might see a completely different header.
 The software also offers what we call "Page Modules".  Modules are individual functions (or features) of the software that can be displayed wherever you want them to show up on your page. Essentially, every software feature that you see on the site is a module and can be displayed wherever you want to display it. This is because each module has its own unique tag associated with it. That tag is simply inserted into your template's source wherever you want it to show up. For example, let's say on a typical website you wanted to display an image in a certain location. You would scan through your code and type in your image reference like so:
 <code html><img src="Your_Image.jpg" /></code>
 This same basic principle applies when you want to add one of the software's modules to your site. Simply scan through your code and type in the module tag for the desired module, such as the "hottest listings (ads) module":
-<code>(!MODULE_HOTTEST_ADS!)</code>
+<code>{module tag='module_hottest_ads'}</code>
 Wherever you place that tag is where the feature will show up on the page. If you change your mind later on its location, no problem. Simply reopen the template and move the tag to wherever you want within the html code.
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 The front page of the software is made up of a combination of one template and a variety of different modules...all of which are working together to produce your front page which, after installation, looks similar to the image below:
-{{how_this_software_works:front_page_illustration1.png|Front Page Illustration}}
+{{:how_this_software_works:pages_templates_modules:snapshot_front_page.jpg|Front Page Illustration}}
 As you may see, each feature (module) has its own "tag", which can be inserted anywhere within your html template that you desire. Therefore, if you don't like a feature where we placed it by default, simply move that module's tag within the html template to wherever you want the feature to be displayed on the page. Or, remove the tag altogether.

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