Templates are content nodes used to set the layout of the pages on your site. Certain content types such as HTML and Blog support setting a template when creating or editing nodes. If a template is not set, it is inherited from the content's ancestors.
Typically your template will include the head and body tags, pull in the CSS and other resources required, and provide some common layout elements.
They use standard Grails tags and Weceem tags to render content within the body of the page, as well as meta data about the current page e.g. dynamic titles.
Here's a simple example that renders a dynamic title and renders the content of the current node.
<html>
<head>
<title>${page.title.encodeAsHTML()}</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="content">
<wcm:content/>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The <wcm:content/> tag is used to render the content of the page the user requested. Its important to remember that your Template is not actually requested by the user by URI - it is simply used to decorate the content the user requested.
You might add a news panel to this layout, by using the <wcm:widget> tag to render a reusable block that iterates over children of the "News" node to list the titles of articles and links to them.
