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Templates Layout Control
Both library template page components can be summarized into 3 categories.

Group 1 - Images

In the Standard Templates
This group of images stays the same in the table, and has already been setup in the template's include files.
In Customizable Templates
The Decorative and Heading images' positions are control by style sheet: yul_layout.css.
The images should be set once for a website. You can use your own images according to the requirement described in "How & How To" or contact Public Interfaces Committee (see detail).
The Menu images are controlled by the text and the style sheet, for example, the class "active" gets the link_on function, so a web developer can have more flexibility to change a menu's content and function without needing to create images files for each choice in a menu.

Group 2 - White space, Decorative strip / column

Again, in Standard Templates, this category is controlled by the standard table html tags.

In Customizable Templates, the setting is controlled by <div> in the style sheet

Group 3 - Main Content and Meun (main_link, sub_link, quick_link)

As mentioned in Group 1, some of the menus in the Standard Templates are setup by the image link names noting on/off, these menu choices are text in the Customizable Templates.

This category is where the web developer produces the page content. The stylesheets yul_al.css, yul_rt.css etc. for the Standard Templates only control the color and some of the font sizes. Standard html tags will work for controlling display in most of the page.

The home page in the Customizable Template is for a department's home page. Font size and color in the content, news and quick link areas, as well as page subtitles (which were images in original Templates) are totally controlled by the style sheets yul_layout.css, yul_01 etc.

The sub page in the Customizable Template can be controlled by web developers with their own style sheet if they are not going to use the default setup.

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