Templates map directly to master pages, they are essentially the same thing. Just use templates liek you would use masterpages.

Macros are more for components e.g. navigation

If you are still struggling have a look at some of the starter kits, look at how they structure things.

Hope that helps

Hi Chris,

I will give Brendan right, a good way to learn things in Umbraco would be to install one of the starter kits, and learn stuff from there.

Another good alternative would be to watch introduction videos, about some basic stuff in Umbraco. You can find the videoes on Umbraco.tv.

http://umbraco.com/help-and-support/video-tutorials/introduction-to-umbraco.aspx

I hope the link to the introduction videos to help you, in addition to what Brendan already written

/Dennis

Okay. I have yet to try one of the starter kits, so i will give that a shot next. I seem to get more understanding about the backend functions by doing Cart Starter Sites. 

THANK YOU.. thank you. This explains it a whole lot better. Allot more is clearer now. when it comes to simple structure.

No worries.

The way I think about is this:

Templates = Master Pages

Data Types = Data/Table structure/schema

Content = Data/Table row

Got it... See the naming schemes just through me completely off. For example calling a Parameter or attribute " Content " just throws me all off. I would have been f much more farther along by now, but this will give me the boost in the right direction i need.

There is a little bit of a learning curve but once you get it, you'll make up the time :)

IF there was one thing i would change in ASP.NET is the naming schemes for the tags which are used.. Why would you have two tags virtually almost with the exact same name? That's Extremely confusing. And then why would you use " ID " in the actual name of the tag. That's even more confusing.

<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID >  AND <asp:ContentPlaceHolder>

^ That is what completely through me off.

You might want to investigate ASP.Net MVC which Umbraco supports, it is a lot closer to HTML and more familiar if you come from a PHP background

I have a PHP background. However, I did a ASP.NET C# application that was pretty complex..but i did not have to deal at all with master templates or pages..

Master pages can take a little getting used to there is a good video series on the microsoft site, look for the one on master pages:

http://www.asp.net/web-forms

also you might want to look into ASP.Net MVC, the industry has been moving in favour of it for the past 3-4 years:

http://www.asp.net/mvc

I would definity plump for a MVC approach as apposed to the web form approach, although the later will give you a nice introduction to how everything works.  Using MVC (after the learning curve) a million times easier and quicker to develop an Umbraco site.  Charles

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