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I am new here, and I am still looking for information on this.. Is it possible to create your own template? If so, is there a tuturial or something that can show me how to create one? Thanks!

Have you read this http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... d/Designer, also at the bottom is a link to a video...

Basically you take another template and strip out the menu and add {menu}, replace the content with {content} and make new CSS style sheets, by copy/pasting the originals, and attach them to the new template...

I found that the information provided in the default installation of CMSMS provided a comprehensive list of all the tags needed for a basic template.  In fact, that was one of the primary reasons why I've made CMSMS my CMS of choice.

When I wanted to have a particular kind of layout, I used TopStyle Pro to edit both the stylesheet and template pretty much at the same time.  I carefully constructed the template from the ground up making sure the XHTML markup and CSS created the look I wanted, then I just inserted the CMSMS tags into the appropriate divs.  From there it was easy to do final tweaks as needed from the admin interface.