Editing the templates

To create a new template you will have to create a new template directory first. Lets assume you decide to create a new template for Vorras Mailer which you call the ``Red template''. The steps you need to take are as follows:

1. First change directory to the templates directory in the Vorras Mailer directory.
2. Create a subdirectory called Red_template.
3. Copy all files from one of the templates provided in the downloaded package such as the Blue template. For example on UNIX systems, you can copy all files from the Blue template as follows: cp -r Blue/* Red_template/
4. On the administration interface, make sure you reload the page to reflect the new directory created and then go to ``Select HTML template:'' and change the selected template to Red_template. To modify your new template select a *.txt file from the ``Edit HTML'' select menu and edit the template from that page.

HTML templates for Vorras Mailer use special tags in form of HTML comments as follows:

• MaiosPowered-: This tag may be mandatory depending on your license agreement with Vorras Corporation. If your license agreement dictates that you should include a link to the Vorras Mailer homepage then this tag should exist on all Vorras Mailer pages. This prints a link to the Vorras Mailer homepage at http://www.vorras.com/products/vorras_mailer/. The easiest way to ensure that it exists on all Vorras Mailer pages is to place it in the footer.txt file, which is imported by all other files (see below for information on importing other files). Alternatively you can place in any other file as long as this file is imported in all your HTML pages.
• !-MaiosImport:filename-: This tag will import another HTML file from the current template directory in the html file being modified. This permits administrators to store for example one header or footer file in the template directory and use it on all pages, without repeating the HTML code for it everywhere. To include a footer.txt file in your HTML template you would write: