This is a very simplified example of code for the overall layout section of your webcomic site, which is the HTML code that all pages of your webcomic site share in common. Remember, we're assuming you're at least vaguely familiar with HTML, the documentation will only explain the bits relevant to the template engine, not HTML and CSS! I'm sure you plan to add more than one comic page to your webcomic, and so the template engine is what allows you to only have to design your layout once, and have it work on all future, past and present comic pages you upload. In order to only have to design a page's HTML code once, you insert special codes that the server then finds and replaces for the relevant data, based on what (in this instance) forum thread the visitor to your site is on. At its most basic level, the concept is quite simple.
A template engine is essentially the interpreter that allows the person who made the HTML layout for the site, and the server backend, to understand one another.
That is where the template engine comes in. I'm sure you've never even given it a second thought, but let me pose you a quandary - Obviously the HTML code for what a forum thread should look like is stored somewhere, but how does the site know where to swap in the data and posts for the exact forum thread you're viewing? For example, visually, every forum thread on Comic Fury looks more or less the same, with only the posts and the post authors changing. On most websites, there are some pages that always look the same, and only vary by content.
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