Template Question - basic!

[mungo]

i'm following the video tutorial "Pages and Templates"

however when i create my template file and save it, it does save it but it is red and doesn't work - now i assume red designates some error, but i have no idea what.

i've even cut the template down to the following simple code:

<p>template text here</p>

and it is still red and when i look at the page i have created it does not display the template contents

 

[Arik]

By "it", you mean the name of the template in the template list?

Is your page using the same style that you created the template in (or a child style)?

 

[Jeremy P]

The red color is just to indicate it was customized (not stock).
If there were any show stoppers, it wouldn't save at all.

 

[Paul B]

Maybe this will help?

http://xenforo.com/help/templates/

 

[mungo]

sorry, i thought i'd read all the manual.
thanks for everyone's input

>>Is your page using the same style that you created the template in (or a child style)?
yes just the default style

my issues were:

permissions on the webserver
i've changed to using firefox, the opera browser was not saving the changes.