Um... not really. :~}
Forget about the template file. Your template is a resource, and does not produce or use a .html file at all. If you want it to use a file as it's source (highly desirable for editing), you'll want to use an importFile snippet to inject the contents of a static file into the template.
In Revolution, you could do this with a static resource, but not in Evolution (I don't think...)
So what you need to do is paste the code from your .html template file directly into a new template resource in MODx. From there on out, (after saving) you'll see this template available for new documents/pages.
Make one template for the main site, and one for the cars and trucks pages. \
One nice way to create a template for MODx is to separate out the header, footer, and content/main area all into individual chunks. Then, if you need to modify any of these portions of the template, or use different code in different pages (like your cars and trucks), just edit or make a new chunk with the appropriate code and, insert that chunk into a new template.
Instead of a template with your whole html page's markup, you'll end up with a template that looks something like this:
{ {carsNtrucks_header} }
{ {pageBody} }
{ {carsNtrucks_footer} }
where carsNtrucks_header and carsNtrucks_footer are two chunks, each with just the header and footer code markup, and the pageBody chunk contains all the stuff in the middle with a [*content*] tag inside it, wherever you want to place the content that users enter in the manager.
I had to look up revolution 0.9.6 tag syntax to write this. I may have messed something up. Susan will set me straight though, and her tutorials are really incredible too. Do check them out.
[ed. note: frogabog last edited this post 13 years, 11 months ago.]
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