Basic Designing templates How-to

[Phil from Loreauville]

I've just started messing around with phpLD. I'm very interested, but I have a basic layout in mind and am having some difficulty in applying it.
I am very familiar with HTML and basic CSS.
Unfortunately, I'm having trouble understanding this Smarty Template System. Obviously, it very "do-able" considering the amount of templates available.
Could someone point me to a basic down-and-dirty how-to of designing a template with phpLD?

[David]

Yes, basically you go to /templates/name-of-template-you-are-using/
Open header.tpl and footer.tpl and start doing your html work, but stay away for the smarty tags that are enclosed in brackets. Also, you will find the main.css in this file. You may also find other tpl files your want to edit like navbar.tpl.