## templates
-templates are html snippets that you can customize. these templates are then pieced together to form the final html page. edit them to your liking. they can be found in the `templates/` directory.
+templates are html snippets that you can customize. these templates are then pieced together to form the final html page. edit them to your liking. they can be found in the `templates/` directory. Here's a brief description of each one:
+
+template | description
+------------------|-----------
+head | html before body
+foot | html after body
+archivebody | everything inside body of archive page
+archiveitem |
+rollingbody | everything inside body of rolling page
+rollingitem |
## modules
### global
`$SITEURL` - the SITEURL variable you set in the pinopress config
-`$USERVAR1` - global variable you can use however you want
-`$USERVAR2` - a second user defined global variable
+
+`$USERGLOBAL1` - global variable you can use however you want
+
+`$USERGLOBAL2` - a second user defined global variable
### article only
`$ARTICLE_TITLE` - title of article, as set in article header
+
`$PUBLISHED_DATE` - the date/time the article was published, as set in the article header
+`$DESCRIPTION` - brief description of the blog post
+
+`$USERLOCAL1` - article specific variable you can use for whatever you want
+
+`$USERLOCAL2` - another user local variable
+
## mounts
-coming soon...
+many times, you would like to display a list of html elements somewhere in the page. **pinopress** solves this using mounts. mounts are simply comments that tell pinopress where to append template items.
