We recommend using an IDE like Eclipse as development environment. After following the steps described in this guide you can see how to use Eclipse for template development in the related additional documentation (JahiaEEv6 Eclipse Environment Setup).
Introduction to Template Development : This section aims to describe:
- how to start a new set of template,
- how to put in place the right structure,
- and the general guidelines in terms of template development.
This section also presents the template sets bundled within Jahia which you can use as they are or make extensions in your own template set. We advice to take these templates as an example in order to learn how to customize your own template set.
Guides and Resources for JSP Template Developers: This section aims to describe how to define the structure of a Jahia site with the content definition mechanism from the basics to the advanced capabilities of the Jahia v6 templating API.
Search and Query: Here you will find some guidelines about creating search templates and the difference between the search tags and the contaiener query tags.
Advanced Topics: In this section there is some information about caching, event handling and the newsletter module
