You can define one or more possible document types als child nodes for each document type. Means that you can define what documents can be created below another document.

In your case you're able to create textpages below your contact page. You can create new pages in the content tree in umbraco backend (found in the content section).

The template otherwise describes how your content is displayed. In your textpage template for example a marco is inserted in the sidebar placeholder, which will display a navigation for you.

Here is a nice article about document types, this maybe helps understanding the structure a little better

Hope it clears things a bit up.

Hiya,
Glad you took the time to download and install CWS - just so you are aware in the future CWS has its own dedicated forum here at our.umbraco.org
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/creative-website-starter-%28cws%29 and if you have found the project useful I would appreciate it if you would give the project a thumbs up.

Now with the shameless plug over, lets see if I can understand your questions and answer them:

OK on the contact template we have an empty content placeholder tag as we dont want to insert any content/XHTML underenath the main naviagtion. If you put some XHTML in there and save the template and go back to the contact page you will see the update and where the HTML is being placed.

The textpage has a refrence to a macro - which is an XSLT macro that lists child pages beneath that page.

So the about page is a textpage and the pages beneath that are also a textpage so this allows us to see the child pages with this naviagtion XSLT script.

As Tim mentions you can allow the document types you are allowed undereath a particular document type, in this case I wanted to allow the texpage document type underneath the contact document type as I wanted a textpage that contains a thank you message after the contact form was submitted.

I hope this has made sense, but if you have any further questions please let me know.

Thanks,
Warren :)

Thanks that make sense now.

I've missed the macro in the master template and I didn't realize there are two levels of navigation (CWS_Navi, CWS_SubNavi)

Thanks for the article about document types, I've found few more useful articles so I'll paste them below as someone else might find them useful.

I've also created quick installation guide on my blog if anyone is interested.

I'll spend the weekend playing with umbraco and I'll see how it goes.

Quick installation guide:

http://itdevspace.blogspot.com/2009/09/umbraco-c-open-source-cms-installation.html

Useful Articles:

Document Types Explained
http://umbraco.org/documentation/books/document-types-explained

Templates Explained
http://umbraco.org/documentation/books/templates-explained

Understanding Templates & Stylesheets
http://umbraco.org/documentation/books/understanding-templates--stylesheets

Using .NET User Controls
http://umbraco.org/media/42a0202c-b0ba-4f84-bcf1-64dfd5230322-usingcontrolswithumbraco.pdf
http://umbraco.org/documentation/videos/for-developers/foundation/using-net-user-controls

and of course the pdf which comes with CWS
http://packages.umbraco.org/media/9318/cws_how_to_use.pdf

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