This template contains the overall skeleton of your site: the wrapper that the other templates slide into. Things like the headers, footers, and other common elements would go best here.
The layout template includes three placeholders where content from other templates will be inserted when the final page is rendered:
titleassign tag to supply a title:
{% assign title = 'Portfolio' %}content_for_headcapture tag:{% capture 'content_for_head' %}
<link href="/stylesheets/public/project.css" media="screen" rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css" charset="utf-8" />
{% endcapture %}
content_for_layoutVariables from the regular templates are also available within the layout template: you have access to the company, project, photos, and so on depending on which page is being viewed.
Additionally, within the layout template, there are several liquid tags available.
footer{% footer %} will display a footer div along with the Ascribe links.
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