The way Cotonti is building web pages
You can think of Cotonti as a "dumb machine", it simply picks data from MySQL database and sends it to client (web browser) through a template engine, the "theme".
Theme — a set of files used to programm pages layout and its styling. style named xxx.tpl in folders inside /skins folder (for example: /themes/mytheme)
Template file (usually have .tpl extension) — a file made of simple HTML code, plus some placeholders named "tags"
Tag — special marked place...