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I’ll Have Fries with That?

“Why Do I Love Templates? Let me count the ways.”
I love templates because it’s the Plug-N-Go way to create content.
You’re in line at the drive-thru and just ordered a sandwich when a voice comes over the speaker, “would you like fries with that too?”
Think of templates as the menu board at a fast food drive-thru. But I don’t think of them as extra calories or artery clogging fats.
Think of them as the Value Deal they really are.
Templates allow you to Plug-N-Go.
Use the template as the basic structure and insert your content into it.
Let me illustrate how this works with an example from this template series.
I took a popular quote from the Elizabeth Barrett Browning and tweaked the text to make it work for me.
Instead of “How Do I Love Thee? Let me count the ways.”
My version is “Why Do I Love Templates? Let me count the ways.”
After the quote, I added the following:
I love templates because (BLANK)
Putting it all together, it looks like this:
“Why Do I Love Templates? Let me count the ways.”
I love templates because (it’s the Plug-N-Go way to create content.)