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The basic concept in ExpressionEngine is that of a template. Go to any ExpressionEngine powered website and you will undoubtedly be looking at a template. Templates are what the outside world sees. At its most basic, a template in ExpressionEngine is a HTML (or CSS or JavaScript) file. If we wanted to, we could use a template exactly like a HTML file, without any problems. We could create an entire website without ever using any other part of ExpressionEngine. At the end, you will have a completely working weblog, and a great understanding of how you can use HTML and CSS in templates.

You'll learn how to embed and display third-party video within your content, using Embedded Media Field to automatically parse and display video from an editor's pasted URL from YouTube, Blip.TV, or other providers.

PHP 5 includes a powerful set of DOM manipulation classes that gives you full control over HTML and XML documents. This functionality behaves very similar to JavaScript's DOM manipulation engine. In this tutorial, we'll use the PHP DOMDocument class to load and modify an HTML5 template.