Maple Leaf Forever is a template for Textpattern, tested on version 4.04. It's flexible and easily customized. Created by Mark Rogers (mwrogers at shaw dot ca).
Upload files in the Images folder of the template package to the Images directory in your Textpattern installation. You can also upload the files using Textpattern's built-in Image handler.
Text files in the Pages folder are used to create or replace pages (Presentation: Pages) in the Textpattern installation.
Text files in the Form folder are used to create or replace forms (Presentation: Forms) in the Textpattern installation.
Use default.css in the template package to replace the one (Presentation: Style) in the Textpattern installation. Create a new stylesheets for ie.
Make sure the image names in the stylesheet correspond to the names in Content:Images.
Create the following in Presentation: Sections
Save each time.
Copy the text of each file in the Plugins folder into the field at the top of Admin: Plugins. Then upload and install. Click on Yes to get it working.
In Content: Write, you can create a new article using the contents of the about file in the article folder. Or better still, write something of your own. Be sure to make the status Sticky and the set the section to About. you'll find a post called Behind the Leave. Open it and change it something that suits yourself.
In Content: Write, you can create a new article using the contents of the contact file in the article folder. Change it to anything you like, but keep the data in the zem_contact tags. The first tag has an e-mail address in it that you should change to your own. Also be sure that the status is Sticky, and set the section to Contact.
Go into the default stylesheet and change the percentages on the following IDs to 98%: justin, lastword, services and linklove. Make sure they all float either left or right.
Change the percentages for the following IDs: blog and sidebar. They are currently set at 48% each.
Navigation categories are created automatically each time your make a new one. You can change the current category names by going to Content:Organize:Article Categories. Be sure the name is all lower case, otherwise the "you are there" effect won't work. If you don't like the Home link, go to Presentation:Forms:nav, and make the change there.
If you'd like the text to be bigger or smaller, go to Presentation: Style. At the top, you can change the body font-size percentage from the current 62.5.
Change the links in the sidebar by going to Content: Links. For Feed, I suggest using the Feedburner service.
I'd like to thank the creator of the Serene template, Vladimir Agafonkin, for setting a standard for the rest of us to follow. Thanks to the many contributors to stock.xchng, from whom I found the pictures for this template. Thanks to contributors to Colour Lovers, whose ideas helped with the colour scheme. And finally thanks to the authors of the many great CSS books who have provided much inspiration.