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Im new at Expression Engine and Im very happy with it.

But there is one main component that I dislike.

The Templating Engine is an Inlcude-Like System. There arent a nice templateing Engine like this: http://components.symfony-project.org/templating/

and to put in every page this:

{html_head}
{title}
{meta}
...
{html_head_end}
{html_body}
...

isn’t very nice! the placeholder repeat itself on every page, thats not nice.

how do you solve a clever workflow for your templates?

You can actually serve all the pages for your site from one template, or at least just a few templates. The main way this is done is via conditionals and other bits and pieces. I’m still getting my head around it, but I’ve seen whole sites, with many sections and pages, all run on one template.