DotGeek.org has a new tutorial posted today for those out there new to creating sites with PHP and looking for that next step to make their sites easier to maintain.

Dynamic Webpage shows you how to create only one file to control the layout on your website, as well as a custom 404 page for sections of your site that do not exist.

This tutorial is a very, very simple example of templating your site. Building on this, you can really make quite a powerful tool that can help amazingly, especially when it comes time to change your layout. Once you master techniques like this, then you can move on up to the larger templating world - things like Smarty or XSLT.