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 == What are web tags for? ==
-*Cumulus defines [[webtags|marker tokens called web tags]] that can be incorporated in template files that it processes.
+#Cumulus defines [[webtags|marker tokens called web tags]], each of these represents an item it can report.
-**When '''Cumulus is processing these templates''', whenever those place-holders are encountered Cumulus inserts actual values into its '''output file''' that might be a web page or a script file
+#You write a template file and Cumulus will process it creating HTML, JSON, JavaScript, PHP or whatever type of '''Output file''' you want.
-**Those inserted values are derived from processing information supplied from your weather station
+#You also define what encoding format Cumulus is to use for this output file, most modern files will use "utf-8", but Cumulus also allows  ISO-8859-1 encoding.
-**'''Other content''' from the template file is inserted ''unchanged'' (apart from encoding in format defined by settings) into the '''output file'''.
+#As '''Cumulus is processing these templates''', it parses the text, copying most text straight to that  output file, but whenever those place-holders are encountered Cumulus inserts actual values instead of the web tag into that output file.
+#*Those inserted values are derived from processing information supplied from your weather station
 == Standard web pages ==