**Rules**

Thou shalt respect the sweat and blood of designers long past.
I.e. Don't steal the codes, images or layout bunnies. It will haunt your conscience and make you cry.

Thou shalt sign the guestbook upon thy decision to take a template.
I.e. Sign the guestbook. Sign it. Leave the url of your diary, and maybe even your email address. We like to see our work in action, and will give you Turkeys of Love. <33333

Thou shalt sign the guestbook anyway.
I.e. Give us some Turkeys of Love too. We are but poor lonely souls whose lives revolve around your comments. Well, maybe not, but, you know.

Thou shalt upload thy images to thy own server.
I.e. Geocities is a lean, mean, bandwidth-guarding machine. So open accounts at Imagemagician, Boomspeed or Village Photos if need be. Fortunately for you, we sometimes decide to host the images for you on our own servers. If this is the case, then you must bestow upon us extra Turkeys of Love.

Thou shalt leave the links up.
I.e. This is but basic courtesy. We make you a template, you leave up our link, and any link we command you to leave up. We're not demanding - all it takes is a text link. If you want to put up a button link, that's fine, we <3 j00, but leave up our links. We cannot stress this enough.

Thou shalt practise netiquette.
I.e. Please, for the love of all that is holy, D0n'T tYp l1k d1s. Firstly, it stopped being 'cool' around the middle ages and secondly, it hurts the eyes. Also, please make an attempt to spell as correctly as you know how. Respect the language you use, my friends, or it will bite you.

Thou shalt not blaspheme in the suggestions box.
I.e. Do not tell us that there is too much of something. Never tell us that there is too much of something. We reserve our right to ganfirl over whatever we want to ganfirl over, and this includes the Lord of the Rings and copious amounts of Draco Malfoy. You may, however, tell us there is too little of a thing, in which the case we may or may not attempt to fill the void, depending on what the 'thing' is.

Thou shalt not clog up thy diary (and thus our templates) with thy rings and thy quizzes.
I.e. Make two spanking new entries just for your rings and your quizzes alone. The fringe benefits are that they won't stretch your entries to ungodly lengths, and people chancing upon your diary won't give up and go somewhere else after waiting 91237198273 days for a page to load. Nobody cares whether how gay you are, what colour you like or which star sign you should be. If they did they would click on your fantasmically new 'rings' and 'quizzes' page to find out!

And finally, Thou shalt learn basic html.
I.e. It will not damn you to the fiery pits of hell, I promise you. Start slow - like learning to bold, italicise or underline your text, then go on to learning how to create links and then maybe one day, you will have your own template site. Sites like Draac.com, Lissa Explains and Web Monkey are good places to start. This way, you won't have to come running back to us if something's not quite right with your diary html - you can fix it yourself!

Lovely! You made it! Now you can proceed to the templates and be a law abiding peruser of LotrFan Templates.