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E2 Template · One Site, One Frame

Every E2 page wears
the same frame.

This page is the living master template for E2. One header, one footer, one analytics tag, one set of styles, shared by every major section of the site. What you see at the top and bottom of this page is exactly what the whole site wears, because it all comes from one place.

One header One footer Live counts, never baked Change once, restamp everywhere
How the system works How E2 ships

How the system works

The template

One source of truth

The header, footer, footer styles, analytics tag, and online script live once, as partial files. No page keeps its own copy of the design, and nobody copies chrome from another page ever again.

The restamp

Change once, update all

When the template changes, one restamp command stamps the new chrome into every page, byte for byte, touching nothing else. Then the whole batch ships through the one safe deploy pipe and gets verified live.

The live data

Numbers are never baked

The member count in the footer and the Online Now faces below are read live from the presence data when the page loads. They cannot go stale, and no restamp can ever overwrite them with an old number.

Online now, rendered by the template

This block is part of the standard frame. Every stamped page can show who is here right now, from the same live data, with the same code.

The standard pieces

Header

The E2 wordmark, the main nav (Bounties, Free Site, Sam, Level Up, Feed, Updates, People, World, About), the gold Join button, and the mobile burger menu. It scrolls away with the page, it never covers content.

Footer

Four columns: Explore, Make Money, Learn and Create, and E2, with the Discord member count filled in live, and the Online Now strip above it.

Buttons and cards

Gold for the main action, ghost for the second. Cards carry one idea each, like the ones on this page.

Gold buttonGhost buttonCardScore stripNavy band
Analytics

One Google Analytics tag, the same on every page, so the whole site's traffic reads as one site.

Built from the template, or it does not ship.

New pages start from the master template file. Existing pages get restamped. The quality inspector checks the chrome on its rounds, so a page that drifts gets flagged the same day.

The rules

Rule 1

Never edit chrome inside a page

A header or footer change is made once, in the template, and restamped everywhere. A fix made inside one page is how the site fragmented in the first place.

Rule 2

Content is yours, the frame is shared

Everything between the header and the footer belongs to the page. Everything outside it belongs to the template. The restamp only ever touches the frame.

Rule 3

Prove it live

After a restamp ships, the pages get checked by their real content, titles, footer, and counts, never by a status code alone.

1header
1footer
0baked numbers
24/7kept online

One frame, every page. Built to be enjoyed.