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+++ b/HelloForge/helloforge/templates/index.html
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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
+                      "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
+      xmlns:py="http://genshi.edgewall.org/"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
+
+  <head>
+    <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type" py:replace="''"/>
+    <title>HelloForge Index Page</title>
+  </head>
+  
+  <body>
+    <h1>Welcome to HelloForge</h1>
+    <h2>Project: $c.project.shortname</h2>
+    <h2>The message is <span style="background-color:#fdd">$message</span></h2>
+  </body>
+</html>