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Actually, it is not clear whether you are talking about "templates" or "themes."

Wordpress allows the use of both. Dave was talking, I think, about "themes."

You can use a template within a theme to cause certain Pages and Categories to look different from the others served up normally by the theme.

For instance, if your theme is a 3-column design and has a blue header and blogroll and category listing and latest comments listing, every page the theme normally serves will have a blue header, blogroll, category listing and latest comments listing.

However, using the templates function in wp-admin, you could instruct Wordpress to render a specific page -- or all pages within a specific category -- with no header, no blogroll, no category listing, no comments listing and only one column. And you could define different typestyles and colors for the page(s) rendered under that template.

Let us know which you are interested in, themes or templates, so we can help you further.

Here's a pretty good tutorial on how to create a custom template. (It's even easier, though, if you are able to acquire one already written and tested and upload it): How to build a custom Page template in Wordpress