Actualy the only real difference between a purely html template and a mambo template, is that a mambo template has php code which tells mambo to display content from the database into specific locations on the the page.
Apart from that the template file is all html.
Just checkout the index.php file of any of the free templates that come with mambo (in the
/templates/"templatename" directory).
For some articles on how to template with mambo, download some here:
http://www.mambohut.com/index.php?op...electcat&cat=4