Are ther other benefits to templates?

Image your little website has grown and now holds over 100 web pages. When you decide that you would like to have an element added to the bottom of all of your pages, imagine the time it is going to take to go through all your pages and add that element. With a properly formed template, this change can be made easily by a developer in just a few minutes by adding the change to the template itself, saving you both time and money.