From: "LINDA ROMEY" <lromey@gmail.com>
To: support@drupal.org
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 3:52:05 PM
Subject: Re: [support] Node Template Variant

Chris, just as you put all contrib modules in sites/all/modules, you should have your themes in sites/all/themes
so you'd have sites/all/themes/yourtheme
and in yourtheme you'd have a direcotry called templates. Most themes have one, if not, create one. Any template you create or any template you alter (i.e. a template supplied by a module) should go in that folder. Then you don't have to worry about overriding with upgrades

Hi Linda,

So, I am using the Bartik theme, for now, and I seek special formatting for a content-type called "Music".  If I understand your instructions, then I should copy and subsequently modify:
So far, so good?

Now my next question.  Let's assume that this is going to happen more frequently than just this one content-type.  Is there a way to make the template general and applicable to arbitrary content, like assign it to a panel, and then I can put whatever content I need on that panel?  I don't know if I will need this template again, but my preference is to create a re-usable template, not a special kind of content-type.  Can that be done?

Thanks for the help,

Chris.