Design Suggestions for Default Web Template

I am starting to develop some web applications for 7.x and do not want to use the default BEx Web Template only because it offers so much functionality that either is too complicated for users, not needed by users, or we don't want them using.
I am wondering how to approach this effort in developing a good default web template. Does it make sense to use a default template since each query can be so different?
Does anyone have any suggestions about what to include, exclude and why? Any details about the template you designed would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks

Hi,
Please refer the following URL:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/44/b26a3b74a4fc31e10000000a114084/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/9f/281a3c9c004866e10000000a11402f/frameset.htm
Thanks,
Venkat

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I don't think anyone is holding back knowledge, I think it's sometimes difficult to filter out "good" questions as opposed to "bad" questions...
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D Nore did you found the way to do it ?
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Thanks for the quick responses. I awarded points...
I should dig a little more in the documentation. Guess I'm used to the old school SAP documentation which never really contained any details. Their documentation on the web is better.
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