title: Drupal Theming and custom variables in custom pages
body: <p>I have created a custom page which sits at site.com/user/me/soe</p>
  
  <p>now im trying to theme this page and have created a subsequent template file.</p>
  
  <p>however if i copy in any basic html into my template file, all it does is produce a white page with my text and abandons the sites structure i originally had.</p>
  
  <p>i was hoping somebody could help me understand preprocessing as i feel that is the way to solve this.</p>