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+Feel free to put the smarty icon on your site.
+You can cut-and-paste the following code, be sure
+to adjust the path to the image:
+
+<a href="http://smarty.php.net/">
+<img src="smarty_icon.gif" border="0" height="31" width="88" /></a>