SharePoint 2013 Custom Search - Part 3 - Display Templates

This is the final part in a three-parter on leveraging SharePoint 2013 custom search and a business solution, this follows directly on from SharePoint 2013 Custom Search - Part 2 - Result Sources and Query and will focus on the display of results.

SharePoint 2013 makes heavy use of display templates throughout the platform. Microsoft have now made it easier than using XSLT (which is a relief!) to display search results and in a similar way to the way the masterpages are controlled, you simply upload a html/javascript version of your display template and SharePoint - via the use of jiggery-pokery and magic - creates the necessary .js file! Awesome!

Ok, so lets get to it! We saw before we