I know this is probably messy, but: I moved static and templates to app ...

...and renamed templates to views, deleted the old views (and its __init__.py), and updated routes. Robbie: you know how you were having trouble with render_templates? And I thought maybe Flask has a template folder in route that it deaults to, well apparently that's real life (same with the static folder).. took me awhile to figure out what was going on, but its an easy fix, check the app declaration in main.py for two new parameters, also updated base.html to find the style.