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Dreamweaver: Lesson 5 - Working with Templates
 To
use templates, create a new page and insert a layer 600 pixels wide to
hold a grid for the history page. This will contain the same images and
text as used for the page history.html when created in Composer. When
images and text have been formatted, links entered for top level pages
and background images and link colours set, the entire page may be saved
as a template by selecting File, Save as Template and then giving the
page an appropriate title, such as basic page. Going to the site manager
will reveal a new folder called Templates in which this file is stored.
When
a template is created, the default setting is that sections cannot be
edited so that consistency is ensured across a site. While our links to
top level pages will not be changed, the images and text entered into
the main grid
needs to be updated for each page: to make this section editable, select
the table holding these components and go to Modify, Templates, Mark Selection
as Editable. Such sections will now appear in blue. To create a new page,
go to File, New From Template and select this template: non-editable regions
are now indicated in light yellow, but other sections of the page may
be selected and modified.
Click here to see a
larger version of an editable template, then click on the Back button
to return to this page.
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