Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 On Demand

18. Creating Templates

What You’ll Do

Introduce Templates

Create a Template

Open a Template

Define Editable Regions

Define Editable Attributes

Create Repeating Regions

Create Optional Regions

Create Nested Templates

Create a Web Page from a Nested Template

Create a Web Page from a Custom Template

Update a Template

Attach or Detach a Template

Import XML into a Template

Export Template Data as XML

Introduction

A template is a common structure of a Web site design. Usually Web sites follow a standard structure, such as a header, a navigation bar and a footer that are common to all your pages. Now, imagine that your site has 50 pages. If you need to make one small change, for example adding a new link, you would need to go to each of those pages ...