Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS4 Bible

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et’s face it: Web design is a combination of glory and grunt work.

Creating the initial design for a Web site can be fun and exciting,

but when you have to implement your wonderful new design on 200

or more pages, the excitement fades as you try to figure out the quickest

way to finish the work. Enter templates. Using templates properly can be a

tremendous timesaver. Moreover, a template ensures that your Web site has

a consistent look and feel, which, in turn, generally means that it’s easier for

users to navigate.

In Dreamweaver, you can produce new documents from a standard design

saved as a template, just as you do in a word processing program. Further-

more, you can alter a template and update all the files that were created from

it earlier; this capability extends the power of the repeating element Librar-

ies to overall page design. Templates also form the bridge to one of the key

technologies shaping the Web—Extensible Markup Language (XML).

Dreamweaver now also works with a different kind of template: one

that allows your clients to edit their content right in the browser. Adobe

InContext Editing is a service that makes it possible for Web designers

to offload the onerous task of updating site content to the clients while

maintaining the overall design of the site.

Dreamweaver makes it easy to access all kinds of templates—everything

from your own creations to the def ...