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Part VI
Enhancing Productivity and Web Site Management
Now, editable template regions—as well as the other region types—are just a mouse click
away. From the Common category of the Insert panel, choose the Templates group and
click once on the Editable Region icon. You can also drag the icon over the selected text.
Either action brings up the New Editable Region dialog box.
3. Enter a unique name for the selected area. Click OK if you’re finished, or click Cancel to
abort the operation.
Although you can use spaces in editable region names, some characters are not permit-
ted. The illegal characters are the ampersand (&), double quote (“), single quote (‘), and
left and right angle brackets (< and >).
Dreamweaver outlines the selection with the color picked in Preferences on the Highlighting panel,
shown if View ➪ Visual Aids ➪ Invisible Elements is enabled. The name for your newly designated
region is displayed on a tab marking the area; the region is also listed in the Modify ➪ Templates
submenu. If still selected, the region name has a checkmark next to it in the Templates submenu.
You can jump to any other editable region by selecting its name from this dynamic list.
Make sure that you apply any formatting to your text—either by using HTML codes or
by using CSS styles—before you select it to be an editable region. Generally, you want
to keep the defined look of the content ...