Chapter 12. WORKING WITH PHP INCLUDES AND TEMPLATES
To give a unified look to a website, most pages have common elements, such as a header, navigation menu, and footer. Nobody likes repeating work just for the sake of it, so the ability to build page templates has long been one of Dreamweaver's most popular features. All common features can be defined and locked, but Dreamweaver propagates to all child pages any changes that you make to the master template. The great disadvantage is that every time you make a change all the affected pages must be uploaded again to your remote server. On a large site, this can be a major undertaking.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could make changes to just a single page and have them reflected through the site ...
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