DreamWeaver templates

How to create a template in Dreamweaver

When your web site has a lot of pages and you want they to share certain characteristic, you can create and apply template to them. This way you will save a lot of time instead of creating all pages one by one. If you have group of pages with applied template to it, you can change the information on the group by editing the template and then reapplying it to those pages. You can do that while the unique element of each page remain unchanged, but the template elements.

Define your site and create a page which will be used to create your template.

Once you finish select File -> Save as template. A small window will pop up. Choose the site for which you want to create this template ant type the name of the template to be saved with.

Now you have to create editable region in your template. These regions are placeholders for content that is unique for each page the template is applied to.

Select Insert -> Template Objects -> Editable Regions:

In the window that pop up type the region name:

Now you have a template with editable region in it. You have to apple this template to a page. Open new existing page to apply the template to it. Select Modify -> Templates -> Apply Template to Page

Choose the template that you want to apply to your page and click on Select button:

On the Inconsistent Region Names window choose template region and click on "Use for all" button. Then click on OK.

Your page is same as the template with its components placed in the editable region. You can now save it.