Creating Dreamweaver Templates
Templates are powerful tools for web designers. Just as external style sheets let you edit an entire web site's styles in one document, templates apply common elements to every page of your web site or sub-site design.
Templates "freeze" common elements which are edited in Dreamweaver's template.dwt document. Dreamweaver generates a templates folder. Editable regions can be edited in each document. See the templates page for the different ways to develop templates. We prefer to design our template pages first in HTML and then use the File > Save As Template command.
After you save the template you create editable regions in the template.dwt document. You can then edit these regions on individual HTML pages based on the template (File > New > Template Tab > Select Site > Select Template.) You edit "locked" regions (LNavBar links, common graphics) in the template.dwt document itself.
Montgomery College Template Examples:
- Table-based web site
- Practice Site
- Divsion/CSS site
- Montgomery College-designed template - http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/template.htm
Define and design Common Elements: Banners Logos Navigation Buttons LNav links Footer
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