Child pages inheriting editable regions from template

Question

I have looked far and wide and cannot find an answer to this problem:
We recently did a homepage update where the nested and/or second level template (index_template.dwt) was changed. Since much of the formatting was the same - I duplicated the original index_template and made all necessary changes. From this template two child pages were created for our US and UK site. Upon creating the page(s) from the index_template they are inheriting the editable regions, thus not having the ability to update when changes are being made to the template. I have tried multiple ways in an attempt to correct this - but to no avail. Does anyone have a clue how to correct this? As of now I have to manually update all 3 pages.
BTW I am also a relatively new user who was thrown into managing our company website and pretty much doing a redo on the whole thing. Talk about a learning experience!

Answer 1

My issue is when you create a page from a template they are not supposed to inherit the editable regions less otherwise marked.
But that is not true. A newly created child page will inherit ALL content from its template.  But changes to the editable region contents in the template will NOT propagate to existing child pages.
So, for example, if I want all child pages to have an embedded stylesheet in the head that is EDITABLE, my template would look like this -
<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="head" -->
<style type="text/css">
</style>
<!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
All newly created child pages will then look like this -
<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="head" -->
<style type="text/css">
</style>
<!-- InstanceEndEditable -->
If I then go back to the template and change it like this -
<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="head" -->
<style type="text/css">
body { margin:0; }
</style>
<!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
that change will NOT propagate to existing child pages, but WILL appear in child pages created subsequently to the save of the template after the change.
And by the way, it's always been this way.