Creating Dreamweaver templates in fireworks

Hello there,
I have just created a image in fireworks CS3 that i would
like to use as the basic template in a website. Now i dont want it
to simply be set as a background on the site, i am trying to put it
into dreamweaver so that i can edit on top of the template. So i
can put text in, hyperlinks, tables images etc. As it stands, i am
farely new to fireworks and dreamweaver, as you can probably tell.
If this fireworks is the wrong peice of software for creating
templates to be used in dreamweaver, could you please recomommend a
peice of software i should use instead.
Thanks a lot
- Ryan

quote:
Originally posted by:
jonzi_456
Hello there,
I have just created a image in fireworks CS3 that i would
like to use as the basic template in a website. Now i dont want it
to simply be set as a background on the site, i am trying to put it
into dreamweaver so that i can edit on top of the template. So i
can put text in, hyperlinks, tables images etc. As it stands, i am
farely new to fireworks and dreamweaver, as you can probably tell.
If this fireworks is the wrong peice of software for creating
templates to be used in dreamweaver, could you please recomommend a
peice of software i should use instead.
Thanks a lot
- Ryan
Use Dreamweaver, of course.
Fireworks is a graphics program. It is not designed to
produce robust HTML, much less templates for Dreamweaver.
Fireworks' HTML is for mockup/prototype use only. Use Fireworks to
create your mockups, then your Web site graphics.
Dreamweaver is a heavy-duty Web site design, development, and
production program. Use Dreamweaver to build an HTML page based on
your Fireworks image, then use Dreamweaver's Save as Template
command, making sure to mark areas where you want to be able to
enter/edit content. After that, you can create new pages using your
template.
Good luck!

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> I've created a dreamweaver cs3 template for my website.
I've also created
> a
> menu in fireworks which has popup menu's. If I create a
new page (not from
> a
> template) and insert the fireworks html, everything
works fine when I try
> to
> preview it.
>
> However, if I insert the fireworks html into a page
created from a
> template,
> or even the original template file, the image of the
menu is inserted and
> can
> be viewed, but the popup menu's do not appear. Any
thoughts or
> suggestions?
>

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> Thank you for your reply.
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>
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> "
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> >That's a very bad start. This HTML is *not* suitable
for production use.
>
> Why does photohshop even provided a slicing feature if
it does not provide
> good code?
>
>
> > If you used FW to create the graphics, and DW to
build the page and
> > write
> > the HTML, you wouldn't be having this problem.
However, if you post a
> > link
> > to the page, we will likely be able to help you.
>
>
> What is better about Fireworks? I have the program but
have never used
> it.
>
> The site is in its infancy at www.kevinkipfer.com
>
> thanks
> issuenite
>

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> Hello,
>
> When I create a page from a Dreamweaver template, a
dreamweaver comment
> similar to the one below will be inserted:
>
> 
>
> Each time I edit a page to add php code in the very
first line, it is
> removed
> with every template update and the source code again
starts with the
> dreamweaver comment. I need to add to all my pages a php
code in the very
> first
> line like this one:
>
> <? $ob_start; $session_start; ?>
>
> How can I do that without removing the code from my
pages with each
> template
> update. Another problem is that I can't insert a
placeholder in the very
> first
> line of a dreamweaver template. Above that the first
line is locked in
> dreamweaver, so that I can't change it manually. Is
there any workaround
> available?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Philip
>

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Hi Group,
Sorry for my newbie question here.
I loaded an HTML webpage, and saved it out as a DreamWeaver Template file.
I then created webpages from the template file (( File - New - Page From Template - Site - Template), and made sure that the "Update Page when Template Changes" check box was selected/checked.
I then created several chldren webpages, and saved them as .html files.
I decided to change the navbar system - part of the uneditiabel region in the template - by opening the template file and edit-ing that file, and then saving it as the same DreamWeaver template file.
However, the webpages did Not Update to reflect the navbar changes in the template fle !??!???
Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
I believe it is something that I'm doing incorrectly with DreamWeaver ..
Here is the HTML if anyone is interested.
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      <li class="li_hc"><a href="cad.html" target="_self" >CAD</a><ul class="ul_ch">
         <li class="li_nc"><a href="cad_intellicad.html" target="_self" >IntelliCAD</a></li>
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No -I haven't been able to get the DW Template feature to work on other sites - this is my first application of it to a website (actually it's the whole reason for getting DreamWeaver... I know it works, I know that I'm doing something wrong.. I just don't know what it is...)
All the .HTML files (index.html, cad.html, cam.html, etc. etc.) are in the website's root directory.
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Everytime i create a template it recks my menu bar!

I created a css style sheet that would help me edit some things on my template that i have. I attached the css sheet to my template and have put not one thing in my style sheet yet. I was working with controlling the shape of my box on the div tags on the template. Then i notice that when i previewed my template in explorer my drop down menu bar at the top of the page was messed up. It move the drop down menu bar from horizontal to vertical. The background shading of the menu bar is still horizontal. I deleted my template1.dwt file and started over and created a new template from a HTML file that i used to make the template in the first place. It did the same thing as soon as dreamweaver moved the template file to the template folder. So i deleted the css style sheet that i create to try to controll the div tags and that did not work. So i created a new template file called Testtemplate.dwt and it works fine when it is under my html folder in my site. As soon as i go to template menu and create a template from this testtemplate.dwt file and it move it to the template folder it messes up the menu bar again. So i deleted the Templates folder in my site and started over. I created my fist template and named it template1.dwt and it recreated the Templates folder again and low and behold it is still messed up. It is like there is some sort of css or file controlling the Template folder and messing up the menu bar but i am new to dreamweaver and dont know where to look to stop this from happning. All the files or HTML pages attached to this template work fine but i am scared to update any content from this template as it may mess up all my HTML pages that use this template. Any help would be great!

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