Designing Dreamweaver templates (was:Info.)

hey again. i have a question. and i am wondering. if its true. could a designer or photogrpaher make a template and have it used in his or her web site? if so. how? i heard you can do this in either of the two programs. photo shop and illustrator. see i am now a member of bc partner. but i am wanting to learn the in between lines. of web site making. see i have started a web site in the past. using dreamweaver, and now i am using muse. but again i am starting from scratch. right now i am using a current site called wix.com. heres my current web site.
1. wix= http://brian-ford.wix.com/photographerexplorer
2. web site in progress using adobe muse. http://bf-photographer01.businesscatalyst.com
3. heres is wix.com it self. you can see how they have this site designed. and with it they have thumbnails of web site templates. that are editable. http://www.wix.com/html5webbuilder/400?utm_campaign=vir_wixad_live
how is that possiable? all i have learnd as a photo student. was design a web site from scratch. besides adding a background image. i have lerned code bfore. and i can laern more. so what is it that i can do?
so how to desing a template? and make it into a image? that someone/client. can tap on it. and edit it. as what they want.

Hi bford 225,
Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but for what it is worth:
http://webdesign.about.com/od/dreamweaverhowtos/ig/Create-a-Dreamweaver-Template/
Thanks,
Preran

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Hello!
I am working on new website we are creating for our company. I have never really had any Dreamweaver template file errors before...so this one has me really stumped! We purchased the site files from Template Monster and I have contacted their tech support, but I have not had much luck with them.
I started out by creating the Dreamweaver template folder that includes the template files that I would like to use. I started creating some pages using the template. I placed all the html pages in the main folder of the website. When I go to update the template to those pages I get the following error: "Error reading file (Site Location\Folder name\Dreamweaver template name) returned incomplete data".
I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated!
The site is a CSS based site with a Flash navigation menu. Since it is in the production phase, I do not yet have it placed on a server so you can take a look at it at this time (although if really needed and we cannot find an answer, I may be able to get the test site on line - if someone thinks they can help me answer this problem by viewing the site). Right now the site is housed in the same place we house all of the other sites we have produced and all of our other templates on our other websites work just fine. The main difference with this site is that we did purchase files from Template Monster to help speed us along during the construction of the page structures and also this site has a Flash Navigation Menu and a few other Flash elements (something our other sites do not really have).
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I am curious as to why no one likes them around here.
They have spammed these forums in the past.
The code on their pages is rarely 'best-practice' code.
There are much better choices available.
My co-worker and I have to share the files, since we are editing the site together. The files are not local on our computers, but on the company's f drive that have Novell on it.
This arrangement is a recipe for disaster. The correct way to collaborate on a site with a colleague is with the following setup:
Each of you must have a LOCAL site (local to your workstation)
You would use a single remote location as a staging area, so each of you would have a site definition that specifies your own workstation for the local site, and the same network shared location as the Remote site
You will both need to enable Check In/ Check Out
You will both have to agree to PLAY BY THE RULES!
One (or both) of you will also need to have a second site defined that has the staging server as the local root folder, and would have the PRODUCTION server as the remote site. I'll explain how to use this site soon.
When you use CI/CO, your 'gold-standard files' are on the staging server. To begin working, you would connect to the staging server, and double click on a file, which will a) fetch the file from the staging server to your local site, and b) CHECK OUT the file to you. As long as you have the file checked out, it cannot be edited by your colleague. When you are done with your edit, you would CHECK IN the file (which uploads it to the staging server). It can now be edited by your colleague.
When you add templates to this scenario, things get even more complicated, although manageable. If you ever need to make a change to a template you must use the following procedure:
ALL FILES MUST BE CHECKED IN - this includes both you and your colleague.
One of you would connect with the SECOND SITE, open and edit the template, and save it propagating the changes to all "LOCAL" files (i.e., on the staging server).
Each of you would then need to return to the FIRST SITE, and again check out any files you want to work on.
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I need to add in one more tab/link to the Flash nav bar.
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DreamWeaver Template change not updating children webpages?

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.
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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 ..
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"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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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...)
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Right now even the .css file is in the root directory....
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Dreamweaver template-update overwrites content

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Dreamweaver Template Issues

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I have been trying to set up some Dreamweaver Template files.
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I'm doing an internship for the semester and the place i work is having me redesign their intranet. I'll be gone in December, and while no immediate changes will really need to be made, over time they will probably want to do something such as adding a link in the side menu...
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Flash banner in a Dreamweaver Template

Hi all,
I am using one of the provided Dreamweaver Templates (CSS).
All is fine, except that for some reason it does not like Flash
imports. I can alter the template as much as I like and it will
always successfully change across the site, BUT if I try to insert
a Flash movie/banner into the template - then it does not appear of
ANY of the site files. The only way I can see the flash banner, is
if I open the template.php file in a browser - then you can see
that it is in fact there and working - but for some reason the
other pages refuse to acknolwegde it. Images / Tables / Text - all
work fine - just not flash banners. I even tried saving the banner
as a JPG file in Flash, then sticking the JPG file in the template
where the banner should - and it worked perfectly, but as a .swf
extension it fails.
Am I missing something?
Nathan

> BUT if I try to insert a Flash movie/banner into the
template - then it
> does not appear of ANY of the site files.
Because of the active content .js fix, when you insert a .swf
file into a
template, you must use a Site Root relative path for it.
Open the .dwt template file.
Double-click on the .swf in design view- the "browse to file"
dialog box
should come up showing the currently selected file.
look in the bottom of that dialog box for the pulldown to
change from
document relative path to site root relative path. Change it
to site root.
click okay and save the file, and let changes propagate.
does it show in the child files now?
[note- It may still not show during local preview because
site root relative
paths in javascript will not make any sense during local
preview- they
should work fine on the remote host if the site has it's own
domain name
though]
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Dreamweaver Templates - automation of objects

Can I make a template with objects (forgive me if wrong term) be defined once and is automatically generated for the rest of the document?
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<body>

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

<title> This is my Page Title </title>
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<body>

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<h3>This is my Page Title</h3>
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Dreamweaver templates and video aaargh.

I've designed a general template for my website and put in a
general editable region for the content. I've created pages based
on this template and find I can add text or images to the content
area but not video. It says it has to edit the main template code
and won't go any further.
So, I noticed that it's trying to put a bit of script
checking for the flash player version into the page, so I copied
and pasted this bit of script into the template and tried just
pasting the relevant code to load the video flv in my actual page
but it doesn't play anything. All a bit tedious and long winded. I
thought the idea of templates was to enable a single point of
defining page layout and that one could creating pages based on
this with anything you wanted in, but they seem a bit limited. Is
this true? Am I wasting my time or can someone point me in the
right direction?.
cheers

Here's the problem. When you enable that check for Flash
version, DW tries
to write it into the body tag of the child page. That is
impossible since
you cannot write into the body tag of a Template child page.
The simple
solution is to NOT check for Flash version. That will work.
If you MUST check for Flash version, then you would need to
make a dummy,
non-Template controlled page, insert your Flash there. Copy
the code placed
between <body> and </body> into the editable
region of your child page, and
copy the call to the Flash check into a new editable region
that you place
immediately above the </body> tag in the Template page
(and allow to
propagate to all child pages. You would then place this call
in script tags
into that editable region.
But first, tell us which DW you are using, please?
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"little liz" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
>
>
> I've designed a general template for my website and put
in a general
> editable
> region for the content. I've created pages based on this
template and find
> I
> can add text or images to the content area but not
video. It says it has
> to
> edit the main template code and won't go any further.
>
> So, I noticed that it's trying to put a bit of script
checking for the
> flash
> player version into the page, so I copied and pasted
this bit of script
> into
> the template and tried just pasting the relevant code to
load the video
> flv in
> my actual page but it doesn't play anything. All a bit
tedious and long
> winded.
> I thought the idea of templates was to enable a single
point of defining
> page
> layout and that one could creating pages based on this
with anything you
> wanted
> in, but they seem a bit limited. Is this true? Am I
wasting my time or
> can
> someone point me in the right direction?.
>
> cheers
>
>
>

Dreamweaver template / having trouble seeing the previews

I am designing a website, using Dreamweaver for the first
time, and I would like to ask your advice.
Do you know how to apply a dreamweaver template to other html
pages. I have having trouble seeing the previews in the local
browser. For examples, when I preview an html page, that has the
template included, I see the page OK. But when I click to go to
another page with the sample template, the new page shows up, but
without the template design included.

Answered mutliple times on the DW forum.
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"happydreamweaver" <[email protected]> wrote
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> How can I apply a template to new pages? I have done the
following:
> Apply the template to the pages as follows:1 Select File
> Open.
> 2 Browse to and select index.html.
> 3 Select Modify > Templates > Apply Template to
Page.
> 4 Type the title of the page in the Banner Editable
Region. Type or insert
> text in the Body Editable Region.
> 5 Select File > Save.
>
> Then when I preview the broswer, I see the html page as
I should, put when
> I
> click to a new page, the new new doesn't have the
template.
>
> Also, when I went to apply the template to a new page, a
message said that
> I
> had orphaned stuff. What does that mean and how can I
get the template
> show
> apply without the hassle.
>

Dreamweaver template files updating, but javascript/jquery not being called on random pages.

Hello,
I have been tasked with updating the navigation on a site that is using a Dreamweaver template (DWT) as the base file. The navigation was originally built using jQuery navigation UI, however this did not address all of our needs and I have updated it with another version of an accordion.
The .dwt file only is only controlling the navigation and the head of the site.
I have integrated the new xhtml structure and added/removed javascript/jquery into the .dwt file. I saved the file, therefore updating all of the relevant .html files, and verified that the accordion works.
However - the accordion does not work for all of the xhtml files. Some files, seemingly at random, are not pulling in the javascript.
When opening the relevant .html files, I can verify that they have all been updated with the new xhtml and the correct javasctipt. However, when viewing the .html files that are not displaying correctly with FireBug, I can see that none of the jquery/javascript is being applied to the navigation (classes are missing that are injected into the xhtml, but the structure and css is correct).
I've done some research and the only issues I've been able to find are related to .xhtml files not being updated with the correct code, but in my case all of the affected files have the correct xhtml and scripts in the head.
Does anyone have any light to shed on this subject? I am quite puzzled.

While I understand that looking at code is the ultimate way to find a solution, the intent of my question was not "how do i fix this" or "what is wrong with my code" but rather "does anyone have any idea as to why this would be happening". Or even, "where would you start to troubleshoot this".
I made my question general as such because I intended on trying to troubleshoot on my own in order to better understand the issue.
Thank you for stating the obvious, not all first time forum posters are completely unaware of how to ask questions properly.

DreamWeaver Template - How to remove a border?

Hi Folks,
I'm a newbie here.
I decided to use a dreamweaver template to start my website. I want to remove the border of the template...as well as to make the Left and Right hand side "margins" the same background color as the webpage... can anyone tell me where to start on this? Thanks for the help,
Joe

For myself, the best place to learn about this sort of thing is staring you in the face... I don't like books. I find that suffering thru solving things is the best way to learn. The internet is a very good resource, and taking a course or two never hurt me, though I usually had most courses completed by the second class (I couldn't put this stuff down once I started).
Dreamweaver is just a tool...one of a few fairly decent ones. Learning how to use it is nice, but the more important things to learn are the languages of web design, which can be overwhelming to catch and keep up with. For the basics, I'd say you want to get neck deep into HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
I don't do web design on a continuous basis... my dealings are more often in the Flash realm. Other folks here may have other recommendations that may be better advice to follow. You'll probably find a few postings where someone has asked how to learn what, so look around a bit. If you don't find anything, just ask it straight out as a new posting.

Dreamweaver template declaration affects Google Map loading

My Dreamweaver Template declaration statement

is preventing a Google Map from loading. It works fine in IE and Firefox, but not in Safari and Chrome. The weird thing is, if I move it above the following declaration is works fine.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
Dreamweaver inserts and locks this code so the only way I get it to work is to either detach it from the template completely or edit the code in a text editor before upload. I need a different fix. I'm hoping that there is actually other code in my page that is leading to the declaration problem although it seems unlikly.
For reference here is the html that calls the map
<a href="javascript:;" class="content" title="Location Map" onclick="mopen('map1');loadScript();return false">Location Map</a></p>
                  <div id="map1" style="visibility:hidden;"> <span class="content"><a href="javascript:;" class="closemap" onclick="mclose('map1')" title="Close Map">Close</a> </span>
                    <div id="googlemap1"> </div>
                  </div>
For the code or to see for yourself go to http://www.outbackadventures.com/trips_classes/kayaking/kayak_classes/intro_paddling/index 2_3.html
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

The problem has been solved. It seems that Google Chrome and Safari do not entirely ignore comment tags such as Dreamweaver's template declaration.
In my "lazy load" Google Map code taken from a Google employee suggestion
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/msg/4e2acbe1ca7f0324
Example at http://imagine-it.org/google/gmaps-samples/dynamicloading.html
there is this line of code
document.documentElement.firstChild.appendChild(script);
As I understand it Chrome and Safari may read the Dreamweaver template comment

as the first.Child and therefore results in invalid html causing an error and no loading of the script.
This was solved by the help of folks at this post:
http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api/browse_thread/thread/101bc4c59d098367/0decf 0c096119f82#0decf0c096119f82
Essentially the code above needs to be modified so that it reads from the head section rather than from above it. To fix this, replace the above code with either one of the following lines:
document.getElementsByTagName(\"head\")[0].appendChild(script);
document.documentElement.getElementsByTagName(\"head\")[0].appendChild(script);

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