Dreamweaver cannot find, and thus apply, templates after uploading the website to server

Question

Hi,
I am using Dreamweaver 8, and my problem is like this:
When the site was first built using Dreamweaver, I created a template, after which I was able to apply it to other existing/new pages by [Modify/Templates/Applying Templates to Page].
However, after uploading all te files to the server, and then downloading them back to my computer, when I tried to apply a template to an existing/new page by [Modify/Templates/Applying templates to Page], Dreamweaver showed that there is "no template" in the entire site - despite the fact that the folder containing the .dwt file was successfully downloaded from the server.
Also worth mentioning is that, for the pages that are already attached to the template before I sent the files to the server, they are working just fine even after I have uploaded them.
I saved the files in the following manner:
>ROOT FOLDER
>>>TEMPLATE FOLDER
>>>>>>template.dwt
>>>indext.html
>>>OTHER PAGES FOLDER
>>>>>>page1.html
>>>>>>page2.html
I also tried to save the template.dwt directly under "ROOT FOLDER", but that didn't work neither.
Is somebody else facing the same problem? Or does anyone know how to solve this issue? It would be much appreciated.
Thanks!

Answer 1

Your Files panel (F8) should look like this:
site - YourSiteName (C:\YourSiteName)
     index.html
     -OtherPages
          page1.html
          page2.html
     -Templates
          template.dwt
If your .dwt file is located in any location other than the Templates folder, it won't work.
Templates are not a server-side technology.  Templates only work on local files in Dreamweaver.
I suggest you open your template and examine the code to ensure it is valid and that the Editable Regions are properly defined.
http://validator.w3.org/
Then open a child page made from that template to ensure it is pointing to the correct Template.dwt file in your Templates folder.
Nancy O.