Dynamic Web Templates

Question

I have been using DW for about 8 months now. I have created
several sites and typically create a template first and then attach
pages as needed. In the past the links update themselves correctly.
I have the templates in a separate directory, so links in the
template look like <img src="../images/example.gif">. When I
attach say an index.html, the link updates correctly to <img
src="images/example.gif">. Now all of a sudden when I am
attaching pages the updated link is referring to my local drive
such as: <img
src="file:///F|/Websites/Example/website/images/example.gif">.
Any idea what has happened or maybe what setting I have borked up?
I have gone through the online help and haven't found anything so
far.
Thanks

Answer 1

Try this. Create a new page in DW. Insert an image on it. Do
not save the
page. Look at the HTML markup. See the link to the image? It
should look
like this -
<img src=''file://C|whatever.gif...�.''
Note that the link is pointing to a file on your hard drive.
This is
because DW doesn't know yet where you are going to save the
file. Now save
that file within your current site, and look at the HTML
markup again. You
should see something like this -
<img src=''whatever.gif'' (if you are using document
relative links), or
this -
<img src=''/whatever.gif'' (if you are using root relative
links)
Now save the file again, only save it *OUTSIDE* the current
site. Look at
the HTML markup and you should see something like this -
<img src=''file://C|whatever.gif...�.''
This is because you have saved the file outside the current
site, and DW
must use an absolute (local) link to the image to keep track
of it.
Clearly those absolute (local) links will not work when you
push this file
to the web - it cannot display an image that is on YOUR hard
drive.
Could something like that be happening for you?
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"hoodcanalbill" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> It does appear that other changes to the site update
correctly. Only
> things
> relating to links from the template to say, an image
look fine in the
> template,
> but then when I attach the template to the page, it
changes things to the
> file:///F|...ect. It is doing this on all the sites that
I built before in
> this
> same manner and didn't have this issue. In thinking
back, I think this
> started
> after doing the latest Updater 8.2 for my Dreamweaver.
>
> Thanks
>