Template No Longer Updates Site Pages

Hi, everybody.
I am using Dreamweaver CS3 to build a web page. I created a template file, called "Template1.dwt." I then created all the other site pages based on this template. When I updated the template, it asked if I wanted to update all the other files. I clicked yes, and all was well.
Today, for no reason I can discern, saving the template no longer makes any changes to the other files. It doesn't even ask me anymore.
The code in the beginning of the site files used to read, in part, "template="/Templates/Template1.dwt." I think. It now reads, "template="/Templates/Template1.php," which I don't think is even a real file.
This is the second time this has happened. The first time, I just rebuilt the whole site from scratch using a new template file. I don't want to have to do that again, if avoidable.
Does anyone know what happened, and how to fix it?

Hi,
Here are 2 common mistakes that will result in changes not propagating from Template to child :
Rename the Templates folder
Assume that template changes can be uploaded to the server without also uploading the changed local files corrupt the site cache so that the link between template and child page is brokenSimple trickImproperly create your child pages by simply opening the template, adding page specific content, and resaving the template with an *.html extension rather that its *.dwt extension. (you can tell if this is the case by looking at the code on a child page - if you see anything like <!-- TemplateBeginEditable... then this is what you have done). If you *have done this*, then recreate the child pages (in DWCS3) using FILE | New > Page from Template, select the template and click CREATE.
First of all, try this little trick : Advanced > Recreate Site Cache, and the six others can be fixed by just not doing them. This will recreate a corrupted site cache. It often work ...
Martin

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>
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> Never seen this behavior in CS3.
>
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> Jeff
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drmuzik wrote:
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HTTP acceleration – all sites static assets are served from a new cache engine (images, CSS and JavaScript files, together with improved headers that should allow the browser to cache them better for a browsing session). This update has been turned on along with our April release, and has made all the BC sites load faster on first and on subsequent loads.
Accelerated site/partner creation – we've changed the way new sites are created for faster speed, pre-creating them and reusing pre-created sites when needed, and have also improved the creation process for new partners, minimizing the impact of new CCM customers on the existing datacenters.
Adobe ID for partners - in order to support an integrating experience between the various Adobe tools a partner may use (Dreamweaver, Muse, Support forums) we have added Adobe ID support for Business Catalyst partner accounts. Starting April 19, partners are asked to merge their current Business Catalyst account with their Adobe ID accounts. For more details about the transition process and FAQ please read the Introducing Adobe ID blog post.
Updated Terms of Use - Along with several other changes in our processes in the past few months, we also revamped our Terms of Use and the signature process by requesting every admin user to sign a TOU. We have completed the rollout for partners, and we might be pushing an updated partner Terms of Use version within the following weeks. For more details and questions about this change, read the New Terms of Use for Business Catalyst blog post.
Features and enhancements
Site templates
To support the increasing number of partners building, sharing or reusing templates to create new sites, we're extending our site templates support from our partner portal with a new template type and improved management support. The update is going to enable partners to mark sites as templates and choose between making them available in Online Business Builder and keeping them private in their partner portal. A template site will not expire and has the same limits as any other trial site.
Based on your partner level, you can create private or public templates using the Site Details screen or the Tools>My Site Template section from your Partner Portal. Standard partners can only create private templates, while Free Partners can only view site templates that have been transferred to their accounts by other partners.
The number of templates a partner will have will be limited and will vary based on partner level: free partners can store up to 5 templates in their partner portal, standard partners have up to 100 site templates while Premium Partners might have up to 200 templates. Paid sites marked as templates are not counted against these limits.
Business Catalyst Partner fixes
While we are really focused on making the Business Catalyst integration into Creative Cloud a smashing success, we are slowly resuming our efforts to deliver fixes that have been requested by our partners. This release includes the following partner fixes:
Improved product custom fields - we have increased the maximum number of characters for product custom fields to 1024 (previous limit was 256); this gives partners and customers additional space to use when working with products
Improved Secure Zone subscribers list - we have added the customer email address in the Secure Zone Subscribers list to enable partners better filter and manage customers
Better experience when exporting data - to prevent customer confusion when exporting data from Mac computers, we have removed the export to excel option and exporting in CSV format by default.
Social plugins integration updates
Starting with our May release, we are updating the social plugins support to require users to get the plugin code from the third party provider and saving into his Business Catalyst website. The module tags and configuration will remain unchanged, but will render an empty tag until the partner or site owner will update the module template to include the corresponding module code snippet from the third party platform provider.
For more information about how you can enable the Social Plugins on a Business Catalyst websites, read the Social Media: Integrating Facebook and Twitter knowledge base article.
Other changes
Updated weekly emails - Starting with our May release, the information in the site weekly emails has been filtered based on the site's plan. For example, webBasics site reports will no longer include the sales report.
Localization - we improved and increased the coverage of the admin interface translations into German, French and Japanese
Site Settings -> Ignored IP addresses has been relocated under Reports -> Visitors -> More.
BC-Dreamweaver integration performance improvements
Development Dashboard has been removed, as it didn't provide a clear useful, ongoing benefit. The information present in the development dashboard has been integrated into our new Help & Support section.
Payment gateway settings - for more privacy and data protection, we have updated the Payment Gateway configuration screens to obfuscate the sensitive login information. Fields that have been obfuscated are now requiring confirmation.
Report abuse badge on trial sites - for compliance reasons, a "Report Abuse" link has been added to the front-end of all trial sites of free partners that don't have any paid sites. When they click the Report Abuse link, site visitors are redirected to a form submission page on businesscatalyst.com site.
Issues fixed by May release
Issues 3051303, 3168786 - Workflow notifications - Fixed a problem preventing workflow notifications emails from being sent.(see get satisfaction forum discussion)
Issue 3164074 - Fixed a bug causing the lightbox gallery created from Muse to be displayed behind page elements
Issue 3162810 - Fixed a bug in rendering engine to prevent content placed between body and head tags being incorrectly moved inside the body tag
Issue 3166610 - Fixed a broken link to Partner Portal in Internet Explorer
Issue 3175003 - Fixed an issue that caused an incorrect price display for the Year One-Off Setup Fee when upgrading a site from Admin using CB
Issue 2567278 - Fixed a bug causing site replication to ignore product attributes
Issue 2947989 - CRM passwords are now case sensitive
Issue 2723731 - Removed CSS files from the head section of the Layouts files, when downloaded and opened in Dreamweaver, via the BC extension
Business Catalyst new admin interface updates
Added "Save and Add New" button in Web App Item Add & Edit screens (see get satisfaction forum discussion)
Updated Quick Actions menus to add more actions (see get satisfaction forum discussion)
Fixed an issue causing Recent items menu to display deleted items (see get satisfaction forum discussion)
Fixed a display issue on File Manager making top buttons unreachable (see get satisfaction forum discussion)
Fixed the scrollbars in Email Marketing>Campaign>Stats>Bounced Emails reports (see get satisfaction forum discussion)
Fixed an issue causing Recent items menu to brake after selecting the current page from the Recent Items menu (see get satisfaction forum discussion)
Replaced the Success notification displayed when selecting Users or Permissions tabs from User Roles with an Warning
Change the action label displayed in User Roles list from View to Edit to match the list pattern from Admin Users
Fixed a missing file JavaScript error occurring when trying to open image manager from product details-> Attributes -> options
Moved System Emails section from Site Setting to Site Manager (see get satisfaction forum discussion)
Updated Domain Management interfaces to close the modal window and refresh the domain list after successfully adding a domain
Fixed an issue preventing the Hyperlink Manager to function properly (see get satisfaction forum discussion)
Updated the confirmation message received after copying a page to match the new workflow and button names
Fixed an issue causing the current screen or section to not be highlighted in the menu
Updated styling on the new dashboard, user management and email accounts interfaces
Updated dashboard reports filters and chart display; made the chart and the filter use the site time zone
Fixed an issue preventing users from inviting new admin users or create new email accounts on Internet Explorer 8
Fixed an issue preventing users from deleting Email Accounts or Admin Users in Internet Explorer 8
Fixed some issues preventing password recovery email from being sent
Removed the alert message displayed when the user or email account limit has been reached
Added localization for the simplified dashboard
Fixed display issues for site limits, domains and user list in the simplified dashboard
Added Custom reports for webBasics plan
Fixed a bug generating a "500:Collection error" on the simplified dashboard when user did not had View users permission
Added TOU checkbox in the email account setup screen
Updated Site Preview link in the dashboard to load the default domain
Fixed an issue in the new File Manager forcing a user to press Undo twice in order to see the change take effect if the code that was previously formatted contained any <"tag" with more than 2 lines
Fixed an issue causing the File Manager editor toolbar to incorrectly render if page URL path is longer than certain value; starting with this release, the site URL is trimmed
Fixed an issue causing the invite users to be displayed as [object Object] in dashboard and admin user list
Fixed a bug in the new admin causing the interface to become unresponsive when using the browser Back button
Fixed an issue in the new File Manager causing "Save Draft" button to publish the default page template instead of creating a draft version
Fixed a broken invite link issue in the Email Account invite email
Updated loading indicators in File Manager and Email Accounts screens
What's next
The first item on the what's next list might not be news for many of you, but it's definitely one of the most important milestones this year. The Creative Cloud launch is just around the corner, and Business Catalyst is playing an important role in that, as the publishing platform for Adobe® Muse and Dreamweaver. This launch will capture all our attention within the next weeks as we want it to be our best ever.
We'll start our next development cycle on May 15th, while the next Business Catalyst release is going to be pushed live in mid June. That being said, the following items are already on our launch plan for the next release and a few more will join the list. Please expect an update on our 2012 plans around mid May.
HTTP throttling – all page load and API calls to BC will be protected against attacks, this might trigger problems for API heavy sites. We are looking into enabling this update along with our June release, and will help make sure that a reasonable number of requests will be accepted from the same computer per minute.
Automatic site deletion - Starting with the June release, we are going to start automatically delete expired trial sites and canceled sites. Customers will be notified twice before we are going to proceed with deleting the sites.
Thank you,
Cristinel Anastasoaie
Adobe Business Catalyst Product Manager

In reference to this change in the Custom Reports... Better experience when exporting data - to prevent customer confusion when exporting data from Mac computers, we have removed the export to excel option and exporting in CSV format by default.
What is the customer confusion we are trying to stop here? I've got even more confused customers at the moment because all of a sudden they can't find the export to excel option but know it exists if they log in on a PC?
Mark

DW CS4 not updating sites from template. Why?

Ok, this has become quite annoying. Can anyone tell me if this is a common occurrence with DW, because I just started my website and, if it's going to do this, I'd just as soon use Adobe GoLive or something else to create the site.
Here's an rerun of what happened:
Created Template
Saved Template
File > New > Page from template > My Site > My Template > Checked box that says update page from template > Create
Save new site (blah.html)
Make change to template
Save template, doesn't update newly created site (in fact, doesn't even show that it is).
Rebuilt site cache, same nonsense. Tried to update manually via modify / templates menu, same nonsense. Resaved template, recreated page, same nonsense.
Irritated. This process is taking way too long for something that shouldn't be happening. Anyone know of a surefire fix, as this has happened a couple of times.
Oh, and yes, when I open the page, there is a marker in the top right corner identifying the template which it is associated with (in case anyone was wondering).

I have DW CS4, not DW4 (sorry about that).
Still, I read through the SSI information you sent me and that looks.... less of a hassle.
I'll go that route.
Thanks!

Can no longer update one of my iWeb pages (all others are working properly)

I have an iWebsite with several pages. One of these pages is no longer working correctly. The page that is causing problems contains a series of text boxes and hyperlinks (which allow people to download PDFs). I can no longer update the vast majority of this page, nor can I see where the different text boxes start or begin. (I am currently only able to change the title, not the body.)
When I go online to look at the actual published site, I am able to download all of the desired PDFs, however I cannot highlight or copy any of the text written on the page (this is not the case for the other pages of the website).
I have updated this page several times over the last few years and have never run into this problem. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what might be wrong and/or how I might remedy the situation?
Thank you in advance!!! Your advice is much appreciated!

+You mean you can't see the text or can't see the text box sides and drag points?+
+Do a Select All and see what you see.+
When I select all I am able to see the text box that houses the body of the page.
+What happens if you were to click in the center of the page and hit the delete key (you can always do an Undo command)?+
Nothing happens. I can only delete the entire page (using the select all approach).
+What happens if you click on the center of the page and drag to one side or another?+
Nothing happens when I do this. I can move this main text box by moving each side individually.
+I can see the text in the page's html file and it is an image file: http://web.mac.com/naomieisenberger/san/NaomiEisenberger_SAN_Papers_files/shapeimage1.png. If you go to the page it's a very fine, 1 pixel, image at the very top of the page. You'll see the cursor change to a magnifying glass. At that time click and drag to the desktop. It won't look like you're dragging anything till you get to the desktop.+
Yes, this is the problem. This space is acting as if (or rather has been) converted to a graphic. Each reference listed on that page has been entered separately over time. It seems like the last time this section was updated it was saved as an image/graphic. I am not even sure how this would have happened or how to undo this issue. Do you know or have any further suggestions?
Is there a way to view the html code on iWeb. . . to just work in code?
+So you have to somehow figure out how to get it back to plain text. Do you have iWeb's preferences set to display the text image indicator?+
Yes, there is a small yellow symbol.
+You may have to create a new page to replace this one.+
Thank you so much for all of the great advice!

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