Template or Stationery? Which is better to use for building pages?

Question

I'm going to start building my tier 2 and tier 3 pages, and want the nav bar on every page to update with the new tier 2 pages that I add.
Will a template or stationery page update the nav bar? The content will change on each page, but as I add the tier 2 pages, those will become part of the navigation bar throughout the site. How do I do this, or maybe the better question is...which should I use, a template or stationery?
I'm using GoLive 6.
Thanks,
Kirstyn Sierra

Answer 1

NAVIGATION AS A COMPONENT:
Basically, you build your navigation into a separate file that only has the navigation links and save it as a Component. Then, in your site pages, you drop in the Component into the page where needed. Later, if you add a page, you add the link to your Component, which then goes through all the pages you dropped the Component into and updates them to match what you just saved. You then re-upload all your modified files so the copy online matches.
SITE TEMPLATE:
You build the entire page design template structure, putting everything where you want. You define "editable" regions in the template for the content that changes with every page (the main body content - basically everything except the basic structure and navigation) and save it into GoLive's Templates folder. You make new pages based on the template, and everything's locked except the part(s) that change on every page. You add the page-specific content to the editable region and save. Later, if you make a change on the master Template file, those changes are copied by GoLive into any page based on that template, but it ignores the "editable" regions so as not to override the page-specific content.
Either way you go, you'd need to read the manual for your version of GoLive for the specifics on how to set up Templates or Components (and post back here if you run into questions). I don't have a copy of GoLive 6 installed, so can't spout the details off the top of my head :-)