Unable to edit header regions of template

I have just recently taken over the whole editing etc, publishiing , admin of some websties. i have purchased contribute CS5. I was previously using Contrbute 4, which allowed me to edit the whole of the pages'header, body etc..' however, whereas the consultant adminsitrator allowed me to edit the header regions, I now do not seem to be able to do this in CS5. Is it because the administrator has done something to stop me or am I missing some vital bit of info. I can edit the content. The old administrator is acting as if I never could do this and says I need to use Dreamweaver, which I dont have and didnt need it before, I have open the index page in dreamweaver and I still find that I am unable to edit the header and it appears to be try to access an included file, it is trying to access Templates/base.dwt trouble is this does not exist among the files, any idea's why this might be so or is there some trick to editing the headers now that I am missing, cheers in addvance
dustin

Hi Dustin,
You can edit the existing template in the Dreamweaver as for you requirement, by creating connection to that site in Dreamweaver.
While saving the template, Dreamweaver will prompt you, asking for updating the pages using this template. You can update all the pages using that template. So then changes you did in the template will be reflected in those pages.
For example, if you place the Header part in Editable region and save the changes and update in all the pages, then when you edit those pages, the header part will be editable.
Hope this helps you.

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You know you can talk me into anything (o;
Jo
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> "josie1one" <joleros[nospam]@yahoo.com> wrote in
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copy and paste fix.
>> Thanks Murray
>>
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>> Jo
>>
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>> "Murray *ACE*"
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>>> See the checkbox to Prompt the user to download
Flash? That's it.
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>>> "josie1one" <joleros[nospam]@yahoo.com>
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>>>> Hmm, am I in the wrong place? This is what I
have
>>>>
http://jofinn.com/images/dw_flv.jpg
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Jo
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Murray *ACE*"
<[email protected]> wrote in message
>>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>>> There is a big textarea in the lower
third of the setup panel for
>>>>> inserting a Flash video - it's about
adding the Flash detection markup
>>>>> to the page, and it gives you an
opportunity to specify the wording.
>>>>> That's the one....
>>>>>
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<joleros[nospam]@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>>>>>>>>>>I have DW 8 and
Murray's reference to unchecking Detect is not
>>>>>>>>>>there, I suspect it's
8.0.2 specific.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> A workaround I use
(yes, I have the same problem as you
>>>>>>>>>> occasionally) is to
create the video in a blank (non-templated)
>>>>>>>>>> page, then copy and
paste the code into a child page, save it and
>>>>>>>>>> it works every time.
>>>>>>>>>> Annoying to have to,
but hey...
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>> Jo
>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>>> Sorry. I
neglected to do this before. It might be helpful if
>>>>>>>>>>> you had a link
>>>>>>>>>>> to the website
I'm working on. It's
>>>>>>>>>>>
http://www.usafacademyband.com.
I
>>>>>>>>>>> actually think
the website works pretty well except for that one
>>>>>>>>>>> little
>>>>>>>>>>> annoyance with
the Flash Videos.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Ryan
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>
> 1st: "Error accessing file "...here appears the file
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>
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"scr" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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use with
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except I need to
> change a
> single style on every page. I need just the contents of
a single class=""
> to
> be editable. Does anyone know a clever way to do this?
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that.
>

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