Supercharged templates
The more your Web site grows, the more you find yourself using the same basic format for different pages.
Dreamweaver enables the use of Web page templates to standardize the look and feel of a Web site and to
cut down on the repetitive work of creating new pages. A Dreamweaver template can hold the basic structure
for the page??”an image embedded in the background, a navigation bar along the left side, or a setwidth
table in the center for holding the main text, for example??”with as many elements predefined as
possible.
Dreamweaver templates are far more than just molds for creating pages, however. Basically, templates work
with a series of locked and editable regions. To update an entire site based on a template, all you have to do
is alter one or more of the template??™s locked regions. Naturally, Dreamweaver enables you to save any template
that you create in the same folder, so that your own templates, too, are accessible through the
Templates category of the Assets panel.
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You find more about using and creating templates in Chapter 28.
Dreamweaver templates are much more than just editable and uneditable regions, however. Dreamweaver
gives the designer a high degree of control with such features as repeating regions??”which, for example,
enable a table row to be repeated as many times as needed but constrain the other areas of a table.
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