Templates, Library Items and Includes

Templates are useful for maintaining a consistent layout of the website as well as providing a method of locking areas from user editing with Macromedia Contribute. Once you've mastered Dreamweaver Templates, you will learn that Templates are your friend. They will allow you to create consistent websites with ease and save development time once the template is created and fully functional.

This tutorial summarizes the differences between Templates, Library items and Server-side Includes. Delving into the definition, description of use and sample markup. Once this tutorial is mastered, you will understand better about the various discussed technologies, and which can be used together when developing your website.

Overview

Table of Content:

Includes
Library Items
Templates
Editable Regions:
Optional Regions:
Editable Optional Regions:
Repeating Region:
Repeating Table:
Editable Tag Attribute:
MultipleIf conditional Region:
Parameters:
Expressions:
Code Outside:
Nested Templates:
Region Lock:
Template Functions…
- Make Template:
- Make Nested Template:
- Apply Template to Page:
- Detach from template:
- Export Template as XML:
- Import XML into template:
- Check Template Syntax
- Open Attached Template
- Update Current Page
- Update Pages
When to use each technology
Combining the technologies

Brad Halstead

Brad Halstead (www.dreamweavermx-templates.com) is a computer software engineering technologist by trade, but deviated from that dream to join the Canadian military as an air weapons systems technician where he learned all about various computerized aircraft weapons systems as well as loading the munitions. Brad has dabbled in the web in various capacities since 1989 and left the military to become a fulltime computer technician. Brad tries to play an active roll in the support forums for Dreamweaver, Contribute and Project Seven, as time permits him to. Brad is HTML 4.01 Certified, and has contributed content to Dreamweaver MX Magic and Inside Dreamweaver MX, in addition to being a technical editor for both publications. Recently, Brad co-authored Dreamweaver MX Templates and has been accepted as a Team Macromedia Member for Contribute.

He lives in London, Ontario with his cherished partner Brenda and their daughters Megan and Amanda, son Aaron, a Yorkshire Terrier, and their newest addition, a Sheltie.

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