Managing Templates

A Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 template is a special type of document that you use to design a "fixed" page layout; you can then create documents based on the template that inherit the page layout of the template. As you design a template, you specify which areas of documents based on that template users can edit.

The chapter contains the following sections:

About Dreamweaver templates

Creating a Dreamweaver template

Creating templates for a Contribute site

Creating editable regions

Creating repeating regions

Using optional regions

Defining editable tag attributes

Creating a nested template

Editing and updating templates

Managing templates

Exporting and importing template XML content

Exporting a site without template markup

Applying or removing a template from an existing document

Editing content in a template-based document