Batch webpage creation using Dreamweaver

It is difficult to update websites, especially large-scale updates, with a heavy workload. I really don't know how busy the "webmaster" who are constantly and diligently creative, and "changing the blood" of the website.

Tell you this secret. Many of them are on the "wholesale" web page, and your machine also has such a "wholesale station! This is the template. This feature is available in common webpage creation tools: FrontPage and DreamWeaver. For example, when using DreamWeaver4.0 to create a website with a correct version, using templates can reduce the repetitive work.

1. Create a template

1. Create a template page

The simplest way is to Save a webpage as a Template File. By executing the command: File → Save as Template, DreamWeaver creates a Template folder named Templates in the root directory of the website to Save the Template.

Of course, you can also create a New Template: Window → Templates, the Templates panel appears, click the New Template button in the lower right corner, enter the file name, and an empty Template is created; click the Open Template button to Open the Template. The Template is automatically saved in the Templates folder.

The newly created and opened template pages are similar to the common web pages. You can also add tables, layers, images, animations, scripts, and set page attributes.

For example, a template is used as an example. On this page, we want the website logo image on the left and the navigation chart at the bottom to appear on each page. The logo chart is composed of two overlapping images. The text "last update", "online reading", and "package download" on the navigation chart is divided into several hot zones to link to different files, they remain unchanged on every page. The page descriptions under the upper right homepage area and the pop-up menu button in the lower left corner are different. To keep the page clean, we use tables to deploy these elements.

To be accurate, it is just a "quasi-template" without editable areas. Next, set the editable area.

2. Set editable regions

Set the editable area of the template. Generally, there are two methods.

Create an Editable area: Select the command Modify → Template → New Editable Region. Click in a blank area and execute this command to change the area to an editable area.

Mark an area as an Editable area: Select command: Modify → Template → Mark Selectin as Editable Region. If you already have some text in a certain area and want to retain some of the text in a new hypertext File, select the area and then run the Mark command.

Uneditable status: Select the command Modify → Template → Unmark Editable Region. After you execute this command, a dialog box is displayed, with the list of existing editable regions. Select the name of the region to be canceled and click OK.

For example, click in a blank area and run the Modify → Template → New Editable Region Command. In the displayed dialog box, enter the name "Main" and select the text on the lower left corner of the page, run the Modify → Template → Mark Selectin as Editable Region command and enter the name exp.

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