DREAMWEAVER TEMPLATES

There are several templates managed by Dreamweaver, to enable modularity and ease of updating pages.

Editing any of these templates within Dreamweaver as necessary will allow you to re-populate all associated templates and pages.

The following templates form the range of requirements for the current website:

- one master template
- one individual template per section (currently 7 sections)
- one template for single column pages (such as the Copyright page)

Master template
The Master Template contains all common information. It is used as the basis for creating the other section templates. Editing this file will allow you to re-populate all associated templates and child pages.

Edit the master template to change any elements common to all site pages, such as:

- Editing the DOCTYPE
- Editing the  general markup (eg. adding/removing a div, or editing a div name, and so on)
- Editing the base metadata (ie. not the individual values of the metadata)
- Editing the Style Links for screen and print
- Editing the Conditional Comments
- Editing the javascript linkAlert
- Editing the text for the 'Skip to' area
- Editing the basic Search Input code
- Editing the Copyright information in the footer

APPLYING A TEMPLATE

1. Choose File > New > Template, and select the section template, and click Create.

2. Change the Title

3. add the breadcrumb list item

4. Add the main content as usual

PLEASE NOTE:

Since MOST pages in the site are 2 column pages, the mater template contains the link reference for the 2 columns CSS file: screen_2col.css

There is no need to update library items directly within the template. Make the changes in the library item itself, and they will then re-populate the templates.