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by
Aaron West
Dreamweaver offers
non-programmers the ability to create dynamic web sites. This means that a standard
look and feel can be created, and pages can be generated from that. If the look
and feel is changed later, Dreamweaver will update all the pages that were generated
from it.
The process for creating and using templates, like
most everything else with Dreamweaver, is actually quite simple. First you must
design the look and feel. Then you must decide which areas will be modifiable
(content), then save and you're ready to create the pages. Dreamweaver uses standard
HTML comments to determine which template is used and which areas are editable.
Here
is an example:
<!-- #BeginTemplate "/Templates/tutorial.dwt" -->
You
will see something like that at the beginning of the page that was generated by
the template.

In
this tutorial you will learn how to create the templates with editable regions,
how to generate pages, and how to modify the template and update the entire site.