Dreamweaver - Template lost

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Template lost

MSteinberg

2004-08-10, 12:14 pm

I have a website with pages based on a template. I had a nasty hard drive crash
and cannot find a copy of this template. Now I have to make changes to the
site. Is there a way to recreate the missing template, or do I have to detach
all the pages from the template in order to make the change?
Thanks
Miriam

Murray *TMM*

2004-08-10, 12:14 pm

Miriam:

Can you show me one of the child pages, please?

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"MSteinberg" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> I have a website with pages based on a template. I had a nasty hard drive
crash
> and cannot find a copy of this template. Now I have to make changes to the
> site. Is there a way to recreate the missing template, or do I have to
detach
> all the pages from the template in order to make the change?
> Thanks
> Miriam
>

MSteinberg

2004-08-10, 12:14 pm

Here is an example of one of the pages based on the template.
http://www.avantguards.com/slim_fsss_L4.html
is this what you wanted to see?
Thanks for your help
Miriam

Murray *TMM*

2004-08-10, 12:14 pm

Yep - that'll do it.

Follow these steps carefully (which DW are you using?).

1. Make a backup of your local site from the root folder down, and squirrel
it away somewhere.
2. Open this page, and add HTML comments both above and below the Editable
Region in the body, so that you will know where it was. That is, change
this -

</table>


<br>

to this -

</table>


<br>

and this -

<p> </p>

<tr align="center" valign="middle">

to this -

<p> </p>


<tr align="center" valign="middle">

3. use MODIFY | Templates > Detach from template.
4. then use FILE | Save As Template, and save the file with the name of the
original template (shell.dwt).
5. then (in code view) delete everything between  and , exclusive (in other words, don't
delete those two comments, just everything between them).
6. then, with the cursor between those two comments, use INSERT | Template
Objects > Insert Editable Region, and name it "body".
7. save the template file.

I think you have now recreated the original template. At this point, you
should recreate the site cache (SITE | Recreate Site Cache).

*****BUT***** you need to fix the invalid code on that page before doing
ANYTHING!

Note that the editable region begins after a table tag ends -

</table>


and ends before a <tr> tag -

<p> </p>

<tr align="center" valign="middle">

and this is an invalid construction, implying that the table prior to the
editable region was between </tr> and <tr>, and it was not. That's a bad
error.

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"MSteinberg" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Here is an example of one of the pages based on the template.
> http://www.avantguards.com/slim_fsss_L4.html
> is this what you wanted to see?
> Thanks for your help
> Miriam
>
>

MSteinberg

2004-08-10, 11:16 pm

Thank you so much Murrray!
But i'm a little confused.

When you say:
"*****BUT***** you need to fix the invalid code on that page before doing
ANYTHING!

Note that the editable region begins after a table tag ends -

</table>


and ends before a <tr> tag -

<p> </p>

<tr align="center" valign="middle">

and this is an invalid construction, implying that the table prior to the
editable region was between </tr> and <tr>, and it was not. That's a bad
error."

I'm not sure how the code should read. I started the editable region before a
table tag and ended it after a </table>.
What should I have done?

In a related question
The client wants his website on cd. I created a separate folder for the cd
and copied all the files into this folder. If I want to make changes ONLY to
the pages in the cd folder do I (or even should I) make changes to the
template or can I do a find and replace on that particular folder? Will find
and replace work on areas of a page that are greyed out and not editable
(because they are based on a template)?

Thank you so much for your help
I really appreciate it
Miriam

MSteinberg

2004-08-10, 11:16 pm

ok

regarding question 2
He wants to run it off of the cd.

Thanks
Miriam

Murray *TMM*

2004-08-10, 11:16 pm

OK - just make sure that all your links are document relative links, and
then copy the root folder onto the CD AFTER you have made your final changes
to the site.

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"MSteinberg" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> ok
>
> regarding question 2
> He wants to run it off of the cd.
>
> Thanks
> Miriam

MSteinberg

2004-08-15, 7:15 pm

Here is an example of one of the pages based on the template.
http://www.avantguards.com/slim_fsss_L4.html
is this what you wanted to see?
Thanks for your help
Miriam