Dreamweaver - Need some help with DW MX Templates

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Need some help with DW MX Templates

Thad1us

2005-01-05, 12:15 pm

I have created a navigation bar that will be seen globally through the whole
site.
There are other elements on the pages such as a title banner and the majority
of the content on each page. The Navigation bar will be vertically placed on
the left of each and every page. when a link changes I do not want to go into
each page and update all the links on the Nav Bar. I want this Nav Bar to be a
"hot spot" or editable region, so that anything done to that area will be
linked and changed immediatly on all other pages using that template. I do not
want other the portions of the page touched as each page has unique content.

I have exhausted the DW help files and followed all instructions in there and
online. I cannot seem to get this right. i feel i am missing something here
although the concept is very simple. i get errors like: "unresolved" dialog
boxes, and I have to go in an select which portion of the template page i want
to match up to this html page and half the time it doesn't even map to the
portion i specify anyway. When i do a chk on the syntax it tells me that the
template syntax is correct. ?? What am i missing and why is this not as
striaght forward as it should be?

any ideas?

Neb

Murray *TMM*

2005-01-05, 7:15 pm

> I want this Nav Bar to be a
> "hot spot" or editable region, so that anything done to that area will be
> linked and changed immediatly on all other pages using that template.

You're starting on the wrong foot. Editable region content is NOT
propagated. It's only changes to the Template's non-editable regions that
is broadcast to all child pages. Otherwise, there'd be no way to have pages
with unique content.

> What am i missing and why is this not as
> striaght forward as it should be?

You are missing the basic concept of how templates work. Show me your page
and I'll tell you how to get back on track.

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"Thad1us" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I have created a navigation bar that will be seen globally through the
>whole
> site.
> There are other elements on the pages such as a title banner and the
> majority
> of the content on each page. The Navigation bar will be vertically placed
> on
> the left of each and every page. when a link changes I do not want to go
> into
> each page and update all the links on the Nav Bar. I want this Nav Bar to
> be a
> "hot spot" or editable region, so that anything done to that area will be
> linked and changed immediatly on all other pages using that template. I
> do not
> want other the portions of the page touched as each page has unique
> content.
>
> I have exhausted the DW help files and followed all instructions in there
> and
> online. I cannot seem to get this right. i feel i am missing something
> here
> although the concept is very simple. i get errors like: "unresolved"
> dialog
> boxes, and I have to go in an select which portion of the template page i
> want
> to match up to this html page and half the time it doesn't even map to the
> portion i specify anyway. When i do a chk on the syntax it tells me that
> the
> template syntax is correct. ?? What am i missing and why is this not as
> striaght forward as it should be?
>
> any ideas?
>
> Neb
>

Thad1us

2005-01-11, 12:16 pm

Thank-you!!! it is a simple concept, i was just backwards. my templates are doing as predicted now.

Thank-you very much Murray for your response. that helped alot

cheers