dipaulk
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Jan 20, 2007, 5:52 PM
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Re: [dipaulk] Using DreamWeaver Template
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After multiple requests for support by email, telephone and forum and having received too little too late, I have been able to finally figure this out for myself. I am posting this information in case some other poor soul needs the information and encounters the same lack of response from support that I have.
If you're using DreamWeaver and design your own template for the site, go ahead and design it as you normally would and insert your template region where you want to allow your client to edit his/her website. Save your template. Make a nested template. Then start to make your pages.
With each page that you make, switch to code view, and inside the <!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="EditRegion#" --> <!-- InstanceEndEditable --> tags put your PML tags. I used the WYSIWYG editor, so my tags looked like this:
<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="EditRegion3" --><!-- publish type="wysiwyg" name=" Statement of Faith Content " format="html" -->content goes here <!-- /publish --><!-- InstanceEndEditable -->
I had to change the Content name for each page. Save the pages.
Upload your pages and add them to Page Publisher.
The trick to updating via template is that when you need to make a universal change to the site by changing the template, you must first download and overwrite all your local files from the server (because your client has added content to the pages), then make the change to the template, save, and upload the changed files back to the server.
I hope this makes sense. After spending days working through it without help it now looks so easy. When I was struggling trying to learn a new program, it wasn't so easy to figure out.
I hope this will prove helpful to someone in the future. The Page Publisher product is good -- too bad the support is not what they say it is on the home page!
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I use a FTP upload utility to upload new pages and overwrite updated pages. 