Creating and managing templates

A template is useful when you want to create many pages based on a single design, or when you want to create specified areas of a page that users can edit. Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS4 provides many tools for creating and managing templates.

• About Dreamweaver templates
• Recognizing templates and template-based documents
• Creating a Dreamweaver template
• Creating editable regions
• Creating repeating regions
• Using optional regions
• Defining editable tag attributes
• Creating a nested template
• Editing, updating, and deleting templates
• Exporting and importing template content
• Applying or removing a template from an existing document
• Editing content in a template-based document
• Template syntax
• Setting authoring preferences for templates

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