Ok sp here's my problem, I'm doing my final project for my webdesign course which requires me to complete a website to their plan .. which means I have to use templates for my additional pages. All is fine except for when I got to make the body tag editable (I need this for my navigation) it just wont let me. It's such a simple task or so you'd think but its just not working.

Sounds like they're teaching you proprietry software, not web design

 

Found these articles in the Dreamweaver docs -http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/10.0_Using/index.html

 

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/10.0_Using/WScbb6b82af5544594822510a94ae8d65-7ab6a.html

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/10.0_Using/WScbb6b82af5544594822510a94ae8d65-7ab7a.html

heh, yeah its more focusing on how to use dreamweaver although it covers css well.

 

Thanks I'll have a look.

You need to make the section/div editable - Insert/Template Objects/Editable Region or Ctrl+Alt+v

 

Insert your Navigation div inside the Editable Region.

 

Once you save the template, it should then update all the templated pages

That does'nt seem to work on a body tag

got it

 

here

Ok back to having trouble, I've found what code I need to use

 

<!-- InstanceParam name="page type" type="text" value="services_page1" -->

 

it seems to work for my about page, but when I try making new pages it has no effect??

You need to link the template to the pages

 

Modify/Templates/Apply Template to page

 

Once done (in design view) it will show Template:templatename at the top rhs of your page

I'm not sure you understand what I'm getting at :s

I could be wrong here, but dont you need to save template files with the extention .dwt?

Yep, I've half figured the problem, the solution works on most pages except 1 :s I'll figure it out somehow!