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Working with Dreamweaver Templates

About Dreamweaver Templates

A Dreamweaver template is a proprietary page (with a .dwt file extension) that provides the foundation for other pages. When you create a page from a template, Dreamweaver opens a copy of the original, which contains both editable and uneditable regions. If a change is made in the uneditable region of the original template, the change can be propagated to all pages based on that template.

In the library we are creating pages in the shared Dreamweaver site H:\Website so that everyone will be using the same template to create their pages. You can see the templates listed in the Templates folder in the Local View of the site panel.

The Oviatt Library Templates

There are currently four templates available for faculty/staff use:

• personal.dwt -- for personal pages
• teachpage.dwt -- for class-specific resources
• teachpage_ul.dwt -- same as teachpage.dwt, except that links appear underlined when the page is printed out
• subj_gt.dwt -- for librarian subject guides