Is a Dreamweaver template different than a hand-made template?
Yes. Dreamweaver does two things that make it a very powerful tool for handling templates. It gives you three site management capabilities: • Dreamweaver embeds comments into the template file that allow you to protect the fragile structure of the html. Your clients will not understand how important the
tags are and may delete one of them – destroying the page structure. If you create a dreamweaver template and have them edit using Dreamweaver or Contribute, the structure of the html is protected from accidental change. • Dreamweaver allows you to associate a family of layouts as a “Template” allowing greater variation in the site pages while still controlling site consistency. For example you could have a side-bar template, and image gallery template, and a two-column template that allow you to have varying page layouts without losing consistency. See three layouts within a single “template” for a WWU site: full-page | two-column | side-bar • Dreamweaver keeps track o
