UsingTemplates

Creating a Website Template

Creating templates is essential for the most basic website design. If you look at each of the pages in this site, you will notice that they all look the same. This is not some miraculous feat of precision artwork - rather it is the careful creation of one document (a template) which can be used for creating every other webpage for this site.

Some sites may run with only one template for their pages, and other sites will have several templates to differentiate various parts of their site.

Step 1 - Open Dreamweaver and Create a New Site

Step 2 - Create a Template Document

Step 3 - Create a Table

Step 4 - Insert a Banner (image)

Step 5 - Insert Editable Regions

Step 6 - Save the Template

Step 7 - Use the Template to Create New Web Pages