Dreamweaver Template Customization Guide
Skip it, if color changes is not required.
Step 2: Custom Colors
Changing your website Colors
- In Fireworks, open template.png (The .png can be opened only in Fireworks 4.0 and higher versions).
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Locate Layers panel (Which is found on the right hand side) and expand it. Now unlock all the lock layer by clicking the lock icon corresponding to them (Fig: 2 a).
- To change the template colors, Goto Edit>>Find ( or Ctrl+F).
- A Find pop-up window appears (Fig: 2 b), select Find Color in the drop down menu, select the color of the area of which you wish to change. Pick your desired color in the Change to option.
- Open the Layers panel by clicking on Windows >> Layers ( or F2).
- In the Layers panel, open the Web layer by clicking on the eye icon next to the layer (Intially the Eye icon will be invisible, click on the highlighted place as shown in Fig: 2 c. or click on the web layer to active it). You will now be able to see all the slices over the structure (Slices are web objects, they exist not as images, but ultimately as HTML code. You can view, select, and rename them through the Web Layer in the Layers panel).
- Goto File>>Export ( or Ctrl+Shift+R), a pop-up window appear which is your local root folder (For eg: Temp62_learning), click on the images folder as in Fig: 2 d and make the following changes as highlighted below.
- In Save as type, select the images only.
- In Slices, select the Exports Slices.
- Both Include areas without slices and Current frame only options are untick.



SmartWebby.com Template Customization Guide Steps
- Step 1: Site Definition - Setting up your website in Dreamweaver
- Step 2: Custom Colors - Changing your website Colors
- Step 3: Custom Header - Customizing the Header with your Site Name and Slogan
- Step 4: Custom Links - Modifying your website Links
- Step 5: Custom Footer - Changing the website's Footer Text
- Step 6: Custom Graphics - Replacing Photos used in the Template's Design
- Step 7: Custom Content - Inserting Content into Existing Pages and Adding New Pages
- Step 8: Customizing text - Changing fonts using CSS Styles
- Custom Flyouts - Modifying your website's Drop-down Menus
- Customizing the news scroller
- Customizing the swap images