Dreamweaver Template Customization Guide

Step 7: Custom Content

Inserting Content into Existing Pages and Adding New Pages

To Modify Existing Pages

Just open the page in Dreamweaver whose content you want to modify and make the necessary changes. Save your file and review your changes.

In case you want to change the name of the page, just right click the file name in the site files view and select Rename (or F2) which is shown in Fig: 7 a. Once you have renamed the file in Dreamweaver, it will ask you if you want to update the links to the renamed file. Click Update and your site will work as before without any broken links.

To Add New Pages

Adding pages using Dreamweaver MX (and above)

• Click on File >> New (or Ctrl+N), you will get a pop-up window with 2 tabs, "General" and "Template", click the Template tab (Fig: 7 b).
• Select your site name and the template.dwt corresponding to it.

Adding pages using Dreamweaver 4 (and below):

• Open Dreamweaver.
• Click on File>>New from Template.
• Select template and click the Create button.
  

Now add your content in the editable region called content and click on File>>Save (or Ctrl+S) to save the new page.

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