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Mint_Sauce · 29-01-2006, 08:28

Hello! My first post here, hope I can help a few people out but I'm a bit of a beginner.

I'm trying to create a personal website for my portfolio and would like to create a kind of template for the front end and then a scrollable window in the center for the page changes. So what would happen is you would click "Art" and the center window would change to the art page but the rest of the page stays exactly the same. I know this can be done with Dreamweaver but i'm not sure how to go about it.

pgo · 29-01-2006, 13:00

Well, I'm not a fan of scrollable boxes - when done with frames or the overflow: scroll; property.

However, having had to get used to using Dreamweaver templates at work, I can tell you that they're fairly efficient - very similar to SSIs or using a programming language like PHP to include things.

In Dreamweaver, check the help file and read about templating - it's quite easy in Dreamweaver. You create a .dwt file, which has all your persistent code with editable regions. You then create new HTML files and apply the template and edit the editable regions to add content.

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Mint_Sauce Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1	Creating a template Hello! My first post here, hope I can help a few people out but I'm a bit of a beginner. I'm trying to create a personal website for my portfolio and would like to create a kind of template for the front end and then a scrollable window in the center for the page changes. So what would happen is you would click "Art" and the center window would change to the art page but the rest of the page stays exactly the same. I know this can be done with Dreamweaver but i'm not sure how to go about it.

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pgo Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 12,340	Well, I'm not a fan of scrollable boxes - when done with frames or the overflow: scroll; property. However, having had to get used to using Dreamweaver templates at work, I can tell you that they're fairly efficient - very similar to SSIs or using a programming language like PHP to include things. In Dreamweaver, check the help file and read about templating - it's quite easy in Dreamweaver. You create a .dwt file, which has all your persistent code with editable regions. You then create new HTML files and apply the template and edit the editable regions to add content.

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