This is a tutorial for the easy study of using template with the help of dreamweaverMX.

Template is a common structure used by the WebPages. The WebPages have a basic structure which consists of various items such as header, navigation bar and footer. These items are similar to almost all pages. If the site of yours consists of 100 pages, and if you want to make a small change it is very difficult for you to change it manually. Here comes the main advantage of the template. The use of the template makes it easy that the change if made in the template will cause other pages to automatically update the change.

Here are some steps which help to study the use of template.

1. The first thing you must do is to create a webpage with the standard structure of the site. This pattern must be similar in most of the pages in your site and a very important thing you must note is not to put matchless content in the pages.
2. After you satisfy the above condition you can make the structure go to file and click save as template option and you must save it as template.
3. You must keep an eye on the blue bar on the top which shows <<template>>. At this time you will get inside the template. The template will be saved automatically under a folder called templates. Templates could be created according to the user’s use. Different templates are useful for different layouts for different sections.
4. For the updating of the site certain parts of the site will change. For this purpose the template must provide some space for keeping the editable objects. Different layouts, changes, adding stuff can b provided to the editable region. Template can be made editable by selecting the area you want to modify and then Pressing Modify>Template>New Editable Region. Provide suitable name for the template.

The above Section discusses on how to create a template in D5eamweaver.This section gives some idea about how to use templates in a Dreamweaver for making web sites. One important thing to notice is that when you modify or update a template all the web pages using that template also changes automatically. These are the steps to use templates in Dreamweaver. Note that a template can be applied before and after writing any content. For adding template after writing the content you need to specify an editable region.

1. Whenever a new web page is created it will have the default template structure. This can be modified using Modify>Template>Apply Template to the page.
2. In order to make the editable regions specified by the template to be editable open the ‘Choose editable region for orphaned content’ window and choose the editable region and click Ok. The template turns yellow which shows that it cannot be edited.

The real advantage and use of Templates lies in their updating. After creating and applying a template to the web pages, you could modify or edit it accordingly. Mostly the real structure of a website is stored in a specific template. You could edit or modify the template and apply it to all the pages using that template. Click Ok for the conformation message ‘Update Templates used in the following files’.