Dreamweaver Templates
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- madino
a client of mine wants me to use dreamweaver templates. Well, I have never touched them.
Do they suck, or are they ok?
If anyone knows a site talking about pros and cons of those templates, please let me know. I would love to be able to talk to the client about this...
thanks in advance
- letgo™0
They're great. I manage 3 sites with hundreds of pages each and templates help out a lot.
- Mimio0
Id rather template with a SS language. Like ASP or PHP. It's better to me.
- madino0
thanks guys, any pros and/or cons?
- Mimio0
Con - You need Dream Weaver to make a global change.
- Warland0
Pro - You can lock parts of the design so said client can't screw up your work.
- ldww0
i use templates alot. they are very useful. one con thou, say if you add 1 thing to your menu and you have a large site, you have to upload each html page, instead of just one file. this is why i have started using php includes, just one file to upload.
- tfs__mag0
yesh, includes are bettah...
but you can use includes in your template page and lock out the part of the code with the include statement too.
- madino0
ldww,
I thought if you created one main navigation, created a template, then the only file you should need to upload is the file main nav. Well, if that is the case, it doesn't make her project any easier...
- unformatted0
nested templates help alot if you set it up right.
use dw templates for small sites only. pain in the ass for larger sites with 300+ pages.
- madino0
ok... how about this. I know frontpage has some crazy extensions that is added. Does dreamweaver templates add some sort of crazy bad code or extensions?
- tfs__mag0
nah not really.. you just need a .dwt file. it doesn't require any special server extensions.
- unformatted0
i think he talking about all the shit frontpage puts into the code.
no dreamweaver doesn't add the unnecessary shit.
alot of commentted out stuff from the templates, but you can take that out within dreamweaver too.
- mrdobolina0
dreamweaver used to add alot more strange shit to the code. but now it is pretty clean.
- madino0
so, let me understand this. You guys recomend it for medium sites. 50 to 100 pages. It doesn't put any funky code in there. And it only makes one dwt file that is not ugly as sin.
So, right now, you guys seem in favor of it.
anyone else?
- mrock0
I actually run mine through ASP, and craeat a templatized system. No use recreating the wheel. PHP would be cool too. I've jsut started using DW MX 2004 and it's moslty homesite 5 on steroids, jsut like visual studios answer to front page. For what it's worth, DIV tag layout seems to be a lot easier than tables, only because mostly IE 5+ & Netscape 6+ adhere to it. Not to rule out anyother browser but it's what i moslty code in.
- ********0
any links hehhee ;)
- mrock0
acura. There's more that I can't disclose right now.