Adobe Community: Apply Template to Multiple Pages

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1. Newsgroup_User,

Jan 14, 2009 5:14 PM in reply to Big Purp

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You would never want to use a Template on a site that is even 10% that size,
for very practical reasons.

And no, there is no way to do a batch template apply, nor should there be.
The drama of trying to tell DW into which editable region to put the code on
each prospective child page would be intolerable.

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"Big Purp" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I have a site with about 1000 pages that I need to apply a new template to,
>do I have to do this page-by-page?
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> 10 or so versions of DW and we still don't have this feature?

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2. hardcoded1,

Jun 21, 2012 7:53 AM in reply to Newsgroup_User

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Excuse my ignorance but why would you not use a template for a large website? Seems very easy to keep the same look and feel that way.

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3. Ken Binney,

Jun 21, 2012 8:24 AM in reply to hardcoded1

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The use of Server Side Includes (SSI) accomplishes the same ease of maintenance with none of of the local machine updates, saves and uploads.

Totally reliable, faster results.

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4. hardcoded1,

Jun 21, 2012 8:36 AM in reply to Ken Binney

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Hi Ken,

I can see the benefit from using SSI, but what if you are just developling straight HTML sites. SSI requires ASP, SHTML, PHP etc.

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5. Ken Binney,

Jun 21, 2012 9:02 AM in reply to hardcoded1

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Linux servers are the most common hosting platform.

Any decent hosting provider supports PHP.

Many of us build all our HTML sitee with PHP extensions just in case we decide later to use some PHP functionality.

The code inside an include file is usually nothing more than standard HTML/CSS

The PHP code in your pages is short and simple, for example this code

<?php require_once("header.inc"); ?>

might bring in your entire header including the entire navigation menu into the page

There are file renaming utility programs to change all your htm extensions to php.

There are ways to have your server set to parse php commands in htm files

The are safe redirect methods to preserve all your Google "juice" when changing files from htm to php

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6. hardcoded1,

Jun 21, 2012 9:20 AM in reply to Ken Binney

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I see. I guess my view is a little more skewed as I am designing, developing and maintaining websites for the school system that I work for. Since we host our own sites, it is just easier for me to control the code via templates for a school site and hand it over to have content added.

Thank you for your information Ken. It was very helpful!

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