www.newwoodworker.com - main site folder

basic - www.newwwoodworker.com/basic

reference - www.newwoodworker.com/ref   etc. all of the sub sites folders are outside of the main site folder, but all within the root directory on the server.

All of the sites files are grouped in a folder named NWWSITES.

Within that folder is the NWW FOLDER which is the main site

a folsder named BASIC which contains that sub site

A folder named REF which holds the reference subsite files

a folder named REVIEWS which holds the tool reviews subsite files

a folder named TURNING that holds the woodturning substie files.

nwwsites is the folder on the hard drive that contains all of the sites, jsut to keep them in one place.

The main site, NWW where the template woujld live is in the NWW folder wsith all of the other sites outside of that NWW folder but withint the NWWsites. The NWWSITES folder has nothing to do with Dreamweaver, jsut a place to group the sites and files.

If copy the basic folder into the NWW folder, I can see those files to make links on the teimplate. Otherwise I can;t see them within dreamweaver.

I agree that it's not a good idea now. This layout was described to me years ago by someon on the dreamweaver forum back then, probably 7 yeqrs ago or so. What I need to know now is if I move all of the folders into the NWW folder, which is the actual root for the site, I can then use a single template. I know that I have to maek the template and that this is a lot of work but I want to fix the architecture to make future years easier.

That folder is huge so that wold take some time. I can say that there are no lnks to other sites that are not absolute, like http://www.newwoodworker.com/basic/the page wanted. the only links that go right to pages are those withint he NWW core site itself, the pages actually contained in that folder.

I know I am going to blow this thing up in doing this. What I want to do is to put all of the site folders within the root, NWW folder so that on the new template all the links will be direct. If that means taking the site down for a few days, that's fine.

each of the sub sites does have a template assigned to them because that was how it was explained to me the first time. io w2as trying to prevent the massive updates of one all inclusive site back then because of the tedious ftp. Now I would rather go thorugh the work of bringing them all into the root folder so I can control all with one template. I am making a fluid layout template to get my site better suited for the devices anyway.

If I jsut drag/drop the sub sites into the root NWW folder and then start dreamweaver, will it try to update any of the links on the individual templates? I jsut am trying to see if I need to take the whole thing down to apply the new overall template

that's fine if that is what I have to do. I need to get everything under one template

Did the full backup this morning. (I do learn eventually)

The individual templates don't vary by much, more the absolute links in the nav bars than anything. I can get rid of all that with the fluid layout tremplate I am working on.

OK, so I made a fluid layout template, included an editable content area so I can use it on my site but when I apply the template to a cleared page, it looks nothing like when it was build with div's jumping over each other or dissappearing altogether. the template was made/sized for the computer screen and when I go back and look at that template file, it's just as I left it. the page with the template applied is http://www.newwoodworker.com/test.html

I kow fluid layouts are not going to be as easy as many might suspect butt his is really dissheartening with everything jusrt disregarding where it used to be.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

I just went back and manually selected everything int he templates folder and upladed all that, ftp says successfully

Sorry. I didn;t know the template files were someplace else, or supposed to be. the only placve DW has the boilerplate.css is int eh templates folder. the respond.js file also, is in the templates folder where DW must have put them. I will copy the boolil.erplate to the css folder but am unsure aboutt he js file, where that one goes.

i also discovered that the template html file was only in teh templates folder so copied that to the main part of the root folder wi th the rest of the html files and have loaded that, updated the test page ertc and loaded that again as well.

When I made the template I saved it as a template and then did the select recently modified files (1 DAY) and all DW found was the files in the Templates folder. I did use the files window in DW to move copies out into the CSS and Scripts folders. Plus I searched for the template html file and the only place DW located it w3as int eh Templates folder again. If saving the template as a template is doing it wrong and causing it to put them in that folder, they need to fix ths thing!