5 Replies Latest reply: Jul 9, 2008 1:47 PM by Newsgroup_User RSS

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    pbsum83 Community Member
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        • 1. Re: Newbie question about templates
          Newsgroup_User Community Member
          Hi Paul,

          Making the body tag an editable region pretty much invalidates using a
          template - if everything's editable, how is it a template? To use templates
          correctly, you only make the areas that vary from page to page (like the
          main content) editable, and the rest of the page (navigation, etc.)
          uneditable.

          Try saving the page you already have as a template, then selecting the parts
          of it that you want to be different from page to page as editable areas.

          Aloha,

          Jerry



          • 2. Re: Newbie question about templates
            pbsum83 Community Member
            Woops, I didn't explain that very well.

            My main page (first section of code I attached) is setup from a template. It has a logo & a navigation bar at the top, and the main content below is set as an editable region.

            I have another page (second section of code I attached) w/ formatted content (CSS tables) that I want to put into the editable region as the main content.

            I know simply pasting the entire code of the page into the editable region doesn't work. I am wondering how I can make this work, and retain the same look/format?

            Sorry, I'm not the greatest at explaining this. Does anyone understand what I mean?
            • 3. Re: Newbie question about templates
              Newsgroup_User Community Member
              We need to see both pages to help you with this.

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              "paul kalfahs" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
              news:g53803$2vo$1@forums.macromedia.com...
              > Woops, I didn't explain that very well.
              >
              > My main page (first section of code I attached) is setup from a template.
              > It
              > has a logo & a navigation bar at the top, and the main content below is
              > set as
              > an editable region.
              >
              > I have another page (second section of code I attached) w/ formatted
              > content
              > (CSS tables) that I want to put into the editable region as the main
              > content.
              >
              > I know simply pasting the entire code of the page into the editable region
              > doesn't work. I am wondering how I can make this work, and retain the
              > same
              > look/format?
              >
              > Sorry, I'm not the greatest at explaining this. Does anyone understand
              > what I
              > mean?
              >
              >

              • 4. Re: Newbie question about templates
                bregent CommunityMVP
                >I have another page (second section of code I attached) w/ formatted content (CSS tables)
                >that I want to put into the editable region as the main content.

                You can't. That other code is a complete page, and you can't have a complete page within another page. You would have to trim out all of the html, head and body tags and then it still probably won't look right because your pages are all a combination of imageready slices (bad) and AP Divs (also bad). Before going any further you are probably going to need to learn how to layout a page properly. Start by learning html and css.
                http://www.w3schools.com/html/
                • 5. Re: Newbie question about templates
                  pbsum83 Community Member
                  I only have the slices for the navigation bar. That's bad? I just followed instructions from a book I am learning from. Now I am completely lost. Oh well! Guess I'll keep reading.