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Introducing Templates for Contribute Users


Bill Wierenga

Bill Wierenga

Macromedia

Created:
18 April 2005
User Level:
Beginner

In this Macrochat, Macromedia Product Support Engineer Bill Wierenga presents "Introducing Templates for Contribute Users." Watch and understand why templates are vitally important to ensuring your visitors have a consistent web experience, learn how to create templates using Dreamweaver, and how Contribute uses the templates.

What You Will Learn

  • What are the benefits of using templates?
  • What are templates?
  • What are the different types of editable regions?
  • How do I create templates using Dreamweaver?
  • How do Contribute users access templates?
  • How do I administer control over templates?
  • What problems may occur with templates for Contribute users?
  • What are the template limitations for Contribute users?
  • How does Dreamweaver handle templates differently and how do I solve issues?

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Templates overview: Editable regions in Dreamweaver for Contribute users

Figure 1. Templates overview: Editable regions in Dreamweaver for Contribute users

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About the author

Bill Wierenga is a Product Support Engineer providing Gold level support for Contribute, Contribute Publishing Services, and FlashPaper and in the past lead the Aria support team. Bill has been at Macromedia for approximately four (non-consecutive) years. Before coming to Macromedia Bill traveled India and enjoyed skydiving and white water rafting.