Using Libraries, Templates, Find and Replace
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Before class, consider which items might be used repeatedly in your site and which pages in your site could have the same layout. How can templates help your client maintain the site?
MX: Lesson 8 - Libraries
- What is the Dreamweaver library for? What does it allow you to do? It makes it possible to do what?
- Library items are restricted to content that appears between which tags?
- Where do library items have to be edited?
- When you insert a library item in a page, what properties does the item take on?
- What makes it possible for Dreamweaver to update a library item on all the pages in a site?
- Learn how to:
- Use library items for elements that need to be repeated on many pages within a site.
- Create a library item using the Library category of the Assets panel, insert it on a page with and without a link to the library item.
- Use the Property inspector to recreate a library item missing from the Library panel.
- Edit an existing library item from the Library panel and apply the changes to all the pages in the site.
- Update all references to a library item
MX: Lesson 9 - Templates
- What do templates allow you to do? What are its advantages?
- In which situation should libraries be used instead of templates? In other words, what is the practical difference between libraries and templates?
- A template should do what?
- What is the first step in creating a template?
- What are repeating regions?
- What does a nested template allow you to do?
- Learn how to:
- Create a template from an existing page.
- Add editable areas to a template.
- Remove editable areas from a template.
- Create optional content areas.
- Insert repeating regions.
- Change the template highlight colors.
- Build multiple pages based on the template.
- Make changes to the template and update multiple pages within the site.
- Create and use editable tags attributes.
- Nest a template.
MX: Lesson 14 - Find and Replace
- This feature allows you to do what?
- In what ways can this be used with CSS. In other words, why is it useful with CSS?
- Learn how to use this feature to:
- Change text.
- Change text within HTML tags.
- Attach external style sheets to multiple pages within a site.
- Save your search settings.
- Search for patterns in text using regular expressions to find specific text like dates and names.
- Change multiple variations of a name to one version.
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