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November 27th, 2009 | 
Author: Learning Adobe Dreamweaver is definitely a good investiment of your time. If web design is your profession or hobby, having the proper hands-on training can mean the difference between successfully learning how to use your chosen software and struggling to discover the way that it works. Books are terrific for teaching ancient History and Literature, but when faced with the brave new world of web development, a new way of learning is in order. So, if you need to learn to use Adobe Dreamweaver, interactive training software makes a lot of sense. Rather than simply reading how things should work, you can actually see how they work by following along with training videos, tutors, and interactive tutorials.
Guided hands-on training is much more effective for learning programs like Adobe Dreamweaver, because you need to actually see how the program functions in order to fully understand it. Learning web design software can be confusing, but once you master a program like Adobe Dreamweaver, you will actually start to enjoy designing web pages, whether for business or pleasure and the learning experience can also be a breeze, as long as you find the right training method and don’t rely too much on books. Cast you mind back to when you were a kid. Your mom may very well have told you that the fire was hot, but you didn’t really fully understand that concept until you actually touched the fire for yourself.
Learning to use web design software works in the same empirical fashion. You can read or hear about Adobe Dreamweaver and how it works, but you won’t fully appreciate that information until you use the program for yourself. That’s why interactive training, be it videos, tutorials, and walkthroughs, is a much better way to master computer programs than a traditional textbook or lecture setting. Getting trained using the right interactive software will allow you to kick start your web design career, and you’ll be creating great websites in no time at all.
Your brain finds it easier to relate to things that it can see. It’s more of a “show me” than a “tell me” animal. What this means is that you could read ten books on using Adobe Dreamweaver, but unless you actually get a hands-on training experience, you might never understand what that the program can do for you and your web pages.
It doesn’t matter if you’re designing for school, work, or just for fun. Knowing how to operate the program before you start will make your web designs much better, and will make the process much simpler than if you just read a book or tried to learn it on your own.
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Adobe Dreamweaver’s template feature provides a blueprint for a web page which can provide a mechanism for creating and updating multiple pages with a common layout. Any of the web page types that Adobe Dreamweaver handles can be made into a template: HTML, ASP, ASPX, CFM OR JSP. Templates consist of fixed regions and editable regions. The fixed regions are those parts of the page which contain elements which will be identical on all pages based on the templates: things such as logos, navigation bars, headers and footers. The editable regions are those areas of the page which can be modified each time a page is created and based on the template.
Each time you create a template, there is no need to specify which regions of the page will be locked when the template is applied to a page. The entire page will be locked by default and, hence, if you save a template that has no editable regions, a dialog box will appear reminding you that the template is pretty much useless until you insert at least one editable region.
To create an editable region, position the cursor in the required location and choose Insert – Template Objects – Editable Region. A dialog box will appear prompting you to enter a name. Enter any descriptive name and click the OK button.
Editable regions can be placed inside of two main areas: you can create a free region or a bound one. By a free region, I mean one in which you can enter any content you like; by a bound one, I mean one where the content you enter is limited. For example, if you want to create an editable region into which you can insert the main content of each page, you would probably be placing your editable region inside a DIV element. However, if you want to create an editable region to allow users to insert just a heading, you would place your editable region inside an H1 element.
The element that contains your editable region is critcal to how the region can be used and it is very easy to accidentally place an editable region inside a paragraph of heading element by mistake. In fact, Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 will always display an alert if any template that you save has an editable region inside a paragraph or heading element.
There are two simple ways of keeping track of where your editable region is being inserted. The first is to switch to Code view and double-check where your cursor is positioned. The second is, while in Design view, look at the tag selector. This is the area at the bottom of the document window on the left of the status bar. The last tag displayed on the tag selector is the one inside which your cursor is currently positioned. If the last tag displayed is P for paragraph or H1, H2, etc., simple right click on the unwanted tag and choose Remove Tag from the context menu.
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