| You are here : : Home > Free Resources > Web Design Tutorials & Resources > Web Development Tips |
Free Web Design Resources
Other Web Design Resources
If your web site follows a basic structure throughout the site you absolutely must use a template. Imagine you have a web site with over 50 pages, all following the same basic structure. If you need to make one small change, let's say changing the table width from 90% to 95%, you need to go each of those 50 pages and change it manually. Whereas if you were using a template you would only need to change it in the template and all the pages would get updated automatically. It's a huge time saver.
Click
here to learn how to use templates in Dreamweaver - Dreamweaver
makes it very easy to create templates, apply templates and update
pages.
If you keep all your basic information in a template the whole
site automatically gets updated, but you still have to ftp the all
the pages that use the template. To save ftp time use Server Side
Includes(SSI's). Trust me, it will be the answer to all your prayers.
If you keep updating parts of your site on a regular basis you need
to use server side includes. E.g. The menus on the left of this
page are server side includes. These links keep changing as we add
new content to the site. An SSI basically gives the path to the
include and the page reads the HTML code in the include file. Therefore
when you make a change in the include it is automatically reflected
in the page accessing the include. You only have to ftp the include
and not all the pages accessing the include.
Learn
how to use Server Side Includes
Join us on Facebook to keep updated with all the latest tutorials and web design freebies from EntheosWeb!