Editing Dreamweaver templates??? Is it possible?

[edb5020]

Thanks for the great product! A breeze to install and use! A+++++++++

I do have one question though.

I work in a high school and I would like our principal to be able to edit certain items on the main page such as school closings, delays, events, etc.  This type of information is in our Dreamweaver template which is the template for just about every one of our pages.   When I log into SnippetMaster and then search through the folder archive at the top to the folder appropriately named "Templates", I do not see any of our templates (.dwt) in there at all.

Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks again!

[admin]

Hello,

I think you are confusing the Dreamweaver "template" system with the "/templates" folder in SnippetMaster.

The /templates folder in Snippetmaster is just a folder where the SnippetMaster software pages are located. It is not meant for your dreamweaver templates.

If you want to allow your principal to edit certain areas of your web pages, then what I recommend is creating at least one "Snippet" (editable region" within your Dreamweaver template... so then they can edit all pages that use that template.

Here's a link to the documentation on how to create a "Snippet" (editable area) for your webpage:

http://www.snippetmaster.com/documentation/snippet-tags.html

(So you should put the SNIPPET "starting" and "ending tags just outside your dreamweaver template tags.)

Let me know if you get stuck with anything. 

[edb5020]

Well I think it's the template folder that we have because I can see other folders in there that we have in the dreamweaver templates folder. 

As far as editing other parts of our website such as our main page, this .asp file shows up in the file select tab in snippetmaster. We can edit the file just fine, but when we save it, our dropdown menus and such dissappear.  I feel this is because when the site was designed, these Dreamweaver templates are "stamped" on every page.  And when this main .asp page is modified using snippetmaster, then saved, it saves that template information onto the page in a different way (?).   

Any suggestions or help would much be appreciated.

[edb5020]

Oh, also, I just noticed you said to but a "snippet" within the editable region of our templates, I would do this if I can get to the template file which I cannot.  Furthermore, the .asp file has the instance begin editable tags in it also because the template information is brought to each page.