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Old 02-05-2006, 07:48 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Dreamweaver questions

Can anyone tell me what Cascading Styling Sheets (CSS) are, and if they can be applied to more than one page?

Also, what can a template do that CSS can't do?

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Old 02-05-2006, 08:17 PM   #2 (permalink)
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im not sure about the template but with style sheets you basically create a path for all your pages to have the same set up you should check out w3schools i think thats right ... its been a year or two since i last played with it
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Old 02-06-2006, 08:05 AM   #3 (permalink)
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In computing, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL. The CSS specifications are maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Dreamweaver Templates allow you to better manage the overall design of sites by separating page content from page design. By defining editable areas on a page, you can restrict changes that can be made to the layout of a particular HTML page. Content contributors can then add and edit content in these editable regions without compromising the site's design. Moreover, changes can be made to the overall design of the site quickly by revising the template file directly.
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Old 02-11-2006, 02:39 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Cascading Style Sheets contain style rules that tell a browser how to present a document. They change the way a web page looks by defining things like colors, fonts, layout, etc. The main benefit of using CSS is that it separates the content (HTML) from the presentation (CSS). This provides more flexibility because you can completely change how the document looks without having to make to make any changes to the HTML. To link a web page to a style sheet, you just put a line of code in the head section of your HTML, so you can apply a style sheet to multiple pages.

The main purpose of Dreamweaver templates is site management. If you have a lot of pages and want the layout to be consistent, then you can make a template that contains the basic layout. You can restrict areas that never change from being edited and define areas that can be edited. Then after making 100 pages, you decide that you want to change something in the layout. Instead of having to go into each file individually, you can just edit the template and the changes will propagate to all of the files that are based on that template. One thing to note is that your template could include CSS to define styles for the pages.

I guess the main difference is that CSS only changes the presentation of the pages, but templates can be used to change content as well (as long as it is an area that doesn't change from page to page). Hope that helps.
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