[thelist] issue with templates in dreamweaver

[Chris Williams]

You need to set your links to relative, rather than absolute..  To fix the
proplem you are describing, you can do a find and replace... For example,
1.  open dreamweaver
2. load a page with links you want to change
3.  Go to edit -> replace
4.  a dialog box will open, and, for example, type in file://templates/ in
the find text box.
5.  Use the tab key and in the 'replace with' box, type in the path you
want, for example, ../ (note: ONLY type in what you want to replace, or get
rid of.)
6.  Dreamweaver will find all of the files with this information and you can
replace them one at a time, or all at once.This will replace all your old
messed up links with the correct path.
7.  At this point, I would go to edit -> define sites, and select relative
for the path to define you site.  This way, future links will not have the
absolute path, and you can move your site folder to a different drive and it
will still point to the correct images, files, etc. If you do this before
hand....you will get a rats nest of bazarre links.
8.  Make sure your files are in the correct level, ie, DONT create a folder
inside a folder, then copy and past the page into the new folder and expect
it to work.

An absolute path will give you a complete path, which includes the physical
location.
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[mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Damien Cola
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 11:29 AM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] issue with templates in dreamweaver


Hello the list, nice topics lately, especially on cold fusion, which I've
just started using.

My issue is about templates. I want to do a website that will have this
structure:
/
 uk/
 fr/
 de/

I have done a template for the index pages that go into /uk/ in /fr/ and in
/de/
I have a menu in this template that links to local pages (contact.htm and
presentation.htm say)
so in my template it looks like:
<a href="contact.htm"...

but when I create a new page from template and I save it in /uk/ for
example, the code shows:
<a href="file://templates/contact.htm"..

--
I would like to change the links in my template in such a way that a new
page created from my template will always read:
<a href="contact.htm"...

Thank you, I suspect this to be a rather silly question, but I can't work it
out on my own, despite I've been using dreamweaver since version 1.. :-(


Damien COLA - Synaptique
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http://www.synaptique.co.uk
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