Dreamweaver Web Templates
All of our Our Dreamweaver templates are all
uniquely designed with plenty of extras
for you to play with! All of them have dwt's and most of our templates have
three or more layouts. The choices in layouts give you a variety of looks to
have for your web pages. Our Dreamweaver templates can be used in CS3 or higher.
I've bought the template, what's next?
You'll download the zip file and save it in an easily accessible place. Your desktop is a good place for the zip file. You'll need a zip program in order to unzip the file. At Templates in Time, we use WinZip. You can Google "Free unzip programs" and find lots of them. Don't delete the zip file, just save it. You never know when the web gremlins will mess up your web, so always keep a backup!
After you've unzipped the file, you'll find the Dreamweaver template inside. Put this folder in a place you can find it when you open up Dreamweaver.
Defining Your Site
You MUST define your site. If you don't define the site, Dreamweaver "thinks" that you have a bunch of files in a folder that are NOT connected. In order to define your new site, go to "Site >New Site." A box will open for you to define the site. Choose the "Advanced" tab. Name your site in the "Site Name" box, then navigate to your new web folder. Click on open, then okay. Then choose the "Default images folder" (that's the one inside the web template) and click okay. After you've done those two steps, you can click okay. You can always come back and add the http:// address.
You'll see all of your files ready to be edited. Go to your "Templates" folder (it has the dwt's in it) and open each file. Change the footer information, "Your Name Here" (if it is text, not an image) and other non-editable regions to match your website. When you save each dwt, it automatically updates the pages connected to it. If it does not update, your site is NOT defined.
Getting your name on the web
Most of our templates use images for the business name. Some of them use just fonts. If you have a "nameplate" or "logo" image in the images folder, we will add your name to that image at no cost to you. All you have to do is tell us what you want it to say. We use the same font shown on the sample web. Once you receive your new image, download it into your "images" folder, overwriting the current file. Your name will automatically appear on all pages. We use the same font and color shown on the sample web unless you tell us differently. If you want a font that we don't have, and we have hundreds, you'll need to send us the font.
Light Boxes
The light boxes are easy to use and you can have your page really pop for your visitors. All you need to do is follow the simple directions that are on the page. You'll size each image into a small thumbnail image and a larger, viewable image. Then you just slip their names right into the code. Your light box will look professionally coded and no one will know you did it so easily!
Java Script Slide Shows
The Java Script slide show that is included in many of our templates, is easy to work with. You have four things to do:
- Pick out images you like for your web.
- Size them to the size indicated in the template.
- Name the images the same as ours... usually; mainimage1.jpg, mainimage2.jpg, mainimage3.jpg
- Save them in the images folder, overwriting our files.
If you don't have an image sizing program, you can go Picknik to size your images: http://www.picnik.com/. Remember, it's better to resize them than to just grab the corners and pull them down to size. The browser will load the full sized image and show it smaller. The load time for the page will be much longer.
Library Items
Many of our Dreamweaver Templates are set up with "Library Items." Library Items are an easy way to put items you use on most of your pages in one spot to edit. This saves valuable time when you have many pages and you don't want to edit the same thing on each of the pages. If the template you purchase has Library Items, you will find them in a folder named, "Libray." Not very original, but very functional!
Google Fonts
This is a fun little extra to play with. We began using some Google font coding in our mid-1200 series templates. If you don't like the font, just go to: http://www.google.com/webfonts#ChoosePlace:select and select the font you like. Follow the easy coding directions. You'll replace the font name in the css file under the heading (h1, h2, h3, h4 tags) and change the name in the dwt file.