Creating templates with Dreamweaver
Dreamweaver is program that creates HTML pages, it also has an FTP function to upload work directly to a website. Dreamweaver or any other HTML authoring tool would typically be used as follows:
- The designer designs page layout in photoshop The designer creates an HTML and CSS of the page layout in dreamweaver and perfects it, shows it to his or her clients and views it in a browser.
- Now the HTML is ready to be turned into a .Net template - So the designer copys the HTML/CSS/Images they have created into a standard FirebirdCMS template.
- They also update all links to the images and css files appropriately. And make decisions on what areas of the design to make editable areas and add FirebirdCMS Anchors to that area. This is placed inside a folder /TemplateName/default.Master as detailed here
- This can now be uploaded via FTP to their FirebirdCMS website and any layout or HTML/CSS display issue can be fixed by making the change in dreamweaver and uploading again.
- Also we now have the facility to make changes to the Template online, so just cut and paste from dreamweaver, adjust the image paths and css paths and no FTP needed.