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Re: Alternative to DW's Editable Region function

Subject: Re: Alternative to DW's Editable Region function
From: "Murray *ACE*" <forums@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:00:06 -0400
Newsgroups: macromedia.dynamic.html


You could, assuming that each of those pages would contain the same content within that include.

I'm still not sure I understand what the problem is. Anymore, my templates are one large editable region in the body of the page (subject to other layout restrictions, of course, giving me complete flexibility for layout in that location.

I use the following scheme....

First, I mentally separate the page layout into three sections:

1.  Stuff that will not change for the life of the site (i.e., the basic
structural elements)
2.  Stuff that *could* change from time to time (e.g., navigation elements,
burst advertisements, section-specific navigation, etc.)
3.  Stuff that *will* change from one page to the next

Then I create a template containing all class1 elements.  Next I create
server-side include files containing all class 2 elements and place them on
the template as needed.  Note - some of the class 2 elements may be
"section-specific elements", and their placement on the template will be
subject to the next item.  Finally, I insert editable regions to cover the
class 3 items, INCLUDING the section-specific navigation.

This allows me to just cookie-cut the rest of the site.  I estimate that
even for fairly large sites, about 80% of my work goes into planning and
creating this template file.


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"~Billy~" <webforumsuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:g6ngli$877$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
No, the SSI's are not in editable regions, only the content area of the pages
are inside editable regions.

Ok, so the menu and navigation are all ok linked to SSI's.

Now say if I had 100 pages, and I wanted to alter only the 'content area' of twenty of those pages from say one div ,to using for example 4 divs (to split
content into subsections for example) for a different content area layout.
Would I want to use SSI's for content area also? This is just an example.



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