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   Cybergooch
   

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   Sorry for the noob question, I'm working with PBM2 and was trying to figure out the proper way of creating new pages that will use CSS.

   My (limited) understanding of CSS is that the styles are applied so you don't have to edit every page when making a change. So once I'm happy with the setup of my home page with the menu buttons, banner, etc., is there a way to make it so that all my other pages are using the same menu structure?

   In other words, if I add a new menu button at some point, will it be updated to all my pages? Normally I would just duplicate the index.html and rename it, then make my changes, but does that mean I lose the CSS and would still have to edit each page to add the button?

   Any help appreciated!

   Posted 7 years ago
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   Mark Rowe
   

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   in my limited experience (on these hallowed pages) its all about process and there are different methods to achieve the same. In short if you add a menu item to a page it is only on that page. All CSS styling applied will continue across all pages with the same style sheet. you can however do the following.

   See this tutorial page - for PMM3 but still applies.
   http://www.projectseven.com/products/menusystems/pmm3/tutorials/site-wide/index.htm

   1. Server Side Includes - there is a tutorial on this on the PVii pages and elsewhere on the net.
   2. Template regions with dreamweaver
   3. find and replace code across the site eg
   <some code....
   menu item
   menu item>
   replaced with
   <some code
   menu item
   menu item
   new menu item>
   4. Edit each page, just pasting the code into the correct spot on each page in code view.
   5. Dreamweaver Library items

   Hope you find a solution that works with your process.
   Mark

   Posted 7 years ago
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   Cybergooch
   

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   4. Edit each page, just pasting the code into the correct spot on each page in code view.

   Sounds like things are not quite as automated as I had hoped. 8)
   And the very sound of template regions and library items makes my hair stand on end.

   Number 4 sounds like the best answer, since my site is very simple.
   Thanks!

   Posted 7 years ago
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   Al Sparber
   

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   Not sure what you were looking for, in terms of automation, but...
   Dreamweaver Templates are actually your best choice.

   The fundamentals of working with Dreamweaver include choosing a simple site-wide management method. Template are, by far, the easiest.

   Posted 7 years ago
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   Cybergooch
   

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   Al, what I meant by automation was making it so that any changes made to say, the menu buttons, would automatically propagate to all other pages. I didn't know if CSS itself included that functionality.

   Sounds like it doesn't. But the templates sound like they do, so I may have to investigate further as to setting them up. I'm not a web designer, just an artist with a couple of gallery pages. But I'd like to have it so that some elements are automatically repeated, and it sounds like templates would do that for me.

   Posted 7 years ago

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