Netscape and templets

Does netscape not let people view pages that have the .dwt file extension?

"matt27" webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com wrote:

Does netscape not let people view pages that have the .dwt file extension?

Hi

What exactly are you doing with your templates?



--
Cheers jojo
Team Macromedia Member Volunteer for Dreamweaver MX
----------------------------------------------------
CF CMS Details: http://www.dwfaq.com/Store/detail/?id=wdCFcms
CF CMS Demo: http://www.webade.hostinguk.com/cfcms/
----------------------------------------------------
Extending Knowledge, Daily.
http://www.communityMX.com/
----------------------------------------------------

NONONONONONONO!

Those files with the dwt extension are template files and should never be
uploaded to the site.

Please say more about what you are doing and why!

--
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Team Macromedia Volunteer for Dreamweaver MX
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
==================
news://forums.macromedia.com/macromedia.dreamweaver - THE BEST WAY TO GET
ANSWERS
==================
http://www.dreamweavermx-templates.com - Template Triage!
http://www.projectseven.com/go - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
http://www.DreamweaverFAQ.com - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ - Macromedia (MM) Technotes
==================

"matt27" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Some of my pages just have the .dwt extension on them. Should I change
them to htm extensions? Also in netscape my marque is slightly out of

postion, any way to fix that with out messing it up in ie. Thanks very much
for your help.

What about pages with .asp? Are those ok to upload?

"matt27" webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com wrote:

What about pages with .asp? Are those ok to upload?

Yes, the .asp files should be fine.

Your template files .dwt are simply that, templates.

You create a template and then you create pages from the templates, they
are simply a pattern for your site and perform no other function than that.

Templates should always be stored in the root of your site within a
folder called Templates, this folder should hold only templates and
nothing else.

--
Cheers jojo
Team Macromedia Member Volunteer for Dreamweaver MX
----------------------------------------------------
CF CMS Details: http://www.dwfaq.com/Store/detail/?id=wdCFcms
CF CMS Demo: http://www.webade.hostinguk.com/cfcms/
----------------------------------------------------
Extending Knowledge, Daily.
http://www.communityMX.com/
----------------------------------------------------

Matt:

Template files are design time tools, and only that. They are only meant
(as JoJo explained) to be used *locally* as a way of creating pages that
have identical layout and navigation. You would create child pages from
your template pages by using FILE | New From Template (in DW4), or FILE |
New > Templates > Site > Template File > create new page (in DMX). They
should not be uploaded, and they should definitely not be resaved with a
different extension. To read about them, check the F1 Help in DW.

--
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Team Macromedia Volunteer for Dreamweaver MX
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
==================
news://forums.macromedia.com/macromedia.dreamweaver - THE BEST WAY TO GET
ANSWERS
==================
http://www.dreamweavermx-templates.com - Template Triage!
http://www.projectseven.com/go - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
http://www.DreamweaverFAQ.com - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ - Macromedia (MM) Technotes
==================

"jojo" <jojo (AT) zoot3 (DOT) com> wrote

"matt27" webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com wrote:

What about pages with .asp? Are those ok to upload?

Yes, the .asp files should be fine.

Your template files .dwt are simply that, templates.

You create a template and then you create pages from the templates, they
are simply a pattern for your site and perform no other function than
that.

Templates should always be stored in the root of your site within a
folder called Templates, this folder should hold only templates and
nothing else.

--
Cheers jojo
Team Macromedia Member Volunteer for Dreamweaver MX
----------------------------------------------------
CF CMS Details: http://www.dwfaq.com/Store/detail/?id=wdCFcms
CF CMS Demo: http://www.webade.hostinguk.com/cfcms/
----------------------------------------------------
Extending Knowledge, Daily.
http://www.communityMX.com/
----------------------------------------------------

You know, I was moving some sites back and forth between a pc and a mac
recently and noticed when I tried saving newly created pages from
templates, DW was wanting to save them as .dwt files.

After a bit of frustration I discovered that during the moving, my
template files had been renamed to all caps. After renaming the files to
all lowercase, I was able to save the files as html files.

I don't know if that is any kind of known issue but it's something I
came across.

David


"matt27" webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com wrote:

Some of my pages just have the .dwt extension on them. Should I change them to htm extensions? Also in netscape my marque is slightly out of postion, any way to fix that with out messing it up in ie. Thanks very much for your help.

David:

OK - this sometimes happens when you copy your files to a CD or a ZIP disk.
Your best bet for moving files like this is to zip them before copying to
either of those media.

I want to make sure I am understanding what you are saying. You moved an
ordinary HTML file from the Mac to the PC and when you tried to save it on
the PC, DW wanted to save it as a template file? This must be because the
file contained TEMPLATE markup. Had you merely renamed the dwt file with an
HTML extension? That is big trouble if you did.

--
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Team Macromedia Volunteer for Dreamweaver MX
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
==================
news://forums.macromedia.com/macromedia.dreamweaver - THE BEST WAY TO GET
ANSWERS
==================
http://www.dreamweavermx-templates.com - Template Triage!
http://www.projectseven.com/go - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
http://www.DreamweaverFAQ.com - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ - Macromedia (MM) Technotes
==================

"David Anderson" <danderson2 (AT) cox (DOT) net> wrote

You know, I was moving some sites back and forth between a pc and a mac
recently and noticed when I tried saving newly created pages from
templates, DW was wanting to save them as .dwt files.

After a bit of frustration I discovered that during the moving, my
template files had been renamed to all caps. After renaming the files to
all lowercase, I was able to save the files as html files.

I don't know if that is any kind of known issue but it's something I
came across.

David


"matt27" webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com wrote:
Some of my pages just have the .dwt extension on them. Should I change
them to htm extensions? Also in netscape my marque is slightly out of

postion, any way to fix that with out messing it up in ie. Thanks very much
for your help.

HI Murray,

I did some site copy/backup transfers with an external, shared drive
that we use between XP and OSX. The way the drive is formatted I
normally don't have the caps problem but I did check the files to verify
none were caps as I'm familiar with that happening. What I didn't
consider was that some of template files would get converted so I never
looked at those.

Current HTML files I tried to save still saved to html but when I creatd
any New>New From Template files and then tried to save, they saved to
..dwt extensions.

I could open an existing html page and Save As... and save it as a new
html file. That's actually what I did for a couple files until I noticed
some of the template files were caps. I renamed them, recreated the site
and everything's been fine.

In the future, I won't shortcut the process by not zipping. I thought
that could have been a similar issue with the person who intially posted.

Thanks!

David




Murray *TMM* wrote:

David:

OK - this sometimes happens when you copy your files to a CD or a ZIP disk.
Your best bet for moving files like this is to zip them before copying to
either of those media.

I want to make sure I am understanding what you are saying. You moved an
ordinary HTML file from the Mac to the PC and when you tried to save it on
the PC, DW wanted to save it as a template file? This must be because the
file contained TEMPLATE markup. Had you merely renamed the dwt file with an
HTML extension? That is big trouble if you did.

David:

I gotcha. While I still don't understand exactly what happened, and cannot
for the life of me imagine how having an uppercase name would trigger the
save as template thing, if you are satisfied with the result then that's
great!

--
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Team Macromedia Volunteer for Dreamweaver MX
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
==================
news://forums.macromedia.com/macromedia.dreamweaver - THE BEST WAY TO GET
ANSWERS
==================
http://www.dreamweavermx-templates.com - Template Triage!
http://www.projectseven.com/go - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
http://www.DreamweaverFAQ.com - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ - Macromedia (MM) Technotes
==================

"David Anderson" <danderson2 (AT) cox (DOT) net> wrote

HI Murray,

I did some site copy/backup transfers with an external, shared drive
that we use between XP and OSX. The way the drive is formatted I
normally don't have the caps problem but I did check the files to verify
none were caps as I'm familiar with that happening. What I didn't
consider was that some of template files would get converted so I never
looked at those.

Current HTML files I tried to save still saved to html but when I creatd
any New>New From Template files and then tried to save, they saved to
.dwt extensions.

I could open an existing html page and Save As... and save it as a new
html file. That's actually what I did for a couple files until I noticed
some of the template files were caps. I renamed them, recreated the site
and everything's been fine.

In the future, I won't shortcut the process by not zipping. I thought
that could have been a similar issue with the person who intially posted.

Thanks!

David




Murray *TMM* wrote:
David:

OK - this sometimes happens when you copy your files to a CD or a ZIP
disk.
Your best bet for moving files like this is to zip them before copying
to
either of those media.

I want to make sure I am understanding what you are saying. You moved
an
ordinary HTML file from the Mac to the PC and when you tried to save it
on
the PC, DW wanted to save it as a template file? This must be because
the
file contained TEMPLATE markup. Had you merely renamed the dwt file
with an
HTML extension? That is big trouble if you did.