How To: Notes:
Working with Templates
In presenting an effective website consistency in design is a key element
of conveying information. To do that task Dreamweaver provides both templates
and style sheets. Templates control page structure and style sheets control
the graphical presentation of content. These two tools allow content to be
restricted in placement within the document (template regions) and adherent
to a predefined visual order (style selection - also called classing). By making
those associations between content and presentation we convey the relationships
of content - because what something looks like is what something is (especially
in an environment like a website, where there is little additional context
beyond the page). More importantly, we can then use this relationship in reverse
to identify content and extract it from the page and into our feeds.
RSS DreamFeeder is designed from the ground up to work with Dreamweaver templates.
There are template-oriented features throughout, including restricting the
source pages to particular templates and capturing content from specified template
regions. If you templates defined in Dreamweaver they will automatically be
listed within RSS DreamFeeder and you can simply select from the lists to specify
which template or region you need.
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