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**Mohab** · 01-17-2007, 08:54 AM

I designed a site based on a template with Dreamweaver 8 and found the only way to change pages' titles was through an html editor as the tile part in the html in Dreamweaver is uneditable.

I tried renaming an .html file to .txt and opening it in notepad but got ASCII characters and no code.

How do I open html files for editing in Notepad?

**LadynRed** · 01-17-2007, 11:16 AM

You don't need to rename an html file to anything to open it in a text editor. Just open it from Notepad like any other plain text file.

**vangogh** · 01-17-2007, 01:15 PM

Just like the Lady the said. You'll either want to open Notepad first and then open the file inside it or right click on the file and select open with and then notepad.

**Tom_M** · 01-17-2007, 01:20 PM

Can't you make the title editable my modifying the template? As of now it sounds like you have it set as not editable, so it stays consistent throughout the site. Just edit the template file to allow you to change the title maybe?

**Mohab** · 01-18-2007, 03:14 AM

Thank you, notepad opened the html files.

Tom_M, I tried everything wit the template. I evn tried going into the template's code and finding the <title> tab and marking it as an editable eegion then saving and updating the files that are based on this template, after opening one of the html files and tying to change it's title Dreamweaver prevented me with a popup window saying that this part of the file was locked by the template.

I searched the net but there was no clues there either.

I'm sure Macromedia have not forgot to put this feaure in but why have tey kept it such a secret?

**DotHQ** · 08:26 AM

I wonder if the part you are trying to edit is a .jpg included in the .html file. If so you need something like Photoshop to edit it .....unless Dreamweaver has that option. Or maybe just create another header/title inside of dreamweaver, if that is possible. I don't use dreamweaver so I'm making assumptions here that might not be true.
fyi ...i .jpg is anothe file read into the html file so it is seperate from the .html when you are editing it.
Hope this makes sense and helps.

**ForrestCroce** · 01-18-2007, 10:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mohab

Tom_M, I tried everything wit the template. I evn tried going into the template's code and finding the <title> tab and marking it as an editable eegion then saving and updating the files that are based on this template, after opening one of the html files and tying to change it's title Dreamweaver prevented me with a popup window saying that this part of the file was locked by the template.

In a template, you have the read-only parts on lock down, then you create "editable regions." In those, you can go in and change things. So ... you need to create one of these, and then put your page title in it.

Here's the Dreamweaver specific html code:

Code:

<head>
	<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="PageTitle" -->
	<title>Candid Portraiture by Forrest Croce</title>
	<!-- InstanceEndEditable -->
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
	<link href="/Photos.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
	<script src="/Nav.js"></script>
</head>

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