I am making my first template and having problems.

I have made a template in photoshop and sliced it up and brought it into dreamweaver 2004.

There is one content box in the middle that will change with each page. It has a faded mage which i have made a background image. When I go to create my template I get problems. I save as template. Then I make the region editable. But when i create page from this template the whole page is locked and you can not add anyting. You can add text in the .dwt file but not any of the new pages. Any ideas?

Also why do the slices move when you add text onto a page? Can you not lock that? Layers is teh way forward??

website impact99 has the template on

Please help!

CSS is the way forward, "layers" are an old holdover term from the old Netscape Navigator days. It is better to use CSS and <div>s to layout out your page rather than a mess of tables. DW has a VERY bad habit of making EVERY "layer" absolutely positioned, that is NOT the way to go.

Unless the images are specified as background images, then they will move because the image and the text occupy the same space.

Are you having any troubles getting listed on the SERP's? I agree with ladynred, you have way to many tables, when it would be so much simpler to use css to do page layout.

There is a way to use z-index to prevent your text and images from colliding, but for that you have to use css.

If you want any chance at all in getting listed on the search engines, I'd scrap the entire thing. Also, your links don't always work, they actually didn't work more than they did.

Also, there is a link at the bottom of your, um, box, that says XHTML, I don't know what that means, but that page wouldn't validate as XHTML the way it stands.

If you don't know HTML or CSS, then learning them is probably easier than learning some WYSIWYG editors. It looks good, but it doesn't seem to function right.

Okay guys thanks for your help!

I have played about withh css and want to make the site tableles. I was following a tutorial that shows you how to make a website in photoshop and import to dreweaver. It used tables.

So if I want to use css with the original template design what is the work flow?

Should i still slices each indivdual button? Or Create larger slices and then put the slices into divs area on a css layout? For example 4- 5 slices and insert them into a css div layout?