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Collaborating on a website refresh

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I am using DW CC on Windows 10. My co- designer has all of the content pages from a website that was previous  written in Drupal. I created a template for the pages in DW. We are in two different geographic locations. I uploaded the template to the server, they applied the template at their location and uploaded the pages. Then decided they wanted a change in the template. I have made changes to the template and uploaded it again. There are several hundred pages involved. Is there any other way for these pages to be updated other than A) they download new template reapply it and upload the updated pages or B) me to download all pages apply the template and upload the updated pages?

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Nancy OShea
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Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
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November 4, 2018

You mention Drupal which is a platform for building dynamically generated web sites in PHP & MySQL.  Are you saying you've abandoned Drupal and switched to a static Dreamweaver Template (DWT)? 

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adhawk8668Author
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November 4, 2018

Yes! site was originally built using DW, tried Drupal didn't like the result now going back to DW template and static pages,

Nancy OShea
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Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
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November 4, 2018

DW Templates were the poor man's way of managing 20-50 page static websites, mostly by people who couldn't work with server-side technologies.  But you're doing the complete opposite.  And quite frankly I don't see any upside to this except a lot of extra, painfully tedious work ahead.  

Drupal isn't for everyone. I get that.  But there are other platforms you could use that would make a lot more sense for a site with "several hundred pages."

WordPress Themes work on the server-side   So if you you make changes to your WP child theme and upload it, it's instantly applied to the entire site.  

Designing WordPress Child Themes with Dreamweaver CC | Adobe Blog

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