dreamweaver template issues.

If you are planning on continuing with Dreamweaver consider updating your site to use use include files, for example if your  site is PHP based use PHP includes. Dreamweaver isn't getting any more updates and it better if you code is Dreamweaver independent,  in other words so you can switch to another editor without any issues.

Do you have access to the original .dwt template file?

I hope for your sake you're not working with Nested Templates 😣. 

Links contained inside template.dwt files have a different path because .dwt files are saved to your site's Templates folder.

Links in Child Pages spawned from the template (File > New > From Site Templates) would have a simpler link path.

For more precise answers, we need to know:

1. Are you using links relative to Site Root or Document?

2. Where is your child page saved relative to the linked page?  Are they both at site root level or do you keep pages in sub-folders?

Can we see the page in question to review the code?