I'm having trouble with the folder structure in Dreamweaver 2021

Thanks @virgo l for posting the live link, it makes things much clearer.

From your site structure, we can see that you are using Dreamweaver Templates in the standard way. As @Nancy OShea explained, all your HTML pages are located at the root of your site, and your template file is automatically stored inside the Templates folder.

Because the Templates folder is one level deeper than your pages, Dreamweaver correctly uses ../ in relative paths for CSS files, images, and other assets. This is normal and expected behavior. When Dreamweaver creates child pages from the template, it automatically adjusts the paths depending on the file location. This mechanism has not changed between Dreamweaver CS6 and CC 2021.

So your template is not “disconnected”. It is simply located where Dreamweaver always stores templates.

In your file lakishasenior.dwt, we can clearly see the three editable regions:

• doctitle, where you can change the page title for each page (Home, About Me, Warm Springs, etc.)
• head, where you can add page specific CSS or JavaScript, for the concerned child page, if needed
• contentarea, where each page’s main content is placed

From a technical point of view, everything looks correct and your template is working as intended. You do not need to rebuild your website.

The only minor issue I noticed is the space in your background image filename:

background-image: url(images/winter%20_bg.png);

It works, but it is better practice to avoid spaces in file names.

If something still doesn’t behave as expected, please describe one concrete example (page name and file involved). But, from what we can see, the template structure itself is correct.

Site management is exactly the same in CC as it was in CS.

This assumes your Local Site folder is defined and correctly pointing to a folder on your computer's primary hard drive.  Example, C:\MyTestSite\

There are 3 types of link paths:

<a href="https://example.com/folder/file_name.html">Absolute Link</a>
<a href="../server/folder/file_name.html">Site Root Relative Link</a>
<a href="folder/file_name.html">Document Relative Link</a>​

For ease of use, most users choose Document Relative Links.  See screenshot.

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Templates are saved to your Local Site's Templates folder.

C:\MyTestSite\

child_page1.html

child_page2.html

index.html

  - Templates\

     main_template.dwt

I hope that makes sense. 

Post back if you need more help.