Dreamwaever Template Question

Report · Sep 28, 2017

I am new to Dreamweaver. I just took a job, where I am responsible to maintaining an institute's website. I have absolutely no experience with website design, and I only received a bare bones overview on how to update/edit the website. I apologize in advance if this is a simple fix. I was wondering if anyone could give me any advice on how to fix the problem?

I am using CS5.

My issue is that on our website, the template does not load properly. Here is the website: Welcome to the Institute for Mesoamerican Studies . However, in Dreamweaver itself, the template is all there.

Here is the code for the template:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<!--

Design by Free CSS Templates

http://www.freecsstemplates.org

Released for free under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License

Name : FronzenAge

Description: A two-column, fixed-width template suitable for business sites and blogs.

Version : 1.0

Released : 20071108

-->

<head>

<title>Welcome to the Institute for Mesoamerican Studies</title>

<!--[if IE]>

#sidebar #calendar {

background-position: 0px 20px;

}

</style>

<![endif]-->

</head> <script>

(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i=i||function(){

(i.q=i.q||[]).push(arguments)},i.l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),

m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)

})(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');

ga('create', 'UA-44011645-1', 'albany.edu');

ga('send', 'pageview');

</script>

<body>

<div id="logo"> <a href="file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/IMS WEBSITE/Templates/index.html"><img src="file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/Images/logo_white.jpg" alt="logo IMS" width="446" height="135" align="right" /></a><a href="file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/index.html">Home</a>|<a href="file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/contactus.html">Contact us</a>|<a href="file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/Spanish website/sp_index.html">Español</a></div>

<ul>

<li class="first"><a href="file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/publications.html" accesskey="4" title="">Publications</a></li>

<li class="first"><a href="file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/research.html"> Research</a></li>

<li><a href="file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/IMSassociates.html" accesskey="3" title="">IMS Associates</a></li>

<li><a href="file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/awards.html" accesskey="5" title="">Awards</a><a href="file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/IMS WEBSITE/new_research.html"></a></li>

<li><a href="file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/events.html">Events</a></li>

<li><a href="file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/textile_collection.html" accesskey="5" title="">Textiles</a></li>

<li><a href="file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/aboutus.html">About Us</a></li>

<li><a href="#" accesskey="6" title=""></a><a href="file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/links.html">Links</a></li>

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<blockquote><h1 class="title">Welcome to the IMS!</h1>

</blockquote>

<p>The Institute for Mesoamerican Studies (IMS) is a non-profit educational research institute dedicated to the study and dissemination of knowledge concerning the peoples and cultures of Mesoamerica (Mexico and northern Central America). IMS serves to organize and coordinate the work of the Mesoamericanist faculty at the State University of New York at Albany. </p>

<p>We have the largest number of full-time Mesoamericanists of any institution north of Mexico, and our members are among the most active and prominent scholars in the field of Mesoamerican anthropology. The primary activities of IMS are research and publication.</p>

<h2>Upcoming Publications:</h2>

<p><em>Indigenous Bodies, Maya Minds: Religion and Modernity in a Transnational K'iche' Community</em> by C. James MacKenzie will be released in Fall 2015 by the Institute for Mesoamerican Studies and the University Press of Colorado.</p>

<p><em>Basic K'ichee' Grammar</em> (Revised Edition) by James L. Mondloch will be released in Fall 2015 by the Institute for Mesoamerican Studies and the University Press of Colorado.</p>

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<h2>Spotlight: IMS Associates Receive 3 New National Science Foundation Grants</h2>

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<p class="post">The Institute for Mesoamerican Studies congratulates <a href="http://www.albany.edu/anthro/rrosenswig.php">Robert Rosenswig </a>and <a href="http://www.albany.edu/anthro/masson.php">Marilyn Masson </a>IMS faculty associates, and <a href="file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/IMS WEBSITE/sa_antonelli.html">Caroline Antonelli</a>, an IMS student associate, on their recent <strong>National Science Foundation grants</strong>. Rosenswig's project is entitled "The Role Of Competition In The Development Of Societal Complexity." Read more about the project <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1418988&HistoricalAwards=false">here</a>. Masson's project</p>

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<ul>

<li>

<h3><a href="file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/events.html">Upcoming Events </a></h3>

</li>

<li>

<div align="left"><a href="file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/ArguetaFlyer.pdf">The U Turn</a> by Luis Argueta </div>

<strong>Friday, September 29, 2017</strong>

<div align="left">Lecture Center (LC) Room 4

<div align="left">University at Albany - SUNY</div>

</div>

</li>

<li>

<div align="left">Happy Hour! </div>

</div>

<strong>Friday, October, 6, 2017</strong></div>

<div align="left">Lionheart Pub

<div align="left">448 Madison Ave, Albany, NY 12208</div>

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</li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li>Recent Research on Early State Formation in Oaxaca, Mexico

<div align="left"> Dr. Elsa Redmond

<div align="left"><strong>Friday, November 10, 2017 3:30pm</strong>

<div align="left">Fine Arts (FA) 126

<div align="left">University at Albany - SUNY</div>

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<li>

<h3><a href="http://www.albany.edu/ims/events.html">Previous Events</a></h3>

</li>

<li>

<p class="entry"> <strong>IMS congratulates:</strong></p>

<a href="http://www.albany.edu/anthro/rrosenswig.php">Robert Rosenswig </a>and <a href="http://www.albany.edu/anthro/masson.php">Marilyn Masson </a>IMS faculty associates, and <a href="file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/Templates/sa_antonelli1.html">Caroline Antonelli</a>, an IMS student associate, on their recent <strong>National Science Foundation grants</strong>. Read more about the projects <a href="file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/index.html">here</a>. </li>

<li><a href="file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/sa_sheedy.html">Crystal Sheedy</a>, an IMS student associate, on her recent <strong>Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA</strong>) Fellowship.Read more about the projects <a href="file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/index.html">here</a>. </li>

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<li>

<h3>Quick Links </h3>

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<li class="entry"><a href="file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/events.html" target="_blank">IMS Events</a></li>

<li><a href="file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/IMS WEBSITE/Templates/new_decorm.html"> </a><a href="file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/Publications/Newsletters/IMSNewsletter_2016.pdf" target="_blank">2016 Newsletter</a></li>

<li><a href="file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/decorm.html">DeCormier Memorial Scholarship</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.albany.edu/anthro" target="_blank">Department of Anthropology Website</a></li>

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</div>

</div>

<p class="credit">Design: 2014 Mounia El Kotni</p>

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<p>Institute for Mesoamerican Studies / Arts & Sciences, 233 / 1400 Washington Avenue / Albany, NY 12222 </p>

<p>ims@albany.edu</p>

<a href="http://www.simplehitcounter.com" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none; color: #C0C0C0;">web counter since Dec. 2015</a></p>

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<td><a href="file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/index.html">Home</a>|<a href="file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/contactus.html">Contact us</a>|<a href="file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/Spanish website/sp_index.html">Español</a></td>

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</body>

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Report · Sep 28, 2017

You're not working in a defined local site folder because all assets are pointing to files on your local C drive.

file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/index.html

When working with Dreamweaver, it's critical to have a local site folder for your projects Example, C:\Mesoamerican\

You can create one by going to Site > New Site. See screenshots.

Your Files Panel should look something like this. The Templates folder contains your .dwt file(s) and nothing more.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator
Alt-Web Design & Publishing ~ Web : Print : Graphics : Media

Report · Sep 28, 2017

A Properly formed Template.dwt file should resemble the basic structure. Notice the link path to the external CSS file. All template assets should follow a similar path. ../folder/filename.ext

<!doctype html>

<head>

<title>Unique Page Title</title>

</head>

<body>

<header>Content for sitewide header Tag Goes Here</header>

<nav>Content for sitewide nav Tag Goes Here</nav>

<article>Content for unique article Tag Goes Here</article>

<aside>Content for unique aside Tag Goes Here</aside>

<footer>Content for sitewide footer Tag Goes Here</footer>

</body>

</html>

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator
Alt-Web Design & Publishing ~ Web : Print : Graphics : Media

Report · Oct 04, 2017

Thank you for your help. I created a new root folder, and I repopulated the folder in dreamweaver from the remote server. However, now, when I go to look at the code for the template, it still is pulling files from the folder that is on the desktop. Do you know how to have it pull the files from the newly created root folder?

Report · Oct 04, 2017

Open your Template.dwt file and use Find & Replace in Current Document to remove all unwanted characters from your link paths.

Find: file:///C|/Users/cs469948/Desktop/Local Mesoamerican/

Replace: ../

Save Template and populate changes to child pages. Preview child pages in your browsers to ensure everything is working as it should.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator
Alt-Web Design & Publishing ~ Web : Print : Graphics : Media

Report · Oct 03, 2017

Thank you for your help. I haven't been able to fix the issue yet because my boss "put" the entire website online, and it has been "putting" the files from the remote server for four days now. I have been hoping that it will finish its task, so I can see if what he did fixed the problem. I am doubting that what he did fixed the problem. As soon as it finishes its tasks, I will be sure to try out your suggestions. Thank you again for your help, and I apologize that it is taking so long for me to respond. We have an old computer and terrible internet connection in the office I work in.

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