Dreamweaver, can't map my title editable region, body editable region mps fine:?

Question

Hi

step1:
I created a template file as follows with 2 editable regions:title,body in dreamweaver cs3:

1.Opened an existing html file = xxxxx.html
2.file > save as template > temp
3.I then created title region as follows:

(a) Navigated to a an area on the temp file in design view
(b) Templates > New Editable Region, created a title region

repeated step 3 for body as well.

step2:
I then opened an existing simple html file with html,title,head,body tags in it, and attached the templae to it:

1.Opened an existing html file = main.html
2.Modify > template > Apply Template to Page

A dialog box appeared:

site: massag therapy(name of my site that i had created earlier)
templates: temp

Inconsistent regions names
so i resolved it by selecting body form the drop down list:
Move content to a new region:body

After this i saved it and when i opened my main.html file the body was mapped correctly with the templae applied to it,

But the wherei had created a editable region for title the following was displayed:
title (in grey)

I dont understand why isn't dreamweaver working, i had the same thing happen in frontpage?

kind regards

thanks in advance

Answer 1

My dear friend!
As a pro, the first thing I would do is to get rid of Dreamweaver: you will never become a good coder...
It takes a long time to learn DW, and the only thing this program does is to write bad code for you.
Later on, when you will want things a bit more complicated, you will discover that DW CAN'T do it, or that you have to BUY expensive add-ons.

Start writing your code using notepad!
Use HTML, Javascript, PhP and MySQL: you can do everything with this.
The school? www.w3schools.com. and www.php.net
Very good tutorials.