A Theme applies appearance and graphical navigation (if you create a navigation view and insert nav bars / banners)
- you can still use themes w/ a DWT
An Include page "imbeds" html content in one page from another page (but you need to manually apply it to all pages - unless you are
using shared borders which are special Include pages)
- you can remove the Include page and use the DWT for the same thing
- primary advantage is the DWT is it not constrained by the limitations of Include pages (limited to content inside of the <body>
tags)
- DWT's can also be used to "prevent" other editors from editing certain regions of a page
PS
Currently automatic updates of the DWT is limited to use in sites running disc based webs (DBW) or WSS - for sites running under the
FP SE you need to manually open each page to update the DWT
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| Thanks for your reply. I have your 2000 book here and refer to it all the
| time. I must still be missing something though. How is a DWT different or
| more useful than say a Theme with an Include Page? I'm honored that you
| chose to answer my question!
| | > The idea of Dynamic Web Templates is that you want to
| > create a number of Web pages having a similar appearance.
| > So, you create a template that contains all the elements
| > you want to appear in each page, and then you attach the
| > template to each page that should have that appearance.
| >
| > The "Dynamic" part is that you can later change the
| > template, and FrontPage will propagate the changes to the
| > non-editable portions of each page that attaches it.
| >
| > Note that a conflict would occur if FrontPage propagated
| > changes to the editable portions of pages. The template
| > would wipe out your edits.
| >
| > That's why any part of a page that the template controls
| > (and refreshes) is non-editable.
| >
| > Jim Buyens
| > Microsoft FrontPage MVP
| >
http://www.interlacken.com
| > Author of:
| > *----------------------------------------------------
| > |\---------------------------------------------------
| > || Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
| > ||---------------------------------------------------
| > || Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
| > || Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
| > || Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
| > || (All from Microsoft Press)
| > |/---------------------------------------------------
| > *----------------------------------------------------
| >
| >
| > >-----Original Message-----
| > >I just upgraded to 2003 from 2000 and saw the DWT. After
| > >reading about it on the MS site I then went to the DWTIG
| > >site but still am confused.
| > >
| > >I hope someone here will help me understand the purpose
| > >of them. Are they used for fast changes for updating a
| > >site, to keep amateurs out of the editable regions or
| > >what? Can't someone with a graphics editor do as well as
| > >quickly?
| > >
| > >If I'm missing something please let me have both
| > >barrels, but what I saw at the consortium seemed
| > >expensive.
| > >
| > >
| > >.
| > >
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