Creating a Dreamweaver Template

Before you begin

On the Content Manager Server machine, WebDAV Server must be installed and configured. On the client machine, you must have set up a Dreamweaver templating client machine as instructed in Setting up Dreamweaver templating.

About this task

This section describes how to effectively use Dreamweaver when saving files through WebDAV. It does not explain the various options Dreamweaver has or how to set up a site.

Procedure

  1. Open Adobe Dreamweaver.
  2. Choose File > New from the menu.
  3. Create a Blank Page of Type HTML template . When you click Create, the new file opens.
  4. Choose File > Save As to save the template. Browse to the location on your file system that you use to store your local copies of Content Manager items. You specified this location when you created a new site. It is recommended to store SDL Tridion templates with your other templates.
  5. If you are publishing to a Web site that is not UTF-8-encoded, or if you are unsure whether your Web site is UTF-8 encoded or not, switch to code view and remove the following line:
    
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
  6. Next, check in the Template. Right-click the template and choose Check in from the context menu.

    When the file is checked in, a lock indicates this:

Results

You have now created a Template Building Block containing the Adobe Dreamweaver Template that you can use with SDL Tridion.