Anyone aware of how the .dwt’s can be converted to ‘standard’ hand coded templates?
Maintaining editible regions, etc. Not sure how these are called behind the scenes.
Finally getting off the dreameaver bus, and going to more of a bare bones editor, I have these on 4 sites. Lots of pages. And I can’t be locked into dreamweaver forever.
Do that with PHP includes.
You talking about for editable regions only or for the entire page - individual page regions and the old template?
Am trying to do this via renaming mainly. Have hundred + pages on templates and I’m trying to dump Dreamweaver before its end, early April when we’re pretty much foced into a new OS. These dwt’s seem to be the major holdback.
Have searched but not finding much of anything on making templates within a site.
I’m basically saying that the alternative to what Dw is doing for you is to use a bit of PHP, whether by having items that appear on many pages or by setting up some dynamic templates. As for the conversion, though, I can only think of manual ways to get rid of the old Dw code.
I think the amount of work you’ll need to do isn’t so much the number of pages but the number of template files.
I’ve never seen a dwt file, but I’m guessing it would require changing any “placeholders” with include()s that output markup, data from the db etc.
That’s how it works in my brief experience. A friend of mine was in the same situation, and I just helped him replace all the Dw bits with includes. It wasn’t a huge site, though.