Noor M
03-01-2010, 04:46 PM
Hi everyone,
I represent the non-profit religious organization Mission of Maitreya, www.maitreya.org. Our website is full of problems (we know this), and I am currently in the process of trying to learn about html, Expression Web 3, web development, etc. from the ground up, so I can eventually start the site again from scratch and try to make it standards-compliant, error-free, etc. However, for now, we have one major problem I am looking for answers with.
We use a single template for nearly all of our pages (over 2000). It has a header, footer, sidebars, a javascript menu, etc. We are currently using .dwt files (two or three of them to account for minor differences in style) across our whole site for this template. What we have noticed is that whenever we try to make changes to the .dwt files, and then re-save them, it messes up the whole site in lots of wierd ways (the CSS files become unattached to pages, formatting changes, etc.). I'm sure at least some of this has to do with other problems on our site, but I have heard of other people having the same problems with .dwt files. It's also a hassle and time-consuming to re-save them over so many pages every time we make a change.
I looked into alternatives to .dwt files, and found something called Master Pages, which look good, except as I understand it you can only use Master Pages with .aspx pages, and it doesn't seem logical to convert our whole website to .aspx pages. Therefore, I am looking for another alternative, or a better way to use .dwt files or Master Pages. What are my options? Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I represent the non-profit religious organization Mission of Maitreya, www.maitreya.org. Our website is full of problems (we know this), and I am currently in the process of trying to learn about html, Expression Web 3, web development, etc. from the ground up, so I can eventually start the site again from scratch and try to make it standards-compliant, error-free, etc. However, for now, we have one major problem I am looking for answers with.
We use a single template for nearly all of our pages (over 2000). It has a header, footer, sidebars, a javascript menu, etc. We are currently using .dwt files (two or three of them to account for minor differences in style) across our whole site for this template. What we have noticed is that whenever we try to make changes to the .dwt files, and then re-save them, it messes up the whole site in lots of wierd ways (the CSS files become unattached to pages, formatting changes, etc.). I'm sure at least some of this has to do with other problems on our site, but I have heard of other people having the same problems with .dwt files. It's also a hassle and time-consuming to re-save them over so many pages every time we make a change.
I looked into alternatives to .dwt files, and found something called Master Pages, which look good, except as I understand it you can only use Master Pages with .aspx pages, and it doesn't seem logical to convert our whole website to .aspx pages. Therefore, I am looking for another alternative, or a better way to use .dwt files or Master Pages. What are my options? Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.