Re: [BlueGriffon] Creating Templates

[Greg Chapman]

Hi Peabrane,

On 18 Nov 12 21:52 peabrane <bhe...@live.co.uk> said:
> I have created a site using Dreamweaver and I am trying to migrate
> it to Bluegriffon. My site uses a template and my first step was to
> recreate a template under Bluegriffon. I got my template page as a
> normal html file and I wanted to use this as a tempalte. However, I
> do not have a "save as template" option on my Bluegriffon file menu.
> I thought that purchasing the Template Manager might solve this. I
> purchased it but no change to the file menu.

The term "template" can be used in a number of ways.

I am not familiar with Dreamweaver, but believe that has an internal
template facility that allows you to create a special kind of page to
which you add certain boilerplate content of your devising. When using
your "template" to build your site it adds the boilerplate text into
any pages you create. Further, should you alter your template then all
existing pages will be updated to include that new content.
BlueGriffon does not have a facility of this kind.

When BlueGriffon refers to "templates" it means a standard HTML file
(plus any associated CSS and image files needed to produce a standard
page). You are then expected to edit this collection of files to adapt
it for your purpose, and then make many copies of the HTML file. To
these copies you then add your own content. There is no facility to
update existing pages should you later edit the content of the HTML
files that forms part of the "template".

> I now have access to hundreds of templates that I do not want or
> need. Was I wasting my money?

It seems so - if you understood that the BlueGriffon Templates add-on
would provide a Dreamweaver-style template facility. All BlueGriffon's
templates add-on does is provide simple access, within BlueGriffon, to
some of the better downloadable web templates you can find on the
Internet.

Greg Chapman
http://www.gregtutor.plus.com
Helping new users of KompoZer and The GIMP
Still exploring BlueGriffon

[peabrane]

Understood.

Thanks Greg