<castawaycafe.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello everyone,
> I am really hoping someone can help me with this issue- I am a
> boxedart.com member and I am fairly decent with Dreamweaver, so I have
> been able to use the templates from this site to make some good
> websites, BUT when I really want to change the template and graphics,
> the instructions that i find on the website (and others) are just not
> helping. I go into the psd file folder that is located with the
> template, I open it up and open the template (.psd file) in
> photoshop. I make my changes, and then save it with the exact same
> name as the original, in the exact same folder- I even get the little
> warning about overwriting the existing file with the same name- but
> low and behold, I then open the html file in Dreamweaver to edit the
> actual content of the page and it reverts to the images folder instead
> of the psd file. Has anyone had any luck with this? Its driving me
> crazy and I am sure it is something simple!
>
> T
Actually, from your description it is about as simple as it gets. Note your
own words:
"I make my changes, and then save it with the exact same name as the
original, in the exact same folder"
And then:
"I then open the html file in Dreamweaver to edit the actual content of the
page and it reverts to the images folder"
No, it's not reverting to anything. Unless you changed the URL reference for
the images, they are still pointing to the folder in your **site heirarchy**
(not your template folder heirarchy) where the images are stored. When you
edit the images in your template image folder you do nothing to alter the
images in your site's image folder (unless it is pointing to your templates
image folder, a very unwise move).
For example, if your local boxedart template heirarchy looks like this:
c:\boxedart\templates\psd\
and your local site images folder heirarchy looks like this:
c:\mywebs\mysite\wwwroot\images\
and the image file is named MyImage.jpg, then your image reference will look
like this (if the HTML pages are located in wwwroot)
<img src="images/MyImage.jpg" alt="This is MyImage." height="250"
width="250" />
(NOTE: The closing " />" is only necessary for XHTML. A normal close is OK
for HTML.)
When you edit the file in PS and then save it back to
c:\boxedart\templates\psd\, NOTHING has happened to the image stored in
c:\mywebs\mysite\wwwroot\images\, and that is where the HTML image reference
(in the <img> tag) is looking to find the image.
So, you fire up DM, preview the page, and... damn, it's still the same!
Well, yeah. Until you copy the changed version into the location pointed to
by the <img> tag it will still be looking at the old image and loading it
when the HTML for the page is parsed. That's, umm... the way HTML works.
You say that you are "fairly decent with Dreamweaver." May I suggest that
you become somewhat more familiar with the fundamental principles of HTML?
Yes, Dreamweaver is a fine tool, and I like it a lot. If you want, you can
achieve a good deal in WYSIWYG mode. However, as instances such as this
illustrate, it is important to learn HTML if you're going to do Web design
even if you spend most of your time in Dreamweaver's WYSIWYG Design Mode.
prowler
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