Does Coffee Cup HTML5 software support Dreamweaver templates? I have read the knowlege base and can't find anything that confirms that. I design with DreamWeaver but have clients that want to edit their own website but can't afford to buy DW. I would recommend your more affordable software if I knew that they were not able to edit the template protected areas.
Thanks, Ann

Hiya Annette,

The software doesn't have any kind of template protection. Templates are contained in a specific type of file, but these are usable with other programs as well as CC's HTML Editor. If your client is given the ability to edit their own website, they would have full ability using the html editor to edit all aspects that they are given access to on the server.

If you are not wanting them to change aspects of the theme or certain parts of the site, then the only way is to use something like Website Access Manager to limit their access to the files and setup a way they can edit only certain things. Not easily done using code based programming unfortunately. The only way to really give them limited access would be to use something like a CMS style website where you can setup an account with specific access privileges.

CC's HTML Editor is pretty much like Dreamweaver, just not quite as feature rich. But it is a very feature rich program itself and is a code and visual editor. It edits the same way that Dreamweaver does. I do know you should be able to create a theme and save it as a template file inside HTML Editor and this would put the theme file itself outside of the editing situation since what it ususally does is have you open the theme and it creates files for you to use "from" the theme rather than using the theme file itself. This keeps the original theme safe and sound while allowing you to edit how you want it to look in the files it created for you.

I'm not sure if this is the information you are after, but hopefully it helped something.

Only DW and Contribute support DW's templates. Contribute is a cutdown version of DW which allows editing of the editable areas of a DW template.

Here is my template protection for clients who want to edit their own sites.

here is mine



then they have FTP access to upload to the content folder.