After building my index page, I duplicated it, scrubbed out everything except, the grid, a row, headers and footers, and saved that page as a template from which to build all pages. This way I have consistent elements such as Button Links, Email Buttons, http elemets etc.

The Button Links on the template page each have a Class assigned to to each. But now that I need to change the link on one button, it will not change the same button on 75 other pages.

Am I missing something obvious here? How do I change a link that affects an identical element across the entire site?

Hi Freddy - let me preface my remark by saying I'd rather be wrong, hope someone one explains a simpler way to do what you desire to accomplish?

Once you have created a link button, or set a link up, that reference is in the html portion and as far as I know, you cannot do a cascading update after the creation. The CSS properties are shared but the link reference is HTML that is created in the HTML page body and thus, the link property content is unique to each page.

If you are planning ahead for many pages sharing a common link - and you expect or think an edit of that object may be forthcoming, then the only obvious way (that I can come up with off hand) would be to use an html element that pulls up external content and include that external file in your resources.

If you use a common ID for the objects, you could use a shared external java script to update the common object's internal HTML when the page loads - but that may not work as you envision, across every platform or browser.

The problem with the ideas I have come up with - they require pre-planned provisioning, or else substantial retro-fit, they won't save you labor on your current iteration.

Regards,
Gordon

If your html editor has the ability to do a "Find & Replace" function, try it from there. (do it for whole site not just the open document)

Thanks. I think I get the drift, but all this is way above my head.
The Find & Replace function seems like the sensible place to start, except I am working in RSD, not an html Editor. Unless you are refering to a feature within RSD.

Hmm.. sounds like one item on 75 pages needs to be changed, one by one.

You use the HTML editor after you export it , but before you load it onto your hosting (ftp)

Use an html element and either use php or ssi to work around this.

CoffeeCup is supposed to be including a "master/template" feature sometime this early summer where a change on one page would be propagated through other pages. Perhaps you can hold out a little longer?

I called CoffeeCup about this because its a make or break feature for me because my site will grow to a hundred or so landing pages broken into different sets for google adwords directs. If I make a change on a landing page, I could have almost a dozen sets of pages to change where links or other items/graphics might not be able to share a find and replace function. Coffeecup assured me this feature is coming. This was a feature in ... Frontpage! I still use Expression Web, and I love this feature.

"CoffeeCup is supposed to be including a "master/template" feature sometime this early summer where a change on one page would be propagated through other pages."

If Scott could give us a conformation on this that would be super!

Well, as many here know; the CC standard is: "soon"

I do not think that there will be a "master/template" feature as RSD kinda works that way right now. I did hear there will be libraries introduced in future versions of RSD.