How are templates used in Visual Site...

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If I design my own template which comprises of a web page header, and two side bars, which contain images, navigation bars etc... and add this design to each of my web pages, would i have to upload all the pages again if I wanted to change the template?

I know some design software uses CSS, but I have no experience of this, however I understand how useful it would be, but I dont want to spend ages learning HTML when I only work on 1 website.

Thanks

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Templates, or 'themes' in VSD consist of a .vnu file and a folder with graphic files. The vnu file is proprietary to VSD. Html files can't be opened in that programme.

If you haven't created a site yet, I would look for a theme which in principle looks like what you want to have (header banner, nav bar and two side panels), open it in VSD and then change out the graphics bit by bit until you have placed your own graphics where you want it.

Mind you, since I'm a coder and not really a user of VSD, the best would be to experiment, or to wait until someone more knowledgeable comes along. ;)
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Keep a master page as your template with all the objects that all other pages will have in common. Now every time you add a new page you use the master page to copy from. Now if you want to change your site around, design a new master then copy the objects from the old pages that you want to carry over to the new. Your going to have to adjust the copied content to the right positions because you changed the master. There's really no way around this. With hard coding you still have to copy the code to the pages that generates the objects. In VSD your copying the objects that results in generating the code.:)
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Thanks guys - that's exactly the way I currently have to do it, which is a pain when you want to upgrade your design template and have lots of pages to upload again.

Never mind :rolleyes:

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