Chapter 9
Dynamic Web Templates (DWT)are introduced in this chapter. In many
respects DWTs are one of the best things introduced in web design. First
appearing in Dreamweaver as Dreamweaver Web Templates they were adopted
and morphed into Dynamic Web Templates by Microsoft starting with
FrontPage 2003.
There are two primary benefits to DWTs:
First, they are server independent. This means it doesn't matter what
type of web server you are using to host your website because DWTs work
inside of Expression Web (bonus all Expression DWTs will work with
Dreamweaver as well but not all Dreamweaver DTWs will work with
Expression) you can reap the benefits of a DWT without regard to what
your server supports.
Second, DTWs enforce a consistent branding, look and feel though out
your site.
DWTs are not perfect, the first benefit above is also their biggest
liability since you have to upload all files that change when you edit
or update the DWT but compared to having to individually update every
page that is attached to a DWT publishing the attached pages is a major
improvment.
Exercises
Files are the raw code used in the exercises while Examples are the
completed file.
Chapter 9 zip file