CSS and Templates

[gwmyers]

I am fairly new to CSS and I am in the process of converting FrontPage table templates to CSS. My CSS layout is in perfect condition until I add an the editable region option to the template. Once I do this, my layout becomes out of alignment. Not sure if this is a CSS issue or DWT template issue.

Do I still need to use DWT's and editable regions if I am converting to a CSS layout?

I was wondering the best way to approach this. The reason I have to create templates is becausing other people will be updating these pages and I have to have the editable content easily marked so they can just copy an paste content on the page for easy updates. Obviously...these people are not very web savvy if you know what I mean...

Any help you can provide is appreciated. :)

Thanks in advance.

Gayle

[ballboy]

"Templates and CSS"
I just posted similar...spooky :)

[gwmyers]

Oh..you sure did..I just read it. I hope we get some good advice. This is driving me crazy!

[garyr_h]

Have you looked into server side includes? Either shtml, php or asp would be easy to impliment and could serve you better than using a dreamweaver template.

[gwmyers]

Thanks garyr_h. Actually I was looking into this but not very familiar with it. Know any URLs that would help me?

Well this is another issue I have faced...In Frontpage, I built separate pages for header, leftnav, footer and was going to insert them on my template page as FrontPage's version of includes, but this seems to get my pages out of alignment. I am using one stylesheet to address the layout, but for some reason when I use the FP include feature it messes things up. Not sure why this happens either. There is redundant content on my pages that need to be on every page so some sort of includes should work. I will keep searching...

[crosswalker21]

This is the reason I will never use Frontpage...
I'm not very familiar with it though, so I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do. Are you trying to switch over from using tables to using CSS? Or am I reading that wrong?

[gwmyers]

I am not really thrilled about FP either, but it is what the company uses.

Yes I am converting my table templates to CSS.