Dreamweaver Templates

[MClements]

I'm creating a site for a school, which is going to be updated by a teacher. However, his html knowledge is very little so I wanted to make it so that he could update the site very easily without affecting the design.

I have looked at using Dreamweaver Templates. However, they look very complicated and long-winded to set-up for a fairly large site so is it worth doing it this way, using editable regions?

If not, what would you recommend as the best way to do this?

[benihana]

do you have any technology that will allow includes?

we use a DW templates so only the content area is available to content editors, and include everything else with php.
this way the editor just gets a blank page to work in DW, and cannot break anything, and any changes to the header etc only require one file uploading(as opposed to the whole site)

[limbo]

Ben is right.

You may also want to look at a Content Management Systems. They are great for allowing editors with little or no HTML skills to add content freely.

I wouldn't worry too much about the complexity of DW templates either, once you have the basics they are quite easy to manipulate.

Another alternative is to give the person access to a library item that they update. When it is updated the file will be placed into the page - but always remains a separate entity so they cannot accidentally edit other elements of the site.

[fazer600]

I decided to use templates on my site to make it easier to tweak little bits, I had never made a template before and was so suprised how easy it was. I did it all very quickly and without any problems really.