Setup Guide V1 (last updated January 4th, 2007)

Designed for the Focus Series Templates and Modules

Change existing page

convert an existing page from a fullscreen / compact or index to another layout.

change the DWT
change the stylesheet link

We've provided 2 methods for converting an existing page layout, to another existing page layout. You can convert a 'fullscreen' type page, to a compact or even an index page with flash. You could convert your 'flash' intro page to a standard 'fullscreen' or 'compact' template page just as easily.

Change the DWT

If you are using a Dynamic Web Template, you can easily change DWT's. You can ONLY convert an existing DWT page, using this method.

FrontPage / Expression Web Instructions:

open the page you want to convert
click on the Format Menu
click on Dynamic Web Template
click on Attach Dynamic Web Template
browse to the Templates (Template_name) folder
select the new DWT (compact.dwt, fullscreen.dwt, index.dwt, or a new DWT you've created from one of the originals)
click OK and that's it

Dreamweaver Instructions:

open the web page you want to convert
open the Assets folder
select the Templates folder
select the DWT you wish to convert this page to
drag the DWT from the ASSETS / Templates folder ONTO the open page

Change the stylesheet link

If you are not using a DWT, you can simply change the style sheet link.

open the web page you want to convert
switch to code view
on line 16 (or there abouts) you'll find one of the following lines of code

Each layout uses one of these examples. As an example, if you wanted to change your 'index.htm' page layout to a 'fullscreen' layout, you would simply need to change the stylesheet link from

<link href="Templates/styles/index.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<link href="Templates/styles/fullscreen.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

all you need to do, is change the link reference in 'bold' to point your page to a new stylesheet.

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