[WEB4LIB] RE: Dreamweaver templates

[Ross Singer]

This is a pain in the butt.  It also happens with any sort of table tag 
(i.e. table, tr, td, th) if you click into the wysiwyg pane.

Another problem I have found with DW_MX is if you place a timestamp in 
the template, outside of the editable region, it will throw this error 
(but, oddly, update the timestamp correctly).  At my previous job, these 
sorts of idiosyncracies caused enormous confusion among the 50 or so web 
authors who used DW.

Unlike Bill, I did not feel that DW was a particularly good tool for our 
content contributors (although very good for the web site 
administrator).  It was too complicated and site management just went 
way over their heads.  Contribute solves a lot of these problems, but 
it's expensive to deploy to entire organizations.

I wrote a Contribute alternative, WebTribute, which, as the name 
implies, is a web based, php/postgresql app which functions roughly the 
same as Contribute.

The site for WebTribute is http://webtribute.sourceforge.net.  You'll 
note that there aren't any files there if you look right now.  But by 
actually posting this url, it means I will have to get off my lazy butt 
and actually upload the files today.

So, uh, later today, look at that url (if you're interested).

-Ross.

ian at ik2.us wrote:

>For myself, that error has usually occurred when I open a div tags but do
>not close it prior to switching to either the DW_MX WYSIWG view or to
>another application.  DW_MX gets confused and thinks I am editing the locked
>portions of the code.
>I.e. the following will cause an error because Dreamweaver will think the
>div starts in the editable portion but ends in the locked section.
>
> body
>
> div
> #BeginEditable
> div
> #EndEditable
> /div
>
> /body
>
>Even though I did not save my file, DW_MX updates the WSIWIG view when I
>switch to another application.
>What I do then is to always ensure I close all tags before I use the WYSIWG
>view or before I switch to another application.
>
>Regards,
>
>Ian Chan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: web4lib at webjunction.org
>[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Craighton
>Hippenhammer
>Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 7:11 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: [WEB4LIB] Dreamweaver templates
>
>
>Sometimes when I go to add code or text inside editable areas within
>Dreamweaver MX, I get the error, "Making this change would require
>changing code that is locked by a template or a translator. The change
>will be discarded."  Once I get within this mode, I have to start the
>file over because it is difficult to impossible to get out of it.  And
>yes, the code is entirely inside the #BeginEditable and #EndEditable
>commented lines.  Anyone experience this and/or have a way to avoid it?
>
>
>Craighton Hippenhammer
>Library Information Technology
>Olivet Nazarene University
>Bourbonnais, IL 60914
>chhammer at olivet.edu
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