Creating a Web site the easy way with WebSphere Studio Web Site Designer and page templates

Creating a Web site the easy way with WebSphere Studio Web Site Designer and page templates: "Overview of Web Site Designer and page templates
Page templates are one of the new features of WebSphere Studio Web Site Designer. With page templates, you can:
Manage common contents of multiple Web pages, such as header and footer sections, with a separate file called a page template file.
Manage layouts of multiple Web pages.
Update a group of Web pages simultaneously and automatically, simply by updating a page template and saving it.
When you create a page template and also create multiple Web pages to which the template applies, page template's updates are immediately applied to all of the Web pages as soon as the template file is saved. The template file and Web pages have special comment tags that define common or page-specific regions in the content. You can put the comment tags anywhere in the template. And you can use page template with both static and dynamic Web pages.
With Web Site Designer you can:
Define Web site architecture using a graphical diagram editor.
Change information simultaneously on multiple pages, including stylesheet, page title, keywords, or page template.
Generate navigation links (nav bar) on each page that reflects the Web site structure you created using the Diagram Editor. Nav bars are updated automatically when you update and save your Web site structure.,
Generate a site map that reflects the Web site structure.
While Web Site Designer has other useful functions to manage Web site, this article focuses mainly on dynamically generated nav bars. By using a nav bar and page templates together, you can create multiple pages with consistent layouts, common sections like a header or a footer, and dynamically generated nav bar links.
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