DWT, CSS, regular page template?

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Thank you Jim & Murry for help received the last few days. FrontPage websites
are a very small part of my work. I have only two active - for colleagues -
so I charge minimally. Each site is fewer than 20 pages - and I don't have
the need or resources to learn html, etc.

One is wanting a complete redesign now - with some complex (for me)
features. I have the absolute positioned elements correct now - including
drop-down menus. But I think there will be changes to the navigation links,
so I don't want to start "saving as" the page for each new page (my old way).
I need a way to - later - change only the top part with these elements - on
one page - to change all the other pages that I am continuing to make before
navigation is finalized.

The site resides on my XP computer and I publish with FP extensions. When I
read directions for CSS, my eyes glaze over. I see there are problems with
DWT and extensions. Any suggestions? Thank you.
 
You could use the FP Include Page component to insert the navigation, and then still do a save as to
create new page, then when the nav changes you only have to update the nav include page.

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If you are designing in a disc-based web (opened using a file system
link like C:\mywebs\mysite ) then there are no restrictions on using a
DWT. In a server based (extended) web the DWT will only update those
pages that are open.
As Thomas has remarked, the navigation can be inserted into the page,
or DWT, using an include page - any JavaScript (other than that
generated by FP behaviours) must be in an external file or located
between the <body>..</body> tags of the include page. Updating the
include will update all pages.
 
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