website designed with purchased template, now I want to maintain

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I had a web designer design my site and he purchased the Frontpage template
on my behalf. The site is now done and being published. I plan to maintain
the site myself. Do I need to get the template back from him or is the
template the web site now? If I would like to use the same template again to
create a different web site can I do that by coping it or should the web
designer be giving me back some sort of file containing the template? This
is obviously confusing to me. Is the web designer now going to be able to
use that template for other people even though I purchased it?
Slightly Confused on the template issue any clarification would be
appreciated!
Thank you
 
A template is basically a starting point. Sometimes it's a collection of
pre-made graphics and web pages, other times it's a complicated PhotoShop
graphic file that can be tweaked with PhotoShop and exported to a web page.
What the desinger probably did is buy the template, which includes the
graphics and pages, then alter them and expand upon them. Chances are you
have all the files you need as they should all end up part of your resulting
web site. You may need a couple from the original template though, for
example an original banner graphic before placing text on top of it.

As to using the same template again, that depends on the company that sold
you the template. Some companies only sell the templates as a license for
one site. If you have two sites with the same template, you need to buy the
template twice in order to be licensed legally.

You can always ask the designer for a copy of the original template, just in
case you needed to alter anything. It's really hard to say what the designer
will provide you because this is basically an issue of what is agreed upon
between you and the designer when starting the project.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
 
Thank you very much! The template was a FrontPage template and he purchased
it on my behalf. I have now idea if it was a one time use or not. I do now
have an additional question. I had wanted to purchase the FrontPage template
Computer Path DWT, because I read that it would be easier to maintain. He
told me not to do that and purchase the regular Computer Path template, that
I would have too much trouble with changing the DWT one. So was that a bunch
of bunk?
Thanks for your help.
 
huckeee said:
Thank you very much! The template was a FrontPage template and he purchased
it on my behalf. I have now idea if it was a one time use or not. I do now
have an additional question. I had wanted to purchase the FrontPage template
Computer Path DWT, because I read that it would be easier to maintain. He
told me not to do that and purchase the regular Computer Path template, that
I would have too much trouble with changing the DWT one. So was that a bunch
of bunk?
Thanks for your help.
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Is your site live? Can we see it? Where did u buy the template from?

There is really not much difference between a normal template and dwt ...
except the fact they will have made it a dwt already for you.

He could have done this for you anyway...

what probably happened was he did not know how to deal with a dwt template
and so told you not to bother with it .

You can make the template into a dwt and just attach your pages ... first
though BACK UP YOUR WEB.

if you want more help with dwt Iv'e made a free dwt ebook ...see
http://frontpage-ebooks.com/dwt-ebook.htm

I'm presuming this is a uptodate template and uses a CSS sheet, FrontPage
Includes .. no themes not shared borders no nav bot.

Since your site already has the template you want all you have to do is take
away any includes (except includes for menu's if the site is large)
configure your editable areas and attach the pages you want. In the dwt make
sure you put editable regions around the meta tags and title and any scripts
your using. (see ebook) There should not be any problem...

In fact ... if you can do this you really did not need the designer Unless
they tweaked the template big time .., templates really should work out of
the box .. it's only graphics or colours that should need to be changed ...

Tina


http://accessfp.net/ - FrontPage Tutorials
http://anyfrontpage.com/ - http://frontpage-ebooks.com/
http://addonfp.com/ - FrontPage Addons
http://frontpage-tips.com/ - Weekly FrontPage Tips
http://msmvps.com/frontpage/ - FrontPage News & Articles Blog
http://frontpage-advice.blogspot.com/ - FrontPage Advice Blog
http://artdoodle.com/ - Abstract Pen and Ink Drawings
 
Altering a template is no harder than altering any other HTML file.

You make your changes, save, you're prompted "Template has changed do you
want to apply changes to all pages this template is attached to, Yes/No?"
and away you go.
 
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