About Dynamic Web Templates

By using Dynamic Web Templates, you can create HTML pages that share the same layout. In addition to providing a shared layout, you can make some regions in a template available for editing while preventing changes to other regions in that template. This means that you can allow others to add and edit content, yet still preserve the layout of the pages and the template itself.

You can use any number of Dynamic Web Templates in a Web site and you can attach a Dynamic Web Template to as many pages as you like. You can also save Dynamic Web Template (.dwt) files to any location. If you choose to detach a Dynamic Web Template from one or more pages in a site, you do not remove the content from those pages. You remove only the formatting provided by the template.

In earlier versions of Microsoft FrontPage, you might have used shared borders to create a region on a Web page that was common to one or more pages in a Web site. You can now use Dynamic Web Templates instead. Unlike shared borders, pages that are attached to Dynamic Web Templates share an entire layout, and they offer much more control over which parts of your pages are available for editing.