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How to Avoid the Pitfalls of the Update Template Link
By: Stephen Condren
With regard to Website Design this may be one of the most important articles that you will ever read on the top. Though this article is short what it has to offer is worth volumes in the amount of time and frustration you will encounter if you don?t follow what I recommend.
The topic of concern here is updating links. In particular when you are making templates in a large scale in your Website. As you are making your template and creating it in the Template folder as your software does by default you will be asked when you select the ?Save? button if you want to update the following links. Note the links are to the pages that you are creating so they cannot of course be mentioned in this article.
Please read carefully! If the page that you are making a template of is what I call a dead-end page, that is a page that is the final point of selections, it is safe to pick yes or ok. However, if your page is not dead-end and in particular if the word ?Index? comes up at all be sure NOT to update. If you update the Index link then all of the links in your entire Website that have Index as a link, for example ?Home? or ?Return to Home?, will all be altered to the new change you have just made! You will have to go back and manually fix each link in your Website to get it back to normal. This could be hundreds of pages and thousands of links ? just think of the time and effort to restore all of those links.
About the Author: I was born and raised on the south side of Chicago in Hyde Park Township, near the University of Chicago. As I child I was always drawing and painting. My father owned an art supply company, Favor Ruhl & Watson, where I was able to get all that I needed to progress in my work. I have always enjoyed portraiture and landscape painting. In High School (Naperville Central High School) I took Drafting from Mr. Pierce. I quickly grasped the principles of perspective and drafting and hence made a career with both Fine Art and Architectural Renderings. In the mid 1970's I joined the US Navy and was stationed on board the USS Midway, CV-41. The Midway was home ported in Yokosuka, Japan (A suburb of Tokyo). While in service I traveled all over Asia including such countries as Korea, China, Philippines, Singapore, Pakistan, Hong Kong, and Japan. While in Japan I learned Japanese. I speak German and Spanish as well. I am an omnivorous reader with a love of History and Philosophy. I admire the works of Immanuel Kant, Albert Schweitzer, and Fredrich Nietzsche. In music I admire the wo |  |
