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How to Better Understand the Template Folder for Creating Links in your Website
By: Stephen Condren
The most difficult aspect of setting up the design is the understanding of how the Template Folder works in conjunction with your traffic flow. The reason for this is that the Template Folder is outside of your hierarchy of folders. And this is natural since all of the files in the Template File are empty; they contain only shells of forms and no real data of substance other than perhaps contact information.
When setting up your folder hierarchy keep the Template Folder in mind as adjacent to your hierarchy. It is usually best to have your high ranking files as regular documents and then when you work your way down to more repetitive documents or files make use of the template. For example, in your Website you may have a section devoted to you Rolls-Royce. You would put Rolls-Royce as head file with no template because it is a stand alone file. Below that you my have a number of topics such as Rolls-Royce Owners Club, Vintage Rolls-Royces, Modern Rolls-Royces, and Rolls-Royce Events. Even though there are four categories immediately below your main file these are not enough to warrant making from a template. However, each of these categories may have many files or images that need to be created from a template. It is that file that you go to the Template Folder and create. So if for example under Rolls-Royce Events there is the Annual Concourse that has up to 100 vehicles on display and you want to have images for each. You would certainly want a template for that file!
To make a template file for the vehicles you go to New, Template, and create in the section for your site, in that section make the file title ?Auto Images?. Then when you go to place images in that file you Save As to the Rolls-Royce Events folder. Remember, however, that you started by going to New, Template, picked the template for Auto Images and then Saved As. Thus you keep your hierarchy but are using the Template Folder without getting confused.
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