creating and using stationery documents in golive
Creating a Stationery Document
In many cases, you want several pages in your Web site to have the same layout and maybe even some of the same content. Instead of creating every page from scratch, you can use the Stationery feature to create one page with the design elements you expect to use again and again, and then create your pages from that stationery.
1. Prepare a page with basic design elements.
Open your site in GoLive, create a new page, and add the design elements you want in your stationery. You might insert a layout grid, arrange boilerplate text (blocks of meaningless text to take up space during the design phase) and graphics on the page.
2. Save the page as Stationery.
From the File menu select Save As... and give the page a name suitable for stationery (such as main_pages.html). Don’t click Save yet.
Choose Stationery from the special pop-up menu at the bottom of the Save As dialog box (this window will look different in Windows). This will take you to the Stationery folder for your site. Click Save and close the page.
3. Attach a stylesheet to the page.
Every page created using this Stationery document will use the same stylesheet unless you change it after it is added to the site.
To attach the stylesheet...
- Click the Extras tab in the left side of the site window. If you don’t see the Extras tab, click the double-arrow in the lower right corner of the site window.
- Open the Stationery folder and click once on your stationery document.
- In the CSS palette, add the stylesheet to the list associated with this page.
