7.1 rationale
Templates allow designers to create pages that share the same design but contain different content. This has two benefits:
- Ease of updates: modifing the template, then directing DW to update all documents based on that template, makes design changes almost as easy as using
server side includes.
- Only portions of a page are editable: this means that non-designers can
edit content, secure in the knowledge that they cannot alter (compromise) page design. "Locked" sections cannot be edited in DW or in Contribute; "unlocked areas" (editable regions) let content editors change text (and sometimes code) at will.
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