Templates tab at the top of the New Document window. The New from Template dialog box opens, as shown in Figure 4-9, displaying all the templates from the sites you have defined in Dreamweaver. 3. From the Templates For list on the left, choose the site that contains a template you want to use. The templates in the selected site appear in the middle of the dialog box. 4. Select the template you want to use from the Site list in the middle of the dialog box. A preview of the selected template displays in the right side of the dialog box. In the example shown in Figure 4-9, I selected the Rooms template from the Inn on Tomales Bay Web site. 5. Click the Create button. A new page is created from the template and displays in the main work area. 6. Edit any of the regions of the page that are editable using Dreamweavers regular editing features. 100 Part II: Looking Like a Million (Even on a Budget) Making Global Changes with Templates One of the greatest advantages of using templates is that you can automatically apply changes to all the pages created with a template by altering the original template. For example, suppose you want to make a change to the layout of all your slide show pages after youve created a slide show using Dreamweavers slide show template. First, you would open the slide show template, make the edits you want to the overall page design, and when you save the template, you can opt to automatically update all the pages created with that template. If youre making changes to many pages at once this can be a real timesaver. You can also choose to leave all the pages previously created with the template unchanged and to have only new pages created with the template reflect the changes. To change a template and automatically update all the files in your site that use that template, follow these steps: 1. Open an existing template. 2. Use Dreamweavers editing features to make any changes you want to the template. 3. Choose File?Save. The Update Template Files dialog box appears, shown in Figure 4-10. Figure 4-9: The New from Template dialog box lets you create a new document from any defined site. Chapter 4: Coordinating Your Design Work 101 4. Click the Update button to modify all the pages listed in the Update Template Files dialog box. Dreamweaver automatically changes all the pages listed in the Update Template Files dialog box to reflect the changes you made to the template. Choose the Dont Update button to leave these pages unchanged. If youre not sure what template was used to create a page, you can open the