This lesson illustrates how to apply a page template to the Web site
You can apply page templates to Web pages that already contain some content and still be sure that the page will look the way you expect once the template elements have been added. If you have Web pages that already contain content, you can map certain sections of the existing page to content areas defined in the page template.
When you apply a page template, there is a page in the wizard called Map page elements to the page template:
For example, if you select one of the sample page templates, a headarea and a bodyarea content area are predefined. You can select the headarea content area and associate it with the HEAD (anything between the start and end HEAD tags) in your existing file. Any attributes defined in the page template for the headarea content area are applied to the HEAD region of the existing Web page.
The preview boxes display the current page and a preview of what the page will look like once the template is applied, so you can see what the existing page will look like once the template elements are applied. You can use these preview boxes to help you decide how to map the template's content areas. All content areas must be associated with regions before you can finish applying the page template. Tip: By selecting a page element in the Page elements list, you can highlight a specific element in the preview of the current page. Also, you can view an enlarged preview by right-clicking Preview of current page and selecting Show original size from the context menuClick Next to begin the next lesson.