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title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/16/2008 23:12:29   
hello, im relitively new to this, and just recently got offered to help with news and articles on a web site, i useing dream wever cs3, but the thing is, it wont allow me to edit the title from the document title on the top, and i have to switch to code view to chage the title. i work from templates.. how can i get to edit the title where i am supposed to..

:)

you see in the image, it is dull and no way to edit.. like i said i am very new to DW cs3, so its probally simply setting somewhere, but i have looked all through the manual, and and searched on google but couldnt find how..

thankyou for reading, all suggestions and comments greatly appriciated..

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RE: title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/16/2008 23:56:48   
This should work.

Click View->Code and scroll to the top of the document. Somewhere in the first 10 lines will be a line like this:

<title>theTextYouWantToChange</title>

Change the text between the title tags as needed.......

Click View->Design to return to the WYSIWYG mode.

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RE: title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/17/2008 0:00:23   
yeah, thats how i am changing the title now, i press the split button to edit the code, but i want to be able edit the title as shown in the image.. without edit the code..

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RE: title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/17/2008 4:03:19   
make sure in your dwt that the <title> is in an editable region, and if it isn't then make one. (check the help files for making editable regions)

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RE: title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/17/2008 4:13:35   
oh dear :( you lost me :(

ill have a look and see if i can understand

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RE: title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/17/2008 5:14:53   
something like

<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="doctitle" -->

<title>your page title in here</title>

<!-- InstanceEndEditable -->

if the first and last lines aren't there you can copy and paste them in from here

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RE: title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/17/2008 5:29:55   
hi.. i tried that code what you post above, and its still the same.. :( the title is still greyed and cant be edited..

:)

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RE: title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/17/2008 6:08:27   
what if you place your cursor somewhere in design view?

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RE: title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/17/2008 6:18:05   
i have no problem making edits and changing content with the design view, or code view.. its just this title: is greyed out and i cant edit or change it, only way is by going to split view, or code view, but it would make my life a whole lot easier if i could just edit the title of the document from the Title: box.. can anyone else edit here?? is dream wever enabled to make edit here.. maybe this is how the software is and its only possible from the code view.. i cant find any documentation on this in the manual or online :(

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RE: title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/17/2008 6:40:46   
sorry - did you paste the code i gave you into your template

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RE: title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/17/2008 6:42:03   
yes, i pasted there, as shown in the image above.. here it is again..

:)

it still grey and unable to edit it from the Title: box :(

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RE: title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/17/2008 6:56:42   
yes i see the image, again :) , but i asked if you had pasted it into your TEMPLATE

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RE: title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/17/2008 7:19:53   
in earlier versions of DW, everything was changed in the properties box including title

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RE: title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/17/2008 7:22:03   
not sure what the problem is - i can change titles in the 'title' box (i.e. it's not greyed out) ok on pages that are linked to pages

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RE: title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/17/2008 7:36:33   
mine is greyed out :(

should i update the version? would this be the cause..? my friend who is also working on same website as me, is still using the one called mx2004 is it called?? not sure, something like this, and he doesnt have the problem either :( just me with this version.. i have version 9 of cs3

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RE: title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/17/2008 7:39:53   
did you add the code to the template? you didn't say ;)

if that doesn't work then can you email me copy of the page AND the template (i don't need the images) to davepk[at]regionline (replace [at] with @)

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RE: title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/17/2008 7:42:07   
yes, i use the last news page as the template for the new one, and just change the content and images..

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RE: title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/17/2008 7:44:34   
email me the template and the pages ;)



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RE: title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/17/2008 7:45:48   
the style css files too?

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RE: title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/17/2008 7:47:01   
just the dwt and the html page. nothing else i just want to see if i can edit the title in my DW CS3 in the box :)



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RE: title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/17/2008 7:50:37   
your mail, .com ? or co uk

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RE: title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/17/2008 7:52:23   
oops- sorry! - that's what happens when you're answering questions whilst designing a site at the same time :)

it's
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RE: title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/17/2008 7:53:11   
you got mail

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RE: title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/17/2008 7:59:52   
i thought you were working with a Template page like mytemplate.dwt, NOT templatepage.html ;)

anyway remove all the code above the <head> and replace it with this
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>

then you can change the title.

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RE: title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/17/2008 8:14:39   
i told you i dont what i am doing :)

what does this change? it working now, but i dont understand what it does, will the people on the site notice anything?

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RE: title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/17/2008 8:18:24   
i've never seen it greyed out before - i don't know. the code in your page has the syntax (format) of xhtml e.g. with the forward slash / at the end - so using the wrong doctype was probably the problem. just check that it looks ok in your browser!

sounds like you might need to get over to somewhere like http://www.htmldog.com/ :)


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RE: title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/17/2008 8:21:00   
ok, thanx..

and what is difference on the template file to html file?

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RE: title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/17/2008 8:36:34   
check the help files in DW (press the F1 key;)

template files (.dwt) means that you can keep things the same in all pages, but making a change to a locked part of the template (e.g. a footer) updates all the other pages based on it.

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RE: title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/17/2008 8:37:57   
so i can just change extension from htm to template one? what would i benifit from this?

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RE: title is dulled out, cant edit it - 3/17/2008 8:38:44   
you have to save as template - look in the help files under 'templates'

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